Porsche G-model love

[dinkel]

[milfordkong]

My 86 3.2 ... I used to have an early 996 and my wife took me on a surprise trip to Porsche in Stuttgart for my birthday a few years back, in the museum at that point they had a beautiful Moss Green metallic 930 Turbo on display and I completely fell in love with it ... unfortunately my budget didn't stretch to a 930 but after months of searching a Moss Green Carrera 3.2 came up for sale in Europe and I imported her in August 2018, she is LHD obviously and a leggy old girl with 188k miles but she is in lovely condition and drives beautifully - Never fails to put a big smile on my face. Unfortunately I need to become a one car man again so she'll be going at some point in the near future to be replaced by something a little more modern, but probably considerably less fun.

Edited by milfordkong on Monday 16th March 10:50

[dinkel]

Cheating a bit:

1976 Porsche 930: imo the perfect allrounder daily practical classic. Except for the mpg...


This interior is perfect and so far away from period Italian luxury supercars.

[Koln-RS]

Interesting feature on the G-Series 911s in the latest issue of Octane celebrating the 50th Anniversary of its introduction.

Includes a comparative test of:
1974 2.7 Carrera
1976 3.0 Carrera
1980 3.0 911 SC
1988. 3.2 Carrera (G50)

Plus nice editorial elsewhere. They rate that era very highly, although inevitably the 3.2 comes out the clear winner.

Personally, I would prefer any of these in sweet original condition (perhaps a few discrete tweaks) to most of the questionable ‘back-dates’ that seem to be proliferating.

[belfry]

dinkel said:

Cheating a bit:

1976 Porsche 930: imo the perfect allrounder daily practical classic. Except for the mpg...
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I took my 1987 3.4 RUF BTR to the P museum at stuttgart and on to RUF at Pfaffenhausen then back via Switzerland. 2,042 miles and average of 18.5 mpg. 150mph seen in the autobahns.

[KittyLitter]

This one seems like a good price

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/16903701