Cayman R for sale

[Masher]

After owning my Cayman R for nearly 5 years a 997 GTS joined it last year and now I have decided it's time to sell one. A choice I have deliberated over all winter but here it is, the Cayman R is reluctantly up for sale - I simply cannot spend enough time in Porsches to warrant keeping two. 

In brief:

Peridot green

Manual gearbox

34,000 miles

Carbon bucket seats

Spyder wheels

Sports exhaust

Short shifter

BOSE surround sound

PCM with satnav, universal connector and telephone

Sport Chrono

Full leather dashboard

Seats in leather and alcantara

Cup holder (also have original blanking plate)

Aircon (recently fully overhauled by Porsche inc new condensers and other pipework)

Full Porsche service history (last was major on 30Apr19)

3 owners (inc me)

 

 

Hopefully you can link to a Youtube video I have made to save posting lots of photos. 

Only known fault is one minor scuff on the polished rim of one wheel and the odd stone chip. When Porsche did the aircon work they managed to scuff the front bumper and as a result the front bumper has just been resprayed by them.

Under the current situation I am only posting the advert on here and the PCGB site to give devoted enthusiasts sight of it before advertising more widely post lockdown. 

 

Price - £38,987

Location - between London and Cambridge just off the A10

Contact - 07368 362793

 

Thanks for looking, Mick

Edited April 21, 2020 by Masher
Wrong phone number - doh!

[Masher]

I had mis-typed my phone number - now corrected!

[Masher]

Deposit taken Thanks for all the interest.

[Dougle_turbo]

Great work getting the car sold. I was going to comment how good the car looked - but I know how annoying that is on items for sale. She's a stunner.

[sevenfourate]

Well done !

 

I wondered how this would fare in the current climate. I sold a ‘hobby collection’ a few months ago for a very similar amount. And in the light of how things have turned out ref COVID-19; consider myself very fortunate to have done so at what now appears to have been ‘the right time’. 
 

But I guess for something desirable; and one that may well continue to appreciate in value; there are always people for whom it isn’t such a big deal.

 

Health to enjoy the 997....

Edited April 26, 2020 by sevenfourate

[Masher]

Many thanks to you both. I too had wondered how the current climate might affect things but set a reasonable (good?) price for what I know to be a spot-on car and it seems that the rarer and more sought-after models are perhaps less affected by the current situation. Who knows, maybe just ‘fate’. 

997 siting shining at me and presumably feeling neglected like most other people’s pride and joys presently. 

[Dougle_turbo]

It was a fantastic spec, launch colour etc. Only missing PCCB and xenons to ultimate unicorn spec. A very very nice car.

[Prestonese]

Well done on the sale! I would have been all over this had I not already bought mine late last year. Unicorn spec with PCCB and Xenons actually! 🙂

 

How are you finding the 997GTS in comparison by the way?

[Masher]

997 GTS doe s not set my tinnitus off which is a good starting point! 

Relatively speaking, the Cayman is more involving wrt inputs and needs working harder to hussle it along. The GTS has 400bhp and the second you think about accelerating, it does - blindingly quick. The GTS spec is not as high as the Caymans so does not quite feel as special on the interior and it's white so not quite as bold to look at either. That said, for a single car for the future the GTS suits me better since both are fun but the GTS is quieter which helps my tinnitus and helps when chatting to my wife (who also acts as a secondary braking system). The latter becomes more important as the car use changes from solo weekend blasts to more social use so as you can see it is not quite so much a head-to-head with the same use in mind but a little morphing of use as my son rarely travels with us so the Porsche becomes more of a couples weekend car with some solo blasts. I'm turning into an old fart! 

[Windymiller]

On 26/04/2020 at 09:00, Masher said:

Deposit taken Thanks for all the interest.

Will we see the new owner on here?

 

I still remember getting out of your R at Oulton Park in 2018 having turned a shade of peridot green myself after passenger laps with you - made me realise how pedestrian I really was (am) on track in mine. 🤢😮🤪

[Masher]

I have every expectation the new owner will frequent these pages. Funnily enough, whenever a passenger one always feels the driver is quicker than you are but only by being line astern do you find out. There are so many folks significantly faster than me - my mechanical sympathy and self-preservation switches trigger too early to be truly fast!