Kyle Fortune
Model 993 Carrera 2 Year 1994 Acquired December 2014
Big thanks to RPM Technik this month, who saved me after the 993 threw its alternator belt on the way to visit them for a story you’ll be reading on these pages. Yes, the car had just been serviced, but these things happen, and Autofarm was decent enough to cover the bill for RPM replacing the belt as it had been overlooked while it was with them.
Bittersweet times with the 993 then, as every drive I have in it is closer to my last. As I write this I’m about an hour away from jumping in it and driving to Sports Purpose at Bicester Heritage. There, James Turner and his team will be handling the sale. It’ll be parked up alongside some rare and beautiful machinery, though I don’t think it’ll look out of place, especially once it has been given a detailing by Perfection Valet’s Richard Tipper. He performs automotive alchemy, with a knack of making cars look like they’ve just been driven off the production line.
I’m so interested in the process that I’ll be popping down to watch him at work, so there’ll be another report or two on the car in the coming months. That, and I’ve still a couple of jobs that’ll be undertaking early in the new year to make sure it’s absolutely perfect for its next owner.
Either way, the 993 will be homed at Sports Purpose for a while yet, so if you happen to be at the Sunday Scramble at Bicester on 6 January then go take a look – make a bid if you’re interested. I guarantee you’ll not find a nicer one. Indeed, my worry is that with it being perfect throughout I’ll end up changing my mind and want to keep it.
Reality bites though, as with a new addition to the Fortune household due in February, the 993’s sale will mean we can do the work to the house we’d always planned, but have never gotten around to. I’ve long described it as the ‘extension in waiting’, and while I’ll inevitably miss it when it sells, I’m lucky enough to get to drive other people’s 911s as my day job. For a while now
I’ll be re-commissioning my trusty old Peugeot 205 GTI, which has been rather neglected since the 993 arrived four years ago, so I’ll still get my Nineties car thrills, though I’d never rule out buying another 911. If I’m being honest with myself, I reckon it’s a certainty.