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kookootz wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 4:58 pm Greetings all. new member here. My 996 is an early 1998 C2 . Looking forward to reading posts as well as posting. Happy Holidays everyone

Greetings and welcome! Mine is also a very early ‘98 - February build date C2 cabrio. Original fried eggs are the best!
Daryll

kookootz wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 4:58 pm Greetings all. new member here. My 996 is an early 1998 C2 . Looking forward to reading posts as well as posting. Happy Holidays everyone

Welcome! We won't hold your car's funny looking headlights against you.

kookootz wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 4:58 pm Greetings all. new member here. My 996 is an early 1998 C2 . Looking forward to reading posts as well as posting. Happy Holidays everyone

Great to have you here! My first 996 was a ‘99 model.

Where are you located? Post up a pic of your car - we like pics.

Here you go, funny headlights and all. I am from NorCal, just a bit north of the Golden Gate Bridge, perfect 911 driving territory

Very nice - love the wheels, classic Teutonic colors.

Getting back into a 996...this time doing it right...almost...maybe. Owned a 2003 996 manual...like it a lot but IMS fear wore on me. And I screwed up my left leg and started telling myself I'm not getting any younger. Swapped it for a 2006 997S w/ tip. Loved the power, loved the tip, hated the interior. Hated it. Sold it 3 months later. A year or so later I was looking for a 99 or 2000 tip...couldn't find a coup so I settled for a cab. The tip burned out, I replaced it. In the end I felt I had a car that would need $10,000 just to make it perfect and I liked the cab but didn't love it. Sold it a couple of years later.

My current car is a 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia TI Lusso...and is probably the best overall car I have ever owned. But the overload of modern technology just makes it a car that will be obsolete in another year...and the cost of repairing or replacing the electronics will be absurd. So I decided it was the perfect time to go retro...as analog as I can afford. Hence, the best driving car in the world for the price...the early 3.4 996.

This time I started out looking for a 99/2000 coupe...originally with tip because the Alfa's 8 speed ZF is really amazing. But of all the tips that I drove only one felt solid and worth an offer. But the seller rejected the offer and I moved on. I found myself having to seriously reconsider going with a manual trans, and driving them I was happy at how quickly the skill came back. And all the manuals I have driven have felt very solid mechanically. None of the cars I've seen are perfect...all lack something, need something. While it feels safe to get one with the IMS already addressed, that is only one important aspect of the car, and there are more than enough 100k cars still running their original bearings so that it is a gamble I feel comfortable about...but not so with the 996.2.

I'm seeing a car tomorrow that if it looks and drives as well as the add, I will offer the asking price. Not a color I was even looking for...Metallic Mirage (aka in Germany as Metallic Champaign)...and with wheels I usually hate, painted black. But in pictures the combination is very nice. 112k and the original IMS. Coil overs and new bushings and links, coils and plugs, wires, very nice interior...blah blah blah. I will not do a PPI. I will just accept whatever maintenance issues that come along...hoses, belts, water pump, etc...those are all items that will be needed sooner or later no mater what. It is a 21 year old car. And I've have seen cars with much fewer miles that truly scared me.

I could put off buying now...waiting for the perfect car...and still be here a year from now. I don't think prices have gone up or down as a model, there are just good ones, bad ones, and over priced ones. And it is usually the bottom fish that appreciate after all the others have maxed out their inflation. I also find a purity in the first 996s that is very attractive.

So, maybe tomorrow...and if not then, soon.

Welcome JI, to verify your identity please post a pic of the new Porsche if you get it with a copy of your book. The Magic Hour.

I thought I recognized some of the names from that other Porsche site. I like that idea that this is more relaxed...just enjoy the cars, learn, help each other, have fun. I'll drive this one car tomorrow. However the guy with the first car I made an offer on, just emailed to say he is lowering his price. It is still a thousand more than I want to pay, and a thousand more than the car I'm seeing tomorrow. At the same time, between the 997S tiptronic and my Alfa ZF 8 speed, the manual transmissions still feel a little slow. I always felt the Porsche original solution of having up and down the gears on both sides of the wheel was the best solution. It allows you to drink your Cafe Latte with one hand and with you other hand, go up and down the gears while keeping your hand on the steering wheel...perfect for laps at the Ring.

The tip is white, needs a transmission mount, and has small dimples in the paint of the left rear fender and by the right door...I'll call it patina. Definitely not a beauty queen. But it also has had the AOS and the IMS Retrofit six years and 35k miles ago. The manual looks better inside and out, but I'll still be putting money into it just to give everything an up to date look...and it is the original IMS...could be good or bad...all a gamble.

Everybody talks about their cars as if they were in perfect condition and the best in the world. Tomorrow I'll know more. Having a friend go with me, he also went with me on a drive in the white car.

JI, if it is you... I am serious about posting the Pic of your book in front of the car. Why? Because I am 50/50 that this is B3 posting from your account to bust people's balls.

B3... I think I got JI's phone number somewhere.... Don't make me text him to double check. The phone has a Porsche model code after area code

Kalashnikov wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:17 am JI, if it is you... I am serious about posting the Pic of your book in front of the car. Why? Because I am 50/50 that this is B3 posting from your account to bust people's balls.

B3... I think I got JI's phone number somewhere.... Don't make me text him to double check. The phone has a Porsche model code after area code

B3 can't be that eloquent for that long of a post and Schnelly is too busy lately to bother. Then there is also the year old thread he resurrected which is straight out of the JI playbook. I'm 70/30 that this is the real deal.