911 R inspired hot rod based on 1972 911 E
The 911 R was the first competition focused 911 put together by the factory. It featured numerous detail changes from the road cars that focused on lightening the car and giving it as much power as possible. It very much laid the foundations for every road-legal Porsche racer from the iconic 2.7 RS to the most recent 500bhp 4.0 GT3RS.
This car is not a replica of the R, but draws both its visual character and its spirit from that car.
It is built on a 1972 non-sunroof LHD 911 E, imported from the US in 2006 and built up by specialists in the UK.
It features extensive use of lightweight components, including carbon fibre engine lid, 911R GRP front wings, GRP bonnet, plastic 911R door handles, perspex door windows and louvred rear quarters. Inside are lightweight 911R door inners, lightweight carpet, GRP dash top and Scheel style bucket seats. The rear seats are deleted and a half roll cage installed.
The car is also awash with other details including 911R lamps, centre-fill fuel tank with period correct Blau aluminium cap and matching oil tank cap, 10,000 rpm rev counter and 180mph speedo.
Suspension is taken care of by Bilstein dampers, adjustable spring plates, Weltmeister adjustable front anti-roll-bar, 22mm front and 28mm rear torsion bars. Brakes are C12s incredible 6-pot items, as fitted by leading specialists, and are hidden behind 6"x15" front and super-rare R-style shallow dish 7"x15" rear Fuchs, recently correctly detailed by a leading specialist with anodised frosted centres and bright rims.
The engine is a later 3.0 litre unit, rebuilt fewer than 5000 miles ago by leading specialist JZ Machtech then fitted and set up by Mike Bainbridge it is fitted with Weber carbs and a suitably blaring twin-exit exhaust. It produces about 230bhp and a good deal more torquey than an early engine and propels this lightweight car along at a superb rate.
The car is painted in Porsche Light Ivory and finished with the green decals of the World Record beating BP sponsored car of the period, albeit without the yellow letters. We don't speak a great deal of Japanese here, but we think we've got a good handle on what the door and engine lid graphics actually say...
This car is very well built, utterly solid and is full of fine details. It appears mechanically excellent and is brilliant to drive. Due to its stripped-out nature, a sunday shopping car it is not, but it is as easy to pootle sedately as it is to thrash up the lanes and can settle down to a cruise when needed. The torquey engine pulls cleanly from 1000rpm and doesn't need thrashing to extract very quick performance. This said, the car feels at its finest when pushed hard and revved-out and darts up the road with a brilliantly rorty sound track and the delicacy that only an early 911 can deliver.
£31,995 Inspected
£34,995 Approved
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Sam
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