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It's easy to gloss over the repairs required to the older air cooled cars because they're old, but how many air cooled 911s make it beyond 150k without a reseal, valve stem seals, head studs, etc? There's a reason why you upgrade valve covers, chain tensioners, or add a pop-valve to the airbox, and it's not a superior initial design. Methinks this is more unfair bias against the new cars than it is truth.
Do the old cars have more character? Probably. But character is also a nice way of calling your car a pain in the ass. I tried to DD a 1970 911T, I know all about "character".
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