RE: 924 Wagon - The Porsche That Time Forgot
Monday 10th August 2009
924 Wagon - The Porsche That Time Forgot
1980s Porsche shooting-brake spotted
Recent web speculation (and dodgy photoshoppery – see right) on the subject of a Porsche Cayman shooting-brake has inspired a search here at PHHQ for other bread-van Porsches, and revealed this – the 924 Kombi.
Produced by a German coachbuilder called Gunter Artz, 20 examples of the 924 Kombi were built in 1980-1981, using a 924 Turbo as a base, with a Carrera GT-look body kit. Like in the regular car, the 2.0-litre slant four put out 170bhp and 181lb ft of torque, so the 1305kg wagon could shift a bit.
Gunter Artz also built shooting-brakes based on the 928, apparently, although we couldn’t find any pics of those. If there’s a PHer out there with one of these tucked in your garage, let us know – we’d love to come and have a look!
Discussion
deadmau5 said:
Where does the term 'Shooting Brake' come from? I've seen the 456 based estate called that as well.
I won't do that silly "let me Google that for you" thing but needless to say this was top of the list when I Wiki'd Sooting brake ![wink](/inc/images/wink.gif)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting-brake.
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Edited by RichB on Monday 10th August 13:58
Kentish said:
deadmau5 said:
Where does the term 'Shooting Brake' come from? I've seen the 456 based estate called that as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting-brakeEdit, trying to get a pic in here but it's not working!!!
Edited by Staffy1984 on Monday 10th August 13:57
![](http://thumbsnap.com/i/3yl5aIQI.jpg)
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Interesting little thread on the subject here - http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4468726&a...
Chriz said:
Interesting little thread on the subject here - http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4468726&a...
hey, i posted in that vwvortex thread.btw, i like the 924 shooting brake!
RichB said:
Staffy1984 said:
So by that definition, John Dodds 'The Beast' is the daddy of all shooting brakes
What this ![eek](/inc/images/eek.gif)
![](http://www.spainvia.com/Merlin4.jpg)
I think they were intended to be used by gentlemen on their estate and would have been the height of tast and discretion. I'm afraid that fails on most counts
![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
![](http://www.supercars.net/carpics/1985/1936_RollsRoyce_2025ShootingBrake1.jpg)
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