968turbos2

No 968s for sale. Wonder how long that will last?

ltc

A week or two.
It varies...sometimes you will see 10, then 2, then 6......
There was a couple of nice ones in the PCA Mart/Panorama.

FRporscheman

I checked last week, and there were only 2. I think one was a relist because it looked familiar.

968turbos2

I like that I think. Makes me feel like I have something that may be worth holding onto!

Dean968

944S2 x 928 = 968
umm well almost, I think it was actually a bit of a threesome -
944S2 x 928 x 993 = 968

968turbos2

I think you have a point there Dean. Gotta add a little 964 spice for flavor.

968turbos2

They actually made a 968-nosed 911 called the 964 turbo for like 1 year in 94 right before the 993. Brake specs are the same (rotor diameter)

rpm's S2

Ahhh... The 964 Turbo S 'Flachbau' - a mythical and wonderous machine. Not really a 968 nose, but a design all to itself. Very rare. Very expensive.

Flachbau

Damian in NJ

I think it actually is a 968 nose grafted on, from what I remember reading. At the NNJR summer meet a few years ago I was parked in a 1994 corral (in my old coupe) next to a genuine flachbau. Black and menacing. I later saw another at the first Rennsport Reunion at Lime Rock-wearing NJ handicapped plates!

rpm's S2

I have been up close and personal with one (an ex-Michael Jordan car). My dream Porsche. Sloan had a nice one for a while but it seems sold now. The design is clearly 968 influenced - but the shape of the fenders, hood and nosecap lead me to think that it could not have been a 'graft' of the same parts without serious modification. Looking at the images on the Flachbau site the fenders are just too steeply sloped. However the headlights when up have the raked back look of the 968 rather than the stand up straight 928 look.

The detailed text on the site does not commit either way...
I wonder if Karl Ludwigsen details the design and fabrication in EWE?

The Michael Jordan story is also interesting. He apparently ordered the car through Foreign Cars Italia in Greensboro NC. Red with tan. $20k deposit required to Porsche. When it arrived he did not fit comfortably in the sunroof coupe. The shop offered to adjust the seat rails but he decided the car was better left unmodified and it was sold to someone else. The car eventually wound up in a private collection in Raleigh where I have drooled over it many times. The Flacbau site tells part of this story and identifies the VIN of this car but mistakenly thinks it is in Colorado.

Oh well, enough Flachbau dreaming on a Wednesday.

It does look like a 968 though

Damian in NJ

From the Flachbau site

"Models Version II X84 R.O.W. and Version III X85 U.S.A. featured the latest model 968 front end with pop up unhooded headlights."

Further, for sure the headlamps are 968 units, the tech bulletins list how to adjust them.

rpm's S2

Went to the source - I called the curator of the local collection that has the Flachbau. He says the headlights are 968 assemblies and the rest of the front end is custom fabricateded 964 parts.

He also clarified the MJ story - the car was ordered using the famous name (he had bougtht cars through that dealership) to get an allocation. Jordan never saw the car.

hot-J

There is a Flatnose BLK/BLK in the showroom of KTR motorsports in MA......... WOW! I think they wanted 140k...... She was a beauty though!

Techno Duck

Not sure if this is a genuine flat-nose. It is fast as hell however...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyFv2dXJRg

FRporscheman

The 993 could not have influenced the 968 design, because the 968 came first.