A few months back a friend mentioned he knew of a large whale tail that was potentially for sale and put me in touch with a chap who had acquired one of the most unique and interesting early 911's I've ever come across. The gentleman had acquired a complete car consisting of a sripped rolling shell with a special engine and gearbox and many rare racing parts....it was supplied with three rear lids, one modified, an original RS Duck Tail and an original early Whale Tail which wasn't required.....the owner shared its history with me and yesterday I went to see what has to be one of the coolest modified early 911's I know of....
....the car in question is a 1972 911E coupe purchased new for his home in Colorado by Lance Reventlow (formally Lance Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow) the son of Danish nobleman Count Kurt Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow and American socialite Barbara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworths fortune. To the car world Lance is known as a racing driver and creator of the Scarab Sports Racers one of which resides in the Miles Collier Collection at the Revs Institue... https://revsinstitute.org/the-collectio ... rts-racer/ .....Lance was sadly never to enjoy the 911E as he died in a plane crash shortly after it was delivered.
The car was then purchased from the estate by Lance's half brother Richard Reventlow who set about turning it into a 'Race Car for the Road'.....Richard had many contacts at the factory through Baroness Von Saint Paul, one of the first customers of Porsche and was introduced to Frau Baer the head of the Racing Parts Facilty, he had given her a Hermés scarf when she helped him with parts for a previous 911 Targa and they had become great friends.....with the help of Frau Baer and Helmuth Bott a multitude of racing parts was acquired and the 911E was transformed with flared arches, 7&8" Fuchs in a racing finish, an RS spec engine and specially modified racing gearbox and much, much more......it really is unique and very cool
...... previously posted details and more information can be seen here .... http://www.early911sregistry.org/forums ... y-Required ........the car currently being reassembled....
...and from its glorious past....
....my interest comes about due to a call Richard Reventlow received from Frau Baer later in 1973......she said she had received the first batch of twenty Whale Tail Spoilers fabricated by their race shop and Richard immediately order one......as for the rest of this initial batch three quarters were sent to America to be fitted to the cars supplied for the International Race of Champions....originally supplied with Duck Tails...
...the IROC cars sported the new 'Whale Tails' by the time they raced...
....'What a score!' Richard recalled and when the new tail arrived he strapped it to the roof of the 911E for the long journey to Dick Troutman who spent some time fitting and finishing it before it was sent to Junior at Junior's House of Color in Gardena to be painted.....it must have created quite a stir in the day
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....so with opportunity to purchase one of the very first batch of Whale Tail Spoilers produced by the racing department at Porsche I set off at 3:00AM yesterday for a 25-hour round trip to collect it and to also see and discover more history of the incredible vehicle it once graced
This resto stuff sure is fun.....this tail is going to look fantastic on the back of the RS
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Cheers,
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