RE: Pic Of The Week: 1973 911 RSR
RE: Pic Of The Week: 1973 911 RSR
Friday 24th July 2009

Pic Of The Week: 1973 911 RSR

Shaken, not stirred...


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After the rumours that Porsche may be considering a special edition 'Supersport' 911 earlier this week, in a tribute to the 1984 'Turbo-look' car, we had a nose about looking at some classic Porker pics. There were some great shots, but we liked this one so much that we just had to share it with you - we're just that sort of people here at PH.

Pictured is what we're fairly certain is a 2.8-litre variant of the 1973 911 Carrera RSR, looking rather splendid in silver with Martini livery. And for the Porsche die-hards out there, we've done our homework - this is believed to be chassis number 911.360.0588. Not bad, eh.

Of course, being PH, someone can probably tell us more, along with the exact make and model of the lorry behind it too...

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Xenocide

Original Poster:

4,286 posts

234 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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I can reliably inform you that the lorry is silver!

double d racing

306 posts

224 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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and its a Merc and its old....

skimmo

141 posts

224 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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.... and its sh!t.

J111

3,354 posts

241 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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It's a Mercedes LP608 nerd

bobberz

1,832 posts

225 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Cool truck! biggrin

Garlick

40,601 posts

266 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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I'll take both please as I love that truck too.

Caddyshack

14,353 posts

232 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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There is an original 73 RSR 2.8 in orange residing not 5 miles from my house. I think he paid circa £250k for it and it has had a fully documented nut n bolt rebuild and now races it.....I also saw a lorry today....



red_slr

20,271 posts

215 months

FTBasRD

19 posts

209 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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What a stunning picture.

Crimp a Length!

5,697 posts

249 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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RSR's just rock.
Lovely lovely classic piece of pork.

Family Guy

802 posts

234 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Love the picture. Proper old school pork thumbup

bridgland

514 posts

250 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Love the used look of the car and the Heath Robinson spoiler development work on the back. I found this picture of a restored version, courtesy of Toad Hall Racing, with a more professionally finished back end.


HAB

3,632 posts

253 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Last of the ducktail racers, the Toad Hall car above won the Targa Florio in 1973.

Short realplayer in car clip going up the hill at Goodwood in '07 :
http://www.toadhallracing.com/Goodwood%20DSL.rm

music

cragswinter

21,429 posts

222 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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yeahYeah what is the ducktape spoiler work about? Love the little homemade touches that make a racer like the shoddy glassfibre front wing on the mclaren f1 car at the nurburgring the other week.
Any answers Porsche guys?

HAB

3,632 posts

253 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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The first picture has the original ducktail fitted, but with 2 crude 'wraparound' extensions tacked on, the second is the ultimate development of the ducktail, which was replaced in 1974 with the whaletail :

Carrera 3.0 RSR



Warick Hunt

172 posts

211 months

Saturday 25th July 2009
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Nice picture just a pitty some idiot parked a porker infront of it.

HAB

3,632 posts

253 months

Saturday 25th July 2009
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Ah hello Mr Kunt. How's the electro shock therapy going? I see they've limited your use of the internet since the treatment started.

Crimp a Length!

5,697 posts

249 months

Saturday 25th July 2009
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Warick Hunt said:
Nice picture just a pitty some idiot parked a porker infront of it.
Mr Kunt
Whats yer bus?.................
Corsa?
Fiesta?
Old scooby?

Troll mobile?

Bet its a really big exhaust & a radio

laugh

Strawman

6,463 posts

233 months

Saturday 25th July 2009
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cragswinter said:
yeahYeah what is the ducktape spoiler work about?
Increasing the downforce of the back wing/spoiler to counteract the lift experienced at high speeds. As with, most cars the side profile resembles a wing. I'm guessing they used duck-tape because they were experimenting with different set-ups.

FC3SCorey

103 posts

225 months

Saturday 25th July 2009
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Duct tape experiments eh? God I love the old times when cars were cars and men were simply nuts.


Finally had to remove the 3.5 CSL BMW from a few weeks ago.