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930 flatnose at Northway

Dave Wilkinson

Dave Wilkinson

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As a complete novice regarding the 930 flatnose I would be interested in how this car at Northways, currently on offer at £23,995 stacks up against a factory original.

It's a 1986 car but returned to the factory for a flatnose conversion in 1989. Does this make it similar in any way to the original factory flatnose cars or is it just a look-alike - all cosmetics and little else??

I think it looks a stunning car - but, as we all know, looks aren't always everything.

Regards

Dave


 
If u fancied a super looking flatnose , John Wards was still around RECENTLY,at abt £25k ...............done by DAGE SPORT AND A KNOWN QUANTITY.............seriously nice and quick car ................
 
Vic,

As I'm sure you well know, fancying and affording are two very different things!!! No, my interest was purely educational.

Dave
 
i know they re not everyones taste ,must be nostalgia , i ve always liked them A LOT, when u look at what they cost when new currently give away!
 
I've looked around the car at Northway, it's nice, and as original as you could possibly get. It was done at Porsche so it has steel wings, the single centre mounted motor for the lights, the whole exhaust system is original and just been replaced brand new with a staggering bill to boot. I think the car is a bargain, it may not have started out as a slant from the factory but it went back there to get converted and they left no stone unturned. If i was in the market for a 930 slant i'd have it in a breath!
A Dage conversion isn't the same thing IMO, nice car though
 
I forget which year it was, but, the later 930's could be ordered from the factory with the flatnose and these cars were known as a 930S.
If this car was built when they offered the S's then it is not a 930S and therefore cannot be compared financially IMO.
I'm sure it is worth more than a stock '86 930 to the right person but I doubt there is many of those people out there, let alone in the market for a 930 of that color combo, mileage etc etc...

As for it being similair to a factory slant, surely it is identical except that if it is a 930S then it won't have the option code under the luggage compartment or in the handbook.
I have no idea if the V5's for 930S's have them listed as anything special, I doubt it though.
 
Nathan, nobody is saying it's an original "S", I think the price reflects that. But it's a Porsche factory converted flatnose for reasonable money, it isn't a fiberglass bodge piece of shite, I think it's a bargain
 
In defense of the Dage sport car that i referred to ........its full steel wings developed for one of the original oil company sponsors of Dage sport , it has the engine up grade and is built to highest spec..................Dage, in their day, built many cars to order ,each was one off and developed accordingly to customers needs and wallet!..............as i am sure u know Greasly kinda Morphed into Blue Coral , now long gone ................while visiting their premises in Rabins Lane ,until they closed one could read the special award they receieved from the Porsche factory in a frame on the wall................these cars are certainly not to be confused with the plastic/grp botched filth, that emmerged based on rusted out wrecks from a garage not a million miles from the same area loosely!
 
Bit of a grey area these cars.
I had a genuine Factory car (i think you was interested in it Vic when i was selling, could of sold it 10 times over in the end ).
The car i owned had no vents on the front wings and none on the rear wheel arches, it was ordered like this by the first owner.
When i contacted the first ownner he said he was displeased with AFN as he ordered the car like that from new but the car for some reason was brought to AFN (Isleworth) and returned directly to the factory for the work.
The salesman at AFN remebered the car and said he sold it first time around and it was the real deal.
When i tried to get some spec on the car from Germany and Reading it came back no different from a normal 930, but when i put the VIN number in on Scousers decoder on this forum it came straight back as a 930 Flatnose wierd how Porsche couldnt get that information.
Also Barry and Phil (SE register) checked my car and said it was good.
Anyway i've looked at the car at Northway, it was done at the Porsche factory, in my book it is a flatnose turbo and good value.
 
SE panels fitted by AG, was the engine done ? , standard int, A long way from a factory SE , if its just the panels. but very good value if you want a standard 930 turbo,

If its had the engine and LSD its even better value.

all 89 SE had 5 speed.

Would be interesting to see build sheet from 89 up grade. would have cost 20,000 plus for the panels and engine ?

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