I''m back in a 911!!!.. 996 C2 project begins.

kas750 · 14 Nov 2018

It even interferes with the radio in my 3 year old VW Transporter.

Think I'll file it under F :roll:

kas750 · 26 Jan 2019

A cracking pic from last year when I photo bombed the local TIPEC group whilst they were in the pub on club business.

Hans Gruber · 26 Jan 2019

On no not a Wednesday fan surely.....

kas750 · 26 Jan 2019

Correct I'm not :thumb:

kas750 · 2 Feb 2019

So with the 914 now sold I think may need to sell the 911 as well to tick the next box in my motoring life. :thumb:

Alex · 2 Feb 2019

Aston?

kas750 · 2 Feb 2019

alex yates said:
Aston?

I'm not at liberty to say :mrgreen:

Marky911 · 2 Feb 2019

C'mon spill the beans!

Good luck with the sale. Hopefully you'll still be visiting these parts.
I hope yours sells quickly or we may be fighting over buyers. :grin:

I'm going to decide this week if I'm going to put mine up. :thumb:

Alex · 2 Feb 2019

Don't do it Mark, unless you have something seriously better in mind. My current man maths algorithm states - "pay 100% more must be 100% faster/better/etc.".........there's nothing out there that can come anywhere near.

Apart from mayber £25k on a low mileage AM Vantage

:wack: :grin:

Marky911 · 2 Feb 2019

Yep, I know. Whatever it is it won't be £20k/£30k better than the 996 dynamically. It will be purely heart over head.

Whenever I pop into my garage I think 'Don't be an idiot, keep it", but then I go looking around on the internet. :wink:

Time will tell though and it's 50:50 for now. :thumb:

KAS, I hope you're staying with the brand, as I enjoy your threads and what you do to your cars. :thumb:

kas750 · 3 Feb 2019

alex yates said:
Don't do it Mark, unless you have something seriously better in mind. My current man maths algorithm states - "pay 100% more must be 100% faster/better/etc.".........there's nothing out there that can come anywhere near.

Apart from mayber £25k on a low mileage AM Vantage :wack: :grin:

:mrgreen:

kas750 · 3 Feb 2019

Marky911 said:
Yep, I know. Whatever it is it won't be £20k/£30k better than the 996 dynamically. It will be purely heart over head.

Whenever I pop into my garage I think 'Don't be an idiot, keep it", but then I go looking around on the internet. :wink:

Time will tell though and it's 50:50 for now. :thumb:

KAS, I hope you're staying with the brand, as I enjoy your threads and what you do to your cars. :thumb:

Marky I have owned a Porsche pretty much constantly for 29 years and having just turned 50 I know that I need to tick some boxes whilst I still have the interest!

My 996 is utterly sorted and drives like a new car so it could be a very good buy for someone.

It may not happen for me but the V8 vantage look outrageous value and a safe place to have my money sat.I remember 8k Sc's,10k 3.2 Carreras and 12k 964's,so I can recognise a trend when it's starting to pan out.

I have done loads of research and I have lined up a good indie in Wilmslow who raves about the V8 vantage and said that they sometimes have niggles but they have never had to have one trailered back to them and also said that they have quite a few customers cars on their books with well over 100k covered.

An example of what is out there

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classi...-from=500&postcode=pr76jt&page=2&modal=photos

Marky911 · 3 Feb 2019

Mornin' Kas,

I can totally see the attraction. Of the two cars I would sell my 996 for, that aren't Porsche, one is a V8V and the other is an F type, although the latter will lose a lot. (Obviously there are more but they aren't under my £40-odd K budget.

The Aston's sound and look stunning, I just worry that once the new car buzz wears off, I'd be left with a less involving drive. I'm lucky that my mates have sampled just about everything as one of them is a dealer (he has an Aston at the moment), so I'm able to sample a lot of cars properly without having to buy them or waste salesmen's time.

I've decided that if I don't change my 996 for a year or two I'm going to add an '07/'08 XKR as a daily. Cheap mans Aston :grin: and I still have the 996 for weekends. My boss had one new in '07 and I liked it. Auto slush-box only though.

If an interesting air-cooled 911 comes up though I'll go for that but a lot of stars would need to align for that to happen, eg selling the 996 quickly etc.

15 years of 911s for me (minus 2015), but I'm still addicted.

Enjoy the search for your next car, it's always fun. :thumb:

ragpicker · 3 Feb 2019

The Aston in that link looks very good value! They are outrageously good to look at too aren't they!?

I've heard nothing but tales of regret from people buying them though, am I alone in this? I ask as if what I've been hearing is wrong then I'd consider a vantage too if my turbo ever sells. :dont know:

Alex · 3 Feb 2019

I've been considering that exact same car Ady. Been on a few weeks now and looks an absolutes steal. I don't see how anyone with a bit of nous and likes dabbling with the spanners would regret buying one of these...........and they'll be £35k in 5 years.

Mark - I'm in that exact same 50:50 position. Quite frustrating. Frank & I even did some role play on the pub car park yesterday with Frank the salesman and me the buyer. He quite easily sold my own car back to me. Think the correlation of the new hood being like wearing a new pair of underpants sealed the deal :grin:

I''m back in a 911!!!.. 996 C2 project begins.

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