30/06/14 Ace Cafe Porsche Night

[Eeyore]

I had to go and give Niall his bonnet which amazingly still just about fits in a 306 with bucket seats.



Anyway as expected there were some decent cars.













Enjoy!

[powerandtorque]

Mmmm... some proper Pork there

Shame that anything from the air cooled generation is climbing to such eye-watering values these days

[Eeyore]

yeh i love anything with the whale tail. I really want a 944 tbh as well.

[powerandtorque]

Regular 944's are suprisingly reasonable price wise and don't look too bad a proposition from an ownership POV tbh, with Turbo's and S2's unsurprisingly commanding a fair premium and with higher running costs but nothing too ridiculous.

As far as I know from when I was considering one a couple of years back, Porsche are really good for supporting the older cars too in terms of parts supply and pricing - something that certainly can't be said for Peugeot who seem to be NFP'ing even quite basic parts now for the 205/309/405 and earlier 306's now.

I know that they were shunned as not being a "proper" Porsche by 911 snobs, but I can't quite understand why 944's are so cheap still when by all accounts they're a good car in their own right - even really tidy low mileage ones aren't that costly in the grand scheme of things compared to other, arguably lesser, cars of that era.

I mean, could anyone buying a 944 new have ever realistically thought that a humble 205 or Golf of the same age would end up being more valuable 25 years later? It's a funny old world...

[kelvsere]

Porsche are so popular because they dared to be different , more manufactures need to do this .