A few for sale. Never has there been such choice
A few for sale. Never has there been such choice
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911god

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2,961 posts

215 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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Decisions decisions .....

After a RHD in rubystone?...take your pick!

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/4117686.htm
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/4126382.htm
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/4125854.htm




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billy964

301 posts

205 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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only 5 (?) rubystone rhd and 3 of them for sale at the same time! perhaps cerise is out this year!

nsm3

2,831 posts

226 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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Can't believe Will-I -Am is selling cars now, or have I misread?

Carl_Docklands

15,831 posts

292 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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Wonderful bargain at £80k, put me down for all three!

stubbsy996

785 posts

243 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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billy964 said:
only 5 (?) rubystone rhd and 3 of them for sale at the same time! perhaps cerise is out this year!

Lovely looking cars! I'd definitely be in for one if I won the lotto smile

David Hype

2,296 posts

282 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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Okay, how much is the last one, the 6K miles one?... rolleyes

Crimp a Length!

5,697 posts

253 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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stubbsy996 said:
billy964 said:
only 5 (?) rubystone rhd and 3 of them for sale at the same time! perhaps cerise is out this year!

Lovely looking cars! I'd definitely be in for one if I won the lotto smile
Lovely looking ermmm......
They look like all 964's albeit a bit lower and nice and shiny.

Yeah 964RS £22k not that long ago...........hindsight and all that.
That said probably the most over priced piece of pork available IMO of cause.

Sooner have GT3RS and with the rest of the money buy a 964 C2 cheap and create something that will run rings around the RS variant with ease.

sng45

497 posts

206 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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I think there's actually another Rubystone 964 RS for sale in the HWM ad' on the site - it's been "wrapped" in white with the Rubystone bumpers exposed and is mentioned in another thread on here somewhere - so that's 4 out of 5 for sale at the moment !

911god

Original Poster:

2,961 posts

215 months

Monday 6th August 2012
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sng45 said:
I think there's actually another Rubystone 964 RS for sale in the HWM ad' on the site - it's been "wrapped" in white with the Rubystone bumpers exposed and is mentioned in another thread on here somewhere - so that's 4 out of 5 for sale at the moment !
Fuk, will soon be all 5. The games up!!!!

hog 1

400 posts

253 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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You cannot beat the real deal and only 6000 miles, priceless!
But just hope that it has been undersealed at some point. After 20 years it needs a serious storage and service history.

anonymous-user

84 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Crimp a Length! said:
Lovely looking ermmm......
They look like all 964's albeit a bit lower and nice and shiny.

Yeah 964RS £22k not that long ago...........hindsight and all that.
That said probably the most over priced piece of pork available IMO of cause.

Sooner have GT3RS and with the rest of the money buy a 964 C2 cheap and create something that will run rings around the RS variant with ease.
Nobody wanted them in the late 90s and you could buy a low mileage 5 year old minter for mid-high 20s (LHD that is). RHD ones were more like £40k back then. So you can imagine there were a lot of imported LHD RSs.

I picked up a nice LHD blue RS for £26k in 1998 from the motherland, but it wasn't a keeper for me. Too harsh for the road, no aircon etc.

If I bought another 964 today, I would start with a nice standard C2 and just lower it slightly (but not the full 40 mm of the RS, probably 20 mm).

As a footnote the 964 RS Touring variant (rare as rocking horse poo) was probably a great road car, but you never hear much about it. I had a brief drive in a Silver one back in the day and thought it was great, but I'd literally just bought a lightweight at the time.

Anyway, the 964RS is now a "serious" collectors piece and fashionably expensive. But still the same metal as I remember. I wish these collectors would ps off back to wherever they came from to be honest as they have inflated prices of all sorts of classic pork in recent years.

anonymous-user

84 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Crimp a Length! said:
Lovely looking ermmm......
They look like all 964's albeit a bit lower and nice and shiny.
To be fair, Porsche did make a bit of an effort with the 964RS, going into a lot of detail like lightweight uprights and seam welding. It was a pukka homologation car, unlike the earlier 3.2 CS which was much more of a token gesture (but a nicer car for the road). But the extra 10hp was a bit pathetic at the time!

911god

Original Poster:

2,961 posts

215 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Sooner have GT3RS and with the rest of the money buy a 964 C2 cheap and create something that will run rings around the RS variant with ease.

Maybe there is alot of sense in that comment .

anonymous-user

84 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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911god said:
Sooner have GT3RS and with the rest of the money buy a 964 C2 cheap and create something that will run rings around the RS variant with ease.

Maybe there is alot of sense in that comment .
Absolutely. It's not rocket science to build a faster/better 964 on a fraction of an RS budget. Leave the real deal for the "collectors" to wk over.

911god

Original Poster:

2,961 posts

215 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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uktrailmonster said:
Absolutely. It's not rocket science to build a faster/better 964 on a fraction of an RS budget. Leave the real deal for the "collectors" to wk over.
Hahaahaha

ras62

1,115 posts

186 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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The 64RS has been very much in fashion these last few years but I dont consider "collectable" to be anything other than mint with very low mileage / owners. Certainly a 60k mile car would not qualify. Given that the 996RS was built in far fewer numbers and is cheaper then the rarity argument does not stack up either. I dont think this finger in the wind price approach will not be sustained too much longer tbh.

Edited by ras62 on Thursday 9th August 09:52

rubystone

11,254 posts

289 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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Some cars were built from non- seam welded shells. I can't see the point of the Touring either. I also think that prices are mad!

At least one of those rhd rubystone cars will be the ex press car...from memory J99 SMO was the original plate when i drove it.

Always amuses me to read contemporary reports on the harshness of the ride...first time i stepped into a Impreza I wondered what the fuss was!

Slippydiff

16,435 posts

253 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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ras62 said:
The 64RS has been very much in fashion these last few years but I don't consider "collectable" to be anything other than mint with very low mileage / owners. Certainly a 60k mile car would not qualify.
I imagine the same thing was said about the 2.7RS many years ago . . . . . . .


anonymous-user

84 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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rubystone said:
Always amuses me to read contemporary reports on the harshness of the ride...first time i stepped into a Impreza I wondered what the fuss was!
Just because certain contemporary cars have the ride quality of a kart doesn't make it any better for me. It's harsh ride was the main reason it wasn't a keeper for me. It was atrocious on the many bumpy and increasingly potholed Northants roads I drive on. It could be great too on certain roads, but too compromised for me. I bet they ride better today on shagged dampers to be honest :J

Slippydiff

16,435 posts

253 months

Friday 10th August 2012
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uktrailmonster said:
I bet they ride better today on shagged dampers to be honest :J
On the contrary, the dampers get worse with lack of use, and get even more harsh still.