• The oft-maligned 996-generation 911 ushered in a brand new water-cooled efficiency period for Porsche’s iconic rear-engine sports activities automotive.
• This guide 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera cabriolet could possibly be an reasonably priced solution to expertise 911 enjoyable within the solar.
• The no-reserve Convey a Trailer public sale ends on July 31.

You’ll be able to’t go flawed with a Porsche 911. Whether or not you need high-rpm, stick-shift canyon slicing, or dignified, luxurious grand touring, there is a 911 on the market for you. And older fashions are arguably even purer sports activities automobiles than the most recent model, although not all the time cheaper. But when you do not have six figures to drop on a 911, you are in luck. At the moment’s choose from Convey a Trailer—which, like Automobile and Driver, is a part of Hearst Autos—is a guide 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera cabriolet. Earlier than we get into the small print, although, let’s pause for the inevitable fried egg and intermediate shaft (IMS) jokes. Obtained it out of your system? Good.

Sure, the 996-generation 911 swapped the beloved air-cooled flat-six for a water-cooled one. Sure, that M96 engine is understood for its IMS-bearing issues. Yup, Porsche needed to do some critical cost-cutting when it launched the 996, therefore why it shares fairly a couple of components with the modern Boxster.

However guess what? A 996-gen 911 like this Velocity Yellow 1999 Carrera cabriolet remains to be a 911. Which means its 3.4-liter flat-six nonetheless lives within the again, driving the rear wheels via a six-speed guide. With 296 horsepower and 258 pound-feet in inventory type, it is extra highly effective and torquier than the outgoing air-cooled Carrera, too. And there is nearly no efficiency penalty with the mushy high. In our interval testing, a 1999 Carrera cabriolet had the identical 4.9-second 0-60 and 13.5-second quarter-mile because the 1999 coupe. Each automobiles stopped from 70 mph in the identical 170 toes, too. And so they each had cross-drilled four-wheel disc brakes, just like the soft-top instance up for public sale.

Admittedly, our tester recorded barely decrease skidpad numbers for the convertible than the coupe. However handling-wise, we mentioned, “[its] angle in corners is sort of equivalent to the coupe’s.” This automotive’s Michelin Pilot Sport tires wrapped round 18-inch wheels will undoubtedly assist exhibit that. And dropping the highest means you may hear the engine barking via its stainless-steel exhaust pipes extra clearly. Although for those who do tire of its track, you possibly can play your personal via this automotive’s aftermarket audio system—full with Rockford Fosgate amplifier—and Pioneer head unit. The manufacturing unit stereo is included within the sale, by the way in which, as is the CD changer (for those who nonetheless treasure bodily media).

At this level, potential bidders undoubtedly need to know in regards to the IMS bearing. Excellent news, a earlier proprietor changed it with an LN Engineering equipment. The highest’s cylinders and actuators had been additionally changed underneath earlier possession, as had been a number of restore gadgets. This Carrera has additionally had its spoiler hydraulics rebuilt, its engine circumstances recoated and honed to just accept JE pistons, and an enlargement plug crack repaired underneath earlier possession, too.

In keeping with the public sale web page, the vendor has solely added 100 of this 1999 911 Carrera cabriolet’s indicated 72,895 miles. If you happen to’re the excessive bidder, we might encourage you so as to add significantly extra. The public sale ends on Monday, July 31.

Analysis Editor

After discovering automotive magazines and Quick and Livid films in highschool, Matthew Skwarczek wished to create cleaner fuels to maintain vehicles round. However after a quick engineering profession, the Chicagoland native realized he most popular researching and writing in regards to the automobiles themselves. That is how he discovered himself first at MotorBiscuit after which at C/D. At the moment, when he’s not studying, he’s daydreaming on Convey a Trailer, backpacking, or driving his bike or bicycle.