PCA Club Coupe Edition 991

Attended PCA Tech Tactics East Saturday Feb 28th.  I'll post other material from the event, but focus in this post on the special 991 Porsche created for Porsche Club of America's 60th Anniversary...

First, a disclaimer:  I took the pictures with an iPhone, which is bad enough -- but on top of that, the lighting conditions in the space where the car was located were just awful.  The area was a very clean service bay/training room in the PCNA facilities, but there were large windows on one side close to the car and a lot of sunlight was coming through.  So needless to say, some of the pictures came out quite crummy.  Oh well...

The car was revealed to the attendees as a 'surprise' -- it was hidden in an adjoining training facility, and at the proper moment on queue a large garage door opened and there it was!  This is apparently the first and only 991 Club Coupe edition at this time.

The car is quite beautiful.  I think they came up with a great color which is special for PCA -- Porsche AG officially named it 'club blau'.  This color is only available at the moment on the Club Coupe.  It was mentioned during the meeting that the color may be available in about 2 model years for PTS orders.  It was also interesting to hear about the process to create this special car.  Apparently took about two years, and PCA didn't know that the Club Coupe would be based upon a GTS until the GTS model was unvield.

In person, the color is both very bold and "muted" at the same time.  Kind of like a monochrome color but with a very shiny gloss to it.  It isn't neon, and not in-your-face metallic.  But it is a stand-out in a sea of white, silver, black, red spectrum colored cars on the road....  This blue is flat but not matte or "frozen".  As you can see in the following pics the tone is lighter in bright lighting and looks much darker in shade or darker lighting conditions.  Very cool.

Just a few other notes before we get to the pics....  What makes this car special is the color and a few styling bits.  Beyond that, the car is like a GTS.  The interior is nearly identical to my own 991 C4S, but for a red centering indicator stripe on the steering wheel....  I didn't take any pics of the interior for the simple fact that it wasn't anything special.

On the outside, aside from the color and the 50th model wheels, the only other visual was a small decal on the lower front of each door indicating "Club Coupe."  My personal opinion - they should have changed the rear badging to reflect the special edition -- but they left it as the normal GTS badging.

So here are the pics:

Notice the 'orange peel' in the door paint??!

One final note:  PCNA will be giving away (NOT a raffle) one of the 60 Club Coupe cars to a very lucky PCA member!  All active members will be eligible for the drawing, so make sure your PCA membership is paid up!  They didn't explain when the drawing would be however, so stay tuned to your PCA newsletter for the details.