dial911

Spoken like a true 3.2 owner.

AHEDAU

..."Sounds Confusing"

Milu

Asolutely!

We don't feel the need to add super to the name to boost our egos

We know ours are the pinnacle of 911 development

Everything before is underdeveloped and everything after is overkill

Oh well, just going to change a DME relay before taking the car out

uli953

Since our latest debate on this "SC" topic I had a lot of telephone calls with people still working with Porsche in Weissach or retired people. And I heard that I was not alone. Some of you guys most have been busy too.

The first thin I heard was "super comfort" with respect to the 911. In the meantime, I agree that this may not be correct.

Jürgen Barth (I hope you know who J.Barth is) states in his classic book (Das große Buch der Porsche Typen) that "SC" stands for "super carrera".
I think, Jürgen Barth knows it. Anyhow, I wonder that beside this evidence nobody of all the guys that I spoke with (and every of them is at least 58 years old and had been involved in the development of the 911, some of them from the very beginning) knows what SC stands for.
And this makes me and them believe that it stands for NOTHING ! Otherwise, those people would remember it !

With respect to the 356 SC it seems that it was simply an "S" engine in an C - type 356

hoffman912

the 356 had a 'super' with a few of their lines. (ie super speedster, etc)

the SC was basically a super C. (this is a wild guess that makes sense)

the 1st 911s (A if you will), were the 64-68 swb. the 69-73 were the lwb (B if you wanna call it that).
the 74-?? were the newer bodied, new bumpers, flares etc.. so i guess that would make it like a C model?

TAREK

Call it whatever makes you feel good or boosts your ego. It's simply an SC

Milu

Why are SC owners so obsessed with SC standing for Super Carrera?

Alan Herod

As an SC owner who got his license in a new '61 1600S, I was around for the deletion of the 'normal' and the switch from the Super and Super 90 to the C and SC which did not mean Super Carrera, since the road Carrera of the time was a 2 liter, four cam. I find it extremely inconsistent to use the same letters to mean two entirely different things. Interesting though that the SC should take its styling cues from the earlier 911 Carrera. If it were meant to be marketed as a 'Super Carrera', I believe the sales literature of the time would hype the historical perspective. Since it does not, I am not convinced that it was anything but reuse of a previous designation. This debate has come up numerous times and seems to be quite an emotive issue. 3.2 owners who don't want it to be, because it would seemingly indicate a higher performance level; and SC owners who like the ring of it. History has been reinvented many times before, so the Porsche factory declaring that SC now stands for SC is not unusual. Certainly the 904 was a Super Carrera, but it wasn't, it was the GTS. Since the Porsche factory (through the web site) now declares the 911 SC to be the "Super Carrera" it must be so.

bb80sc

Official word from the Porsche website;

http://www3.us.porsche.com/english/u..._gserie_18.htm

"In 1983, the 911 SC, or "Super Carrera", which replaced the version from 1977, was replaced by the 911 Carrera 3.2.........."


-Brad
'80 Super Carrera

Milu

Porsche have put it on their website NOW! It was simply called an SC when it was in production. None of us are infallible including whoever updated the site. Porsche UK advertised all 911 coupes as "SC"s at one time, the girl who placed the ad when I was buying explained it was because they were "Sports Coupès".

I have debated this point on several Porsche sites including Pelican and I would like to see some PERIOD documentation rather than opinion and rewritten history, However, if it makes any one feel good to call it Sam, Charlie, SuperCarrera or other, feel free. For the informed Porschephile it will remain an SC. A car that is great enough to stand out without poetic embellishments.