that's great, but the reason you see rusted 911s is because there are more 60s and 70s 911s around than 924s, considering USA 924s only started in 1977!. Take a look at the number of posts on the 911 board (one car)...compared to the combined amount of posts of the 924.944.968 (three cars) board, more people own 911s, the more cars there are, the more chance you are going to see more of them and form a biased opinion.
there are 60s 70s and 80s and 90s and 00s 911s around all over the place.
about 4 decades of 911s.
How many 924s are there. hmm..in USA 1977-1982, that's 5 years!
I have never seen a beat up late 70s or 80s 911 (not saying that there aren't any), but I have seen several beat up 924s, in fact I haven't seen one nice 924 in person yet, but I have seen many prize looking 70s 80s 911s .
It's a known fact that the majority of 924 and 944 owners do drive there cars harder than 911s, because the cars are not as fast, the people who own them generally do not know how to work on them, some of them do.
A lot of 911s get serviced at the dealer, the majority of dealerships will do an ok job on a car compared to some backyard cheap guy who knows nothing about cars working on a 924 (not your or me, I'm talking about the majority of 924 owners that owned these cars in the 80s). One reason is because the majority of people who buy 924s do not have money. They have been taking their honda civic car (or whatever they had) to the dealership to get fixed, but this 924 is too costly to take. They get there "mechanically inclined" buddy to work on their 924, or they attempt it thereself, and they f-up the car without knowing it. They spray undercoating on the oil pan to stop it from leaking, the 911 owner takes his 911 into the dealership/has enough skill to do it himself.
The 924 owner doesn't have any paint, so he uses carrot juice to paint the car (that's what some of the paint jobs look like), but the 911 owner gets a professional porsche painter to do the job, or he has enough skill that he does a very fine job himself (I have read excellence articles with DIY 911 guys that have beautiful paint jobs, and souped up 911s, i've never read about a 924 DIY guy with a hot 924 and a hot paint job he did himself, they just don't have the money)
I can't believe I am arguing with a guy who says "I'm not going to help you if you buy a 911 SC" and "there are no dragsters on this board" and yet a drag post shows up at least once a week on the 944 board, even though my intent on increasing the 944 engine performance was not to be a dragster, so i don't know why you brought up that when you KNOW that there is a drag post on that board every week!. And for a guy who thinks the 924 carrera gt is so special since it can beat 911 turbos...great, but it melts engines every race, a 2 litre engine with 300 plus HP, it's not practical. it'd be cheaper just to race a 911 that is more reliable.
And for a guy that thinks that the reason you have a 924 is because it's slow, so you can keep the pedal floored while driving all the time...and then performs mods on his car...WTF?,,,and that driving a 911 is silly because you only have to have the pedal halfway down to have fun, and having the pedal to the floor is the only way to have fun in a porsche...but then you admit that 911s are good cars just recently...what the hell kind of reasoning is that dude. It's not how far you have the pedal down that counts, i mean why not buy and AMC pacer and floor it out the driveway and have fun!
It doesn't make any sense that you are interested in modifying your 924 (you did the port and polish, etc), and yet you just said that there is no point in modifying a 924..because the car doesn't need modification, you just have to keep the pedal down all the time to have fun...then why are you modifying it...why do all 944 owners envy and want badly a 951, if the only thing special about a 951 over a 944 is engine power! How can these snob 944 owners say to me "shut the fuk up the 944 has too much power for me to handle....i want a 951"
That's like saying "I want a good handling car....I want a camaro"
So are you a dragster then? as soon as I bring up improving the 944 engine performance you call me a dragster, and yet you have done 924 engine mods yourself...hmmm...so you want to keep the pedal in the 924 floored all the time, rev it at 6600 RPM and go slow, but you are also modding your 924, what gives? which do you want? to actually have a fast 924, or to have a 924 that goes slow so you can keep the pedal floored...it seams that it's just a way for you to argue with me bringing up this silly idea of "my car doesn't go fast, so it's fun because i can keep the pedal floored"
i'm not really seeing any consistency in your 924 morals.
I like all porsches. I think the 924 and 944 and 911 all have great handling, but the 924 and 944 need engine improvement in order for them to keep up with there handling.
I also think that "it's all the driver"
Sure, a beginner can hop into a 924, and hop into a 911, and say "well the 924 handles better"
But that is only because he hasn't mastered the car yet, and the 924 obviously has a MUCH faster learning curve than a 911.
I would take a guess and say that a master of a 911 and a master of a 924 would both handle great, the only advantage of the 924 is that it has less of a chance of spinning out than a 911 or making a mistake, NOT that the 924 definitely handles better than the 911 like most people rant.
SO again, I like and would buy any porsche, and I am in now way saying that I will not buy a 924 because people don't treat them well, I am just saying that the majority of beat up 924s you will find are ALL of them, the majority of beat up 911s you will find, are old ones that you cannot compare to an 80s technology rust protected 924.
Take some pictures of a bunch of beat up 80s 911s...
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why does that car have two pedals? how does it work?