shrp

I don’t think it’s good or bad, but the style is kinda specific. Just not really sure what to make of it, so really curious if anyone has actual first hand experience with them

vma1788

Red calipers wouldn't that mean steel brakes?

shrp

Speaking of Brooklyn Auto Sales - this SY 997.1 GT3 listed on their site today:
https://brooklynautoonline.com/vdp/2...sland-NY-10310

VIN: WP0AC299X7S792312
Miles: 44,449
Price: $149,999

I texted with their rep a bit - very nice guy and really responsive. Hopefully someone here picks this us as it checks a lot of boxes (no paintwork, clean DME, clean CarFax, epic options (including PCCB and SY stock wheels).

8Lug

looks nice but I think wheels in deviating color means they are black, not yellow.

shrp

Oh he texted me a pic of them - yellow! With the polished rim. Really cool

Hamhands

Post that pic lol

shrp

RAudi Driver

Yup! This picture says it all.




The LMR's look way better on this car. Wonder if they are including both sets of wheels.

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JS

The BBS LM-R look great !

lawrence1

that car was well priced. surprised no one here jumped on it. get factory wheels and a set of seats and you're off to the races, assuming nothing else was wrong with it (big if, absent seeing it in person).

lawrence1

i wonder if someone traded this in on the 997.2 they just sold.

8Lug

wonder if that’s factory. If it is, they went about it in an expensive way.
Option ‘CRX wheels painted deviated color” is what this car has. They would have commonly been painted black but could be ordered in any wheel color not correlated to the car’s color. This was $1900.
Option “XD9 rims and caps painted exterior color” was the one to check if you wanted wheel color to match car color and this option was only $1200.
theoretically, someone could pick option CRX and then specify the deviating color to be the same as the car color, but it defeats the purpose of the CRX option and is more expensive than XD9 which got you the same thing.

vma1788

Yellow car used to be the owner of Benzworks. Good guy and well kept. Sorta love the yellow wheels

EMpunker

I wouldn't be surprised if it was ordered this way. A lot of dealers didn't quite understand all of the nuances of the ordering process back then when it came to the special options that were available.

RAudi Driver

8Lug, always a wealth of information . I'm gonna add to this and this is just what I have picked up over the years as I don't follow all the option codes.

The 997.1 GT3 painted wheel as I've seen over the years has either been the entire wheel being a solid color, whether it be black or silver, or painted black spokes on painted silver barrels. The look resembled flower petals floating, unattached to anything. It's a cool design when you look at the wheel with that in mind. It's those details that I look for when I look to see originality. I may be incorrect and Porsche painted these wheels a few different ways but you folks decide and then figure out what's the deal with these yellow wheels. My guess is that the entire wheel came yellow and someone sanded off the lip to be aluminum as it kinda doesn't even look like silver paint.

IMO: A Genuine OEM factory painted wheel. You can see the spokes resemble a floating flower with its petals.

Pic of my 997.1 wheel




This picture looks OEM style, maybe repainted at some point as it's the ends of the petal edges don't all look the same. However OEM themed imo. This picture courtesy of Marshall Goldman. Link below and you'll probably want to check it out as out of the four wheels on their car, only one was painted like this.



Other ways, I've seen this wheel painted. I don't know if this was factory, but I know that people have had their wheels repainted and this is the way they came out. Maybe it's easier to paint them this way. This picture courtesy of Marshall Goldman, link below. On the same car as the wheel above. 🤷🏽‍♂️



Now on to the yellow wheel. It looks like the spokes/petals, vertical areas of the barrels and even the horizontal areas of the barrels are painted. This leads me to believe that if Porsche painted those wheels yellow, they painted the entire wheel and someone removed the paint around the lip.



Up for discussion. Have at it members.

Marshall Goldman 997.1 GT3 with OEM wheels painted different - A Sold car.

Rear wheel and front wheel painted different.