964 Carrera Coupe

Like the 996 C4S overleaf, the 964 was the car most referenced by our team of experts, but in the £30k-£60k sphere. Franklin says: “They’ve been popular for a while. Ask a lot of Porsche people what their favourite older 911 is and they’ll say 964, it’s a classic silhouette. Try and find a good manual with decent history, they’ll probably have had an engine rebuild, too.” Northway agrees: “Get a late chassis number 964; it might need a top-end rebuild, which will last you another 10-15 years, but you should be buying the very best in this category. You’ll never go backwards with that.”

They’re getting more difficult to find, not least because the short run means Porsche didn’t build that many, comparatively speaking, while plenty have succumbed to backdating projects. ‘Buy one, enjoy it, and hold on to it’ seems to be the common theme among our experts. All add that a bit of suspension work, easily reversible for originality in the future, can be hugely transformative. And while 250hp might sound modest these days, it’s a quick car, and being so compact there’s so much more road to enjoy when you’re in it.