Wilder

As I was reading I thought... "I bet this guy bought a T".
The PTS is rare and amazing.
Big congrats!

Signed,
24-year Porsche nut with various aircooled and GT cars under his belt, including a 7.1 RS I purchased recently and 3 ex 993 C4Ss.

masmole

beautiful car and color!

Daytona67

A huge congratulations. Love your story and RSA reference - one of my best friends owns this RS America. Since he wouldn't sell it to me, I also went with a 992 Carrera T and absolutely love it.

PSPorsche

Loved your story! Thanks for sharing.

One thing I personally lament is, although I suspect I am younger than you, I opted not to order a manual on my (to be delivered) 992, because my knees are starting to give.

Congratulations to you, and may you continue to be able to use the clutch for as long as you want!

P.S. You can always powder coat the wheels to make the car unique to yourself. (If you do, share the pics!)

Harold

Thankyou all very much for reading through all I wrote and yet still having the energy to respond!

It really is so good to see how Porsche manages to maintain such long term relationships with its owner base, and to have seen so many go through various successive generations of the brand. I must say that as I have gotten older I have realised that as much as I love my older cars, they have increasingly become special occasion drivers if for no other reason that I need good aircon in summer nowadays (didn't seem to bother me so much in my youth), and the joys of a touch screen and android or apple play truly have become a need for me in my daily drives stuck in traffic.

Porsche really has a solution for every driver in their model line up and that's what made me finally bite the bullet and pick up a modern 911 after all these years. I have been fortunate enough to still keep the two older 911s in my garage and will continue to use them for weekends but I really look forward to once again breathing the brand in my daily weekday commutes as the older cars get some much deserved TLC and rest time.

As for the colour, I must say it really is quite close to aventurine green (the new version of aventurine green- my old 993 was also aventurine green but for some reason is significantly different to the new colour). I fell in love with the colour because I had spotted a GT3 Touring on one of my Web searches with malachite green and gold rims that just won me over.... and so true I may just do a powder coat of the rims as I can't get over how much I love this combination:



As for the older generation aventurine green, this is the old girl that I have had for close to 30 years now and will share the garage with the 911 T. She's a bit of a crazy one as her interior is cedar green.



Thanks again to all of you for the very kind comments. Just shows that the Porsche community is still alive and strong all these years later! Look forward to sharing my 992 journey with you all. As excited as can be!

Shogunade

Awesome garage! Hope you take delivery asap. Post pics.

paradocs98

Great story--congrats. Love the color.

vanlieremead

Congratulations. It’s interesting that, even “down under”, the clutch is under the left foot!

nvbirdman

I could get used to sitting on the right side of the car, and I could get used to driving on the left side of the road, bit I could never get used to shifting with my left hand. I would have to get PDK. What is the shift pattern? Is it left and forward for first, or right and forward for first?

PG5768

Beautiful car! Congratulations!

CurryPuff

Fantastic car and the back story! Congratulations 🎊

It seems hard to grasp the concept of shifting with the left hand, but you get used to it very quickly. The shift patter remains the same regardless being left or right hand drive.
The first 5 minutes are hard. I went from a F87 M2 stick in the UK (right hand drive) to my current 718 GT4 in US after a nearly 2 year break of driving shift and I was comfortable rowing gears in less than half a mile, past the first set of lights and a small roundabout.
You screw up if you over think it.

Harold

What a line up of Porsches. Wow. Like you I am pretty sure the 992 will be my last acquisition. You have had some amazing machines.... and that you still have the Special Wishes flatnose.. wow. Is that the one with the lights built into the bumper and no pop ups? Thanks so much for sharing your ownership timeline. I can't help but be intrigued by the various cars you chose and the stories behind why and how you came into each of these. Also interested in why you never had a transaxle.

My line up is positively yawn worthy comparatively but still loved every moment of it. In chronology of ownership:

1984 3.2 Carrera coupe, traded on...
1990 964 C4 coupe, traded on...
1994 993 Carrera 6 speed coupe, sold after 5 years
1996 993 C4S (still own it today almost 30 years later)
2001 996TT tiptronic (only auto I ever owned) traded on...
2008 997 GT3 RS, sold after 5 years and over 70 track days
1995 968 CS sold after 5 years.... loved that car!
1995 964 factory Turbo Look cab manual... such a special weekend driver that was regardless of what people say about cabs
​​​​Then I went back into a 993 love phase and this meant in addition to the 4S, I added a...
​​​1995 993 Carrera manual that I made into a bit of a hot rod, sold after 5 years
1997 993 Carrera S manual, sold after 4 years and realising it was no better than the 4S in spite of it being 2wd,
1989 964 C4 bought in totally original form and used bog stock as I want to rememberemember original 964 feels like what with all the hot rod and back dated examples how flying around.

and now the final instalment being the 992 911T that I hope to drive the wheels off till the end.

Harold

Hahaha yes it really is the perfect car in the line up for me at my stage in life. It sure helps that it is relatively speaking one of the cheapest 911 options too.

I also seriously considered whether I should get a base Carrera in PDK at first given years of cycling have started to take their toll on my joints, but in the end I couldn't help myself and had to stick with the third pedal. It helps that the clutch is very soft compared to the old Air cooled cars so it still feels much easier to drive.

Thankyou so much, will definitely post pics upon pick up. Can't wait.

Harold

Thanks so much my friend. Based off the latest aventurine green, I believe there is more green and less grey in this PTS compared to Aventurine Green.

sur5or

What a find and what a car. Drive the heck out of it!