My new (old) Porsche

[KennyT]

For a long time I have had an obsession with air-cooled 911’s and in the summer this year the planets kind of aligned… I turned 30 in May, overnight the Brexit vote turned my dollars in to 13% more pounds, and a beauty of a 1984 3.2 Carrera came available near Beauly in the North of Scotland.

It’s a 1984 3.2 Carrera so one of the first with the 320 BHP 3.2 with the older 5 speed 915 gearbox, Factory sports pack which adds the 16” Fuchs wheels, Whale tail, front splitter and sports bolster seats. It’s on 118k miles with an engine and gearbox refresh at 100k.
Only modifications are turbo roll bars, Prototipo steering wheel (I added) and a factory short shift gear selector which I’ll change along with the out of place looking door speakers.







Needless to say I absolutely love it, it’s amazingly comfortable and compliant on the road. Reasonably quick with a very smooth power delivery, very tight and precise when you do want to push on but it’s not a car for balls out driving, although it sounds particularly amazing around 5.5k RPM which you can’t help doing every now and then.

It’s not perfect of course being 32 years old so I plan to restore parts where needed to OEM spec such as a new carpet set, re-trimming the seats with new leather (keeping the velour of course) and making a few drivability modifications like an upgraded Gear selector and linkage joints, possibly some Singer style Xenon headlights.

My Exige remains

[renmure]

A proper, red, Porsche 911 with a whale tail spoiler.
It can't really get much better than that.

[mik]

Lovely

Spent a bit of time behind the wheel of my mates 3.0SC (and his 993 that replaced it). Whilst I love the noise my Evora makes, there is something really special about the range of sounds that are emitted by a 911 flat6 of that era.

Enjoy it, and look after the Guards red. Guards pink always look soooo bad.

[kerryxeg]

Looks like a really nice example. I've been through the full restoration with mine (86 supersport) engine, gearbox, body, interior, suspension and brakes. All very much worth it to be able to enjoy driving it as if it were virtually a new car.

Wheels look particularly good, so if it came like that it must have been a real enthusiast. Far too many just polish the rims when the anodising starts to corrode. Interior and paintwork looks much better than mine did with similar miles.

[Stu160]

Very nice.

Stu

[campbell]

Poster car. Lovely

[haggis catcher]

I always fancied one of these. Especially in red. Lucky you

[DJ]

A proper, red, Porsche 911 with a whale tail spoiler.
It can't really get much better than that.

Nicely summed up. Looks fantastic. Congratulations.

[j2 lot]

Looks tidy and we'll cared for and red looks the dogs enjoy.

[mwmackenzie]

That is a thing of beauty! So much better looking than anything that came after it!

[point n squirt]

I nearly binned my mates on a test drive ,the guy that bought it did before he got as far as his house.

[KennyT]

Despite the car not being an Evora I'm glad to see it's welcomed

Kerry it's good to hear you know these intimately, I might be in touch in future for some advice. I'll be looking initially at gearshift and interior tart up but will need to do some electrical work such as removing an old aftermarket alarm and fixing the small niggles like central locking and cigarette lighter not working.
Craig has looked at it and does work for Kenny Dunn so will be more than capable to sort it out.

It's had paint but all panels are original and retains all the original stickers, quite nicely the serial numbers of glass, engine, gearbox and chassis are linked together with the paperwork trail to show the full traceability.
The wheels are particularly good in what I believe are original condition, only a couple of lines of white worm on the polished lip.


I always liked ducktails, decals and period race seats etc but with this being so original it will be staying that way.

[Ferg]

That is lovely!

[Dominic]

That looks very nice!! Loving your work!

[kerryxeg]

Kenny, a couple of thoughts.

If your central locking actuator still sounds like it is working and the door lock still works manually, I suspect it will be the link between the actuator and the latch which has disconnected. The link has a plastic socket on the end which becomes perished and eventually splits. It's an easy and cheap fix once you get the door panel off...........which isn't that difficult. The part is available from design 911.

http://www.design911.co.uk/fu/prod12404 ... 964---993/

I had an auto electrician working on mine for several days off and on, trouble shooting alarm and relay issues. I don't think the wiring loom concept had been considered when Porsche built these old 911s - there seem to be individual cables running in all directions. On the positive side it's not difficult to run a new one if you find a fault.

If you get the car on a lift, its well worth checking the drivers side for corrosion. There are 2 lovely hot pipes running from the engine round both wheel arches and along the sill to the front oil cooler. Worst design feature on the car. The pipes collect road muck and setup a nice warm corrosion environment. If you are going to find any corrosion it will be there or at the door jamb or in the fuel cap well.