Newbie with a question

Guest · Apr 8, 2005

Hi, I'm new and looking at a 924 Le Mans. Was this a limited edition with just cosmetic differences? I'm buying it as a project so I'll be making a regular appearance![

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Any information will be gratefully received.

924nutter · Apr 9, 2005

When I bought my first 924 back in 1988, the dealer had a 924 LeMans in his showroom, which he led me to believe had leather seats and koni shockers all round. Externally obvoiusly it featured the LeMans wheel option. ( equally these could be called turbo wheels as the early us spec 924 turbo did run with the four bolt wheels with drum brakes on the rear.) Power wise it retained the 125 bhp engine.

The 924s LeMans had colour-coded wheel interior faces and 160bhp before the 924s lux recieved the extra 10 ponies. At this time the 944 lost 3 bhp down to 160 so Porsche could use the same engine in both cars.

I think.

usermjg · Apr 9, 2005

As i have seen the "Le'mans" was the final version of the S and could come with a range of extras it dated from 1988 only. Features included central locking as standard, colour coded wheels which are teledials with inners coded colour to match the car, and i think there are only two colours in the range white and blue i think. It also shared the engine upgrade of the S which gave 160bhp as standard unlike the earlier S with 150bhp. The other factor was there's only a small number of the "Le'mans" shipped to the UK.

I have a piture of one but dont seam to be adble to up load it at present i will do so tommorrow

Marc

Guest · Apr 9, 2005

Thanks for the information guys. I'm now a bit puzzled as the car I'm looking at is a 'w' registration although this could be a private plate. The V5 will confirm the correct year I assume.

Guest · Apr 9, 2005

Is there a difference between the early 924 LeMans mentioned above and the "Martini" edition with the stripe and chequerboard seats?

usermjg · Apr 9, 2005

as i promised a picture of a 924 Le-mans Not the decal that runs down the side which says "Le-mans"

Marc

PaulHere · Apr 9, 2005

ORIGINAL: BigJC

Hi, I'm new and looking at a 924 Le Mans. Was this a limited edition with just cosmetic differences? I'm buying it as a project so I'll be making a regular appearance![]
Any information will be gratefully received.

Marcs picture is of the 1988 model year 2.5 litre 924S Le Mans - the last of the 924 model.

But there was a 1980 (MY) 2.0 924 Le Mans built, which is what you are looking at (hence the 'W' registration) - they are quite scarce with only 4 confirmed cars on the register.

It was indeed a limited edition with 100 UK models out of the world total of 1030. It had a black interior, uprated dampers, front and rear anti roll bars, Turbo style multi spoke 6J x 15 alloy wheels (4 stud fitting) with 205/60 VR tyres, smaller than usual 36cm steering wheel and a rear spoiler from the Turbo model, as well as the Le Mans decals on the white only paintwork.

usermjg · Apr 10, 2005

Ah i have found a piture of one of the older Le-mans 924, it looks like its for the ameriacn market but i guess it would be similar looking for the britsh market as well, how ever unlike the turbo wheels it looks like it has standard wheeels colour coded white to match the car on this piture.

Marc

PaulHere · Apr 10, 2005

Of course Marc means his picture is of the 1977 MY Martini special edition [

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Here is the 1980 MY Le Mans version [

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Click the image for a bigger picture.

usermjg · Apr 10, 2005

cool Paul thanks, you learn somthing new every day i have never seen a 924 that looks like the picture above

Marc

Guest · Apr 10, 2005

Thanks again for all the advice! Hopefully, my new toy will be taking pride of place on my drive sometime this week. As soon as it turns up, I'll be posting some pics and probably some questions as I'm aware of a starting problem which makes it a project.