Afternoon chaps, just starting my readers cars type thread for my 996 C2 I bought almost a year ago. It certainly won't be anything as impressive as Poppopbangbang's or ELA's lightweight project, simply me bringing a 996 upto my ideal spec and condition.
If it bores you (and that's fine) just click away. :wink:
I'm actually a bit pushed for time these days but I've been gathering parts and planning things over the last 11 months and I'm starting to think if I don't start a thread now I never will as I'll get too far behind.
Ok, so like many on here I grew up loving 911s and while Ferrari's and Lambo's beat them for sound, I just think there's something about 911's. Boxsters and Caymans are great but I just don't get that 'Want!" feeling with them.
Anyway, I won't go on about my old ones but a few sentences on why I chose a 996 C2.
One reason really and that is that it's the only 911 I could afford to get back into last year.
Prior to this I'd owned several 911s -
Horrible old bitsa -
Lovely 964 C2 manual coupe -
My favourite I think. 964 Turbo -
Maybe joint favourite then. 996 Mk1 GT3 Clubsport -
So a house move to an old wreck in my dream village (realising a 15 year old ambition) meant we were backed into a corner pretty quickly financially, so as much as me and my ever supportive wife tried to juggle finances so I could keep the GT3, inevitably it had to go in August 2014.
It went to a proper petrolhead, Slippydiff off the forums, who I'd been speaking to about GT3 stuff behind the scenes for a long time. Great guy with an envious list of former Pork. It got the pampering and use it deserved with him.
I was so busy with the house (still am) that I didn't really miss it until summer '15. I tried a few old BMWs to fill the void but they were never going compete in any way to the GT3.
Anyway, after a crap 2015 (ill wife and me having a cancer scare in the December) I thought 'Sod it, I want another 911". So I scrimped and scrounged and managed to scrape enough together for a 996.
The list was simple, it had to be drivers spec as my GT3 had been obviously. So manual, coupe, rear wheel drive, oh and a Mk1 obviously, as I wanted aerokit and like the simpler shape. The hunt began....
more to follow when I can but I had to start somewhere......
If it bores you (and that's fine) just click away. :wink:
I'm actually a bit pushed for time these days but I've been gathering parts and planning things over the last 11 months and I'm starting to think if I don't start a thread now I never will as I'll get too far behind.
Ok, so like many on here I grew up loving 911s and while Ferrari's and Lambo's beat them for sound, I just think there's something about 911's. Boxsters and Caymans are great but I just don't get that 'Want!" feeling with them.
Anyway, I won't go on about my old ones but a few sentences on why I chose a 996 C2.
One reason really and that is that it's the only 911 I could afford to get back into last year.
Prior to this I'd owned several 911s -
Horrible old bitsa -
Lovely 964 C2 manual coupe -
My favourite I think. 964 Turbo -
Maybe joint favourite then. 996 Mk1 GT3 Clubsport -
So a house move to an old wreck in my dream village (realising a 15 year old ambition) meant we were backed into a corner pretty quickly financially, so as much as me and my ever supportive wife tried to juggle finances so I could keep the GT3, inevitably it had to go in August 2014.
It went to a proper petrolhead, Slippydiff off the forums, who I'd been speaking to about GT3 stuff behind the scenes for a long time. Great guy with an envious list of former Pork. It got the pampering and use it deserved with him.
I was so busy with the house (still am) that I didn't really miss it until summer '15. I tried a few old BMWs to fill the void but they were never going compete in any way to the GT3.
Anyway, after a crap 2015 (ill wife and me having a cancer scare in the December) I thought 'Sod it, I want another 911". So I scrimped and scrounged and managed to scrape enough together for a 996.
The list was simple, it had to be drivers spec as my GT3 had been obviously. So manual, coupe, rear wheel drive, oh and a Mk1 obviously, as I wanted aerokit and like the simpler shape. The hunt began....
more to follow when I can but I had to start somewhere......