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1982 911 SC
 
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1982 911 SC
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A lot of Porschephiles like to bitch incessantly about the fat black rubber bumpers, but personally I think they're one of the cars best and most distinguishing features. You KNOW it's an SC the second your eyes see them.

A fantastic car in every sense. An absolute blast to drive fast, easy to drive slow in every day type use, incredibly reliable... Especially for a European sports car.

Magnificently easy to work on if you have a few things.

1. Basic mechanical skills
2. A garage
3. Tools
4. Engine hoist/jack
5. A set of balls.

Seriously, only an idiot works on that motor while it's still in the car. Porsche was genius in building the older 911 in a very "race car" way in that it's unbelievably quick and easy to pull it once you know how.

My old Porsche specialist wouldn't even bother peeking under the deck lid to find an issue. He'd just yank the motor and put it on his test bench that had all the plug ins and doohickeys to run it outside the car. I watched him do it a few times (the first time in absolute horror), and it was crazy how fast he had the process down.
 
@OGG my first experience with a Porsche was in 1959. yea, that's right. my uncle Tuck came to visit us in Detroit and he rolled up in a brand new 356.
they said i (as a 3½ year old) stood there for over a half an hour staring at that car. :grin:
 
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My uncle owned a 1982 911 SC Targa. He then traded it in on a 1985 Carrera with a targa top and a whale tail. He still owns the Carrera. He stopped using as his daily driver about 15-20 years ago because it sprung an oil leak. It took him years to fix it. I used to bother him about selling it to me every time I saw him. He always refused ( I think he was planning to give it to his son, who shows little interest in cars). Now it is worth a ton of money and getting more expensive every day because it is air-cooled.
 
I loved my 930S, and for as gorgeous as the Turbo Cab 930S is, I wouldn't own one. Porsche did their best to mitigate chassis flex due to removing the roof. They put massive bracing in the Cab to try to stiffen it, but all it really accomplished was adding 400lbs to the car. The coupe had a well earned reputation for changing direction without warning (which I can absolutely corroborate), but that Cabrio twisted like a Twizzler going over things like train tracks, and made for a significantly more terrifying driving experience. Hell. No.

It's a beautiful seductress with an insatiable thirst for blood.
 
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I loved my 930S, and for as gorgeous as the Turbo Cab 930S is, I wouldn't own one. Porsche did their best to mitigate chassis flex due to removing the roof. They put massive bracing in the Cab to try to stiffen it, but all it really accomplished was adding 400lbs to the car. The coupe had a well earned reputation for changing direction without warning (which I can absolutely corroborate), but that Cabrio twisted like a Twizzler going over things like train tracks, and made for a significantly more terrifying driving experience. Hell. No.

It's a beautiful seductress with an insatiable thirst for blood.
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and yet, the 911 (it's predecessors and successors) has been one of (if not the most) raced car/body in modern road racing history. :shrug:
 
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I loved my 930S, and for as gorgeous as the Turbo Cab 930S is, I wouldn't own one. Porsche did their best to mitigate chassis flex due to removing the roof. They put massive bracing in the Cab to try to stiffen it, but all it really accomplished was adding 400lbs to the car. The coupe had a well earned reputation for changing direction without warning (which I can absolutely corroborate), but that Cabrio twisted like a Twizzler going over things like train tracks, and made for a significantly more terrifying driving experience. Hell. No.

It's a beautiful seductress with an insatiable thirst for blood.
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also, imo, they have been making them go way too fast for decades. the Ruff Turbo Carrera was clocked at something like 189 mph at Nurbergring.....wtf?? that's WAYYY to fast for that car, and that was in the late 80's.
they should leave the car with a couple hundred horsepower and let it go at that. to be completely honest if i was gonna have a newer Porsche, i would opt for the Cayman, it's a truely mid engined, detuned 911, which is what the 911 probably should have been to begin with.
 
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and yet, the 911 (it's predecessors and successors) has been one of (if not the most) raced car/body in modern road racing history. :shrug:
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You have to understand the extremely unique character of the first generation 911 Turbo. Sure the 911 in RWD form has a known tendency to go sideways, but racers love that fact, and use it to their advantage. It's progressive and predictable along with being controllable and recoverable. It's one of the greatest aspects of the car.

However, those early 930 cars had ONE very BIG turbo, that came on all at once, and seemingly with a mind of it's own. One second you've got your foot mashed to the floor and experiencing terrible turbo lag, the next second you get kicked in the back by a terrifying boost of power that renders you a mere passenger. In a straight line, it's terrifying, but when it happens in a turn... God help you.

The Cabriolet version was markedly worse because of the extreme chassis flex. You can easily find pictures of 930S Cabrios mid turn with one tire an inch off the pavement. The limits of adhesion don't take kindly to having the contact patch suddenly cut by 25% at the same time engine power is increased by more than that.

It's a great car for casual pleasure driving, but the 930S Cabrio is NOT a car you want to explore the limits in.
 
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