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[rico]

Went to a Christies viewing this afternoon with a few other PHers. Only Porsche there was a stunning low mileage 959. Guide is around £110k. Took a few pics to share.






More information on this lot is available HERE

>>> Edited by rico on Monday 6th December 00:50

[dazren]

Great piccies Rico.

A great shame some of the spare parts are so ludicrously expensive as I know one or two PHers who may have either got one by now or tried to buy this one.

Reading the link below, they mention it being the ex Patrick collection car:

www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LOTDETAIL.ASP?sid=&intObjectID=4414167

If my memory serves me correctly the vehicle used to show the numberplate "1 DOL", not "DOL 1".

DAZ

[nel]

What a fantastic car! Have recently got Paul Frere's seminal work on the history of the 911, and was reading about this beastie. Shame that they are potentially so ruinously expensive to run or I'd be sorely tempted.

I previously had been led to believe that their twin-turbos operated in series to reduce lag - turns out that this is not the case. A valve in the exhaust system runs exhaust gases from both banks through only one of the turbos up until a certain RPM level, then switches to a more conventional 'one turbo per bank' mode. Interesting eh? Well I thought so...