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joecitizennn · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 2096 Location: no mans land

Found a repainted 924 on ebay. Just another 924 at first glance, but I spy a Limited edition badge on the back of the center console. I cant read it. Anyone know what edition this car was before it was repainted?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Porsche-924-Rare-1977-Porsche-924-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem4151b2b363QQitemZ280543540067QQptZUSQ5fCarsQ5fTrucks

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

Judging by the red carpet on the torque tube tunnel and in the hatch and the model year, I'd say that used to be a Martini & Rossi.
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joecitizennn · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 2096 Location: no mans land

I was wondering if it was a martini, but I thought they had bright orange carpet.

Grenadiers · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:36 am Post subject:

Nope, no orange carpet, unless the sun has had something to do with it! I have a Martini car, rest in pieces, and the carpet is in decent shape. Some orangy carpet in the rear cargo area, but the rest is pretty good. The seats are the best I've seen in the time I've been on the board. A bit of mold from our incessantly wet and hot summer, but not too bad. Plan on using the bits in my Euro car....soon.
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Harm · Joined: 02 Apr 2009 Posts: 1376 Location: Holland

The grey dash and the duo-tone door cards give it somehow away… Martini.

On the carpet;
Looks like someone spilled some phine Bordeaux…
either from the bottle or the stomach?

Regards, Harm.

Edit01: retouched vintage photograph/print

agfisher · Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 483 Location: West Hartford, CT

It is a Martini. The carpets start red but the sun turns them a little orangish.
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emoore924 · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2822

Those badges were only used on the 77 Martini. That's not to say that's what this car is. That's just where the badge comes from...

TOM087 · Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 73 Location: Hobart, Australia

def a martini, you can just see the weltmeister plaque on the ashtray
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emoore924 · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2822

^^ Um, that's what I just commented on. I have a 79 with a martini plaque. Ain't no martini, just the plaque.

gohim · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 4459 Location: Rialto, CA

Look, the Martini Edition was a cosmetic marketing job. The car in question has non of the Martini components in original condition, except for maybe the plague on the center console.

It's been repainted in a non-Martini color scheme, no Martini sticker set, and has late model (wrong) seats. It may have been a Martini when it was built, but it isn't any more.