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john at westcoastgarage.net
Sat Mar 15 19:02:43 PDT 2008
Others have said:
"first year was '64. by '66 they had the 'S'."
"I don't recall a '65 911. Thought they showed here in '66"
and
"Up thru '66 still came with (6) individual Solex carbs while later models
had triple-choke Webers."
I have a '65 911. It's actually a few hundred SNs newer than that one.
Pre-June cars are '65s, post June cars are considered (per the factory
"specs book") '66s. His is pretty early in the year. Very early '65s
have a slightly different dash arrangement and are considered more
valuable (his isn't that early). All the pre '67 cars came with
"floatless" Solex carbs, 6 single throat carbs on 2 float bowl
reservoirs, which were fed by a dual mechanical pump as well as a Bendix
electric pump.They had a frightening tendency to go lean as air moisture
increased, and foggy night speed runs could spell big bucks. Porsche
offered owners a Weber conversion, coupled with much improved heat
exchangers, at little or no cost. They had troublesome triple U-joint
Nadella axles, most of which have since been replaced with Lobro CV
Joint axles. The 911S appeared in the '67 MY, along with the Targa
version and the now familiar Fuchs wheels, albeit rather skinny ones.
The first 911s anyone in the US really saw in any quantity were at the
'65 Porsche Parade in Santa Barbara. There were 6 of them, fresh off
the boat. There were a couple of 901s floating around, but they were a
rare thing. In my 35 years as a Porsche tech, I've worked on only 1
901, and only because I know the owner, who apparently bought it new. John
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