rentadate

For my college grauation about a year away, my mom has offered to buy me a porsche in the $15-22K range. I currently own a 1975 911s targa silver anniversary edition #268 (that's what the little plaque says) . I got the car as my gift for myself when I turned 21. It has the 3.0SC engine rebuilt including a rebuilt transmission. It runs very well with the MSD installed in it. I have electrical problems up the wazoo in it. Not sure how to fix it, but that is for another post.

I am looking at the 2000 996, but that is COMPLETELY out of my mom's budget. I was looking at the 993 from 1995. I am curious about the engine and all other little things about them. I understand the porsche is an expensive car to maintain, but I can do most of the mior work myself. I would like to know about what people think of the car. Is it durable? Is it reliable?

I do understand that it is probably a year or so before I can even begin to seriously look into the car. With my busy schedule between school, and my business that I opened, I am trying to find out all I can about the 993. I would like to know the pros and cons about it.

This is probably a silly question, but does the 993 have a clutch cable? I find those the most annoying little quirk of the older porsches. Granted that it only takes a 1/2 hour to change.

I am mostly going to use this car as a daily driver, because I can't afford a second car. I am probably going to keep the old porsche, because I would like to keep that in the garage as a car that I don't mind tinkering with. I have nothing do anyways. That and I could probably keep it as a track machine.

The local Dealers around town won't even take me seriously because I show up asking for information on the 993. I think they don't think I can afford the machine. I'm probably not loaded, but my rents' are. I have a hard enough time trying to get information on the 993 from the dealers. I feel compelled to see what they do when I ask to take a test drive. (^_~)

I found the local BMW dealership A WHOLE LOT MORE friendly and able to provide information to me about any of the cars I'm curious aobut. Granted there is only 1 local BMW dealership and 3 porsche dealerships around the Boulder area.

In the end I gave up and am signing up here to ask questions. Any help would be great.

Thanks

-Nick

TYNUSKT

If my parents were giving me that kind of money towards a car and I were getting ready to graduate college I would put that money towards a used VW R32 as a daily driver since you already have a Porsche.

BTW, I got a set of golf clubs for graduating college.

sidned

The 993 has a hydraulic clutch, not cable.

When I was a student, all I got was a 20 year old Datsun that was held together with rust - and I had to buy it myself!

AOW162435

That's great to know.

In that case, you may wish to consider that a decent mileage early 993 will probably cost in the mid-30s. Buying a 993 in the $15k - $22k range will get you a high-mileage example with the potential for quite a few fix-it issues.

Andreas

InTheAir

...and most likely a salvage title.

BTW, I got a pen set for college graduation. That was better than the luggage I got for high school graduation--which appeared to be an obvious hint.

Giantviper

I am about your age graduating college in May and curently drive an '88 944. I think the 993s are very cool cars one day i would like to maybe own a 993TT but anyway not all porsche dealers are like that have all 3 of your local dealers given you an attitude?

Becides, the best place to find a 993 would be in the used market one being sold by the owner not a dealer try possibly autotrader or even the rennlsit classifieds here. You will get a better deal this way and then just make sure the car has records and you get it looked at by a certified porsche mechanic before you buy it.

Not to turn you away from the 993's but if u want another porsche a more practile every day car for your price range might be a 968. You can get one in Great condition and low milage in your price range and it has much more storage space with the hatchback and gets a little more gas milage but it is a little slower and older. It also could be a little bit cheaper to maintain then the 993.

I hope this helped some.

dhicks

Maybe you should forget the car and spend some money on learning how to spell !!! My goodness what does graduation mean these days????

Giant Viper wrote this.......see above......Becides, the best place to find a 993 would be in the used market one being sold by the o

Bruce SEA 993

Hmmm...I got a job for graduation. Drove the old beater and wrenched on it at night to keep it going. Got a house a couple of years later and "wrenched" on that. Had to wait til I was early '40 to get my Porsche. I am out of it I guess as times have changed...

993s are likely out of the budget but whatever you get, might want to factor in maintenance as there is nothing worse than an expensive car with nearly as expensive defered maintenance.

Good luck!

SCMomentum

398 posts, giantviper? An even better investment yet for your Porsche future would be to bypass a couple of brewskis for a weekend, dig into your pockets, & subscribe to Rennlist.

AOW162435

David,
Well said. I thought the same thing...

Andreas

993c2cab

kids today

mborkow

welcome to the board.
$15-22k really isn't going to get you into a 993. any 993 into which that sum of $ would get you is likely going to need a lot of work (and even if you do the labor yourself the parts are not cheap).

Lawrence_P

When I graduated high school my parents offered to have my wisdom teeth extracted. Being annoyed at the churlish thought, I demurred. A year later they needed to be extracted and it was my nickel; the offer was refused earlier and was not remade. For college my brother gave me cookware (at my request).

As to the car, you can find a nice 964 for that type of cash. The car is basically the same; I'd do that.

911CabSteve

You already have a nice Porsche. As others have said, sort out the electrical and put the cash into a downpayment on a house or invest it for retirement.

g_murray

"For my college grauation about a year away..."

Get your mum to buy you a dictionary.