Jaye Bass

...well almost. Have a car at Holt's place in Philly that I'm going to pickup either end of this week or early next. 92 C2 Coupe Midnite Blue over Linen.

Background: My first 911, so I'm stoked. Mostly owned British (even had a Jensen GT) and faux Brit (currently have heavily modded NB Miata) sports cars in the past. Only racing experience is in sprint karts with a smidgen of AX. Will likely not track the 964 but will want to tweak it eventually. Anyway, wanted to introduce myself.

I do have one immediate inquiry. While I like the seats and door cards, the white carpet is a little too much for me. I've seen a few Linen interiors with carpet that matches the grey dash. I like that color combination quite a bit. My question is will I adversely affect the value by replacing the carpets?

RicardoD

Whenever you deviate from stock it affects the value of the car. However, this is 1992 C2 and not one of the specials from Porsche. As far as customizations go its a mild change that is easily reversible. All you need to do is carefully store the original carpet set and offer it to the new owner if you offer it up for sale.

964Q

Welcome to Rennlist! The paint looks great! Keep us updated on your mods as we all love to see the (slippery slope) progression of these cars.

Good advice, Recardo.

Jaye Bass

Fully intend to keep the original carpets, the way these cars are gaining value its the smart thing to do.

I hear ya regarding the slippery slope. My NB has mods that are roughly 2x the car's purchase price...hopefully I won't get that crazy with the 964.

911therapy1

Agree with keeping the carpet. I have linen as well and it is a bear to keep clean in wet climate here. Love the blue paint!!

justin-in-athens

I would just put some floor mats in it and be try not to ruin the door entry area, that is such a pretty color combo.

J81 JKR

Hi Jaye,

I have the same colour combo (inside and out) and have put some black porsche mats over the top of the white ones to keep them clean, looks fine IMO.

Yours is significantly cleaner than mine, you've inspired me to get it valeted, I can see that yours has just been done!

Good luck with the collection

cheers

dylan

J81 JKR

Actually I have a black dash not grey but the principle still applies!

BradtheAg

Congrats. I have looked at that car on Holt's website about 25 times. Absolutely love that color, my dad owned a midnight blue 930 turbo when I was very young.

RayB_911

nice car, clean interior for that color. Welcome to Rennlist. It is a very helpful group of individuals.

ECS Tuning

That's a stunning looking combo !! Welcome to rennlist, can't wait to see a few more pictures of this beauty. I would get some black floor mats and just try to be careful. For more information on Floor Mats Click Here.

BigMikeATL

Gorgeous car!

I like the gray dash too.

Jaye Bass

Thanks for the help guys. I post quite a bit on miata.net. We were laughing that many of us were moving up to various P-cars. As a Miata enthusiast, I'm used to excessive mods (I've installed two separate superchargers on my NB, Wilwood big brakes, blah, blah...) but I can tell that the pace of mods on a 911 will be much slower.

For instance, I was watching a Drive episode on a 3.2 liter car built by bbi. They had installed a set of these really trick, old school HRE 935 wheels. I started thinking that a pair of white 18's would look great on my blue coupe with some quick mental arithmetic I arrived at an estimated price of around 800 bucks a wheel. WRONG. More like 1800 bucks so instead of a 4x multiplier it was a full order of magnitude vice what a good set of racing wheels would cost for my NB. HRE may be an extreme example but holy smokes.

bmohr

Im jealous jBass your exterior interior color combo is probably my favorite. Awesome and welcome!

911Jetta

Car from Holt look so impressive! I love your varied car background.
I second your insight in regards to modding this car, it doesn't need much (compared to other cars)...911s are just so right.