An Almost Barn-Find Porsche 962...
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A good practical lesson in how to go about tracing a car's provenance.
Hope you enjoy.
A good practical lesson in how to go about tracing a car's provenance.
Hope you enjoy.
I enjoyed reading that. I also liked the photo towards the end of the article which included a shot of of a small small 936 in Jules livery.
My mum has one of those in her garage at home - given to her by her boss when she retired. I haven't see it for a while as it is carefully stored & I can't remember what sort of engine is in it.
I know it used to run but m buggered if I can recall what powered it & my mum can't remember either.
They are as rare as rocking horse crap so I guess it's worth quite a lot of money!
My mum has one of those in her garage at home - given to her by her boss when she retired. I haven't see it for a while as it is carefully stored & I can't remember what sort of engine is in it.
I know it used to run but m buggered if I can recall what powered it & my mum can't remember either.
They are as rare as rocking horse crap so I guess it's worth quite a lot of money!
Great read.
Group C and Group B cars always strike me as the point at which things changed to the laboratories we have now designing and creating racing cars from the days when some equally bright souls sought solutions to the same problems based on guesswork, gut feeling and how much explosive you could use to propel your contraption without it turning into a bomb.
The combination of the two leads to crying shames like the impossible to replace (economically) black boxes and engine blocks. There are borderline agricultural elements in the designs, yet some which were far ahead of even their time.
Reading posts like the ones in that link is sheer indulgence.
Group C and Group B cars always strike me as the point at which things changed to the laboratories we have now designing and creating racing cars from the days when some equally bright souls sought solutions to the same problems based on guesswork, gut feeling and how much explosive you could use to propel your contraption without it turning into a bomb.
The combination of the two leads to crying shames like the impossible to replace (economically) black boxes and engine blocks. There are borderline agricultural elements in the designs, yet some which were far ahead of even their time.
Reading posts like the ones in that link is sheer indulgence.
I adore Group C cars. There is just something magical about 956's, 962's, XJR9's.
Iconic cars, iconic liveries so stories like this make good reading reading.
I know that my old boss has a couple of early Group C cars tucked away in his garage. He has a 956 rolling chassis painted in Canon colours - I have no idea what the chassis number or race history is - & he also has an Aston Martin AMR1.
Again I don't know anything about the Aston so I will try & find out some more details regarding both of the cars.
Think ill dig out my copy of In Car 956 for some late night entertainment!
Iconic cars, iconic liveries so stories like this make good reading reading.
I know that my old boss has a couple of early Group C cars tucked away in his garage. He has a 956 rolling chassis painted in Canon colours - I have no idea what the chassis number or race history is - & he also has an Aston Martin AMR1.
Again I don't know anything about the Aston so I will try & find out some more details regarding both of the cars.
Think ill dig out my copy of In Car 956 for some late night entertainment!
Back in 1996 (I think) I paid what was not a lot of dosh in response to an Ad in Autosport to complete some laps as a passenger in a 962 at Donington.
Didn't write anything down, so can't remember the Drivers name (tall middle-aged bloke with specs) or the name of the team operating the car.
It was a plain white long-tail car which had been operated by (if memory serves me) the Almeres Freres from St Jean de Vedas near Montpellier, and held some record for the fastest speed clocked on the (old) Mulsanne straight.
It was a really nice ride, the guy was definitely not hanging about, and I would have loved the opportunity (and ability ! ) to have had a go myself.
It was a useful lesson of how fast one can go/late one can brake , and helped me to not make a Tit of myself when I had a go in an F1 car later that year at AGS down in Luc de Var.
Anyone able to fill in the blanks , or had a go themselves ?
Didn't write anything down, so can't remember the Drivers name (tall middle-aged bloke with specs) or the name of the team operating the car.
It was a plain white long-tail car which had been operated by (if memory serves me) the Almeres Freres from St Jean de Vedas near Montpellier, and held some record for the fastest speed clocked on the (old) Mulsanne straight.
It was a really nice ride, the guy was definitely not hanging about, and I would have loved the opportunity (and ability ! ) to have had a go myself.
It was a useful lesson of how fast one can go/late one can brake , and helped me to not make a Tit of myself when I had a go in an F1 car later that year at AGS down in Luc de Var.
Anyone able to fill in the blanks , or had a go themselves ?
the other me said:
Anyone able to fill in the blanks...
Was it this one? which gave passenger rides at Goodwood aswell.
Info at bottom of this link:
http://www.skidcontrol.co.uk/archive.htm
(although the 285mph claim seems a tad optimistic!)
I grew up with Group C. Loved it to bits and still do. Spent many an hour in the pits at Brands back in the '80s up close and personal with them and at Le Mans in the mid '80s.
Would love to own a 956/962 as I'd almost consider them "practical". Of course they are now worth good money given the efforts of The Group C guys to revive interest in them and give them somewhere to race. Pearman has a great collection of cars and is a very shrewd investor.
Would love to own a 956/962 as I'd almost consider them "practical". Of course they are now worth good money given the efforts of The Group C guys to revive interest in them and give them somewhere to race. Pearman has a great collection of cars and is a very shrewd investor.
thats the one ( & possibly the fella too)fatboy69 said:
I enjoyed reading that. I also liked the photo towards the end of the article which included a shot of of a small small 936 in Jules livery.
My mum has one of those in her garage at home - given to her by her boss when she retired. I haven't see it for a while as it is carefully stored & I can't remember what sort of engine is in it.
I know it used to run but m buggered if I can recall what powered it & my mum can't remember either.
They are as rare as rocking horse crap so I guess it's worth quite a lot of money!
someone in the posrche forum has been asking questions, i linked him to this thread & yourself so perhaps you could help him out?My mum has one of those in her garage at home - given to her by her boss when she retired. I haven't see it for a while as it is carefully stored & I can't remember what sort of engine is in it.
I know it used to run but m buggered if I can recall what powered it & my mum can't remember either.
They are as rare as rocking horse crap so I guess it's worth quite a lot of money!
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