The Intro - The Rarest 996 Carrera is Back 

Well done Luke & FGP Team. I too have a super early 10/97 built 996 Carrera Manual / rear wiper and traction control delete (in Sydney) and am doing the same. I am not shying away from the egg headlamps, side markers and rear lights, and in fact the very early 996's now look best with the GT1 headlamps in my view. I have the 997 GT3 shifter, and last weekend added Prekom 964 / 993 RS semi solid engine mounts and the difference is astonishing (in a very good way). No added NVH, but significantly better feel and control. I have 18" GT3 split wheels and they work well, albeit the Turbo hollow spokes really work. I had a vert early 73 built G series once, and the subtle differences of the early cars are nice to see, so my advice is make the FGP original in appearance. I think M030 is perhaps the right way to go, as coilovers are pretty hard, and the M030 was perfect on Paul's yellow C4S you featuredd. Not certain, but I will be influenced by your own choice in updating my own suspension. Good luck, can't wait to see the build up.

Well played and great idea. The ‘Flagship’ Friends Green Porsche. Longtime subscriber and really like seeing you and the team develop your reputation, skill, and influence. From Boston, cheers!

Beautiful car. Looking forward to seeing the journey 🤙

Another great little vid amazing condition

IT’S MINT !

Looks a very tidy car Luke and looking forward to the future videos.

That’s a sweet one! I like the idea for it, too👏🏼

Lovely car, Luke - I can see why you were keen to have it back. Looking forward to the deep-dive on the tweaks and upgrades.

Ohlins 👌🏻👌🏻👍👍 The clean lines of this car really lets the colour pop

Great that you've got the car back, its definitely a stand out 996, I'm looking forward to seeing the progress

Luke, that is absolutely beautiful!! Even though it is water cooled. 😜😩

Congratulations I was wondering what happened with that beautiful car. Glad you got hold of it. It reminds me of the Gmünd T-2222. So my suggestion on the series would be; Friends Greens “Gmünd” Porsche Playbook Series.

That’s just perfect!

Dashing 996 Luke. Glad you have it back as your Friends Green "poster car"

What a beautiful colour and such an underrated 911!

That is a fantastic colour. Can’t wait to watch the upgrades

Friends Green Porsche Reference Library. Great idea by the way. As you describe the purpose, it reminded me of a reference work. Like a Living Haynes Manual. I avoided FGP Manual because of the ambiguous nature of Manual. Always enjoy your new content. Hitherto a great reference work for someone buying a 911. Maybe also do a buyers guide similar to the series thr Collecting Cars has done on various Ferrari etc. Good work guys.

Congratulations Luke. Loved this car when you first had it in, beautiful colour. How about Friends Green Unicorn 🦄 . Can't wait to follow the series. As for suspension, go for non coil overs.

A Lean green advertising machine

Lovely! "Friends Green Machine"

the friendly green Porsche!

My First 996 was a Carrera 4 1999 in ocean jade with black interior! Beautiful car! Enjoy the Build

Lovely example, "Dream Build" would be my suggestion

great series idea love it

Orange goes well with green. I suggest you try orange front side indicators and If that looks good Perhaps be bold and ”retromod” with orange rear lights also. It would be unique combined with the original white headlights and my guess is it would look stunning and a bit Classic. 😊

Gorgeous colour...like others have suggested already .."Friends Green Machine " or in German "Friends Grüne Maschine "

Great car Luke not seen one in Ocean Jade before so suggest Project OJ

Project unicorn. Don’t go too low, needs to be for the road.

A neighbour of mine had a 987 Boxster s in Ocean Jade, he had it from new in 2005 and it was a special order paint option which looked amazing. This would be my colour of choice, you either love it or hate it. Makes my arctic silver look pretty boring!!

Gorgeous car! Series title suggestion - "Friends Green Ultimate 996 Prep Novel" 😉

Ocean Jade was pretty common on the 1998 and 1999 Boxster. Blue Turquoise in 1997 was the rarest Boxster color and also came from the 993. Unless I heard you wrong, a 1998 911 in that color must have been ROW as the US only got Ocean Jade in 1999 and 2000 (we did get 1998 993’s as a consolation prize). I’ve seen a few over the years, but never with the sunroof delete option. I can’t wait to see the progress of making it the Friends “Green” show car (go radical with a double wishbone front suspension).

The Perfect (?) 996 by FGP

I have some photos of one of the I saw in Funchal in Madeira back in 2016 but I cannot upload them to the comments . James

Hey guys what happened to this series? Was really looking forward to see it.

Project Kermit.

996 gold

Not many of these about that’s for sure. What make is the car cover, Luke?

Keep it original 🏁🙋🏼‍♂️🏁🙋🏼‍♂️🏁

"FGP Green Machine"

Did the UK have 1998 Porsche 996's? My car is an 02/98 build date and first registered in Florida in April of 1998, but the model year is 1999.

Do a Numeric Shifter please!

Stunning! Congratulations. Shame no rear wiper but lovely.

Bodywork looks pristine Luke, nice car!! What’s the mileage? Mark D.

How long until the first meet Luke? We had our first meet for a new local sports and classic car club at the weekend and the organisers were amazed at how many cars turned up.

Put some Tractive coilovers on!

Before watching I bet it's a millennium edition!!!

Call it Unicorns

My favourite car, if you ever sell let me know please.

Genesis Green Porsche

Hoping it would be Sally.

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