My 928 GT Derek Bell Clubsport Tribute

My 928 GT Derek Bell Clubsport Tribute

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bruciebonuz

Original Poster:

295 posts

216 months

Sunday 2nd September 2018
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Used to look like this:

IMG_5590 by CARMANWAITINGINTHESKY, on Flickr

Now looks like this!

DSCF9313 by CARMANWAITINGINTHESKY, on Flickr

DSCF9320 by CARMANWAITINGINTHESKY, on Flickr

IMG_0936 by CARMANWAITINGINTHESKY, on Flickr

Some people like top, but I like the bottom....ahem..

IMI A

9,410 posts

202 months

Sunday 2nd September 2018
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Love that. Less is more. You could start a new trend hot rodding 928s thats so nice wink

g7jhp

6,969 posts

239 months

Sunday 2nd September 2018
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What are the bucket seats in your 928?

bruciebonuz

Original Poster:

295 posts

216 months

Sunday 2nd September 2018
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Ta!

They are Cobra Nogaro with Pasha cloth and no Cobra logo.

BrotherMouzone

3,169 posts

175 months

Sunday 2nd September 2018
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I love it cool

SRT Hellcat

7,035 posts

218 months

Sunday 2nd September 2018
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looks proper now. Lovely

MDL111

6,974 posts

178 months

Sunday 2nd September 2018
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Very nice - like it

Richair

1,021 posts

198 months

Sunday 2nd September 2018
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Very nice, liking that a lot. Have many of the go faster parts been kept under the skin, so to speak?

Doofus

25,832 posts

174 months

Sunday 2nd September 2018
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Looks lovely, Pascha is fantastic.


The car used to look stupid, BTW

Steve Rance

5,447 posts

232 months

Monday 3rd September 2018
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What a lovely well judged project.

Fantastic

PomBstard

6,785 posts

243 months

Monday 3rd September 2018
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Love the seats, and whilst I’m not a fan of white, they do look good when sparkly clean. Top job all round by the looks of it!

bruciebonuz

Original Poster:

295 posts

216 months

Monday 3rd September 2018
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Thanks for all the positive comments.

The car was bought as in the top photo and was a nice job, but not to my tastes. I knew of the Derek Bell car and so set out to pay tribute to that one but not copy it.

The car has had the sunroof, aircon, stereo, rear wiper, rear seats, original heavy electric seats, headlight washer and original carpeting all removed.

Engine and transmission is standard but has been rebuilt (by prior owner at Paul Anderson). Dampers are Leda adjustable, again rebuilt. Standard brakes but all new. Being a GT it is manual, has an LSD, shorter shift and a bit more power than an S4.

Clubsport wheels with new Conti tyres. Seats are Cobra Nogaro made to order with the Pasha trim as a nod to the earlier cars. Half roll cage, extinguisher, Willans harnesses. X pipe exhaust....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVTSd4YZe0E

Its a lot of fun and pretty quick and as nimble as one of these can probably be.

AW10

4,440 posts

250 months

Tuesday 4th September 2018
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Like it!

And with some limited apology to its creator the original was rather tasteless.

blade7

11,311 posts

217 months

Tuesday 4th September 2018
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Looks very nice. How did you remove the sunroof?

WhiteKnight

10 posts

216 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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Lovely 928 smile

Trophy Husband

3,924 posts

108 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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That is utterly fabulous!! I remember a neighbour of ours had one new, I cannot remember the year and I seem to recall the rear was Kevlar?

Those seats are wonderful but a game of chess must take forever!!

Enjoy!!

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

164 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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bruciebonuz said:
Used to look like this:

IMG_5590 by CARMANWAITINGINTHESKY, on Flickr
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So was this modified by Porsche themselves for DB ,or by a dealer ,or by an owner ?

It's not clear....smile

Nice BTW.

BIG GT2

348 posts

146 months

Tuesday 11th September 2018
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Pericoloso said:
So was this modified by Porsche themselves for DB ,or by a dealer ,or by an owner ?

It's not clear....smile

Nice BTW.
it is clear, it says its a tribute to the derek bell car. Not the actual db car sir

bonus99

91 posts

236 months

Tuesday 18th September 2018
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Fantastic car and a great job.

I would never grow bored of that interior, even if I live to be 1000!

sparta6

3,699 posts

101 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Lovely looking thing, good and free of stick on "mods"

Pascha looks fantastic.

Mr Bell's had plain blue interior, quite a difference !

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23596/lot/27/