show us your 996
02-25-2007, 12:15 PM
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Burning Brakes
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Darren, car looks phenomenal. Those rims are amazing, and you don't see many 911's in candy apple red.
PRH, rims look good - I like the chrome lip. Where'd you get them? I want new rims, but don't want to pay a years private school tuiton for them!
PRH, rims look good - I like the chrome lip. Where'd you get them? I want new rims, but don't want to pay a years private school tuiton for them!
02-25-2007, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Nutbeem
Darren, car looks phenomenal. Those rims are amazing, and you don't see many 911's in candy apple red.
PRH, rims look good - I like the chrome lip. Where'd you get them? I want new rims, but don't want to pay a years private school tuiton for them!
PRH, rims look good - I like the chrome lip. Where'd you get them? I want new rims, but don't want to pay a years private school tuiton for them!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/18-Po...91848759QQrdZ1
If you do an ebay search of 18 or 19 Porsche Wheels and you will see a lot of choices from them.
They are not chrome though...They are polished lips with clearcoat. Since my wife drives the car, I didn't want chrome because it's much more involved to fix curb rash. With polished, you can sand it yourself and then buff it.
Here's some with chrome:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/18-Po...91786850QQrdZ1
These are my second set of replicas, and I just can't understand why anyone would pay for the originals unless they are racing. No one can tell the difference and they look great.
They have several styles in several colors.
I have BBS LM's as well.
02-25-2007, 10:48 PM
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Need advice
So, my wife has a tendancy towards the fast and furious cars and would like to pimp out the Porsche a little -- as tastefully as possible.
I am thinking vinyl graphics because it's cheap and easy to remove.
Since I don't have photoshop, I did this in PowerPoint.
Anyone have any vinyl graphics suggestions/examples for us? And how come 996s are almost never seen with racing stripes like Vipers, GT40s, etc?
I am thinking vinyl graphics because it's cheap and easy to remove.
Since I don't have photoshop, I did this in PowerPoint.
Anyone have any vinyl graphics suggestions/examples for us? And how come 996s are almost never seen with racing stripes like Vipers, GT40s, etc?
02-27-2007, 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Nutbeem
Darren, car looks phenomenal. Those rims are amazing, and you don't see many 911's in candy apple red.
PRH, rims look good - I like the chrome lip. Where'd you get them? I want new rims, but don't want to pay a years private school tuiton for them!
PRH, rims look good - I like the chrome lip. Where'd you get them? I want new rims, but don't want to pay a years private school tuiton for them!
The rims came with the car, I think they're probably speedlines?? The lip is just the polished aluminium. The cost of the tyres here in Aust is the scary bit $850 ea(AUD)
Darren
03-04-2007, 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Nutbeem
Damn, Kansas, a Z06 AND a 996? Sweeeet. What's that grocery getter doing in the middle???? 
.... just a hair faster than the 911.... 
03-10-2007, 08:45 PM
#357
Spring Slush Dirty 996
Here's my dirty 1999 C4.
Driving all winter hasn't been a problem, it's when all that snow melts that it becomes a problem, this slush is nasty stuff. A big truck going the other way made a big mucky splash on me!
I hope it freezes up again this evening so I can get to the car wash!
Driving all winter hasn't been a problem, it's when all that snow melts that it becomes a problem, this slush is nasty stuff. A big truck going the other way made a big mucky splash on me!
I hope it freezes up again this evening so I can get to the car wash!
Last edited by BuddyK; 12-17-2012 at 07:29 PM.
03-10-2007, 09:09 PM
#358
Originally Posted by plantraco
Here's my dirty 1999 C4.
I'd be embarrassed to drive it around like that! I hope it gets some TLC come spring time.
