Aubergine Porsche 911
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Patrick, quite a few people here seem to know your car.... but I don`t know anything about it, can you tell me what it is / started out as ?
Cheers, Mike R.
Cheers, Mike R.
1959 S
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The bodywork was done by Francis Tuthills who did an amazing job. Besides a couple of new panels it recieved RS touring rear quarter bumpers to go with the flares. Currently it is running a '72 E engine with S pistons giving about 180 hp. The suspension has been fully set up with RS torsion bars and the handling is now perfect. I want to do something with the engine. I'm thinking of a twin spark 3.0 litre SC engine on PMO carbs giving about 280 hp. What do you think?
Patrick.
Patrick.
Aubergine Porsche 911
Fantastic looking car in a great colour. The flared arches just set it off nicely without looking OTT.
The classy looking tan leather interior looks great . Stunning !!
The classy looking tan leather interior looks great . Stunning !!
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1959 Lancia Flaminia PF Coupe
decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good "..
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What I think is, I find it quite disconcerting that theses photos of your car make me slightlly disatisfied wit my lovely car. I suppose this is how it goes, first you want a Porsche, then before you know it you want another and then......patrick wrote: I'm thinking of a twin spark 3.0 litre SC engine on PMO carbs giving about 280 hp. What do you think?
Patrick.
I spent some time this weekend around a couple of RSs, one a rep and I just love the way those huge arches flow down and over the fat tyres. Non of that low profile business just proper, purposeful ,big rubber, something just very right about the whole thing. And the sound of those big engines, dear me
All this lusting was, at the time, tempered by the the thought of the sheer size of the sums involved in realising these dreams.... just impossible really.
But of course there is another way, not the purest way, some would say, but to have the bodywork altered to your own spec and then be free to choose an engine to suit...I love it, the whole design ethos.......get the car you want.
The possibility of increasing your present HP by more than 50% sounds..... well pretty mad really, in an excellnt sort of way. I look forward to, hopefully bumping into you and your car (metaphorically ) sometime this year
As for Hayley, well she doesn`t like RSs at all, much prefering delicate lines, the older the better. Until today that is. now she`s suddenlly a huge fan of fat arches and aubergine, which is good because now I don`t have to buy her a 356
So this is how it starts.
Cheers Mike R.
1959 S
http://tinyurl.com/3l95xmh
http://tinyurl.com/3l95xmh
Just don't contemplate doing it to your S mikemycar wrote:What I think is, I find it quite disconcerting that theses photos of your car make me slightlly disatisfied wit my lovely car. I suppose this is how it goes, first you want a Porsche, then before you know it you want another and then......patrick wrote: I'm thinking of a twin spark 3.0 litre SC engine on PMO carbs giving about 280 hp. What do you think?
Patrick.
I spent some time this weekend around a couple of RSs, one a rep and I just love the way those huge arches flow down and over the fat tyres. Non of that low profile business just proper, purposeful ,big rubber, something just very right about the whole thing. And the sound of those big engines, dear me
All this lusting was, at the time, tempered by the the thought of the sheer size of the sums involved in realising these dreams.... just impossible really.
But of course there is another way, not the purest way, some would say, but to have the bodywork altered to your own spec and then be free to choose an engine to suit...I love it, the whole design ethos.......get the car you want.
The possibility of increasing your present HP by more than 50% sounds..... well pretty mad really, in an excellnt sort of way. I look forward to, hopefully bumping into you and your car (metaphorically ) sometime this year
As for Hayley, well she doesn`t like RSs at all, much prefering delicate lines, the older the better. Until today that is. now she`s suddenlly a huge fan of fat arches and aubergine, which is good because now I don`t have to buy her a 356
So this is how it starts.
Cheers Mike R.
So Hayley is going to raid your piggy bank & get a wide arched RS stylie 911 built as her daily ? Sounds like you've both been hanging around bad influences
James
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2010 987 Spyder
1973 MGB Roadster
Its not how fast you go, but how you go fast
1973 911 2.4S
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1973 MGB Roadster
Its not how fast you go, but how you go fast
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How did you know.hot66 wrote: Sounds like you've both been hanging around bad influences
No, not the blue car James, you`re quite right.
And any way Hayley`s been looking at the outlaw thread this eve and now she wants anything with stripes, preferably in a matt finish and yes, it`s got to pull wheelies
So then, we`re not involving any fickle wifely whims in any future Porsche plans ,just at the moment.
Mike R.
1959 S
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If only that were true of my wifemycar wrote:any way Hayley`s been looking at the outlaw thread this eve and now she wants anything with stripes, preferably in a matt finish and yes, it`s got to pull wheelies
So then, we`re not involving any fickle wifely whims in any future Porsche plans ,just at the moment.
Mike R.
Love the car Patrick
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Don't want to hijack this thread but with a bit of luck my aubergine 911T should arrive on Friday if Hapag-Lloyd can get the container here from Hamburg.
Steve
Basel, Switzerland
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1973 911T (here soon)
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Steve
Basel, Switzerland
1993 964RS
1973 911T (here soon)
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