Back in a Porsche, buying my 993
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 12:11 pm
Well it's been a few years, but the affair with the redhead is over. We shared wonderful times together, mainly to and from the mechanic, but the time had come to get back in a Porsche!
But the question was, which one? It's been a tough decision to make and in the true DDK spirit I'll bare my soul and talk you though my thinking. The overwhelming point was that it had to be a driver, something I could jump in and take to the South of France or the Porsche museum in Stuttgart without a moments thought, so something completely opposite to the Ferrari then...
I'd done my 72 and 73 cars and anything earlier didn't really appeal from a design point of view, not that I could afford one anyway. Talking of budget, my life at the moment is all about getting my two millennial kids on the property ladder, so had to sensible. That rules out the exotica and even the non-exotic actually, with even very boring stuff creeping over into 6 figures these days. I also decided I didn't want to go down the road of a full on restoration project, the Martini car was 6 years full on so a little bit of been there done that.
My trip to Italy and back in Ricks 964 was an eye opener, it's a great car and ideal continental tourer. 964RS's are long gone price wise but the other problem is those big bumpers which to me only work with the turbo's, the big arches draw the eye away from the bulbous front and rear and it all sort of blends in and looks great, but again even the crap one's are over 100k.
So then we came to the 993. Problem is it had to be rhd with black interior, and I'm pretty fussy about exterior colour too, no red, yellow or greens for instance, so now were really narrowing it down! Obviously someone at Porsche in the early 90's thought that light grey/beige/blue interiors was the way forward, black one's are like hen teeth! Then there's the narrow body wide body debate, love wide bodies on turbo's but wide bodies on standard cars I hate, seems pointless, rather like an 3.2 supersport for instance... The 2 or 4 wheel drive decision was made for me by Mr Bainbridge... so it had a be 2 wheel drive then!
So there we have it, had to be a narrow bodied 993 Carrera, rhd, manual, blue or black or at a push silver, black interior, not rocket ship mileage, and well looked after.... shouldn't be difficult should it!
But the question was, which one? It's been a tough decision to make and in the true DDK spirit I'll bare my soul and talk you though my thinking. The overwhelming point was that it had to be a driver, something I could jump in and take to the South of France or the Porsche museum in Stuttgart without a moments thought, so something completely opposite to the Ferrari then...
I'd done my 72 and 73 cars and anything earlier didn't really appeal from a design point of view, not that I could afford one anyway. Talking of budget, my life at the moment is all about getting my two millennial kids on the property ladder, so had to sensible. That rules out the exotica and even the non-exotic actually, with even very boring stuff creeping over into 6 figures these days. I also decided I didn't want to go down the road of a full on restoration project, the Martini car was 6 years full on so a little bit of been there done that.
My trip to Italy and back in Ricks 964 was an eye opener, it's a great car and ideal continental tourer. 964RS's are long gone price wise but the other problem is those big bumpers which to me only work with the turbo's, the big arches draw the eye away from the bulbous front and rear and it all sort of blends in and looks great, but again even the crap one's are over 100k.
So then we came to the 993. Problem is it had to be rhd with black interior, and I'm pretty fussy about exterior colour too, no red, yellow or greens for instance, so now were really narrowing it down! Obviously someone at Porsche in the early 90's thought that light grey/beige/blue interiors was the way forward, black one's are like hen teeth! Then there's the narrow body wide body debate, love wide bodies on turbo's but wide bodies on standard cars I hate, seems pointless, rather like an 3.2 supersport for instance... The 2 or 4 wheel drive decision was made for me by Mr Bainbridge... so it had a be 2 wheel drive then!
So there we have it, had to be a narrow bodied 993 Carrera, rhd, manual, blue or black or at a push silver, black interior, not rocket ship mileage, and well looked after.... shouldn't be difficult should it!
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