e-Brake News: PCA Spotlight: 996 and 986 pre-purchase inspection tips

Published: Tue, 05/30/17

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May 30, 2017
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 PCA—The 996-generation 911 and 986-gen Boxster are undoubtedly great entry level Porsches, and your dream of owning one may be closer than you think.
Twenty-grand can purchase a nice 996, while 986s often go for less than $10,000, and there are steps you can take to avoid purchasing one in disrepair. Find out how to tell the good cars from the bad with our video pre-purchase inspection guide and supplementary test-drive videos.
 
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PCA—Right around the time I took the job as Porsche Panorama editor, I realized that my Porsche ownership experience has been appallingly single-minded — five 911s and a 912E. I’ve never owned a water-cooled Porsche before, so it seemed logical to start at the beginning with the first one.
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PCA—You have just two days to buy tickets for a chance to win one of four Carrera GTSs — raffle closes June 1. If enough tickets are purchased before then, we'll add a fifth!
 
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PCA—In 1974, Porsche responded to rapidly changing safety and emission standards in the US by redesigning the body below the belt line, along with major modifications to the engine. Standards were changing year to year, and manufacturers were hard pressed to keep up. Porsche was able to navigate these standards very well for the time, and the result was a classic shape that lasted through 1989.
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PCA—Mart Fresh is a weekly column in which PCA media staff pick what they think are the "freshest" Porsches currently available in PCA’s classifieds, and then attempt to explain their reasoning. Up this week are a Panamera Turbo, a 1997 911 Carrera, and a 2005 911 Carrera.
 
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PCA—Luftgekühlt (German for “air-cooled” and pronounced “louft-guh-kewlt”) is like being a kid in a candy story. That is, if the candy store was filled with Porsches. The brainchild of Porsche factory racing driver Patrick Long and creative strategist Howie Idelson, this curated event has in a relatively short period of time become a renowned gathering of both street and race cars from Zuffenhausen.
 
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PCA—Get ready for Werks Reunion Monterey once again, the premiere Porsche show during Monterey Car Week. The event is August 18, and registration is open.
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PCA—Join us at the PCA Car Corral for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix (link is external)presented by Lear at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park, Detroit Michigan, June 2 – 4, 2017. The event will feature the cars of the Verizon IndyCar Series, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (link is external), the high-flying trucks of the SPEED Energy Stadium SUPER Trucks  and the Trans Am Series.
 
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PCA—Join your fellow Porsche Club of America members at the 62nd Porsche Parade on July 9-15, 2017. Parade is PCA’s annual, weeklong event enjoyed by several thousand of your fellow members, who will gather this year in Spokane, Washington.
Note to Parade sponsors and exhibitors: Find event info here. Contact Vu Nguyen (vun@national.pca.org) for sponsor and exhibitor registration details.
 
The Smoking Tire via YouTube—Ruf cars are very cool, and very rare. Considered a separate manufacturer entirely from Porsche, on which their cars are clearly based, their cars feature radical powertrain changes and big speeds. The 993 BTR-2 is a narrow-bodied Porsche Carrera with a single turbo engine making more power than Porsche's own Twin Turbo 911 at the time. This is a very rare car in the US, and it's a wonderful treat to take it for a spin.
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Top Gear—Last year, Porsche’s race-winning Le Mans car completed 384 laps of Circuit de la Sarthe. Which, with Top Gear’s best back-of-fag-packet calculations, equates to 5,233 kilometres. Or 3,250 miles, if Imperial is your thing. But where would that distance take you if you weren’t going round and round in circles in the middle of France for 24 hours?
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​​​​​​​Motor1—Oh the fun we could have with Legos and high-speed cameras. For car nerds like us, either one of those items by itself could easily lead to career-ending levels of lost productivity.
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Automobile—Most climbers passing 8,000 feet would feel the first effects of altitude-induced hypoxia, but the new Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS I’m driving doesn’t even seem to notice. It’s accelerating as if it were breathing at sea level — no lag in response, no huffing for air, just a seamless surge of furious speed.
 
Oversteer by Autotrader—The title to this article alone is so satisfying that I could probably write nothing else and get away with it -- but Autotrader pays me to write things, so I guess I'll type a bit more. Yes, I've decided to LS swap my 1999 Porsche 911 -- and no, I haven't lost my marbles. It actually makes a lot of sense.
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Motor1—It’s a very well-known fact that some brand new exotic cars are being bought by collectors and not just regular customers who want to simply enjoy driving them. Those buyers keep the vehicles in pristine condition for years and then sell them again – for much higher price. Yes, it’s an investment.
 
The Truth About Cars—Guten Tag, err’body! This week, I have forsaken the bucolic paradise of Powell, Ohio, for the pretty much identical town of Nürburg, Germany. I’m in possession of a very fast and very green British car (you can see more details on my Instagram, if you care) and I’m already breaking the hearts of many a Porsche owner through the long curves and blind hills of The Favorite Race Track Of Everybody Who Has Never Actually Raced Anything.
 
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Drivetribe via YouTube—We've timed this trio to 130mph, but now it's time to see which is quickest against the clock around our home circuit, Anglesey.
 
Automotive News—Porsche Automobil Holding SE denied it misled investors about emissions cheating at its biggest asset, Volkswagen AG, as the holding company's board members battle lawsuits and investigations tied to the carmaker's diesel scandal.
 
PCA Club Racing—Do you love racing? Apply for the PCA Club Racing Business Manager full-time position today! Must be willing to work from PCA's office in the Baltimore-Washington area. Click on the link below to download the full job description.
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PCA—Want to get published in PCA.org and e-Brake News and be part of the new, volunteer-fueled PCA Media Gruppe? Send us your original PCA or Porsche-related content and we'll consider it for publication. Contact Editor Damon Lowney at damonl@pca.org with submissions and story ideas, and he will help with writing and editing as needed.
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Porsche of the Week
Photo by James Borowske. Arizona Region. “Here is a photo taken in the Sonoran Desert of my original-owner 1983 944, winner of both Class and Division at Porsche Parade among many other first-in-class awards at PCA National concours.”

Got a stunning shot you want to share? Submit your pictures to potw@pca.org. Be sure to include your contact information, your region name, and a few sentences about your picture.
 
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