http://www.autozine.org/Classiccar/html/Dauer/962LM.html There is no other Porsche in the world that can take me away from the 962, it is by far the greatest expression of a Porsche ever created. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I remember Excellence did a story on that car about 5 or 6 years ago & had shots of it driving through city traffic and at stop lights. The onlooker's expressions still stick ion my mind. Awesome car but I can't imagine it being anything but completely unusable. It's a honest-to-goodness prototype with turn signals! IIRC, the price was already over $1 million when the Excellence article was written. I wonder how many were built.
According to the website.... All Dauer 962 LM were modified from those Porsche 962 which had been raced. In this view, it was a "modified car" rather than a "production car". Back in 1994, Jochen Dauer claimed he could build at most 50 cars from the racing cars found on the market. Obviously, the final number was far smaller than that. The exact production figure was undisclosed, but should be in the region of a dozen cars. Amazingly, 6 of them were bought by the Sultan of Brunei. Now the only other car I know of is the Schuppan 962CR, according to Wiki only 5-6 were ever built... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thanks for the info. I'm going to try to find a pic of the engine - a straight-up 962 motor with two giant mufflers next to the gearbox...it just looks comical. I've never seen the 962CR. Very fluid, but it lacks the presence of the Dauer.
Some good footage of AdC having a fine time in a Schuppan 962CR at 54:36 Porsche Victory by Design http://tinyurl.com/yjqac36 Whole thing is well worth watching again.
Both the Dauer and Schuppan cars are extremely rare and valueable; either one must be about as close to Le Mans as you can get, on the street. It is probably important to note that the Schuppan cars are built on a full carbon fiber chassis so they are lighter and stiffer than the Dauer's. Also, somewhat surprisingly, most (if not all) of the Dauer 962's were built with an auto-shifted 5 speed, somewhat similar to Ferrari's F1 gearbox but I believe the driver has to engage the clutch to shift. The Schuppan 962CR's have the Porsche 962 gearbox and are shifted just like the racecars, with an aluminum lever mounted on the tub right next to the steering wheel. For other 962 street car fanatics, one of the Schuppan cars which has never been in public before is being shown this weekend in Palm Beach! http://www.supercarexperience.com/2010/02/2-million-dollar-porsche-schuppan-962-at-scx-pb/
Here's a link to the Dauer website. A 2002 962LM can be yours for $980K. http://www.cybermasters.de/dauer-automobile/showroom/engshow.html
I thought his website was down for a while.......I searched for it about a year ago and nothing came up on GOOGLE. Glad to see that is not the case. I too love the car.........and if I had unlimited funds, a road going Dauer 962 would certainly be in the garage of my German holiday home.
Interesting site although I'm not sure it's accurate/active. It may simply be very outdated, or perhaps Dauer is making a come back. That said, I know the black 962LM on that page is available, although it does not have 0km; I don't think 980K would do it as asking price is more like 1.6M depending on exchange rates.
I thought of having a 962 built about two years ago, there's a guy who builds them here in the States.
So are you saying that he buys disused race cars and converts them to road cars. Heck I'd rather have the race car with it's history as it was ... weird? Pete
... btw, the Sultan's Dauers have been reverted back to race cars Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Chris - Do you have any documentation on the Sultan cars? I've heard something similar, that they were sold and/or re-converted but there is very little to document it. The pic of the 3 Rothmans cars look to be 956's rather than 962's. None of those cars were converted to Dauer's from what I recall. Assuming this was taken around the summer of '83, appears to be the Vern Schuppan/Al Holbert/Hurley Haywood Le Mans winner in front, followed by the second place Ickx/Bell car with likely the Mass/Bellof car bringing up the rear. Would love to know where this was taken as the cars are all fit with the high down force kit unlike they would run at Le Mans. Perhaps promotion in Germany or at the Nurburgring 24?
I don't have any documentation but someone who worked closely with the cars who posts on supercars dot net said a while back they were re-converted and are now over here in the U.S. PM the user basman007. He KNOWS a ton about the Brunei cars and may be able to help you out I'm sorry. I don't know, it was just on my computer. I'm not too good with each model of Porsche race car. Sorry Another fun pic of a 917(?)... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Good eye. Those would be 956s. Difficult to say which track they were most recently used at in those images as the high downforce kit was used more than once. Pic from Imola: http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1984/Spa-1984-09-02-002.jpg
That cannot be a real 917 the windscreen is simply wrong ... Compare: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Porsche_917C.jpg Pete
http://www.cknet.org.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=207 (i realize the 2 pics are 2 different cars) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
After further investigation, it seems Jochen Dauer is currently in jail. I spoke with someone who claims to have purchased everything from his closed down shop in Nuremburg. Here is a link to an article about the tax evasion charges he faces: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.abendzeitung.de/nuernberg/lokales/161327&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jochen%2Bdauer%2522%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhhoBuzBdlqxZxqe4FLIoPuMLW6kNg So, looks like the site posted previously, as well as the cars listed for 980K, are no more.
Is it a prerequisite to be a complete scumbag before entering into the high-end auto industry? In the last couple of years just with Porsche we have Dauer, Al Solaroli, Gemballa, Loles, Tafel, etc. The US Bankruptcy Court just published the monies owed in the Farnbacher-Loles mess...well over $4 million.
