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Ok, ageless question, I have a 2013 4s coupe platinum silver and am thinking of adding the duck this off season. Wife says no, im on the fence.
What does everyone think? How much am I looking at total, $2700 range?
You need to do the front bumper as well, so it's more like $5k-ish all in.
When I was ordering a car I was on the fence, so I spent a long time looking at cars with the kit at the dealer. My opinion was - looks great, looks awful, looks great, looks awful, looks great, looks awful, looks great, looks...and so on. No matter how long I looked at it the more I came back to the same place. Couldn't decide.
Recently, reconsidered adding it on and came back to the same conclusion, particularly around the front end. The more I look at the sport design front bumper on a narrow body car, the less I like it. In the end, even when I was temporarily in the 'I Like It' mood, I couldn't justify so much money for basically a cosmetic mod like that.
So I admitted in another thread that the one thing the .1 guys can get that I can't is the duck and that I envy them for it. That being said, I prefer my 991 clean tailed and will put a duck on a long hood if/when I can get one.
Since you're soliciting opinions: no duck. It looks juvenile.
Without sounding condescending this is exactly how I feel (for me..... I'm 51 and I think it's a bit young for me.) YMMV
With regard to my answer before, I think it looks classic on long hoods (or restomods)......and classically aged guys like myself (read old) can own classic sports cars with all the goodies..... see below
When I speced my order, there was no fence straddling, no uncertainty, no brainer. Now at age 66, I was at Road America in 1973, and the memory of the rs 2.7 made this an easy one to check. For me, the duck is as unique and important as the historic shape of the 911. I would have no other car with a duck, and I would not have a 911 without it.
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