993 Speedster at Porsche Museum (Restoration Workshop)
08-30-2009, 01:26 AM
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993 Speedster at Porsche Museum (Restoration Workshop)
I just got back from a business trip to Germany, and took a day off to drive down to Zuffenhausen to visit the Porsche Museum. After spending several hours admiring the great collection, I noticed a 993 Speedster being worked on in the restoration workshop. I presume this was Ferry's 993?
Enjoy the pictures that I took through the glass...
And if you like 911 Speedsters, they had an 89 in red sitting out in front of the museum, and a nice 964 variant on display within the museum...
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Enjoy the pictures that I took through the glass...
And if you like 911 Speedsters, they had an 89 in red sitting out in front of the museum, and a nice 964 variant on display within the museum...
-B
08-30-2009, 02:33 AM
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Next destination: Zuffenhausen!
WOOT!!!
I hope it's on display in the museum as soon as the clean-up's done.
Any more details/ photos? More angles would aid confirmation as Butzi Porsche's 1995 birthday gift. If it's a Tiptronic, that's a strong indicator. Did you ask anyone there for more information? Please PM me if higher-resolution orginals are available.
Regardless: Thank you thank you thank you!
PS I gotsta go buy tickets to Z-hausen quick! Wait, I already got off for Keystone & a week+ at Monterey. Maybe I'll just give up employment to live in the Porsche museum?
...wish the Porsche family had coordinated schedules with me before this resto.
I hope it's on display in the museum as soon as the clean-up's done.
Any more details/ photos? More angles would aid confirmation as Butzi Porsche's 1995 birthday gift. If it's a Tiptronic, that's a strong indicator. Did you ask anyone there for more information? Please PM me if higher-resolution orginals are available.
Regardless: Thank you thank you thank you!
PS I gotsta go buy tickets to Z-hausen quick! Wait, I already got off for Keystone & a week+ at Monterey. Maybe I'll just give up employment to live in the Porsche museum?
...wish the Porsche family had coordinated schedules with me before this resto.
Hmmm.....
08-30-2009, 03:20 AM
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From PStraub's April thread "New Museum, Factory Tour & Weissach"
Surprised?
Surprised?
Porsche family-owned vehicles displayed?
Might they ever have a 993 Speedster on exhibit? If I haven't already made it to the museum by then, the day I hear one of those is on show is the moment I'll be back in Germany.
I loved Rhonda's Porsche Museum Zuffenhausen Pictures..., but was surprised at the conspicuous lack of 993s. A museum without art?! (Admittedly biased.)
Ronnie3585's New Porsche Museum - Stuttgart thread
Might they ever have a 993 Speedster on exhibit? If I haven't already made it to the museum by then, the day I hear one of those is on show is the moment I'll be back in Germany.
I loved Rhonda's Porsche Museum Zuffenhausen Pictures..., but was surprised at the conspicuous lack of 993s. A museum without art?! (Admittedly biased.)
Ronnie3585's New Porsche Museum - Stuttgart thread
08-30-2009, 05:18 AM
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08-30-2009, 12:15 PM
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Hmm. Maybe they're getting ready to announce the new "Special" car they told me they would launch at the end of the year when I was there last May. I thought at the time it could be a new Speedster variant. I'll be back there September 15th and 16th, maybe I'll be lucky enough to see Butzi's car ....
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08-30-2009, 03:35 PM
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Mobile.de had another for sale this past March. More info & photos on the "Speedster type 993 photo thread," top of page four, & all of page 16.
Featured in JJJMCD's 2007 RL thread "993 Speedster Pictures." Sold Sep 2007. Asking price was 81.558 GBP, ~$133k USD.
Currently, if you click on this specific link, freisinger-motorsport.de/porsche/?lang=uk&site=carsforsaledetail&car_id=53, you should initially see browser page title as "Porsche 993 Speedster." Likewise, as of this moment, its navigation panel at the top left says "FREISINGER > Cars for Sale > Porsche 993 Speedster." However, it quickly refreshes to show current inventory -- it sold. I think its asking price was 95.200.
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08-30-2009, 03:39 PM
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Porsche needs to bring the Speedster back ... perhaps a special 997 
08-30-2009, 04:12 PM
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Ted-- It would have to be done right. IMHO, lots of mixed emotions with how the Speedster's light-weight, stripped, simplified, convertible RS-like concept contradicts virtually every Porsche since ~1999, especially those with automated tops.
As for marketing & the all-important Euro, most would say the Boxster fills the potential Speedster sales void in the company's line-up. The factory even sells Speedster humps for it.
It's a complex issue with modern regulations, etc., I'm NOT saying the factory's necessarily in the wrong.
However, it clashes with their current production trends & mentality of Cayennes & Panameras.
Regardless, I'm optimistic they can pull off a 997.5+ Speedster, but repeating caveat: it would have to be done right.
David in LA said it well. From the "SPY SHOTS: Boxster SPEEDSTER" thread...
The photos on that thread illustrate why caution's required to temper the pure optimism I often have for 993+ Speedsters...
As for marketing & the all-important Euro, most would say the Boxster fills the potential Speedster sales void in the company's line-up. The factory even sells Speedster humps for it.
It's a complex issue with modern regulations, etc., I'm NOT saying the factory's necessarily in the wrong.
However, it clashes with their current production trends & mentality of Cayennes & Panameras.
Regardless, I'm optimistic they can pull off a 997.5+ Speedster, but repeating caveat: it would have to be done right.
David in LA said it well. From the "SPY SHOTS: Boxster SPEEDSTER" thread...
08-30-2009, 04:27 PM
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Does this have potential?
08-30-2009, 04:33 PM
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The factory's latest 997 Speedster prototype
"Special" means this to the factory so far. Cautious optimism...
From RL thread "slightly OT: next-gen SPEEDSTER!"
From RL thread "slightly OT: next-gen SPEEDSTER!"
08-30-2009, 04:34 PM
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Regardng Freisinger 993 conversions:
I don't think a single reference to any Speedster photos remains on their company's site, but this archived image still exists on their web domain...
The direct address: freisinger-motorsport.de/images/cars/53.993_Speedster.jpg.
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I don't think a single reference to any Speedster photos remains on their company's site, but this archived image still exists on their web domain...
The direct address: freisinger-motorsport.de/images/cars/53.993_Speedster.jpg.
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08-30-2009, 05:18 PM
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Cactus, 
AKA "the fickle prickle."
From the "Speedster type 993 photo thread"...
