2004 Special Edition "Car Zero" - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

02-11-2007, 07:32 PM

Too bad... they had all the kinks worked out by 0001. J/K, very lucky. My friends dad has the first production viper in their basement or something along those lines.

C5150 · 02-11-2007, 09:14 PM

Now you just need to clean the wheels!

White calipers?!

CJ_Boxster · 02-11-2007, 09:54 PM

You just bought yourself an effin sweet collector car, i mean #0000 out of 1954! Dont mod it, dont add your own accents, dont do bumper conversions and use a car cover and sell her at berret jackson auction in about 10-25 years.

z12358 · 02-12-2007, 04:09 AM

Very nice Box, but looks like tires could use some protection from sun damage.

I still don't get it, though. Was this the first car from the series, and if so, was #0001 the second one? I would have assumed that #0000 (especially if still untitled after 3k miles) would be a pre-production (beta test) model that companies send to magazines for early reviews. What did you find out about the car after doing the research?

Z.

humble_programmer · 02-12-2007, 04:32 AM

Tires are fine...just muddy that day because of local tractor traffic. Car has been 100% dealer-maintained, garage-kept, and lives under a car cover; we did, however, have the Porsche dealer put a top-notch clear nose cover on it. As my wife and I have said before, half the fun of this car will be watching our three sons fight over it when we're too old to drive it ourselves.

Researching the car, we know that it sat in a warehouse at Zuffenhausen for at least a year (Apr/May '05 through Apr/May '06), and although all the paperwork is stamped as "US Spec", the analog speedometer is still in KM/h, and it has the eurobumpers, i.e., no ugly US bumper warts. Other than that, Larry mentioned that he came to the same conclusion: this was the "Special Edition" show car that was toured around Europe and the US in 2004. He checked with the Porsche sales reps, who could really neither confirm nor deny this theory: anyone got a "car show pic" clear enough to read the VIN number?

Cheers!
Humble Programmer
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RandallNeighbour · 02-12-2007, 05:19 AM

Tell us what you know about those white calipers. Ceramic?

humble_programmer · 02-12-2007, 07:08 AM

Brake calipers are brushed aluminium with "Porsche" in black lettering--they're actually very light silver in color:

For those with higher bandwidth, a full-res version is here. Before anyone starts giving me grief about the rust, this photo was taken just after the car was unloaded from a trans-Atlantic cargo container...because of the rust!

Cheers!
Humble Programmer
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