I had the pleasure to take some photos of Sunir's 996 around some industrial areas of Baltimore, MD last weekend. If anyone knows the area, we were right near the Natty Boh buildings.

For the full set in high resolution on flickr, CLICK HERE


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3 - LOOK MA, NO SUNROOF!



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7 - Brewers Hill - The Land of Pleasant Living



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looks good

 

Nice pictures! That color combo is sick! And no sunroof. wow

 

like the front seats, what are they? did you add them?

 

Nice pics!

 

I recognize that car Are you using a TS or photoshop in some of those?

 

Ahhh the car looks awesome. What seats are those?

Tonk got photo skillz !!

 

Very nice car and very good Pics!!

 

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

Yeah he mentioned TPC a couple times while we were chatting.

I don't have a tilt-shift lens so I cheated on #5 and #6, and for #10 I'll admit that it was a completely gray sky that day But besides those three, all the rest have very basic editing. Just the usual color correction, contrast, shadows/highlights, stuff like that.

 

Thanks for the compliments ...I appreciate the enthusiast community chyming in with your thoughts...

Big thanks to Chris who really has an eye for car placement and framing a shot to not only make the car the star but to also capture natural settings to suit the car, an example of this is the earthy red brick wall matching the interior color of the car. We are going to do some interior pics soon as well.

Now for some more info about this very unique car. I purchased the car from the original owner who is a friend of mine and fellow PCA instructor and former Audi club cheif instructor, I had my eye on this car since '09. In 2001 he and another friend of ours both had orders on the brand new GT2 coming out in '02, well then in '02 Porsche announced the X50 package on the turbo which was 50 grand less and offered what my friend called "basically an all wheel drive version of the GT2, slightly heavier with PSM and offered the same engine" - that said he changed his order to the car above and our other friend went on to get a RUF, non turbo car.

This car was custom ordered in several ways...in fact my friend waited 1 year to take delivery. One of the striking things is the color combo I love the seal gray color and with the custom order premium leather interior in Boxter Red for starters it really set the car apart and made it unique. Porsche was making the 911 turbo standard with sunroofs and my friend was adamently against a sunroof and the notion of a hole in a structural area and adding weight to the hightest point of the chassis really bothered him (I don't like sunroofs either for the same reason which is another thing that specifically appealed to me and made this car very rare). He custom ordered the car with a sunroof delete/GT2 body from the factory which ensured that the car would be a fixed closed roof. This made the delivery time right about 1 year from point of order according to him. All of this is reflected in the Certification of Authenticity I have gotten from him with the car. My friend drove the car since new for a few years upon which it became his wife's car (she is a Porsche enthusiast as well) for a few years prior to my purchasing it from them. The car has been fully documented with service history, records, and invoices with all original paint and body, no accidents or chassis damage.

This X50 packaged car has been meticulously maintained at TPC and made well over 500 hp on their chassis dyno, I can get the exact figures but I think it was around 525 or so, I don't know what kind of dyno they have though, be it mustang, dynojet or what have you. Some mods include custom engine tuning, TPC modified sport tuned exhaust, factory sport seats were modified to accept shoulder harnesses, brakes have been upgraded with larger diameter custom 2 peice rotors (slotted steel w/ alum hats) and GT3 calipers, Aerokit with GT2 rear wing blade, GT2 brake ducts front/GT3 brake ducts rear, motorsport control arms and adj toe links with factory style ball joints, GT2 ant-roll bar, cup car shifter, clutch, and flywheel, TPC wheel studs and alignment, custom body color painted front lip, sideskirts, and lower reap apron, smoked side marker lights....and the wheels are SSR GT3 wheels with factory centercaps which I think look really good on this car.

just thought I would share some information on the car...it's a really fun car to drive

 

Dunno if you notice but that red brick Natty Boh building is one of the oldest in Baltimore it's a historical landmark and one of the oldest Breweries in the county I've been told...we shot pretty close to the marina on the city's north side near Canton.

 

Very nice Sunir!

 

Looking good, i'm not a fan of the interior color or the add-on wing; but hey....it's not my car and as long as you like it thats all that matters.

How many miles on her, Sunir?

 

I dig the wing! Nice car sunir!

 

Great photo composition. Fantastic car, Sunir.