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post #16 of 28
8/23/10 at 5:42pm
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Originally Posted by impolyt_one View Post
Except the Cayman is mid-engined and the 911 never has, or will be.

Actually the Cayman is the spiritual descendant of the 904, Porsche's successful enclosed mid engine race car.
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post #17 of 28
8/23/10 at 7:55pm
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I remember the 930 that is one classic Porsche. I rather have a Cayman S than say a new 996 series 911, to me a water cooled flat 6 just does not seem right.

The Cayman has a water-cooled flat 6 as well.
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post #18 of 28
8/23/10 at 8:03pm
On second thought, there is a genuine RSR on Yahoo! Japan for a lot less than this Singer, and I think I'd rather have that. There's also a bunch of Carrera RS clones around $30K, and they'd importable to the US as well.
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post #19 of 28
8/23/10 at 11:20pm
I love the Cayman. I've driven it twice and the handling is better imho than the 911.
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post #20 of 28
8/24/10 at 3:32am
That is one sexy porsche, you know with all the relivened vintage stuffs that is becoming popular these days I could definitely see a resurge of appreciation in old timer cars but with a modern twist. It might be expensive but if they don't cut corners, stay true to the original and do a good subtle job of adding in modern technology (safety features mostly) then this is would be the stuff dreams are made off. And the more people buy them the cheaper they'll get and the more variety we'll have, so I'm personally all for it.
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post #21 of 28
8/24/10 at 6:48pm
I'd buy one. I don't care about so-called authenticity from the factory, but this car is in the true spirit of what made Porsche great, unlike the 996 which was a mediocre car.

Now if only someone would do this for the 2000GT I'd start saving my pennies.
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post #22 of 28
8/24/10 at 8:27pm
I'm not even a big fan of Porsche, but this is just brilliant!
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post #23 of 28
8/25/10 at 10:06am
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Originally Posted by akatsuki View Post
I'd buy one. I don't care about so-called authenticity from the factory, but this car is in the true spirit of what made Porsche great, unlike the 996 which was a mediocre car.

Now if only someone would do this for the 2000GT I'd start saving my pennies.

I'd cry if I saw a retro-mod 2000GT. Old 911's are a dime a dozen compared to the 2000GT.

What I'd like to see; I'd love to see a retro-mod BMW 3.0CS; take a basketcase 3.0CS and then maybe give it a set of repro'ed CSL bumpers, redo a lot of panels in carbon... give it a phenomenal heart, like an S54 or like a pre-OBD euro S50, some good brakes that fit under 16" Alpinas, and a clean interior restore, paint the whole thing in a period correct color. Now that'd be some shit.

A hyper resto-mod E34 wagon in M5T styling with a V12 and a 6 speed from the 850CSi would be sick too. I saw one for sale on ebay for $16K once.
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post #24 of 28
8/25/10 at 5:24pm
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Originally Posted by Artisan Fan View Post
I love the Cayman. I've driven it twice and the handling is better imho than the 911.
Yes, I've spent time in both, and this is true IMO.
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post #25 of 28
8/25/10 at 8:40pm
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Originally Posted by impolyt_one;
What I'd like to see; I'd love to see a retro-mod BMW 3.0CS; take a basketcase 3.0CS and then maybe give it a set of repro'ed CSL bumpers, redo a lot of panels in carbon... give it a phenomenal heart, like an S54 or like a pre-OBD euro S50, some good brakes that fit under 16" Alpinas, and a clean interior restore, paint the whole thing in a period correct color. Now that'd be some shit.

Yes, it would be: http://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s...afilter=images
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post #26 of 28
8/26/10 at 2:23am
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That thing is beautiful. What's the engine? 3.5L big six from the late '80's?

The one I was thinking of was one I'd seen in a magazine awhile back - a concours-level restoration on a genuine CSL (without all the batmobile aero add-ons)... with an S38 from an M6 in it. It was stunningly beautiful, but I'd feel bad doing something like that to a genuine CSL. I like the Singer Porsche because they're taking LWB 964's, which are not rare, and doing resto mods on them - the E9 non-CSL's are kinda similar I guess, and nobody would care if you hack a non-CSL E9.
The S38 is more correct since race CSL's had a pretty similar engine, but since this would be a resto-mod car, I'd prefer something newer and cheaper to maintain than an S38, like an S54, maybe that mid '90's euro S50, it'd have to be one of the ITB'd sixes. It could be a sick daily driver car.

I might be moving to Japan in the near future and I could probably get my hands on a good base car to do something with... maybe something like the above, or a clean E24 635CSi that I could put an S54 in...
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post #27 of 28
9/27/10 at 12:23pm
FYI this car and its builder featured on this week's Carcast w/ Adam Carolla: http://www.adamcarolla.com/CarCastBl...rob-dickinson/
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post #28 of 28
9/27/10 at 2:56pm
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Originally Posted by akatsuki View Post
I'd buy one. I don't care about so-called authenticity from the factory, but this car is in the true spirit of what made Porsche great, unlike the 996 which was a mediocre car.

Now if only someone would do this for the 2000GT I'd start saving my pennies.

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Originally Posted by impolyt_one View Post
I'd cry if I saw a retro-mod 2000GT

I cried.


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