3.2 Carrera Celebration Ltd Edn trim

[Nick Moss]

I am going to look at a 3.2 Carrera Celebration Ltd Edn for my brother. It is described as having half leather trim. Peter Morgan' s book descibes that model as having full blue ruffled leather. Were any produced for the UK with half leather?

 

[Anil]

Nick

I saw 3 other celebration coupes before finally purchasing a ' standard' 3.2 Carrera in Diamond Blue.

All 3 had full leather seats, and as far as I know , none were made with half leather. Just make sure that the interior of the Celebration is in mint condition as the pearlescent silver leather is almost impossible to source now. All 3 of the ones I saw were let down by the condition of their interiors.

When the advert says " half leather" , maybe they are suggesting that whilst the seats and door panels are leather, the dashboard isn' t.

Interestingly, I was speaking to Dave Nunn from Southbound trimmers a couple of weeks ago, and he informed me that the majority of Porsches with leather interiors only have leather faced seats. The seat backs,bases and rear seats were all trimmed in a matching vinyl! He showed me a 1992 C4 targa which apperaed to me to have a full leather interior, but he pointed out all the vinyl sections in the interior. Apparently, he only sees a very small number of full leather cars, i.e front and rear seats completely trimmed in leather, leather dashborad, handles, sunvisors and even headlining.

Cheers

Anil

 

[Nick Moss]

Thanks Anil

It may well be that the dealer' s terminology is referring to later cars. It' s not his car but a customers that he is selling privately. My brother has in fact decided against looking at it as it has done 130K plus miles, and going on your comments regarding the interiors of this model it may be as well to leave it.

If anyone else is interested it is at Ashbank Garage in Stoke on Trent

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: Nick Moss
My brother has in fact decided against looking at it as it has done 130K plus miles

I wouldn' t reject a Porsche before seeing it purely on mileage alone. We all know how these cars can go on forever if looked after properly. Old Porsche must be bought on condition

It' s my personal opinion that a well used car with higher mileage and in regular use will have had all it' s consumables replaced at some point recently - clutch, shocks, brakes etc.

A low mileage car (if it is genuine low mileage [] ) could still be on it' s original clutch, shocks, brakes etc might have only had it' s oil changed every two years and spend most of it' s time in a garage with it' s rubber bits persishing. People will pay more money in the first place for low mileage only to then be stung with a big bill for all of the above.

Just my angle on things [] and oh yes, I do own high mileage cars, biased moi? [8D]

 

[Nick Moss]

Paul

I agree completely, condition before all. My specialisation is in Early 911s rather than SCs and Carreras, but when one starts to look for a 3.2 one is reminded that they were sold when Porsche was selling loads of these cars to the red braces brigade and there are quite a lot out there!

This car is in Stoke, which is 200 miles away, so we decided that (especially as he has only been looking for a couple of weeks) that we should wait for a more local car closer to the ideal spec.

If you can recommend a late 3.2 G50 Sport Coupe (not Guards Red or Black), FSH, reasonably low mileage, we would be happy to hear about it. LHD considered.