Can someone please tell me what the "SC" in 911 SC or 356 SCstands for?!!

[speeder]

Pyite, if I name my Yorkshire Terrier "Killer Beast", that is his name, regardless of what you think it should be. Read the link to factory literature again, (the one that made you type "dammit"), then pay your friend. Don't be a punk, pay up.

Have a nice day.

[pyite20v]

whatever, thats lit from GB, cant get it to work from thier main site. Sorry that you bought into it, but I am trying to find out the truth.

THanks for playing though.

[Early_S_Man]

Denis,

Per Ludvigsen, the Carrera 2 was a 356B model, and there were'n't any '64 models ... the article is poorly researched, and in error! The figures cited are also available in Ludvigsen, and date from the '62 model as tested by Road & Track.

The Carrera 2 used the Porsche-design disk brakes as used in the 804 F1 car ... NOT the ATe brakes of the 356C models!

[speeder]

God, I love this board. Warren, don't be such a stranger around here, OK?

[echocanyons]

I like the super "C" for the 356's C being the evolution from type 356-A-B-C
And it very well may be Super Carrera for the 911 years.
BTW i do have at least something to add to this posteven if follows early S mans tangent.

The patents for the Porsche designed inner-grip type disk brake system used on the 356 C2's was sold to ATE for ease of production and also cheaper costs.
ATE, the company who later supplied Porsche's 356C's the conventional disk/calipers design brakes.

Kelly

[Calspeed]

Originally posted by speeder
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"Why would there be a Super Carrera, and then a few years later a Carrera?" Same reason that there would be a "911S" in 1975 that was slower than a 911T in 1972. You are trying to glean non-existent meaning from marketing labels, the idea was to sell cars, period. No offense, but you remind me of every person I have ever won a bet with who didn't want to pay. And if you'd won and the other guy was grasping straws like this, you'd cry cheat, right?

Hello,

No I dont have any answers about the SC badge but I do have a comment on the 911 becoming slower the from '72 to the 75 model.

I believe this was due to emission laws. Seems to be that way with most other sports cars.

Calspeed

[Tim Walsh]

the E does stand for injection as far as I know. T is for Touring, S is for sports.

I've heard that carrera means race in spanish but I could be wrong.

I can't comment on SC.. I've never heard of what it stands for. "Standerd car" vs "turbo"?

[targa911S]

S has always meant super. E is ienspritz (sp) T was touring, L was luxury.
356 SC meant Super for the engine, as compared the "normal" which was less Hp. C in the 356 configuration quite possibly meant the body configuration of C. However, that I know of SC has always stood for S type Carrera. Remember the ad from 1970 that said. " For 1970 the T goes like the E, The E goes like the S, The S just goes like H!" Gotta love it.

[ChrisBennet]

The Carrera name came from the Carrera Panamerican race which Porsche had some success in.
-Chris

[RickC]

Seem to recall Paul Frere's "The 911 Story" said that "SC" didn't mean anything when the model came out, but that it definitely came to mean "Super Carrera" in the years afterwards - Sort of like how the Ferrari 365 GTB 4 came to be called the "Daytona. "

Everyone now pretty much agrees that is what to call these two cars, but they were not given those names by the factory. Instead, they were given these names by enthusiasts of the model/marque - which is legit enough for me.

Don't know enough about the 356 SC to comment.

[Randy Webb]

- Partly that, partly more wt. from cushier accessories and safety equip. and partly a decision to emphasize torque at low rpm over high rpm operation due to increased congestion.

I do have a comment on the 911 becoming slower the from '72 to the 75 model.

I believe this was due to emission laws. Seems to be that way with most other sports cars.

[juanbenae]

the car talk aside, i have dated a few chicks i now refer too as "super c". like "see you in toledo", repeat it to get it. oh by the way happy valentines day!

[Thomas Owen]

Now, don't get me wrong. I have owned 3 SC's and have finally moved up to an '88 Carrera. What I heard from a knowledgeable Factory sort was that SC meant:
1. initially nothing by the factory - probably why you don't see PERIOD documentation with anything other than 'SC'
2. then 'Superior Comfort'. Super in German ~= 'Superior'
3. Superior Comfort finally stuck as owners noticed the seating and amenities as they waited for the tow truck with broken studs or some CIS affliction.

Only kidding about # 3 ! Have a nice weekend everyone -

[Milu]

If SC stood for Super Carrera as some maintain it's strange that there's no official PERIOD Porsche literature such as handbooks, manuals, brochures that calls the SC anything except SC.

[mwbaum]

Back to 356s...the Carrera was the killer 4-cam monster (for its day) and they are extremely valuable today (and damn expensive to maintain) The SC was just a higher revving C normal engine. The Carrera would take an SC to the cleaners.....kind of similar to the 911s....

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally posted by Milu
If SC stood for Super Carrera as some maintain it's strange that there's no official PERIOD Porsche literature such as handbooks, manuals, brochures that calls the SC anything except SC.

Really? It's quite difficult to prove that something doesn't exist.

[Schuey]

it says it on porsche's website, what more proof do you need? SC=super carrera

[Milu]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
Really? It's quite difficult to prove that something doesn't exist.

OK, approach it differently, prove it does exist.

[Milu]

Originally posted by Schuey
it says it on porsche's website, what more proof do you need? SC=super carrera

PERIOD documentation please.

[Calspeed]

Hello,

I thought this would be for interesting viewing.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2402845895&category=6428

It looks like this car is a 1962 Carrera.

Calspeed