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Originally Posted by nzporsche944s2
I think it looked great in that Matt Black look before they started detailing it...
Lovely lines that defined the 911 look for the next generation. Remember that when this was rolling off the production line 964s, 944s, and 928s were still being made....
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Actually, 964s were not "still" being made-they had not begun making them yet. The 964 Carrera 4 was the first production application of 959 technology, i.e. an AWD 911. The 993 turbo was the car that really had a lot of 959 in it, AWD+twin turbos, ABS, etc...
I had no problem with the way they were removing the cosmoline from the 959 but using a rotary high-speed buffer on brand new paint is bananas unless it's part of some aggressive wet-sanding or something. When I sold new Porsches in the '80s, I saw a couple of customers send new 911s to body shops for wet-sanding out the orange peel, which was extreme in those days.
Personally, I'd rather keep as much factory paint as possible on these cars no matter how bumpy it is.
Cosmoline really becomes impossible to remove when it gets baked onto engine/transmission cases and other chassis parts. It was supposed to be removed by the dealer when the cars were PPI'ed but a lot of them were not, or rather only removed from the body of the car. There was a special solution that the new car prep guys sprayed on and then it just power-washed off easily. It sucks when it's burned onto nice cases and aluminum chassis parts.
