911 2.2E restoration

[Boydyrs]

Fantastic JM, very special car.

[neilbardsley]

Wow great car and pictures

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[johnM]

It’s been a while, and I had really lost my mojo with the car but with Classic Le Mans just around the corner, having a date in the diary really focused the mind and I’ve been beavering away in the garage. Today she had her first tank full of V Power. It feels so good to be out in her again. Still a few things to sort before Le Mans but it looks like it’s in touching distance.




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[Gary71]

Looks wonderful John

Many smiles per gallon being delivered right there.

[911hillclimber]

The car looks so good, great 'stance' too, very usable imho.
The convoys down to CLM will be quite a sight, lots of early cars.

[hot66]

Stunning looking John

[Bootsy]

Gawjas

[Darren65]

Beautiful and still one of my all time favourite DDK cars

[matteo68]

Hi

I have posted this already in the general section but thought I would also post it here just to tie it into my restoration thread.

Just to update this thread, DDK came up trumps again after a number of members helped me unearth a little more info on my car. Minster very kindly sent an email on my behalf to the Swiss importer and they sent back a photo of the data card for my car.



It confirms that the car was indeed Swiss delivered and came with 2 options 404 antiroll bars front and rear and 440 a radio loud speaker and aerial.

It lists the tyres as 185-70-15, would this be standard? or should an E have 14 inch wheels?

It also states that the car was delivered to Schiller who I think was a Porsche dealer from Geneva. Heinz Schiller had a racing career and competed in a single GP in 1962 finishing 20th, he also raced on occasion for the Porsche factory team in various cars including 904's 550's and 356 Carrera's.

Quite cool. I will try to do some more digging and see if I can unearth some Swiss owners.

Have a great New Year,

Kind Regards

I was doing more digging on t’internet for the 21 M491 911 2.5 S-Rs and in particular the 6th one built (911 230 0872; production number 102 4077; engine number 662 2026 (type 911/70 MFI); gearbox number 712 0017 (type 915/00 with LSD) and found this old thread on DDK in which Schiller was mentioned…

The car was delivered to Schiller Racing Team (owner: former racing driver Heinz Schiller) in Geneva in Tangerine with black leatherette and black perforated leatherette insert following receipt of the order from Schiller on 27/01/1972, completion on 24/02/1972 and with an invoice date of 01/03/1972.

The car was raced in 1972 by either Florian Vetsch or Jean Selz (or both) at the 4 hours of Le Mans, 4 rounds of the European GT Championship, the Targa Florio (DNF) and two rounds of the Swiss Touring Car Championship:




The car was then updated to RSR spec for ‘73 and was entered in the 4 hours of Le Mans again with Selz and Vetch, finishing 1st in class and 10th overall and then the 24 hours in June finishing 8th in class and 16th overall:



Not much is known about Garage Schiller but I have managed to find this interesting photo of the garage with Heinz Schiller visible to the far right of the picture:

[hot66]

Nice to hear bit of background info on these original garages