Good Press!

[Guest]

Two articles championed classic 911's over the weekend. "How to Spend it" magazine in Saturday's FT and Sunday Times driving section with contribution from Robin Walker. Anyone see it too?

 

[NicD]

Yes, a nice little quote and seemed a pretty good article on buying an early 911.

Driver skill more to the fore. I thought the author was pushing it a bit to say, you were not sure to arrive if driving an early 911 fast - and he meant an off, not a break down.

 

[vic cohen]

Having spent most of last year looking for a 2.4s thought that was a very fair article ...........moral should be MAKE SURE U DO get what u pay for ...........have a close mate sent his body in for a clean up and tidy generally, bill looking like 20k and hes owned it for 2years amazing what turns up when all the paint comes off .
2 cars appeared in the 'Porsche Journals' over the last year, both of which i inspected; one was a so called 44 000 miler , genuine one owner car the other refurbed at top shop............both were in excess of £35k asking one definitely had seen a lot more than 50 000 miles the other actually had tried to merge with a 964 door ...................BUYER BEWARE might have been made cleare in the article !

 

[willbrown]

If you missed it, you can read the Times article here: http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12389-1429749_1,00.html

No luck in finding the FT article yet...

 

[jamescharnley]

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[Guest]

good article from the Times although one mistake me thinks "Brakes Plain discs all round", surely they're vented on an S? if not my E's got better brakes than an S!

 

[early 911]

I read the Times one yesterday. . . . the photo is really weird . . . the driver has been edited out or is invisible.

 

[willbrown]

"Brakes Plain discs all round", surely they're vented on an S?

According to Frere from the 'C' (July '69) series onwards all cars had ventillated discs. The only difference with the S is that it had aluminium callipers on the front wheels.

 

[drummerboytom]

ORIGINAL: early 911

I read the Times one yesterday. . . . the photo is really weird . . . the driver has been edited out or is invisible.

I get the impression the photo is a parked car that has been ( badly) photo-shopped i.e. road and hedge blurred to imply movement , but they forget to do the bit behind the car .

 

[Sean]

Nope... i think its a photo of a die cast model on a train set []

Just read the article.....not bad. Usually the papers write some generic rubbish. I had colleauges of mine coming in on Monday knowing the difference between a T, E and S and the diff between 07/71 and 72/72

I was impressed

 

[drummerboytom]

ORIGINAL: Sean

......and the diff between 07/71 and 72/72

Pardon ? []

 

[Sean]

ORIGINAL: drummerboytom

ORIGINAL: Sean

......and the diff between 07/71 and 72/72

Pardon ? []

Thats it.....i'm stressed and overworked. I can't even type properly Either that or my brains dead after Xmas.
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[declangrady]

I read the articles in 911 & PW .. buyers guide to early 911s.

Must be popular at present with so much media coverage... Guess its a good time to sell a 911S, if you happened to have one knocking around

Cheers,
Declan

 

[Bertroex]

Hya,

The picture is of Martin Buckley, well known classic car contributor when he tested a 993 and a gantspeed provided 901 series car.