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ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

Also I don't recall people many making any remarks on the various stickers that were gradually put all over WUF yet most seemed to be drooling all over this car...
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Well, there was the odd comment about the stickers on WUF. Mostly around either them holding the rust together, or not adding any more weight than Rick's pie habit....[:D][:D]

I seriously worry about some comments on this thread. 24 944s were driven to Rutland for a day out last weekend: great fun, great company, and some great roads.Why on earth get so upset over a removable sticker, when you could actually enjoy driving the things and meeting people in real life, not on forums? Equally, forget putting stickers on them, put some miles on instead! [&:]

Get the flippin' things out of the garage and join the rest of us this year? There's a real world of 944 ownership outside the forums....we don't bite in ral life! [8|]
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Is RAL life a special life where you compare paint codes? [:D]

Anyway - I'm the last person to preach about originality AND I added two new stickers yesterday to the windscreen and have another to add to the side window too!

 

ORIGINAL: MartinRS2K

ORIGINAL: John Sims

It all feels a bit like putting a GT3R sticker on a C4S or a Turbo badge on a Lux. The Cup cars were/are special because of what they were. Putting a badge on a bogo Turbo a Cup car doesn't make.
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I'm not just putting it on a 'bogo' Turbo as you have called it, it is going on a Turbo S Silver Rose which is derived from the Cup car. And these badges were fitted from new to the French Turbo S cars and after checking with OPC Kendal they had a part number but was only sold in France and no more stock is left as they only produced a limited run of them in line with the number of cars they sold.
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Yup, bogo 250 Turbo so, actually, less of a Cup car than a bogo 220 Turbo. All Porsches have something derived from something else. GT3s have GT1 engine blocks but they ain,t a GT1., etc, etc.
 
Well its the same model Porsche France put the cup badge on originally, but it was the marketing department that decided to attach it.

Put up a thread asking for opinions on a badge you will get opinions though! some will be positive, some negative 'ce la vie' as they say at Porsche France ....probably :)

Tony
 
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I know its not historically correct but I think the French were wrong :) (With the position)

 
Roadgoing Renaultsport Clio Cups are badged "cups" and they are not clio cup race cars just a more hardcore more sporting orientated version,the french like the race association and called the 944 turbo road car "cup",a similar thing?
When you see them advertised now LHD in france they still refer to them as cup...
i think badge looks cool,why not,its fun and life is short.[:D]
 
Martin, keep up the good work. I never knew Porsche France badged the cars turbo Cup. I'm starting to think it's quite a nice touch.
It tastefully solves the problem that the GB Non-Sunroof cars have always had, namely they were never properly identified.
This was a great shame in some ways, its like the 2.7RS losing a sun visor, the clock, the glove-box lid etc but not being called the lightweight. Mk1 Campaign GTi's were similar. On the other hand, if the turbo cup was properly identified, what would the value be now??
I agree with Simon's suggestion the turbo badge stays in the original position, and the red Cup is added after, maybe Tony can do that on the image for us?
Are you getting a Badge made?
If so, I'd ask you to pm me details

George
944t
 

ORIGINAL: Eldavo

Oh my, you have the wrong end of a long stick!

Comment one - the badge looks like you got it from an OPC, this is a complement based upon the quality of the badge.

Comment two - Turbo S/whatever taking the Mickey out of Simon for his supposed "correct" model nomenclature. "Ferdinand" as in Ferdinand Porsche - a suggestion that you were part of the family and getting parts remade in the factory. Again, a complement based upon the quality of the brochure and badge.

So, with all that cleared up and at the risk of having my head bitten off again, I have to ask . . . . Are you going through the Menoporsche? [:D]

Edit: I spelt "Porsche" rong!
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Just got back from Bedford and this is the first chance I have had to get onto my account.

Firstly I am publicly apologising to Dave (I have already sent him a PM with an explanation and apology) and secondly I apologise to the other forum members for my post which was written after being out for a few beers for my mates birthday and I realise was not the sort of thing that should have been posted [:(]

My intension for starting the thread was to show what I wanted as an upgrade for my car with the reasons behind it and I accept comments good and bad. It isn't to everyone's taste but I stand by the fact that the Silver Rose is a direct derivative of the 944 Turbo Cup car as are the Turbo S cars with the M758 option code. To say the 220 model is closer to the Cup cars is wrong in my opinion as they had sunroofs, smaller turbo, standard suspension and no LSD. If someone else can show me proof otherwise then I look forward to seeing it. [:)]

Yours (a sober but tired after a 550 mile round trip) Martin


 

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

I seriously worry about some comments on this thread. 24 944s were driven to Rutland for a day out last weekend: great fun, great company, and some great roads.Why on earth get so upset over a removable sticker, when you could actually enjoy driving the things and meeting people in real life, not on forums? Equally, forget putting stickers on them, put some miles on instead! [&:]

Get the flippin' things out of the garage and join the rest of us this year? There's a real world of 944 ownership outside the forums....we don't bite in ral life! [8|]
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Agree totally, that is why we are again going to Germany for a week to the Dinslaken Porsche Show covering 1500 miles in 6 days. We are also doing Tatton Park, Grasmere Show and a few others.

Unfortunately Rutland and Brighton are just too far away for us Northern 944's to do easily which is why I hoped we could get a central location for a 944 meet up at a Show.maybe we can still find a date in the calendar this Summer [:)]
 
Prefer, the Turbo and Cup badge together but moved toward the seam where the rear panel meets the rear wing, that said i still like the " non original" crest with laurels sticker, Martin cup cars had teledials .....................ducks for cover[:D]
 
this is about as far as my limited self taught photoshop skills will allow - the lighting is tricky on the corner!

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Its a marketing name designed to tie in with the Porsche Cup cars and not an actual M754 Cup car, yes; but I prefer it to the rubbish name that Porsche Cars GB saddled our own M758 cars with.

If theyd been called Cups then it would have prevented the silly 'Silver Rose' moniker from ever getting a finger hold too. The colour was Rose Silver (not Silver Rose)!
 
I have decided that any 250 turbo with no sunroof, M030 and LSD should be designated a turbo s! This will dispense with the rose silver nonsense once and for all! Can anybody tell me what differentiates my car from a turbo s (or whatever your preferred name is for a M758 car!!)?

My car is MY90, no sunroof, M030 and LSD. It also sported CS wheels from the factory although all other MY90 turbo's had D90's. I'll give you I have a factory bridge spoiler rather than rubber, but is there any other difference other than not having M758 on my boot sticker?

I also think they should have "turbo s" on the boot lid instead of just "turbo". The s in lower case, same font and style and in black.

Cheers

Stuart
 
Stuart, your car is a quaint throw back to the days when Porsche "used up" components, a non s/r body shell, a set of forged rims, and maybe it was a favour from the factory to a well connected Director at AFN or somewhere who wanted "a car like the recent Cup cars". I like it also because of the colour.

There were half a dozen 959's made in the 90's I gather from parts that were still around?

Even more importantly, Tony, you can fit the badges to my car [:)]

Brilliant bit of alignment there

Thanks for your time

George
944t


 
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