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GT Porsche 944?!?

Tam Lin

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OK I don't understand that article in February's GT Porsche at all. The pale blue early 944 looks to be a lovely car, it ought to be after all the concours wins, but who wrote the piece? Have they seen a 944 before?
-Those rare Carrera GT Fuchs wheels look astoundingly like ATS Cookie cutters.
-The rare 944 sticker is also reminiscent of 924GTs apparently. Odd, my 924S non-GT also has one. As have about half the 944s I've seen.
-The rare porous rear spoiler I'm stumped by, but I thought they all went porous if left out in the sun. May be this one is extra, extra porous (and hence comment worthy?)

And a more serious question, did any 944s come from the factory with battery cut-outs, or is that genuinely a rare original early model thing?

Mystified of Buckinghamshire
 
I've pretty much given up reading Porsche magazines. When they write about something I know about they seem to get their facts wrong. I assume they know as much about other cars, so what is the point reading wrong facts about something I don't know about?
 
Hi Sean,
Great minds think alike [;)] I posed similar questions a short while ago in this thread
I can only imagine that they planned to make it into a race car after it had done its duty hence the battery cut off and lack of underseal
 
Wasn't there a good article in one recently about Jon Mitchell?
I find that most of them don't portray our cars as actually existing. There is one UK mag that has a few odd articles about front engined P-cars, but most of them are exclusionary and elitist. I was actually thinking of submitting some guff about my car when it's finally up and running but then thought that it may make it more of a target for thieves?
 
Given what has happened on Rennlist I think you're right to be concerned, so you do have to be careful, but at the same time I think it'd be a shame not to. After all, the more decent articles there are about 944's (and 924/68) the better.
 
OK, I'll bite Peter...[:D]

What has happened on rennlist?

People posting their details and then having cars stolen?

 
It was a while back now, but from memory a highly modified car was stolen by a forum user who then attempted to sell bits of it back onto Rennlist [&:]
 
The pale blue early 944 looks to be a lovely car, it ought to be after all the concours wins, but who wrote the piece? Have they seen a 944 before?

I've not read the article - could someone scan it and send it to me? [8|]

The car is a Club member's, and was at Silverstone last year. It's a pre-production model, so does have some unusual bits that didn't make the UK cars.
 
ORIGINAL: Peter Empson

It was a while back now, but from memory a highly modified car was stolen by a forum user who then attempted to sell bits of it back onto Rennlist [&:]
[:eek:]

Instant thoughts are ... 1. I presume this was a US-based problem, 2. What an idiot; picking up details of things to nick from a forum is quite a clever ruse, I'll grant - I am more open on here than I am with strangers in real life, but selling them ack on the same forum is particularly stupid, and 3. I hope they caught him and strung him up by the balls.


Oli.
 
Yes it was in the US. Curiously it seems the original thread on Rennlist has gone (maybe I just can't find it), but there's reference to it here
 
I wrote to the magazine about this artice just after I read it. While the car is undoubtedly a special example, there is nothing pre-production about it. The earliest cars didn't have bodyside mouldings for a start, the spoiler is the same one fitted to every 944 until the 'bridge' type in 1991, the Fuchs wheels that aren't....the list goes on......
 
ORIGINAL: Peter Empson

[;)] I posed similar questions a short while ago in this thread
Uh, sorry, missed that one. It's a pity, 'cause the same mag had a brilliant article about Chris Harris's modified 911 3.4. I just despair at the inequality: describe a 911, they get the description right down to the size of the piston ring. 944, well, it's a 944 innit. With 4 wheels and other stuff, like spoilers. Pebbledashed spoilers. Sigh.

Patrick, the Jon Mitchell turbo write-up was in 911 & Porsche World, which to be fair has carried some inspirational (for me [:D]) articles about rally & hill climb 924s and track 944s in the past. It occasionally disappoints (there was a "Johnny" Tippler "buyer's guide to the 944" around September time last year which recommended a 2.7 16 valve from 1985 as being the one to go for, as well as 1001 other complete idiocies. Maybe he had to write an extra 14 lb 6 oz of articles to pay for the snapped crank on his 964, and he was a bit behind on his "research".


 
Patrick I can't remember if you ever saw the 911 & P World article? I know I meant to bring a copy to the Ace Cafe during your visit but I remember now that I forgot :ROFLMAO:
 
a lot of car books get written by people that simply lift whole sections of other peoples books .Its easy to spot because they all contain the same old howlers .Eventually it passes into folklaw and everybody believes its true. Nobody bothers to do any original research any more .
They do the same with pictures. If they can't find what they need they use something similar.
 

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