Win a Factory Aerokit 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 (996.1, 6-Speed) — RoadCourse Club RC03

What you're looking at

This is RoadCourse Club's third giveaway car (RC03): a 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 — a 996.1 — finished in the rare factory aerokit body and backed by a 3.4L M96 flat-six and a proper six-speed manual. The aerokit is the part to circle. It was a low-volume Porsche Exclusive/Tequipment option, so most 996.1 Carrera 4s you see are smooth-bumpered base cars; a genuine aerokit example is meaningfully scarcer. The build reads like an enthusiast's track-day 911: KW coilovers and Rebel Racing drop links sort the chassis, a Revo ECU tune and baffled oil pan back up the engine, and the cabin has been lightened with a roll bar where the rear seats used to be, a GT3-style console delete and a metal pedal set. It rolls on 18-inch GT3 wheels with an updated Continental head unit inside.

Why it matters & the fine print

Every 996 conversation starts and ends with the IMS bearing — the intermediate-shaft bearing whose failure can grenade an M96 engine. RoadCourse Club states this car's IMS bearing has been replaced, which removes the single biggest unknown. The timing is good too: the broader 996 market is up ~40% YoY, average auction money pushing into the mid-$40Ks. Entry is through the Shopify store: instant-entry tiers run $100 (Silver) and $250 (Gold), and merch (tees from $50) each carry entry bundles at $1 spent = 100 entries, so the cheapest paid route is a $50 shirt. There's a free, no-purchase mail-in entry — the footer reads 'No purchase necessary' — but the actual mailing instructions, the entry period, the drawing date, eligibility, the official ARV and any cash alternative all live in the RC03 Official Rules PDF, which is a scanned/compressed document we could not machine-read. Treat the value here as our estimate, and check the rules for taxes.