thought I should properly introduce my new 993
picked up a 1997 Ocean Blue metallic manual Targa, with marble grey leather interior, at the end of December from the far corner of Wales. it's done 92k and seems in excellent condition. I had spent about a year searching for a late manual targa and I am very pleased with this one.
so far it is everything that I had hoped it would be and I am loving every minute in it.
thought I'd keep a blog here as I quite like to document all the things I do to my cars, so feel free to ignore or to join in!
as I mentioned, the car is in very good shape, but there were a few things that I thought I could improve on straight away so I've been busy getting a few jobs done
so far I have bought/ fitted:
- Insurance and tax - both £20 each a month, which I'm pleased with and the ability to now pay road tax monthly certainly helps spread the load
- Bentley manual. finally arriving on Wednesday hopefully.
- 2 x rear conti sports
- 2 x headlights 'glass'
- Baby car seat for jr!
- Rotated speedo a little bit as I'm a bit tall and couldn't see the top of the speedo!
- New plates.
- New pass window switch.
- Optimate 4 Accumate waterproof permanent battery lead connection cable with extension fitted to battery
- New smaller H&P alarm fob programmed and on key ring.
- 'coin tray' to go in place of cassette storage between the seats.
- today I collected a Becker Indianapolis Pro, with new blue tooth phone mic, iPod connection which enables full control from the head unit (which I'm going to route through to the glovebox), GPS aerial and Nav CD (which I plan to upgrade). also planning a DAB unit easily accessed but out of sight in the ashtray
Ready to fit:
- New bearing for spoiler lift mechanism.
- new spoiler 'curtain' as mine has split
- Headlight HID kit, all other external LED upgrade bulbs and LED kit for centre consol from Tore.
- Heated wing mirror glass for passenger side
- correct front wipers, including the all important 'wiper widget'!
Met with 'Glassman' Paul last week and he is fitting a new screen and correct seals at the end of this week
and also booked into a body shop to sort passenger door check strap, which has just slightly come away so I want to sort it before it gets too bad.
Still to figure out / to do:
- where to fit a fire extinguisher that's out of the way and not attached to the passenger seat rails? always like to have one fitted ever since my 1972 beetle caught fire while I was driving it!
That's the first 2 weeks of my 993 ownership
these are a bit arty but here are few pics from just before I bought it as I haven't had a chance to take any shots of the car clean yet as it's either been dark, below freezing or I've been driving it! (on the last owner's private plates, now changed back to original reg)
all important seat for the co-pilot! bit of a grainy phone pic as the light was fading fast
happy days
picked up a 1997 Ocean Blue metallic manual Targa, with marble grey leather interior, at the end of December from the far corner of Wales. it's done 92k and seems in excellent condition. I had spent about a year searching for a late manual targa and I am very pleased with this one.
so far it is everything that I had hoped it would be and I am loving every minute in it.
thought I'd keep a blog here as I quite like to document all the things I do to my cars, so feel free to ignore or to join in!
as I mentioned, the car is in very good shape, but there were a few things that I thought I could improve on straight away so I've been busy getting a few jobs done
so far I have bought/ fitted:
- Insurance and tax - both £20 each a month, which I'm pleased with and the ability to now pay road tax monthly certainly helps spread the load
- Bentley manual. finally arriving on Wednesday hopefully.
- 2 x rear conti sports
- 2 x headlights 'glass'
- Baby car seat for jr!
- Rotated speedo a little bit as I'm a bit tall and couldn't see the top of the speedo!
- New plates.
- New pass window switch.
- Optimate 4 Accumate waterproof permanent battery lead connection cable with extension fitted to battery
- New smaller H&P alarm fob programmed and on key ring.
- 'coin tray' to go in place of cassette storage between the seats.
- today I collected a Becker Indianapolis Pro, with new blue tooth phone mic, iPod connection which enables full control from the head unit (which I'm going to route through to the glovebox), GPS aerial and Nav CD (which I plan to upgrade). also planning a DAB unit easily accessed but out of sight in the ashtray
Ready to fit:
- New bearing for spoiler lift mechanism.
- new spoiler 'curtain' as mine has split
- Headlight HID kit, all other external LED upgrade bulbs and LED kit for centre consol from Tore.
- Heated wing mirror glass for passenger side
- correct front wipers, including the all important 'wiper widget'!
Met with 'Glassman' Paul last week and he is fitting a new screen and correct seals at the end of this week
and also booked into a body shop to sort passenger door check strap, which has just slightly come away so I want to sort it before it gets too bad.
Still to figure out / to do:
- where to fit a fire extinguisher that's out of the way and not attached to the passenger seat rails? always like to have one fitted ever since my 1972 beetle caught fire while I was driving it!
That's the first 2 weeks of my 993 ownership
these are a bit arty but here are few pics from just before I bought it as I haven't had a chance to take any shots of the car clean yet as it's either been dark, below freezing or I've been driving it! (on the last owner's private plates, now changed back to original reg)
all important seat for the co-pilot! bit of a grainy phone pic as the light was fading fast
happy days