SC with Carrera lettering on the side.....

[Joe Bob]

I saw a rather good looking ducktailed 911 with the Carrera lettering above the rockers in a LA parking lot last week. I looked closer and it was an SC.....hmmmm, blasphemy?

The coloring was white body and the baby blue lettering and matchingblue insets on 16x7 and 8 Fuchs.

Any comments? The SC WAS the Super Carrera....is this guy a poser or what?

Z

[Leland Pate]

I would declare blasphemy but I too have been swayed by temptations of the galvanizd steel.
I think perhaps a SC owners confession session is in order.

Let's all "Air our dirty laundry"...


Forgive me for I have sinned.
I have C2 replica rims,
a set of late model high back seats,
and have often thought about adding a tail to my car.

[thabaer]

Originally posted by Leland Pate

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and have often thought about adding a tail to my car.

Go for it, Leland!
( but it 'otter be a Carrera tail )

[Kurt B]

I may get a ducktail + lid for my car. It is a Carrera--I have no qualms with putting a ducktail with "Carrera" lettering on the back of the tail (a la the RSs) rather than on the lid for that combo.

Not posing, but mixing and matching. If your paint is good, the wheels are good, the interior is good...and the car looks good, combos like that tend to work. We'll see. The only problem is it's a Cab. I've never seen a ducktailed cab!


I'll have my regular decklid without a tail with normal badging.
It's fun. I think of the machine as a woman with a drawer full of negliges to keep her daddy entertained.

[BKOMAR]

Yep, My SC is devoid of all SC badging, has a Carrera tail with script, and turbo gravel guards, 87 3rd tail light.... She is a heterogeneous lot, but I still lover her...*grin* I have no desire to put her back to "original". Brian

[Jack Olsen]

I'm shocked, shocked, that anyone would consider mixing and matching components from different models of 911's in a single car.

[cary]

Jack ..............That cracks me up ............

[Rustbucket]

Uh.....I guess you guys didn't see this then....

[Kurt B]

Clint:
I call that *****en. It's awesome. Someone in a new 911 finally paying some respects to the cars that brought us here.

I think there's plenty or room for that sort of badging. It's retro and it works.

Compare it to "OHC Motoring"

OverHead Cam motoring huh guys? Okay

I guess I'll get a "Push Rod Motoring" sticker for my 914.

Oh, how about this, "FI Motoring"

Man, we can do this all day, but hopefully we won't, after this:
"DB motoring" in honor of my disk brakes.

Anyway, Carrera put in various places on a Carrera model retro style works for me.

I know Jim T is going to start kicking boxes over and stuff, but a lot of guys are with me on this. My ducktail will look cool--and it will have "Carrera" on the back of it.
In all the fancy fonts and stuff.

I'll just be so cool, the peoples, well, they will be speechless.

[Jim T]

Originally posted by Kurt B

I know Jim T is going to start kicking boxes over and stuff, but a lot of guys are with me on this. My ducktail will look cool--and it will have "Carrera" on the back of it.
In all the fancy fonts and stuff.

I'll just be so cool, the peoples, well, they will be speechless.

Huhh? Me?

I agree, the white 993 with the Carrera treatment looks cool. I've seen that car all over the place, it belongs to Richard Price, he's active in PCA in So. Cal. Its an awesome looking car!

I love the look of the ducktail on the later, big bumper cars. Although I've never seen one on a cab, so that is an unknown.

And a Carrera badge on your ducktail, why not? Its a Carrera.

I personally would't put Carrera badges on an SC, just like I wouldn't put "Turbo" badges on a non-Turbo car, or a Type R sticker on an SC, or an M5 badge on a 528e or an M3 badge on a 318i (very common in LA). Grafting bigger, stronger, faster parts from other cars is one thing, "badge engineering" is something else altogether.

On Monday I saw a "Carrera" targa in the parking lot, looked like a mid-80s model. Well, at least it had "Carrera" on the decklid. Of course, as with just about any pre-89, I have to go check it out. When I peered in through the grille (it had no AC), I spotted the familiar CIS air filter cover and Shell sticker. I just assumed it was a SCWDP member in undercover again.

[BKOMAR]

This kinda cracks me up! I guess I didn't realize the nuances that differentiate the Carrera and the SC. Does the fact that the car doesnt have AC make a difference? I would prefer to not have AC myself. I didn't reaize that having the Carrera badging (that the previous owner applied) made me a poseur! I like the look of the turbo gravel guards but that doesn't mean that I want people to think that it is a Turbo. As few 911's as there are in north central Kansas I'm sure that noone is going to be able to tell... hell, even the new owner couldn't! Actually, as much of a vintage VW purist that I am, I may end up changing at least the badge. I'll have to think about that one. *grin* Brian

[jwetering]

This thread (and this board) are uncanny...

First... I have been planning to put a ducktail on my SC for a while - and am working towards that. I had also contemplated a Carrera stripe on the door....not sure what the purists (which I used to be) would think...now I know.

Second...I was at the local Porsche dealer lusting after a 2002 996, when I came upon the *original* idea of getting a white one and doing a blue wheels, blue Carrera stripe treatment - then I dismissed the idea as crazy....but now I have a picture for my desktop. I like the look, but I'd add the yellow french headlights.

wierd

[wckrause]

The one thing on my SC that should only be on earlier cars is RUST!

[carnut169]

After seeing that 996, if I had one (a white 996) I would copy it... looks great!

[Jim T]

Originally posted by BKOMAR
This kinda cracks me up! I guess I didn't realize the nuances that differentiate the Carrera and the SC. Does the fact that the car doesnt have AC make a difference? I would prefer to not have AC myself. I didn't reaize that having the Carrera badging (that the previous owner applied) made me a poseur! I like the look of the turbo gravel guards but that doesn't mean that I want people to think that it is a Turbo. As few 911's as there are in north central Kansas I'm sure that noone is going to be able to tell... hell, even the new owner couldn't! Actually, as much of a vintage VW purist that I am, I may end up changing at least the badge. I'll have to think about that one. *grin* Brian

No, AC doesn't mean anything, I only mentioned it because if it had AC, I would not have been able to see the engine (it would be covered by the condensor).

I ripped the AC out of my SC, too.

If you put an M3 badge on your 318 . . . you might be a poseur.

If you put a Turbo badge on your non-turbo car . . . you might be a poseur.

If you put an "AMG" badge on your C230 . . . you might be a poseur.

If you put a "Type R" badge on your Civic DX . . . you might be a poseur.

If you put a Carrera badge on your SC . . .

[wckrause]

If you put a Carrera badge on your SC . . .

you might be somebody who needed a new decklid, and a Carrara lid was available.

[MMARSH]

Actually that white 996 belongs to Don Dicker. He races it in the POC cup races as well as drives it on the street. He also owns the Red 74 Carrera (Targa and its a real Carrera) that is in this months or maybe last months European Car magazine and a 993 3.8 RS that he races. At an event at Streets of Willow several months ago, he tossed me the keys to the 993 RS and told me to take it out. (How could I refuse that) Very awesome car and a very generous gesture.

[Glasgow 911SC]

Would putting a Carrera badge on an SC be upgrading or downgrading?
SCWDP

[Jim T]

Originally posted by MMARSH
Actually that white 996 belongs to Don Dicker.

Ahh, you're right.

Here's a pic of Price's car. Amazingly alike, but the wheels are a different design.

http://www.pelicanparts.com/swapmeet_pics/dunkel_2002/Pic165.jpg

wckrause, good thing the only lid available to you when you needed a new one was a Carrera lid, not a 912E lid! That would have been a bummer.

[Jack Olsen]

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