1972 Oel Klappe question

[ditchvisitor]

My car started life as a U.K. delivered RHD 1972 911 E coupe. It is an Oel Klappe and even though it’s now a steel arched 74 RS rep it still has the flap in the rear wing.
I was wondering how rare the base model car actually is? I’m not planning on restoring it back to orginal spec but was interested out of curiosity. Tbh if I do anything with it longer term it will be turning it into a 73 2.8 RSR rep, seems a shame to have a long hood masquerading as something else!

[hot66]

Any surviving Rhd early car is relatively rare as it managed to survive our salty roads. It also does appear a large amount of 72/73 rhd E’s became race cars too

[ditchvisitor]

Yes this car has been a race car since the late 70’s so hasn’t seen salty roads!

[jwhillracer]

Any surviving Rhd early car is relatively rare as it managed to survive our salty roads. It also does appear a large amount of 72/73 rhd E’s became race cars too

The 2.4E fitted the class structure for the 1970's PCGB race series very nicely, and was a very competitive car for overall series points.
Several cars at that time moved engine power from T to E & S and many were upgraded to 2.7 RS spec, as even back then, the originals became to valuable to continue to race, and the owners built replicas.

My 1972 S was UP-dated in Germany in 1977 to impact bumpers - I have all of the invoices and TUV papers for the job. We have competed with it since 1985, and it was a competition car when we bought it. When you consider that our previous 1969 2 litre 911S had already had rust repairs when we bought that at under 10 years old, and needed a lot of welding through our ownership, then the cars which were converted as race cars have probably had a much longer life than the average ones from that era.



JW

[RobFrost]

My 1972 S was UP-dated in Germany in 1977 to impact bumpers - I have all of the invoices and TUV papers for the job. We have competed with it since 1985, and it was a competition car

JW

Is your whale tail all fibreglass with no rubber nor metal?


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[jwhillracer]

No, it’s fibreglass with the rubber lip
JW

[210bhp]

There were 248 rhd 2.4E coupes built. I don’t have the split between 72 and 73 MY’s but if it’s roughly equal then your car is one of about 124.

Regards
Mike

[emjo]

Good evening

Does anyone know how many RHD 1972 911s still exist today in the uk

Any reply much appreciated

Kind regards

John

[RobFrost]

Guesstimating again but back then probably 75% of RHD came to UK, and 70% of all Porsches ever made are still on the road so that gives you about 120 RHD 2.4E's left in the UK.

[coomo]

My car started life as a U.K. delivered RHD 1972 911 E coupe. It is an Oel Klappe and even though it’s now a steel arched 74 RS rep it still has the flap in the rear wing.
I was wondering how rare the base model car actually is? I’m not planning on restoring it back to orginal spec but was interested out of curiosity. Tbh if I do anything with it longer term it will be turning it into a 73 2.8 RSR rep, seems a shame to have a long hood masquerading as something else!

Few years back (5/8) the Oil flappy was offered at a fair premium over other models of the same year.Now not so much.A top restored model likely to be 120/150k.Design 911 had a freshly restored one,which I became very familar with, over 2 or so years when I collected parts.It was offererd at 120k iirc.Obviously, if your gonna turn it into a RS rep/hotrod etc,then the numbers dont matter,if they do.Then dont do it.Guys,please chim in If im way out of the value/numbers......

[RobFrost]

My car started life as a U.K. delivered RHD 1972 911 E coupe. It is an Oel Klappe and even though it’s now a steel arched 74 RS rep it still has the flap in the rear wing.
I was wondering how rare the base model car actually is? I’m not planning on restoring it back to orginal spec but was interested out of curiosity. Tbh if I do anything with it longer term it will be turning it into a 73 2.8 RSR rep, seems a shame to have a long hood masquerading as something else!

This isn't the yellow one that recently sold, is it?

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[emjo]

Gentlemen

Can anyone kindly advise me as to the approximate remaining number of original RHD 1972 Porsche 911s that AFN imported that survives today.

Thank you in advance

[RobFrost]

You're now relaxing the "E" criteria, about one in six was an E I believe from looking at the serial numbers so the new "mathematician's guestimate" would increase from 120 to 720.

[emjo]

Hi Rob
I might well be under a misapprehension here however I was under the impression that in 1972 AFN only imported less than 60 variants of the RHD 911-S excluding the E and T model
In addition I seem to recall being advised that surviving S models from 1972 were between 15-16 cars that were known of
Always happy to be corrected on this subject more curiosity than anything else
Regards John

[210bhp]

There were 144 2.4S rhd coupes delivered in the UK in 72/73. Again, I don’t have the breakdown between the two years. In addition there were 46 2.4S rhd Targa’s delivered in the UK in 1973 (the only year for rhd pre-impact bumper Targa’s).

Regards
Mike