This cracking RS evocation was registered in the UK in 1974, but was built by Porsche as a 1973 model year right-hand-drive 911 2.4 E.
The car doesn't have an enormous history folder, so its early life is something of a mystery but what we do know is that is was a successful race car in the UK in the 1980s, winning the Giroflex Porsche Championship in the hands of well-known racer Paul Edwards and going on to compete in the Porsche Open in the 1990s in a rather lurid pink, green and orange colour scheme.
The interior is still very much that of a race car; stripped-out and fitted with a substantial welded roll cage, two Recaro race seats and very little else, but since its retirement from serious competition it has been converted externally to a very handsome RS evocation.
The car is non-sunroof and is fitted with light GRP bumpers, bonnet and engine lid. It has seen little use since the conversion and complete respray and so the outside is in excellent order, with barely a mark on the paint.
Though it was originally competed with its 2.4 litre MFI engine, it has latterly been fitted with a more modern, more powerful 3.2 litre 230bhp motor.
It drives exactly as you would expect a well-sorted race car to do, with light, accurate steering, strong brakes, poised handling and the sort of strong performance you'd expect from 230bhp in a car weighing about a tonne.
It is fully road legal with a current MoT and is actually suprisingly bareable as a fast road car. The empty shell doesn't damp as much road noise as a fully-trimmed car would but power unit is well silenced, which also makes the car much more likely to pass trackday noise tests than if it retained the earlier MFI set up.
Because it now has the later power unit, it would not be eligible for high end historic competition, but it is a genuine 1973 car, so is suitable for historic rallies and regularity events as well as trackdays, sprints and hillclimbs or would just make a brilliant car for a thrilling Sunday drive.
There are more accurate RS reps out there, but if you're more concerned with how a car drives than anoraking over what's right and wrong then it's exceptionally good value for a correct year car. Its competition history is the icing on the cake.
£24,995
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