Porsches at Amelia Island

Is there any chance you could PLEASE, PLEASE post some more picts of the 911 R. My pants are down around my ankles and I'm anxiously awaiting! What a great car! 22 in total produced, 2 prototypes and 20 cars.

 

The engine compartment in that 911r looks sick! Not so much that front 'trunk' lid....anyone else see some odd bodywork? Are they aluminum or fiberglass? (Weight saving)....might explain it?

 

The monocoque was made of the thinnest gauge steel possible, while fiberglass was used extensively replacing the fenders, front and rear deck lids and bumpers. The doors and deck lids all had aluminum hinges.

This reminds me of when I had placed my original Mercedes 230SL in auction with Gooding & Co. I was standing there admiring the SL with the Mercedes Classic Center management & the Gooding staff when a passerby came rushing over to the car with a hoard of his buddies and promptly began to judge my Pagodas paint. We overheard him telling his pals how poorly the paint work looked and how he was not interested in the car because of the body work.

The car was 100% original from 1966. It was/is 100% correct as noted by every obtainable expert. The cars originality was unrepeatable. He just was not aware.

This 911R is fantastic / and just as it should be.

 

looks like someone is heating up some tomato soup.

 

The front trunk lid is VERY thin fiberglass... so thin that sometimes the factory used balsa-wood stiffeners glued to the backside to keep it from flopping around at speed.

 

911R. giggity.

any pics of the 908/3 that went up at the Gooding auction?

 

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that is such a sexy beast.

 

Here is a Porsche-Abarth. Very, very few were made.
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This was owned by Bill and Don Whittington. Former owners of Road Atlanta.
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This was the car that Hurley and Peter Gregg won their first 24hrs of Daytona in 1973.
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I now realise I've seen a 911R, or a replica, and did not realise what it was ... I thought somebody had made their own tail lights ... oops.
Pete

 

Here we are, me and my sister, with the ex-president of Porsche, Peter Schutz early on Sunday morning, before the crowds came in. Just talking to him makes you feel like you IQ just went up 500 points. Brilliant man.
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Not many distractions inside the Porsche.
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We had a great time with the hot laps, car #1 Haywood, and the blue car Patrick Long, a factory diver for porsche. He does the 24hrs of LeMans. Crazy fast through the "cones".
I guess we almost hit 170 then did a 180 degree turn and smoked the cones. It was Brutal.
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John thanks for all the photos....anymore of this abarth?

 

is/was that car part of the Collier collection?

awesome! two guys who know how to wheel a Porsche.

 

I don't know about the collection it came from.

 

Only 3 in the whole field.

 

The front bonnet on the 911R is actually made of plastic with bamboo reinforcement. True story! Plastic! The car has every weight saving measure possible. Thanks again for the 911 porn. Is all of this Porsche talk sacrilegious since we are posting on a Ferrari board?