DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Enjoying this thread and all the 996 love!

£20k 911 chat. Like the early DDK days, but £20k then got you a nice 2.2 S.

Back then when DDK started my 73 car was 30 years old … today an early 996 is also about 30 years old

I’ve renamed the thread, as my options start to open up…

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1975224

+

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/197906087930

= <£25k

You’re welcome.

Oh but if converting a 4 to a 6 were that simple.
And cheap.

stretch wrote: ↑Sun Dec 21, 2025 10:31 pm I have this very early 3.4 996 with the best spec if of interest. 42k miles from new.

456841349_1051260580040666_8971051733685718062_n by stretch1985, on Flickr

It is an exceptional car in absolutely wonderful condition. It even smells new inside. There can't be many early 996 that are like this one.

My 968CS with a few upgrades was as much fun if not more than every other Porsche I've owned (most of them), certainly on B roads.

If buying a 996 or early watercooled car of any kind I'd recommend having a budget of at least the same as you spend on the car to maintain it if you are actually going to use it....or buy one where someone has laready spent 20k on engine/suspension/brakes/cooling etc etc etc as they all need replacing and it all adds up!

Buy what you like.....

This G series could be within budget

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1976-porsche-912e-92/

If it’s a choice of Porsche within £25k then it’s a 987.2 Cayman for me.

Great car for the money.

Nail. Head

964RS wrote: ↑Thu Dec 25, 2025 1:51 pm If buying a 996 or early watercooled car of any kind I'd recommend having a budget of at least the same as you spend on the car to maintain it if you are actually going to use it....or buy one where someone has laready spent 20k on engine/suspension/brakes/cooling etc etc etc as they all need replacing and it all adds up!

This is right maybe ~90% of the time. Which means there’s a 10% chance a £12k, 12 owner 996 might turn out to be a gem and instead of being financially ruined you’ll be a bloody legend.

Way better odds than premium bonds.

964RS wrote: ↑Thu Dec 25, 2025 1:51 pm My 968CS with a few upgrades was as much fun if not more than every other Porsche I've owned (most of them), certainly on B roads.

+1

So… I completely blew up the original budget and got something a little more expensive.

I can only afford to keep it 2 or 3 years but I figured what the heck, life is too short.

Collected from down near Bath Friday lunchtime and then spent best part of the weekend hooning around the valleys in Wales.

GT4 has already had 1001 write ups so nothing I can add to the hyperbole already out there.

Suffice to say I was grinning like a Cheshire Cat all weekend.
It’s a drivers car, and blindingly quick.

I’d still have rathered be able to hang on to the RS, and if I had known my family situation was going to change I would have not sold the GT and kept that.
But this car is going to be a huge amount of fun for a while, and my lad can now stop asking “But what are we going to do road trips in now?”