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I also feel like 996's were the gen that people really drove the wheels off of so lots of higher mile units now.
I know that I probably paid a little too much for mine for the miles on it and know it isn't going to make me money if any down the line. Let's see how that all works out though.
The low mile/nice spec GT2/3's, Turbos and 4S will take most of the market's money. The base 996 fellas will have to hope for the right buyer for the spec and call it a day.
A market like this pulls along all sorts of garbage when money has nowhere else to go. The chaff gets picked last, and dumped first. In the end, most 996s will never appreciate like you think they will….
Is the 996 GT3 part of the 996 “garbage” train you’re talking about?
I laughed out loud, hard, when I read your post. I didn’t know there was such a thing as garbage trains, but I’m fairly certain that if there are, they aren’t pulling any car carriers packed with 1999 3-pedal Coupes. Probably no GT3’s either. BTW theoretically speaking, where would such a garbage train full of 996’s be going anyway? Southampton Beach to Jerry Seinfeld?? Montecarlo to Sotheby’s?? Hope there’s an online auction first I’d like to at least bid on several of these garbage train GT’s!!
this is the funniest Rennlist thread in twenty years I swear
Cheapest Porsche I ever bought was an ‘89 C4 back in early 2K, when that car was being ridiculed to scorn by the PCA “purists”.
Cheapest Porsche I ever bought was a white 1969 912 with a few problems for $2000 in 1991.
I put $3000 into it (clutch and guards red paint job) and sold it for $6500 4 months later.
I wanted to update it to look more like a newer 911 but knew I wouldn't be able to sell it for enough to make it worth it.
Most people who looked at it were disappointed that it had the old 60s look.
It was just a 912...it would never be collectible...glad I didn't hold onto it.
It's probably not worth anything these days anyways.
You have the 996 garbage train backwards: it actually originates out of Encinitas, CA, and finally docks for unloading end of line into the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart.
Originally Posted by SoCal911t
Encinitas, CA
My ONLY serious request here is if one of you lunatics creates a “996 Garbage Train” t-shirt for sale on your “Cult 996” IG feed, PLEASE ensure the locomotive proudly wears the GT1 headlights that won LeMans!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My ONLY serious request here is if one of you lunatics creates a “996 Garbage Train” t-shirt for sale on your “Cult 996” IG feed, PLEASE ensure the locomotive proudly wears the GT1 headlights that won LeMans!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would purchase this shirt without hesitation.
Also, all 996 meet-and-drives are hereby referred to as 996 garbage trains.
Is the 996 GT3 part of the 996 “garbage” train you’re talking about?
Asking for a friend
Well, obviously. The GT stands for "Garbage Train".
Edit: Just like the 996 itself, I'm getting in on the ground floor of the garbage train money machine. I won't miss out on this like I did with dogecoin and GME.
This is how memes are born. One day we'll tell our grandkids about this.
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Ironically Brontosaurus is correct; just late. The vast majority of 3-pedal 996 Coupes have likely already been dismantled as a result of racing and abuse (which are not the same thing). LA Dismantlers literally has acres and acres of them. Never in Porsche’s history have so many examples of one particular model been converted for track use as Ferry’s “LEGO kit racecar” Type 996. Racing schools and privateers literally bought them up in droves.
By today’s manufacturing standards 996 manual coupes were rare to begin with. Now several decades later they’re virtually extinct.
The Type 996 manual coupe isn’t just rare for how many were originally manufactured, it’s rarer still for how few actually remain.
Originally Posted by aaronjb_ME
I'm with you! I don't like the pendulum swinging the other way with brontasaurus claiming these are destined for the trash heap.
I wish we had more recent sale reference points than BaT. That's just a sliver of the market.
Across the board 996 asks on Autotrader are at least twice what they were 2-3 years ago, and the cars sit only a fraction as long. The increase appears to be sharpening too. It’s a run up right now, the perfect storm: post-Covid / Porsche Classic / Magnus.
IMO prices will level off 2024 when Porsche Classic inducts 997. That’ll be 7 straight years of gold rush for 996. And no Porsche in history deserved it more IMO. You go girl!
Originally Posted by aaronjb_ME
I wish we had more recent sale reference points than BaT. That's just a sliver of the market.
06-21-2021, 05:54 PM
