DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

must be worth at least a second a lap, bearing in mind a lap of the Targa Florio was 45 miles of course!

33mins 36 secs before anyone asks, in a Porsche 908/3......

- & the weight's removed from near the top of the car so must help by lowering the centre of gravity ...

While the body work and paint has been done at Sportwagen the bonnet and engine lid has gone back to the guys who painted
it originally to have the silver matched to the car. Jason and Lee have now just set up their own company 'Unit 24' in Camberley
so in between building a new spray booth and knocking walls down they've managed to redo the panels and given them a
fantastic new Glasurit lacquer finish.



Had to take a picture of them sat together like this in the paintshop, as soon they'll be a opposite ends of the car!

Looks wonderful

So Mike, how many times has the bonnet been redone, I'd love to know!

Mike wrote:....as soon they'll be a opposite ends of the car!

Let's hope you maintain that orientation!

Bootsy wrote:Looks wonderful So Mike, how many times has the bonnet been redone, I'd love to know!

it's not that bad, it's only the third time..........

Mike wrote:

Bootsy wrote:Looks wonderful So Mike, how many times has the bonnet been redone, I'd love to know!

it's not that bad, it's only the third time..........

Looks pretty special Mike. I'm not saying anything else

Mike wrote:Don't have a standard one to hand, but my NOS 'racing lightweight' version is 200 grammes complete.

Lightweight_911 wrote:Obviously not weighed on the same scales so could be some variance but a std one I have here weighs ~ 300g

........and these Boys are being serious!







Love it!

Mitch wrote:Looks pretty special Mike. I'm not saying anything else

thanks Mitch, I still think chartreuse looks the best!

Lightweight_911 wrote:Obviously not weighed on the same scales so could be some variance but a std one I have here weighs ~ 300g

Andy we must get together and calibrate our scales in tandem.....

Another 100 gram shaved off... nice
Took a good look at my standard mirror that is still in place at the moment and it would work well with the smaller one, since I was staring at the parcel shelf and headliner for almost half of the mirror.

Hi Mike,

Bearing mind that the original ST/RSR cages are not FIA/MSA approved, how are you planning to deal with the roll cage dilemma?

Thx

Martin

Hi Martin, only just seen your question.

My priority with the car was always to make it as close as I could to being period correct, the phrase 'toolroom' copy springs to mind,
so I'd rather things like the half cage, fuel tank and fire extinguisher system look right in the first instance as opposed to making it
race ready. I was only ever going to use it for demonstration runs, tours and exhibitions, I'm too crap a driver (and too poor as well)
to ever consider racing it.

Having said that, I'm still going to go down the road of applying for an FIA Historic Technical Passport for the car. When I first made
inquiry's to the MSA about 3 years ago I had a preliminary inspection of the car done and it was explained that as long as all is period
correct then an HTP is pretty straightforward, the problems come when you want to enter competitive events and have to go through
scrutineering, that's when the safety issues will be flagged up.

Things may have changed more recently of course, I know that prices for an HTP have trebled for instance, but at the end of the day if
someone wanted to race it at some stage in the future then putting a full cage, fuel system, seats and fire suppression in for the full
paperwork isn't the end of the world.

Hope that helps, Mike

talking of seats, I'm thinking about revisiting this area . Dragged out the pair I'd always planned on using and now having
second thought's, anyone got a single lollipop...........