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Originally posted by Greg-slant/cab:
Point3- What is so bad about a 993 conversion if thats is what the person wanted.......and I stated that these people will not be in souped up hondas in their 50's they will probably be in a Porsche like us. The point is most of us did not have a porsche when we were younger ....We had whatever was the "in" thing at the time. Take care.
Greg
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Greg,
My problem with conversions is two-fold: one is that it ruins one Porsche to imitate another - it's the ricer attitude of all-show/no go applied to Porsches.
If someone wants to build his 72 into an RSR, that's cool, imo; the cars are too rare for everyone that wants one to have one, and a well-done RS or RSR conversion includes modding the engine for the performance of the car as well. A good conversion has at least some return on investment.
Compared to that, going to a turbo body or later model conversion only strokes the owner's ego; it doesn't improve the value of the car, or enhance it's performance, and the cars aren't so rare that there's no hope of owning one. If you take my SC and add another $12k to mod the body to look like a turbo, you can buy the real thing - so why not do that? And that money makes for one hell of a downpayment on a used 993 as well...
What's that song? "Don't go changin', trying to please me."
Emanuel
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Everybody wants a normal life and a cool car;
most people settle for the car." Chris Titus
1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow
1983 Porsche 911 SC Targa