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Originally Posted by Tremelune
This right here. I recently abandoned my painstaking search for the perfect M491 or 930 and decided I wanted a car I wouldn't be afraid to drive/park anywhere. Now I'm eyeballing much cheaper car's bodywork and engine swaps. Horses for courses, and all that...
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This is the right approach, my 77 911 used to be pretty ratty and I could drive and park it anywhere. I was also not afraid to run it at the track and had numerous offs with it while learning the car and variuos tracks. Now it is a little bit too nice to race competitively with but despite the lack of overall driver comfort, i can drive and park it anywhere.
I now have a dedicated beater race car, my 73 911. I dont care if it gets rubbed, scraped, or if one of the other drivers has an incident (it has a nice dent in the driver's floor from an off track excursion at the last race) and paint from other cars on all 4 corners. This is chump car so some rubbing will happen.
Then I got the 86 930, that thing is pretty modded including a slant conversion and ~ 400 HP. It is really nice but I wouldnt park it just anywhere.
The 76 930 is a car I dont think I'd be too comfortable letting out of my sight. It is close to prestine and all original, and has an neat history. This is the one car that I intend to pamper and pass on as part of my estate. I would not modify this car in any way. The only deviations from original is that the engine got carerra tensioners when it was rebuilt and the front stripes were removed by the dealer at the 1000 mile service (documented on the work order).