Purchase made.......!!!!!!

[Guest]

Hello gentlemen.

Finally I have settled on a Granite-green (( looks more like grey to me )) ( is that the correct colour ? ) 87 Carrera complete with G50 box with everything working quicky and smoothly and lots of money spent on her. New clutch , gearbox inspected and ok, engine rebuilt by Northway at 130K ( now 163k) recent suspension and brakes £4k spent on it last year .. ex PCGB.. and featured on E4's late night Hollyoaks.. Hopefully it was not flogged to death on screen!!

I want to spray it Black and source a Black interior/wheel and get the seats recovered in beautiful black hide.... any recommendations on the above....does anyone remember the car.??

Collect it on Monday.... can't wait.... dreams coming true and all that..

And finally a big thankyou to eveyone of you who has generously given advice. I look forward to becoming a full member and meeting some of you at the forth-coming summer events.

All the best from a very happy boy.

 

[oliver]

Granite Green is a very nice and fairly rare colour.[8D]

I think Steve Cropley, editor of Autocar, owned a Granite '87 3.2 Sport Coupe with grey interior back in the early '90s.

Only my opinion, but nice original, unmolested, G50 3.2s are getting very sought after. Surely keeping it in it's correct original colour is best. The cost of repainting and re-trimming it properly would be enormous, and surely wouldn't add any value.

 

[Richard Savage]

My opinion also. Don't mess wih it!

R.

 

[911sse]

Must agree, keep it original.

The wheels in my avatar were just for when the Fuchs were being polished!

 

[Guest]

It's a lovely colour...... I know you had your heart set on black, but please leave it original.

 

[porkersc]

Just leave it alone. Will look ace as it is. You will really knock it's value by painting it.

 

[Guest]

Oh.. those weren't the opinions i was looking for..

Here are some from a previous post on the subject..

""Unless the car is concours I cant see that the colour is going to make the car more or less desirable with in reason. There are lots of 20+ years old Porsches that are nowhere near original. The way I see it is that it is your car do what you want with it and enjoy it.
There is too much snobbery about what you should and shouldnt do. ""
Baz ((BAZGILLIE))


""Couldn't agree more Baz!"" ((BONES))

I am going to go for the official porsche Black (Swartz) and heavy on the lacquer..its just something about 911's in that colour just makes my nuts tighten!!....I mean that I think that the grey is in my top three colours, but we are only here once, life is for living and it will make me extremely happy.... btw pick it up in a couple of hours.......( I'm sure you all remember that feeling)..

Thanks for your opinions...I have been warned..!!

 

[zwhitea]

I agree... unless you want a true concours car, which gets little use.. do what you like to the car and just use it.. I personally still want a lime green 911 with a black interia.. although when I had mine resprayed I could bring myself to replace the interia as well...

These cars are to be enjoyed...

adam.

 

[oliver]

Of course it's your car and your money. But, even ignoring most people's preferences for originality, surely it can't make financial sense.

The cost of a proper bare metal, glass out colour change and interior re-trim must be £6,000 +. Yet it will add nothing to the value of the car, perhaps the contrary. Far better to combine the car and the cash to find a really nice black/black G50 Coupe. It was a relatively popular colour combination in the '80s, so you shouldn't have too much trouble.

 

[Guest]

Well I've got her home........ aren't they good.. hehehehe heheheh... I love it.
Had fun with the first fuelling...how embarrassing. Got there in the end though. So easy to drive. So quiet ( except with the toe down ) so different to anything else on the road,, comfortable yet sporty ride..such a quirky dash lay out.. I think this is the start of a long term relationship...

 

[Richard Savage]

They're certainly 'different' aren't they. You wont be able to sneak around in it that's for sure.

Enjoy!

R.

 

[twinny]

They should come with a government health warning about addiction or be reclassified as a class c drug in my opinion. Not that I ever inhaled you understand.

 

[Guest]

I know there's a smiley logo for it somewhere, but...

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Seriously, nice one Dave, but let's see the proper colour before you paint it, I suspect it will be rather nice and unusual.

Someone said £6k for the full respray which may be a lot, but you certainly wouldn't get it for less than £4k. £1k for the seats retrim, then at least another £1k for dash and carpets.

All depends how much you got the car for in the first place. Assuming you got it at a little below your budget, you will end up with a 160k 3.2 that still stands you at £15k.

And to ZWHITEA ... Lime Green ... I'm with you brother!

 

[Guest]

oh, here's mine by the way Dave

 

[supersport]

The mods look good there Al. Looks quite different from the pics from the Wolds Wazz. The Carrea strip works a treat. Has it got new wheels too? Also looks slightly lower.

Mark.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Mark,

No mods as such, all I have done is put the uprated Turbo front end track rod arms and wotnot on, added the Carrera stripe, painted the wheels red and added a rather nice Danske back box ... but it goes absolutely superbly!

 

[graham tompkins]

Al,
looks great to me, respray it granite grey and it would look even better[]

 

[Guest]

lol can do you a good deal on an interior to suit that exact colour.!!!

 

[Guest]

ORIGINAL: Bronco

lol     can do you a good deal on an interior to suit that exact colour.!!!

What ... the grey or the white?!!

 

[Guest]

Well here it is,, what do you all think..?