OK well I've now owned my 911 Carrera 3.2 for over 15 years. One of the very first things I did was put on a ducktail spoiler. The ducktail is my absolute favourite Porsche spoiler design and if I couldn't have a 1974 Carrera RS, I figured I could at least make my shorthood '85 911 kinda sorta look like one. So I did, and kept it that way for almost 15 years.
But I've been kind of jonesing to do something to change up the look of my car. I have a set of Ruf-replica 17" wheels in the garage but those really wouldn't go with the ducktail would they? So I decided to revert the car back to its stock look. Well nearly - I'm not removing the front chin spoiler that I added when I put on the ducktail.
Anyway here are some photos of the car as it sits now. Very different than the ducktail look, but I like it. Although many enthusiasts go into hysterics at the thought of having a spoiler at the front or rear without having BOTH front and rear spoilers, I don't think it'll make any appreciable difference in the type of driving I do. I did say at the last Cars & Coffee that I could feel the lack of downforce at the rear end at 80km/h though :-D
I have to say that it was a bit of a faff replacing the decklid by myself though. It does take some alignment and a third or fourth hand would have been welcome, especially with the floating shims etc. that have to be lined up. Also, for anyone else doing this - PLEASE make sure to install the grille on the decklid BEFORE you put the decklid on the car. Ask me how I know.
Fortunately the stock decklid didn't seem to suffer significant ill effects from sitting in the garage for 15 years. The Carrera script got brittle and the tail on the terminal "a" did break off, but superglue fixed that well enough for me.
So there you have it, back to stock. Comments from my fellow PCA'ers have generally been positive but I know Bruce T. will be gutted, he always talked about how much he loved the ducktail. However there's at least one other G-body with a ducktail in the Region now so that should do :-)
