'79 Bas model compared to '79 Porsche's
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From: Coming home from Luckenbach Texas
Originally Posted by Stoge
53,807 units in '79... isn't that still the highest production # to this very day?
Aside from the 924, the other Porsches were far out of the reach of mere mortals (credit wasn't as E-Z back then as it is now). Even the Corvette wasn't everyman's car at the time.
Times were indeed different back then, which is why it's hard to look back from today's point of view and wonder why so many Vettes were sold in '79.
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I still have my original window sticker (1979 L-82) With all my options The window price was $12,371. It seems to me that the 911's were another 6-10 thousand dollars more. porsches are a surprizingly heavy car. So they don't have good power to weight ratios other than some of the turbo models. 300 hp 3.0 liter will get beat by 225 hp and 350 ci if the TQ if they weight the same.
You can't really call 914 or 924 Porsches a Porsche. Hopped up Volkswagon.
You can't really call 914 or 924 Porsches a Porsche. Hopped up Volkswagon.
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From: Berlin
Originally Posted by gkull
porsches are a surprizingly heavy car. So they don't have good power to weight ratios other than some of the turbo models. 300 hp 3.0 liter will get beat by 225 hp and 350 ci if the TQ if they weight the same.
2600 lbs is heavy (2900 for the turbo)?! I'm not sure what you're saying, but it looks like you're claiming an L82 would beat a turbo because the vette makes more torque. First of all, peak torque is pretty much irrelevant for racing any properly designed car. Second, the Porsche made MORE torque than the vette. More importantly, the turbos made much more power and weighed less. They ran 0-60 in 5.5 seconds even on 1970's tires. A vette wouldn't stand a chance.
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