911 '71 Speed racer
Discussion
Here it is now fresh from the paintshop baking oven in Continental orange (107).. still needs rear quarter windows and wash/wax and some details. I am sure some of the purists will have a heart attack over this but this car is such a screwball so intent is more valuable than originality I think. The car is '71 car still and the frontslam panel is still for a longbonnet, We have used modified brackets on the bumper to make it fit.
The 15"x 9" and 11" rims have been fitted now wearing TB15 tyres (Historic treadpattern), the wheel arch extensions have been done. Some rust work had to be taken care of from where the rain gutters used to be (shaved off some time in its life) and then new paint layed down. Also a replica RSR backbox has been fitted with race headers (no heater anyway). Engine-wise its a 2.8ltr that has 240bhp currently and gearbox is a 901 magnesium case with gearing adjusted for 135mph in top for uk historic rally and sprints. It has got an MSA logbook so should be doing a few sprints this year when time permits.
The 15"x 9" and 11" rims have been fitted now wearing TB15 tyres (Historic treadpattern), the wheel arch extensions have been done. Some rust work had to be taken care of from where the rain gutters used to be (shaved off some time in its life) and then new paint layed down. Also a replica RSR backbox has been fitted with race headers (no heater anyway). Engine-wise its a 2.8ltr that has 240bhp currently and gearbox is a 901 magnesium case with gearing adjusted for 135mph in top for uk historic rally and sprints. It has got an MSA logbook so should be doing a few sprints this year when time permits.
Edited by LRdriver II on Thursday 17th April 20:25
Edited by LRdriver II on Friday 18th April 14:52
Thanks,
It looks stonking in sunlight so far,and I am really happy with the colour.
It is 1971 body that I can track back to 1982 when it arrived in the UK. It apparantly was sold via dealer in Belgium as a 911E to a race team, and I am trying to find more history to this car as apparently this car body raced in Daytona in the 70's(Daytona 24 75/76/77 we think).The extent of race mods done to this chassis is quite extensive so somebody really took the time to do this. It ended up being sold on several times over as a project until 2004 when it was buildt into a sprint car.Annoyingly the first owner in the UK I havent got any details for so have no idea where it came from. All we have is phonecall from somebody who remembers the chassis racing back then.
This car in its previous state also featured in the Sept 2004 Porsche&911 World magazine and the owner then ran into a wall regarding the history of the car tracing it back to 1982 as mentioned.
A few top peeps at Porsche GB have said that it looks like RUF modificatons, but nothing more and RUF dont have records from that period (or arent willing to comment due to that period of time was rather borderline legit for them).
It looks stonking in sunlight so far,and I am really happy with the colour.
It is 1971 body that I can track back to 1982 when it arrived in the UK. It apparantly was sold via dealer in Belgium as a 911E to a race team, and I am trying to find more history to this car as apparently this car body raced in Daytona in the 70's(Daytona 24 75/76/77 we think).The extent of race mods done to this chassis is quite extensive so somebody really took the time to do this. It ended up being sold on several times over as a project until 2004 when it was buildt into a sprint car.Annoyingly the first owner in the UK I havent got any details for so have no idea where it came from. All we have is phonecall from somebody who remembers the chassis racing back then.
This car in its previous state also featured in the Sept 2004 Porsche&911 World magazine and the owner then ran into a wall regarding the history of the car tracing it back to 1982 as mentioned.
A few top peeps at Porsche GB have said that it looks like RUF modificatons, but nothing more and RUF dont have records from that period (or arent willing to comment due to that period of time was rather borderline legit for them).
Edited by LRdriver II on Thursday 17th April 22:17
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