Pedro Rodriguez

[John Fusco]

Where are you finding this stuff !?!

John

[CurtEgerer]

I've got several 100 early Porsche photos on my hard drive. Collected (stolen?) off the internet over the years ...

It is amaing how they raced these cars. These cars were never cheap. Imagine today going out and spending $80K on a 997, bolting a homemade wing on the back and taking it out on the frozen lake!

[John Fusco]

You and Jens ought to start a website - the snitched 911 pic registry.

Keep'em coming

John

[Cornpanzer]

I've got several 100 early Porsche photos on my hard drive. Collected (stolen?) off the internet over the years ...

It is amaing how they raced these cars. These cars were never cheap. Imagine today going out and spending $80K on a 997, bolting a homemade wing on the back and taking it out on the frozen lake!

And doing so against a beat up Saab driven by a guy with nothing to lose!

[Reza]

i bring up this thread just because i bought the Jalife-Villalon book a couple of months ago. Awesome tome on the Hermanos Rodriguez.

Also, one of their Mexican co-drivers, was nicknamed Chapulin !

beat up old saabs rule !

[RSTarga]

Pedro was there that day because he needed the money. In those days drivers didn't make much. He used to have a presidential concession to import one car a year into Mexico, (the importation was prohibited). His father had been a motorcycle cop who befriended a politician and became very wealthy but spent every last dime promoting his sons in motocross, motorcycle racing and finally cars at a very young age. His mentor was Jean Behra and Bill france the elder helped him out in tough times, Pedro raced at Dayton too and transam. Anything he could. Luigi chinetti adored him.

[John Fusco]

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[Chuck Miller]

Pedro and Chuck Parsons at Riverside - 1970

With permission from Tony Scodwell from his 1976 book 'Road Racing... a collection of photographs'

[LongRanger]

. . . Pedro used an old Bentley as his personal car in London.
All of the cars he was given as partial payment for driving were imported into Mexico under a personal dispensation from the mexican President, (imported cars were prohibited from about 1962 until recently).
He sold these at a huge premium, usually above 100%. The last car I saw was a metallic bottle green coupe . . .

Woah-woah-woooah! . . .

Where + when was this?

And any notion where this car is now?

Or who owns it?

Gotta find the reference where it was stated that Siffert's and Rodriguez's 911s had sequential VINs . . .

But --- if true . . . that would mean that Pedro's Porsche would be:


9111301179

. . . or . . .

9111301181

[Milou]

When I visited the Museum archives, I was allowed to look at the registry and found out that chassis number 911 130 1184 (a few numbers after mine, 911 130 1180 ex-Siffert) was also a 911S metallic green and was given to Pedro Rodriguez. To the best of my knowledge, this car has not yet been located.