Lit show weekend

[DOUGS73E]

At least they did not do this to an early 911 . . .









1968 'Normal' with a 10k tachometer . . .

[DOUGS73E]

'65 model year in early phase of restoration . . .







1972 late production 'S' Targa . . .

[raspy2point2]

Can not miss the big brake pedal on the RS. +1 to be a sporto

[69Sman]

Can not miss the big brake pedal on the RS. +1 to be a sporto

Sorry, there cannot possibly be a RS ordered with Sporto ...right?????
It's just not....DONE

[teenchy]

Sportomatic RS?

Good catch eagle eye had to take a second look to see the tank.

Microswitch on the shifter base is a good tell. How many Sporto RSs were built?

[DOUGS73E]

Sorry, there cannot possibly be a RS ordered with Sporto ...right?????
It's just not....DONE

Apparently the owner has a physical handicap and requested the modification. The matching engine and trans is being shelved and an additional 2.7L RS spec engine is being built and modified to fit a Sportomatic.

[raspy2point2]

could find nothing in the RS book about Sporto's. Anything is possible.

[Dswanny1]

I believe its being built per customer request .

[Frank Beck]

I understand physical limitations but if you're going to modify a classic sports car to accommodate that at least attempt to make it look original. Why not use a standard 3 pedal assembly with the clutch pedal and brake pedal combined? (Talk about messin with the parking valet?!) Would give the appearance of 2 different pedals but would actually be one.


For all of the Sportoholics out there: If it was such a magnificent idea why didn't Porsche build a Sportomatic RS?

[HughH]

For all of the Sportoholics out there: If it was such a magnificent idea why didn't Porsche build a Sportomatic RS?

They did, sort of but they did not go into production. There were two cars that I am aware of built with 911/88 engines (the sporto version of the 911/83) One was a 72 vin number targa in Albert Blue with a 925/02 gearbox (a strange number 925 009 which sounds like one of a small run of experimental sportos as 925/02 sportos dont officially exist) and a LSD.

The other was an Orange 73 vin number targa with a "Sondergetriebe Sportomatic" but with a 763 xxxx number that at least had it in the same series as the standard sporto gearboxes.

So neither was a Sepia one Frank - a small blessing for you

Both were Versuch cars (experimental) and both had 663 9xxx engines in them. I am presuming that they were prototypes for the stillborn 2.7S project that was abandoned in favor of the RS program and obviously a targa and sporto did not fit the RS program although they probably would have been a core part of the 2.7S program.

I have no idea what happened to them - maybe they are floating around somewhere - Porsche did not like to allow cars to go to waste when they could sell them to a "family friend".
The only option on the Albert blue one was M440 -a manual retractable antenna and loudspeaker but the orange one had that plus M26 (????) , M429 (rectangular white fog lights below bumper) and M559 (Air conditioning) so was quite spec'd up