The Pastel Yellow 1997 Porsche 911 we featured in March has been relisted, the price lowered by $5,000.
Category: Porsche
I’ve spent a fair amount of time talking about how the 944 – especially the Turbo and S2 – have seemed to remain one of the best values in German motoring; on paper and in real life easily the match for their more popular 911 friends, they’re generally available for a fraction of the entry price into the much more air-cooled world. However, there’s another way to travel in Porsche style as well; the car that was intended to replace the 911. A revolutionary design in the 1970s that still looks remarkably fresh today, the 928 is a supreme grand tourer with plenty of power, a fantastic sound track and a tremendous amount of presence and personality. While it’s a very different character than the 911, they’re well built cars that don’t get the attention that they should. If you’re an enthusiast, that means you can pick up a great example on a budget – at least, for now:
CLICK FOR DETAILS: 1985 Porsche 928S 5-speed on eBay
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Earlier in my Ruf-modified 930 post I asked if you needed an original version of the car. Well, I’m at it again, this time with a car modified to recreate an awesome version of the 993 Turbo – the homologated GT2 Turbo. With more power and lightened to only two-wheel drive with some of the best wheels ever fitted to a Porsche (in my opinion, anyway) the GT2 was an instant classic – so much so that Porsche has subsequently recreated it in 996 and 997 versions. But while the last few versions of the GT2 have been nutty ultimate-street versions of the Turbo, the original GT2 was really a race car toned down for the street; in that mold, today’s 1997 911 Turbo has been converted to capture some of that dual-purpose magic. The question is, does it achieve the magic of the original GT2?
CLICK FOR DETAILS: 1997 Porsche 911 Turbo “GT2” on eBay
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Here’s the question of the day: do you need an original? Perhaps, if you have quite particular taste and your pockets are quite deep, yes is the only option for you. Perhaps you don’t feel like you could possibly turn up for a track event, coffee and cars, or club car show and explain to people that your pride and joy is a replica or car that was converted in the style of the originals. But to me, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and – as in this case – goes like a duck, perhaps it doesn’t matter that it didn’t leave the egg as a prized duckling. Ruf cars are some of the most highly sought tuner cars ever produced – and these days, a real-deal Ruf BTR will set you back a pretty penny; but then, so will a mint condition 930. 930s have recently undergone a serious spike in prices; perhaps recognition by the market that they’re a lot more car than a E30 M3 and probably should be priced below one. So what we have here is a great looking 930 that has been given a host of BTR upgrades by an authorized Ruf dealer. Is it worth the price of entry?
CLICK FOR DETAILS: 1988 Porsche 911 Turbo Ruf BTR 3.4 on eBay
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Introduced in 1989, the 964 brought with it the first significant changes to the 911 in nearly two decades. The body design underwent comprehensive revision, albeit the shape remained fundamentally that of the 911, engine displacement was bumped to 3.6 liters, and, perhaps most significantly, Porsche introduced its first all-wheel-drive 911, the Carrera 4. In 1990, the Carrera 2 soon followed along with the 964 Turbo. This was what we might call the first modern 911, equipped with power steering, ABS, airbags, and climate control marking the end of the classic 911 period. The car featured here comes from that first year of the Carrera 2, a Black on Black 1990 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 Coupe, located in Michigan, with 72,752 miles.