Magnus Walker's cool 911 is for sale

1972 Porsche 911 ?STR II? | Gooding & Company

I love the guy and his car taste. Very cool car.

 

He builds some cool cars. But, this is the first one I have ever seen for sale. I guess he only build to spec per order?

 

i thought he only built them for himself an not to order.

 

that's what I thought too.

maybe it was all an elaborate scheme to create cars worth more than market value, then dump them? if so, bravo. well planned and executed.

 

Magnus makes cars for himself. I have talked to him about buying a couple of his cars and he said he is working toward maybe something like that but he really just builds his cars for himself. Cool guy. It will be interesting to see what it sells for.

 

only thing he is missing is a discovery turbo channel reality show, "Maximum Magnus". he needs somebody to battle with and maybe a build-off with singer. if he can cash out on the car more power to him

 

These are two highly enjoyable videos of Jay Leno's Garage, featuring this exact car.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB3JZlV6RDM]1971 Porsche 911T - Jay Leno's Garage - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9lAsSZNVnU]1972 Porsche 911 72STR 002 - Jay Leno's Garage - YouTube[/ame]

Do watch the clips with full HD 1080p if you can, because the picture quality is brilliant (the best I've seen on YouTube).

Recommended. Love that they discuss the high fun factor of a simple, lightweight approach.
Aircooled 911s keep growing on me as I get older and I love it.

 

He has a thread on the early S registry that he posts from time to time. Photos of his work space/garage and a few of his project cars.

 

+911

 

As stated by previous posters, Magnus is a very nice guy who will talk to just about anybody about his cars. He also told me that he doesn't sell his cars. Who knows, there is a first for everything. I wonder what it will bring. And consequently, if it does fetch big $, then how many more will he sell

 

The car sold yesterday for 275k + 9% buyer's premium = 300k total.

Double the high estimate of 150k. Seems very rich but clearly there is demand for this type of car among the collector crowd.

 

AM I the only one who thinks Magnus might be selling more of his cars now?

 

Wow... That's a very strong number...

 

in line with a Singer. it will be intersting when he starts to develop the early 930's he is buying.

 

Where does he post, any links? I would loved to follow his progress.

 

Yes, a very strong number considering what the car is/is not.

However, bravo.. I'm all for it if one can bring those kind of numbers for a hot-rod 911 of which they're are many very well executed examples of them out there! This hope this will only serve to brings the umbers up on those as well.

 

Somebody lost their mind...

 

magnuswalker911.com

 

He has actually posted here on F-chat before too.

 

anyone have any info for the short stroke 3.2? motor and the shop that built it? what is that? a 3.6 destroked?

most intrigued by the MFI flat six motors. i dont ever recall a MFI being larger than 3.0 from the factory.

 

Look at Wayne Dempsey's Porsche 911 engine book. He gives a breakdown on all the possible engine combinations. From Wayne's book: A 3.2 short stroke is a 3.2 case, 3.0 crank w/98mm pistons. A short stroke combined with the big pistons creates a very quick revving high rpm engine 8-9,000rpm with very low end torque. The old school look is to run MFI's, or better yet high butterflies, vs carbs or efi.
Looks cool and sounds cool, but lousy for the street. The power band typically doesn't come on until above 5,000 rpm. Also the engine life starts dropping off pretty quick once you start going above 7-7500 rpm on a regular basis. Just my .02

 

I may have to pick the Dempsey book up. Only one I recall having is the old bruce Anderson handbook which I haven’t seen in a decade or so.

Short stroke motor sounds pretty cool. Can you convert the injection injection of a standard 2.4 to run this Frankenstein 3.2? last time I saw a SC/RS injection pump for sale a few years ago it was 12K usd. I do like how the old MFI’s cars look, sound and feel but I reckon a high butterfly car wouldnt be a great choice for a street car even though ive never driven one with that set up.

many thanks for the tip.

 

Yes, the 2.4 mfi pumps can be modified. Finding someone who can actually set these pumps up correctly, and I mean NO flat spots is another matter (my experience). Wayne's book just deals with engine rebuilding for the diy folks. He does cover pretty much every engine combination from 2.0-3.5 with a brief description.

 

Screen name?

 

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