The weight stated for the LW road 911 S is 930 kg on the back of the white 2.2 brochure.
HTH
Dennis. :)
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The weight stated for the LW road 911 S is 930 kg on the back of the white 2.2 brochure.
HTH
Dennis. :)
Thanks; was 911T still lighter in 1970, as it was in earlier years?
This Service Bulletin seemed relevant to this thread. Didn't see it referenced earlier...
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Remember that it was not unheard of for the marketing dept to airbrush little details on their photos. It looks to me in the 70 brochure showing the White base S that the bumper ends have been lightly airbrushed and the top mounting flange of the missing bumperettes is either hidden under the overhang of the decklid or has been "simplified" by use of the magic airbrush.
Here is (finally) a scan of the document which all started this.
Its printed April 6 1970., german mag DAZ.
The important information is written on page 23.
It states the 1970 S german market in standard version "Grundversion" comes in lightweight/110l tank, essentially in competition spec. One could also order the 1970S in special order "Sonderausstattung" with E-Equipement, S standard dials and 62lt tank. In "Grundausstattung", the 1970S was DM28749. The DAZ test shows the 1970S w E equipement.
The German 1970S in competition/standard specs was available throughout 1970 as DAZ test was in April 1970, right at the end of 1970 MY's.
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Excellent, Karim . . .
Chuck,
Can you share some photos of your car or maybe the CoA? Wondering about any details that make this model unique (door handles/door cards, etc)
Any idea how many of these were made?
It seems like an awful lot of marketing and PR effort if they only made a few of them.
To me this is one of the more interesting sub plots in the early S cars... basically a 1 year only, special offering for a single market.
It was not a single market, but instead all markets other than the U.S. (reference the bulletin in post #33) that the "standard" S was available. However most were ordered with the "comfort equipment" or what we would consider a "normal" 70 S. Sure would like to find an original "standard" car. =)
Do we have a proof ? The service bulletin is written in english concerning the US market. But this does not mean that it was available everywhere.
For exemple, the 911S in standard version was not available in Switzerland. The swiss pricelist does not indicate this model and the 911S was sold standard in "Comfort version". Here is 1970 pricelist Switzerland. (M is optional for "Mehrausstattung", S is "Serie" for standard)
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