U Can't Make Up History

[Turbo Dave]

I agree that its sacriledge to take a pristine early 'S' and rip it apart- there aren't enough good ones out there.

But, a couple of Tabs comments show how little he understands the Gruppe.

"They tend to forget the qualitative aspect of the ride. They tend to forget they are driving a piece of automotive history."

Does anybody care about the qualitative aspect of the ride more than the R Gruppe? Here are a bunch of guys spending massive energy & resources just for the feel and persona of the car-many of these guys could have a 996 TT, but choose not to. It seems to me that R Gruppe is mostly about the history & qualitative aspect- what else can you say about a club that bases itself off a 30+ year-old document, the "Information Regarding Porsche Vehicles Used for Sports Purpose" booklet from Porsche.

"That one thing an R Gruppe clone can never be...is a piece of History...it simply did not exist in time... It has no glory of it's own."

Didn't exist in time? How about this:

[Turbo Dave]

or this:

[Turbo Dave]

These cars are the guide for our clones, our goal is to re-create the persona and feel of the historic cars. And, as for 'having no glory of its own', how can anyone say this isn't glorious:

[swbsam]

[Gburner]

Originally posted by JackOlsen
If the engineers at Porsche in 1973 had access to a warehouse filled with air-cooled 3.8-liter electronically-fuel-injected race motors, would they have wanted to drop them into any of their shells? I think the answer to that is pretty obvious.

I like that thought!
Nice post Jack.
When is your big OTC race week?

[RSupdate]

If I didn't know any better, I'd swear Jack writes for a living....

[JackOlsen]

Thanks.

How could someone say no style?

[Rick Cabell]

Great posting guys!
Yes, the old authentic photos of the past gone by, are our insperation for our future projects!

[Jens]

Rick, note the wheels.

[Jens]

I dug this out of my library for Rick and scanned it. Notice the blatant "bastardization" of the rear fenders. Bastards! As well as use of Mahle mags on the rear.