It doesn’t seem like yesterday we were celebrating Porsche’s 70th anniversary, but five years have flown by and we figured it’d be wrong not to give some recognition to Porsche’s latest milestone. That’s 75 years of Porsche and some 60 years since the company introduced the car that’s the focus of this magazine. We’re taking those 75 years, adding three zeros and setting that as a theoretical budget for us to buy a 911.
That £75,000 budget is a tidy sum, no question. However, it won’t stretch to a new 992 Carrera, which costs £89,800 before you’ve ticked a single option box. So we’re binning off the Porsche configurator today and instead going for a trawl through the marketplace. Because we’re currently on Porsche’s own website, though, we’re off for a quick exploratory look to see what’s possible within our budget from Porsche’s approved used stock, before widening our search across the many independents and specialists in the UK and abroad. We’ve split our choices between air- and water-cooled, with a wild card at the end, to cover all bases and every flavour…
AIR-COOLED
1970 911T
Long-bonnet 911s are largely out of reach without being creative with our £75,000 limit, but if you’re prepared to search around Europe, and even the US, then the 911T from 1970/71 can be had for within our budget. The 1970s 911 marketplace is heavily skewed towards 911S models, and while
