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Way cool 959 photos!
  
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Wayne R. Dempsey, Founder, Pelican Parts Inc., and Author of: 101 Projects for Your BMW 3-Series • 101 Projects for Your Porsche 911 • How to Rebuild & Modify Porsche 911 Engines • 101 Projects for Your Porsche Boxster & Cayman • 101 Projects for Your Porsche 996 / 997 • SPEED READ: Porsche 911 Check out our new site: Dempsey Motorsports |
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My buddy, violin959 sent these to me...
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I think I see yours in the middle of the back row against the fence
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06-04-2010, 03:21 AM
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Great photos. Tell us more... I luv the masking tape...
Does anybody know? Did they make any RHD 959s? ~ I'm guessing NO but I thought I would ask anyway. Thanks for posting Wayne.
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06-04-2010, 03:31 AM
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Wayne I think you have insomnia..almost everytime you make a post it is at a very obscure hour! Great old 959 pictures, I also have a barrage of awesome old and rare 959 pics and road test from when I lived in England and toured Europe in the '80s. I should scan and post them up.
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awesome pictures!! i don't think i'll see one tomorrow at the Minneapolis Cars & Coffee, but there will be some other amazing rare cars there. ANNNNNDDD I finally don't have my major oil leak so i don't have to disappear into my smoke screen get away when i leave. super pumped about tomorrow morning.
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Am I the only one that finds the 959 to be a technical marvel but believes it is one of the ugliest cars ever made?
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06-04-2010, 04:40 AM
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Wayne - great pics!
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06-04-2010, 05:30 AM
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actually, Porsche was never one to let form get in the way of function.
 - sort of like the Chris Bangle rear end on another German make - change 1mm of any dimension and you defeat the purpose. Bill K
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I think because I was a teenager when they came out, and I was a child of the 80s (so to speak)... that I always will think that the 959, Countach and Testarossa will always be gorgeous.
I must have read the Road&Track article 1010032401 times. I used to look at the 0-60 time of the sport (3.3secs) and just marvel. (3.6 for the Lux)...
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For me it was the F40 and the 959... I built multiple scale models of both.
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06-04-2010, 07:20 AM
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I rode in Wayne's for about 500 feet once.
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Note how the suspension is set to high on all of them.
That must have been the way they came out of the factory. Maybe it was the last thing they checked/tested.
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Maybe it was easier to get on the trucks without rubbing the front valence.
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Two questions.
How many 959s are left? What is the parts and whole car value in those pictures?
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It's true...in person to me they look like a wider 993 with an integrated wing. I'm a bit biased, but I think the 993 is a great looking 911. I think the image in most people's heads of a 959 has been tainted by all those fake body kits and "359" VW kit cars.Cool pics Wayne! Wonder which one is yours? |
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it has some very nice looking features on it - the low grilled areas for one
some may think it looks like a "bad body kit" b/c many bad body kits copied the 959 Gee, Wayne, I'm sorry they are so common now! |
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Porsche 959
1973 911 RSR Clone
1972 Porsche 911 RS Clone
2000 Porsche Boxster 3.4
2003 MINI Cooper S
1987 Porsche 962C
1988 Porsche 962C
1980 Porsche 935
1986 Porsche 962
1987 Porsche 962GTi-106b
2000 Lola B2k/10
Jamaican Rally Car
Porsche 962C
1960 BMW 700 HotRod
1991 Porsche 962 Can Am (Interserie)
1958 Porsche 356 Speedster
1957 Mercedes 190 SLR Project
Daimler Ferret
American La France Lil Mo Fire Engine
Pantera Group 4
Alfa Romeo 1900C Touring Superleggera
Alpine A110
Perana Z-One Zagato
Dauer 962 LeMans
Porsche 962-108B
Adams Probe 16
Zagato Testadoro 750
1973 Porsche 914 1.7 very modifed
