its a 911! not a carrera!
06-23-2006, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Greg H.
I don't understand your problem. To the best of my recollection Carrera is exactly what it says on the back of every rear engined Porsche made since 1984 except turbos and some special cars.
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06-23-2006, 06:29 PM
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People read what is on the car, which isn't too surprising, and most aren't inflicted with the sickness that we are all enjoying.
I bought a house in 2000 from a guy who had a Rotary lift in one of the garage bays, with a 996 Cab sitting on it (my wife still says that sold the house to me). As I got talking to him and asked how he liked the water-cooled car, he looked at me like I had two heads (on my shoulders). When I told him of my aircooled 993s, he said "Really?, I didn't know there was an aircooled car made after the original Beetles (VWs, not Band). Who would want one of them?" I felt better about my low-ball offer after that!
I bought a house in 2000 from a guy who had a Rotary lift in one of the garage bays, with a 996 Cab sitting on it (my wife still says that sold the house to me). As I got talking to him and asked how he liked the water-cooled car, he looked at me like I had two heads (on my shoulders). When I told him of my aircooled 993s, he said "Really?, I didn't know there was an aircooled car made after the original Beetles (VWs, not Band). Who would want one of them?" I felt better about my low-ball offer after that!
06-23-2006, 06:46 PM
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Can someone please enlighten me as to what exactly a 965 is? Is it simply a 964 Turbo? Or are 965's distinctly different from 964Turbos?
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Type 929-1973 "Turbo Sport Carrera"
Type 930 1974-75 Turbo and Turbo Carrera, production car based on Type 911
Type 930/60 1978 3.3-liter 911 Turbo for rest of world
Type 930/61 1978 3.3-liter 911 Turbo for United States (49 states)
Type 930/62 1978 3.3-liter 911 Turbo for Japan
Type 930/63 1978 3.3-liter 911 Turbo for California
Type 930/67 1977 3.3-liter six-cylinder engine for Airship Industries
Type 934 1975-76 Group 4 racing version of Type 930 Turbo coupe
Type 935 1976 Group 5 racing version of Type 930 Turbo coupe
Type 964 1988 911 Carrera 2 and 4 production model and their
engine - development of 911
Type 965 1988 Planned range-topping four-cam twin-turbo 911
Carrera variant
Type 993 1993 Carrera and Carrera 4 production sports cars - development of 911
Type 994 1989 964 Turbo, initial project designation
Type 995 1979 3.0-liter V 8 low-drag aluminum-body study for German government
Type 996 1998 911 Carrera production sports car of New Generation - development of 911
Type 930 1974-75 Turbo and Turbo Carrera, production car based on Type 911
Type 930/60 1978 3.3-liter 911 Turbo for rest of world
Type 930/61 1978 3.3-liter 911 Turbo for United States (49 states)
Type 930/62 1978 3.3-liter 911 Turbo for Japan
Type 930/63 1978 3.3-liter 911 Turbo for California
Type 930/67 1977 3.3-liter six-cylinder engine for Airship Industries
Type 934 1975-76 Group 4 racing version of Type 930 Turbo coupe
Type 935 1976 Group 5 racing version of Type 930 Turbo coupe
Type 964 1988 911 Carrera 2 and 4 production model and their
engine - development of 911
Type 965 1988 Planned range-topping four-cam twin-turbo 911
Carrera variant
Type 993 1993 Carrera and Carrera 4 production sports cars - development of 911
Type 994 1989 964 Turbo, initial project designation
Type 995 1979 3.0-liter V 8 low-drag aluminum-body study for German government
Type 996 1998 911 Carrera production sports car of New Generation - development of 911
06-23-2006, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by infinii
Can someone please enlighten me as to what exactly a 965 is? Is it simply a 964 Turbo? Or are 965's distinctly different from 964Turbos?
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/449399
06-23-2006, 09:33 PM
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People read what is on the car, which isn't too surprising, and most aren't inflicted with the sickness that we are all enjoying.
I bought a house in 2000 from a guy who had a Rotary lift in one of the garage bays, with a 996 Cab sitting on it (my wife still says that sold the house to me). As I got talking to him and asked how he liked the water-cooled car, he looked at me like I had two heads (on my shoulders). When I told him of my aircooled 993s, he said "Really?, I didn't know there was an aircooled car made after the original Beetles (VWs, not Band). Who would want one of them?" I felt better about my low-ball offer after that!
I bought a house in 2000 from a guy who had a Rotary lift in one of the garage bays, with a 996 Cab sitting on it (my wife still says that sold the house to me). As I got talking to him and asked how he liked the water-cooled car, he looked at me like I had two heads (on my shoulders). When I told him of my aircooled 993s, he said "Really?, I didn't know there was an aircooled car made after the original Beetles (VWs, not Band). Who would want one of them?" I felt better about my low-ball offer after that!
06-24-2006, 08:00 PM
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In the Spring of 1998 I purchased one of the first 1999 996 coupes (special order). I kept the car a week before I decided to sell it (the car had nothing in common with prior Porsches that I had been fortunate enough to own). At any rate, I advertised it in Autoweek as a 996 for about a month, NO Calls! I changed the ad to read "the New 911" and sold it the first day the new ad was published. It makes me sick when I think back and realize I could have purchased a new 1998 993 at the time I placed the order for the new 996. (I had never owned a 993 at the time) If I had bought a 993 new in 1998, I am sure that I would never have sold it...just glad I got one of the few '96 Carrera 4 polar silver 911's ever made!
06-24-2006, 10:24 PM
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My former employer recieved a phone call from our local tv station one day while I was wrenching on a 911, (I don't remember if it was an SC, a Carrera, or a 993, but I know it was a 911).The reporter said that they were doing a story on our concours, but didn't know how to pronounce porsch-. The guy says, "they" (the Porsche guys) were pronouncing it one way, but we all pronounce it a different way. My boss tells him "It's a 2 syllable word, a German guy's name, Porsch-aaa, and if you pronounce it any differently, you're a moron, or you're from Bakersfield".
06-24-2006, 10:32 PM
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Somehow the state of New Mexico put 942 on my title instead of 911 or 993 and they won't change it for nothing - even when I showed my other title and the fact that they 942 was only one car and Ferry's at that. Go figure
06-25-2006, 09:40 AM
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Several years ago I had an elderly friend of my Mother-In-Law make the same "Camaro" comment about my NB '96. I was letting it go until he studied the front emblem very closely and than asked, "it is a Peugeot?". The terrifying thing was that the gentleman was driving.......
