Carpokes Porsche Forum

Auto-Blip4Porsche wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2023 12:03 pm My 95’ C2 polar silver resto-mod with 61k. When I purchased almost 2 years ago now, most said it was in great condition. In the pursue of perfection, I have spend endless hours and $$$. Lesson learned: perfection is the carrot we never can get…

Yeah, but now that it's done it looks great! (Forget what they say about hindsight being 20/20 ...)

Love resto-mods, especially any as clean as your is. Wow!

Welcome to Carpokes! Glad you found the site and thanks for joining up.

My C4 coupe

Beautiful car and a pretty tree in a quiet neighborhood.

My 1996 turbo participating in the annual Stanley Park European car meet.

Nice one! I'll try to reciprocate and post one of my modified Speed Yellow customized 986 S.

Happy holidays to all members!

Best,

Joe

1996 C4 Cabriolet
John

J4yDubs wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:36 pm 1996 C4 Cabriolet

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John

What a good looking 993 Cab! Beautiful car in a sweet setting - great photo!

Thanks for posting and welcome to Carpokes!

My first Porsche, thanks to a life threatening incident. Life can be short and that is all you need to rethink things.

And since I do all my own work and hate getting my hands unnecessarily dirty, the underside got detailed as well. Comes from owning motorcycles. Pics taken a year after I bought it when it was 15 years old.

911-Purist wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:42 pm My first Porsche, thanks to a life threatening incident. Life can be short and that is all you need to rethink things.

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And since I do all my own work and hate getting my hands unnecessarily dirty, the underside got detailed as well. Comes from owning motorcycles. Pics taken a year after I bought it when it was 15 years old.
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That is indeed a clean undercarriage. Did it get driven often and if so, how often was the underside cleaned to keep it that way?

That's a striking image with the lake in the background.

blueline wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:58 pmThat is indeed a clean undercarriage. Did it get driven often and if so, how often was the underside cleaned to keep it that way?

It had 68,250 kms (42,408 miles) on it when I bought it as the third owner. I started a preliminary cleaning and the vast majority was done a year after I bought it. As time went on, it only got better.

I have the patience to do stuff like that. I consider it mental therapy.

Any mechanical maintenance was done during the winter while it is stored.

Missed the part of "how". Kerosene, Stoner Xenit Cleaner & Remover and Facto AT30, a water based commercial degreaser.