e-Brake News: Porsche 928: Buying tips for Porsche's V8 luxury GT

Published: Tue, 04/25/17

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April 25, 2017
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 PCA—So you watched Risky Business, Scarface, and Weird Science back in the day and fell in love with the 928.
Now, several years later, you are ready to park one in your garage instead of in a poster on your wall. No surprise, Porsche’s V8-powered grand-touring car is one of the best-kept secrets in the collector car world — but the word is getting out! So, what do you need to know before jumping in?
 
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PCA—This past Saturday, Porschephiles descended upon a parking lot at Hersheypark for the Central Pennsylvania Region (link is external)’s Porsche Only Swap Meet, where attendees could find just about any Porsche car, part, accessory, and toy for sale by vendors and PCA members alike.

Doors opened at 7:30 AM, and the most dedicated Porsche cognoscenti swarmed in to get the most sought after items before they were spoken for.
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PCA—After sharing the stage with the World Endurance Championship at Lone Star Le Mans each fall, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship heads out on its own this spring for an action-packed celebration of speed! Welcome to the Advance Auto Parts Sportscar Showdown, May 4-6 at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Along with unprecedented fan access to the paddock and grid, the debut of IMSA's own race weekend features a wide variety of classes and cars ranging from Le Mans prototypes to GTs.
 
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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 opens May 10 at 12 PM PDT.
 
Motor1—The 2016 Ferrari Finali Mondiali was held last December in Daytona, Florida, where hundreds of Ferraris were presented to the public. However, there were not only Ferrari owners and enthusiasts, and this Porsche 911 type 964 modified by RWB is the living proof. An act of courage or provocation?
 
PCA—The Spring 2017 Member Only Raffle is open, and this time the grand prize should have you drooling: a Porsche 911 Carrera GTS plus $25,000 in cash.
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Car and Driver—We cycle through hundreds of cars a year, drive tens of thousands of miles, and spend hours analyzing, writing, and thinking about cars we don’t want to park in our garages. And then a Miami Blue Porsche 911 Carrera S drops by for a week.
 
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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.
 
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MultiBriefs—"Bear-leader? You're looking at him," I said, slamming the door shut.

It was another back-door Grand Tour, and my woman was asking where our chaperon was.

"Look," I said, sweeping my arms downward, "the patches on these 27-year-old Levi's belie my aristocratic roots ... you're in the best of hands."
 
Autoblog—Not even Porsche is immune to global automotive trends. You may have heard the old saw that Porsche sells more SUVs than cars now. (It does, by a lot.) On top of that, the base Carrera now uses a turbochargers, there are hybrids across the lineup, and an electric car is on the way. In light of all this stands the GT3, the definitive counter-argument to forced induction.
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Petrolicious—If you know Porsche, you know RUF. And if that’s not the case, then you have our pity. Anyone somehow still missing out on the madness that is a RUF automobile—whether being privileged enough to drive own, or even just admiring the photos—has a lot to catch up on. These aren’t Porsches with a few bolt-ons, no way: RUF is a bonafide manufacturer that has been producing physics-defying projectiles in the shape of 911s (and if you’re familiar with the CTR 3, some not-so-911-shaped cars as well) for decades.
 
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Motor1—Buyers can now get the Porsche Panamera with 671 horsepower (500 kilowatts) and 627 pound-feet (850 Newton-meters) of torque from the Turbo S E-Hybrid trim. While it costs over $184,000 in the United States, the range-topping model has a fairly understated aesthetic. For the person wanting the meanest looking Panamera on the block, the Porsche tuning masters at TechArt now present the GrandGT body kit.
 
Motor Trend—Attention Porsche fanatics and car enthusiasts! Ever wanted to build your own Porsche flat-six boxer engine but never had the time, or more importantly, the know-how? The people at Franzis have you Porsche fanboys covered with a detailed 1:4 scale model transparent engine kit modeled after the 2.0-liter 1966 911 boxer engine that features a motorized rotating assembly and an electric sound module with genuine flat-six engine sounds.
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Ed.: Please note, toy engine does not actually leak oil — a bit of spilled coffee was used above for dramatic effect.
 
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Carfection via YouTube—The Porsche 911 R is more than its figures, much, much more than that.
 
The Drive—There seems to be a disturbance in the Force as a new revolution brews over at Porsche's elite production car department. And it's concerned with keeping balance in the carmaker's GT vehicles.
 
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Motor1—China is now Porsche’s largest single market with 65,246 deliveries last year, and the German sports car maker is demonstrating the value it sees there by introducing the rear-wheel-drive Panamera Executive, which is exclusive to the country. The company is also giving four over models their Asian debuts at Auto Shanghai.
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USA Today—On one hand, the Porsche Panamera Turbo is a luxury sedan worthy of the mightiest CEO, any mogul who wants to run Wall Street while tooling down Fifth Avenue or Hollywood while stuck in traffic on Sunset Boulevard.
 
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Motor1—The second-generation Porsche Panamera sedan (although it’s technically a hatchback) can be had strictly as a four seater, but there is a solution for those wanting to carry three of their friends in the back. It’s called the Panamera Sport Turismo and is basically a wagon version featuring seating for three people in the back. Porsche calls this a 4+1 seating concept and says it’s analyzing the prospects of giving the sedan this layout to meet demand coming from its dealers.
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The Drive—The sound of an uncorked vintage racing flat-six is an intoxication that cannot be sated by anything else. We would argue that there is no better uncorked-engine-note than a high strung air cooled Porsche, as it is equal parts guttural roar and ecstatic scream.
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The Drive—Wolf Henzler has been confirmed as Laurens Vanthoor’s co-driver in the No. 912 Porsche 911 RSR for next weekend’s Advance Auto Parts Sportscar Showdown at the Circuit of The Americas.
 
Motor1—The arrival of the Porsche Mission E Concept in 2015 brought along with it a new energy option for the German marque moving forward. Though still just a concept, the Mission E will eventually make its way to production, and when it does, it will build out the rest of the Porsche lineup with the same sort of efficient thinking.
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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 Dave Mathews. Milwaukee Region. “1974 Porsche 914-6 GT recreation. 3.2-liter 911 Carrera engine. Type 915 transmission. It is my very first Porsche, purchased in the mid-‘80s. ‘Energized’ in 2015.”

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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