Tears for broken Turbo S

5axis · 03-05-2003, 01:14 AM

Sad to see such a rare car in this condition. Must have been a fun call to the insurance company. The rare turbo S is now a mess.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2406081806&category=10156

dickster · 03-05-2003, 01:36 AM

i love it from the outside but that interior.............

Stanley · 03-05-2003, 02:08 AM

The inside looks horrible with blue everything and a walnut dash. Is this the only car that Porsche produced with plaid seats, i've never seen plaid in a Porsche before? I do remember seeing plaid seats in some Mercedes super-car a few years back though, anyone know what car this was?

Adam · Adam's Garage

Jesus! They've picked it up for this picture with a forklift!!!

mrizvi66 · mrizvi66's Garage

i wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole.....well maybe a 5 foot one.

But seriously how much would it take to make the car whole again?

82SC · 03-05-2003, 02:40 AM

back in the day plaid in porsche seemed somewhat popular...

even to this day if you want it and are willing pay for it porsche can do it...I read in excellence they have gigantic binders full of ALL of the options you can do...and if you come up with something novel they will try to do it for you...

but today's buyers just go in...say silver and walk out with plain jane porsche

the early sport seats came with corduroy inserts, houndstooth (my favorite) and plaid too.

I seem to remember some of the special edition cars and the one offs like presents to Dr. Porsche had plaid inserts

RUF uberboxster comes with plaid seats...

i guess everyone has their own taste...

but with this car I would think you could weld on a front clip and have a very rare car...I thought these weren't even imported to the US...hmmmm

GeorgeK · 03-05-2003, 02:43 AM

The plaid is typical Porsche, mid 70's. see the first 3.0 Turbos.
The Mercedes with plaid was the SLR, road version of the Le Mans looping car.
That said, I like that interior. How many black, blue or beige interiors have you seen lately?
There's someone in Cali (R Gruppe) who has RS 964 buckets in his earlyS, Looks great!
GeorgeK

Isabo · 03-05-2003, 03:53 AM

Personally I think walnut on a 911 looks wrong. This one also has a blue interior which I also think is an acquired taste, the pattern on the seat I could accept, usually the plaid/tartan finishes on 911s seem to suit the 911 to my eye. The ones that make me cringe are the rainbow pattern seats on some 964rs' and the checkerboard panels and seats on some 928s.

RickM · RickM's Garage

Actually not a bad car with relatively light damage. Wonder what it will go for.

DonDavis · DonDavis's Garage

What's the deal with the airbag? Is it stuffed back in? Is that a split in the middle of the bag area? I would imagine it would have certainly gone off.
And yeah, I've seen plaid in some Porsches. Though for it to look good I feel it's very color and car specific. This combo does not work for me.
Houndstooth looks great. About 8 years ago, I almost bought a 72 sunroof/coupe with factory A/C that had tan leather with houndstooth inserts. Looked very good.

ewave · 03-05-2003, 06:51 AM

Did someone cut out the Porsche badge?!!!

82SC · 03-05-2003, 06:53 AM

firemen trying to disconnect the battery...cut access hole so latch can be undone

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

I would never buy a car that was 81 degrees...but that's just me.

RickM · RickM's Garage

LOL...took me a bit to figure this one out. What should it be 98.7 or higher?

speeder · speeder's Garage

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Adam Chaplin
[B]Jesus! They've picked it up for this picture with a forklift!!!

Actually not such a bad way to lift this car; it spreads the load out nicely. Much worse to lift it w/ a floor jack in the wrong place.

The seller asks, "imagine what this car will be worth in 10 years to a collector"(?) Huh? Let's see, a car that is rare because nobody wanted it when it was new, (they were not exactly on waiting lists for these things), _

, and this one has a salvage title+ a newer front clip! (The part w/ the original VIN# on it). Add in the personalised interior/color treatment, and voila! Yes, definite Monterey auction material.

I'll bet if you could talk to the owner that got paid out from insurance, he'd tell you that it was the second happiest day of his life.

Wayne 962 · Wayne 962's Garage

Plus, try sourcing those slant nose panels from Porsche!

-Wayne

RickM · RickM's Garage

Apparently the fender is readily available from Porsche. The rest of the parts are C2 turbo. Additionally, if it goes for anything close to 25k on Ebay it's worth it.

Perhaps this car will go for a mill at Barrett-Jackson in ten or so years.