Carrera 3.0 Register Update - November 2008
The Carrera 3 Register now contains 137 cars - only a beginning but we are hoping for many more cars as word gets around about the site. As expected, surviving Carrera 3s are to be found across the world, including Europe, North America, Australasia, Africa, South and Central America and Asia. Click the map above to see more!
The country with the highest number of cars registered is, as you'd expect on a UK-based website, England, closely followed by the US, Australia, the Netherlands and Ireland. Other European countries represented are Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Norway, Portugal, Madiera,Wales, Scotland, Spain and Italy. And from South and Central America we have cars from Guatemala and Uruguay. If you are reading this page from anywhere in the World
and have a Carrera 3 then please register it and tell your fellow owners about the site. See the Register
sorted by country
Carrera 3.0 Gets Higher Than Usual Press Exposure
Like those proverbial never-arriving buses that all seem to come at the same time, Carrera 3s, rarely seen in any of the mainstream Porsche magazines, have appeared no less than three times in top UK monthly '911 & Porsche World' over the last six months.
First came the magazine's 'Your First 911' feature in September 2007 where a C3 was lined up against an SC, Carrera 3.2, 964 C2, 993 C2 and 996 C2. Pretty exalted company for a 30 year-old car but the lovely, copper coloured Sienna metaliic coupe (is this car number 15 in our Carrera 3 Register?), valued at a hefty £19,000 and at that time under the ownership of Autofarm proprietor Josh Saddler, was (and is) more than capable of holding its own.
The article has many good things to say about the Carrera 3, particularly its engine and its drivability - but its description of the car as 'in some senses an oddity' is miles off the mark. The C3 is no oddity - it's the daddy of all the later non-Turbo IB 911s. And what can you say about "it looks, sounds and feels - and goes - like a 'proper' 911"? Of course it does - it IS a proper 911. As 'proper' a 911 as you're ever likely to come across!
Next up, in the November 2007 edition, John Glynn compares his lightweight Continental Orange C3 Coupe with a Lime Green 2.7 Carrera, in a story about the earliest IB Carreras. Once forgotten and in the shadow of the earlier 2.7 Carrera RS both cars are emerging from the shade, the 2.7 more so but the C3 gradually coming from behind. 'Limey', the 2.7 featured here, is a fantastic motor car well known to IB fans, 'The Orange' equally so. A good article with great photos and two sensational Carreras - well worth a read.
Finally, in the February 2008 edition of the mag the Carrera 3 features in a mega test of various seminal 911 models produced between 1974 and 1989. The silver Targa featured in the piece is well-known to this site and its appearance in the article helps confirm the growing recognition of the key role played by the C3 in the history of the 911 (as well as confirming what a superb Carrera it is in its own right). For those who drive one regularly, the car's abilities, performance and sheer style have never been in doubt. As the article says, the thrust available from the Carrera 3's wonderfully cammy engine, combined with the 'savagery' of its progress through the gears, is 'absolutely addictive'. Great stuff.