OK Ive been oding my damnest to come up with this on the net somewhere. I need all of your help:

I put a note on the 944 forum because of the traffic but since you are 930 people perhaps you have this sitting in your lap and can help me out.

I've been on a manhunt for an 80s 911 Turbo ad. These are the ones with the cars on a white background on a two-page spread with black text above and a side shot of the car. Ive had in my possession a 944 and 928 ad of similar ilk and vintage, however I KNOW theres a 911 and 930 ad that was produced during the same time b/c I used to drool over it in my subscription to Auomobile. I think the 911 was black and the 930 was red. The 930 may have been an 87' too because I think I remember it had the rear taillight pod.

I need to come up with these ads. If you know where I can find a high-res JPG please let me know. Theres a ton of good vintage 80s ads out there but I cannot find these particular ones. Or if you have some old car rags around (Automobile for one) could you look and see if its in there and perhap scan it for me. If I got a good scan I could clean up the fold in photoshop. Unfortunately I threw about 200 old car rags out in the late 90s b/c I thought I would be driving a Suzuki Samauri forever and now wish I had not because there were some real cover gems I had.

I need these pooches for my garage or my garage will not be complete. Ive already got a bunch of old ads hanging, but if I dont get a copy of these Im going to go a little kookoo.

 

944 forum hooked me up. I will post results tonight.

 

UDPride,
Please post the pics here as I want to keep them too. After all I am privelleged enough to own a 930 and not just any 930, a Ruf BTR conversion 930 which I love sooo very much.

 

911 NA:

http://home.earthlink.net/~chrisriem.../930/911na.jpg

930:

http://home.earthlink.net/~chrisriem...d-finished.jpg

 

UDPride,
Thanks a million, something worth keeping.

 

Thats a pretty cool ad. Am thinking they forgot about it these last few years.

 

You know it is so funny how we were all impressed back then by 282 hp and 157 mph top end. Now those numbers are pretty common. The newer cars get faster but none have gotten prettier.

 

True, but in the smaller mass produced car days of the 80s, 282hp is like 500 today. I bet Vettes back then barely had more than 200. Mustangs were downsized so much they were like family two doors. Heck some of these supposed sports cars had speedos that only went to 85mph (could have been a short lived law?).

1 HP out of Zuffenhausen is like 1.5 everywhere else anyway. Nobody lowballs performance numbers like the boys at Porsche. All the while everybody else inflates theirs. If Porsche says the Carrera GT can do 205mph, its probably more like 215.

 

UDpride,

I have to agree with you. Although I had an SC with a turbo body back in 1985 it had 270hp with 230 ft pounds of torque. The car only weighed 2390 pounds. Other than a Porsche Turbo there was not a car on the road that could touch it. I would love pissing off the guys in their vettes and Z28's, and these were the fast cars. The Mustangs were a joke and everything else did 0-60 in 10 seconds or slower.

I remember Road and Track kept the 930 on their list for years even when Porsche was no longer importing them. The 0-60 time of 5.0 seconds stood for about ten years before any car they tested bested it. Now, well it's a different world.

Heck my mother had a MB 300 Diesel back then, did 0-60 in 22 seconds. It didn't seem that slow back then. Today I would be afraid to try to get on the highway with it.

No matter how fast they were or slow they become, nothing says Porsche like the 930.

 

0-60 in 22? Whew Doggies. My first rig was a Suzuki Samurai. If it wasnt 0-60 in 22 it was a long 20 at the very least.

 

I totally agree with you UDPride. My good friend here in Singapore owns a 911 GT3 MK2. The other day he clocked 317km/hr on his digital speedo on the highway. I think the factory brochure says less. Although the car claims to have 381bhp, he still manages to pull away slowly from a 360modena with Tubi exhaust on the straights.