The Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 Website

Fast, responsive and agile, the Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 still drives superbly 30 years after the last one rolled off the production line in Zuffenhausen.

With a power unit derived from the fantastically successful Carrera 3.0RS and an aluminium crank-case shared with the lengendary 911 Turbo, the 'Carrera 3' was, for a short period between 1975 and 1977, the ultimate normally-aspirated 911, combining searing road and track performance with every-day drive-ability.

Relatively few of these wonderfully free-revving Carreras were made and the remaining cars are now becoming increasingly recognised as rare and much sought-after Porsches.
Register your Carrera 3.0 with the Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 Website Registry

impactbumpers.com - the home of the Porsche 911 from 1974 - 1989If you own a Carrera 3.0 please take the time to register your car - simply go to our Registry page and fill in the form. And don't forget to visit impactbumpers.com where you'll find a lively and informal forum for C3, and other 'Impact Bumper' 911, owners.  

-> FEATURED CARS
Featured C3 Registry cars now here: Read about Richard Lambert's PCGB Championship winning C3
Featured Carrera 3 - Richard Lambert's Porsche Club Great Britain Championship winning car
-> FEATURED CARS
FINISHED! Drew Brown's US Carrera 3.0 is our second featured car. Eight years unused and now brought back to life! Featured carrera 3 - Drew Brown's restoration
-> GALLERY
FROM GERMANY!! This Continental Orange Coupe was first registered on a Porsche family numberplate in Salzburg!! The Carrera 3 Website Gallery - lots of superb Carrera 3s to see
-> REGISTRY
110 CARS! New cars from England, France, Germany, South Africa , Belgium and the United States!
The Carrera 3 Website Registry - 96 cars now registered!
-> LATEST VALUES
New prices This superb early (1975) Coupe is available in the Netherlands at an asking price of €49,500! Carrera 3 Website values page
-> PROJECTS PAGE
AUGUST UPDATE on Andrew's Carrera 3 restoration - more photos as he works on re-assembly Carrera 3 projects
-> MOTORSPORT
UPDATE! Ian Wadsworth's C3-powered PCGB Speed Championship racer - latest news after 4 rounds Carrera 3 Motorsport: Ian Wadsworth's C3 engined Porsche Club Great Britain racer
-> MAGAZINE WATCH
Our Carrera 3 featured in the February 2008 edition of 911
& Porsche World. Read about it here
See our Carrera 3 in 911 and Porsche World

Why a website about the Carrera 3.0?

Here at 911carrera3.co.uk we're huge fans of the Carrera 3. We think it's a hidden gem - the best of the 'impact-bumper' 911s and one of the best Porsches ever made. We love the cars' wonderful free-revving engines with their sensational power surge at 4000 rpm. We love their handling and their simple, purposeful styling. And we remember that these cars were the last in a line of brilliant 1970s Porsche 911 Carreras, cars that were the stuff of schoolboy dreams. Despite all of this, though, it's difficult to find much information about the Carrera 3 - there are no books written about it, it features rarely in the motoring press and web resources are very limited. 911carrera3.co.uk aims to help fill this gap - we hope you enjoy the site.
Carrera 3.0 or Carrera 3?

The answer is both - although some sources insist that the name 'Carrera 3' is inaccurate, Porsche Cars Great Britain used both terms interchangeably. On 911carrera3.co.uk so do we.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Bert Roex for supplying lots of useful information, including a translation of the seminal Sport Auto road test from 1976, to John Glynn for suggesting a Carrera 3.0 registry and to the Carrera 3.0 forum members from inpactbumpers.com for allowing us to use photos of their cars across the site.



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