1969 Competition 911

[Flieger]

here we go

1969 24 hr Le Mans entry list

number 73-Porsche 911- by porsche factory-GT 2 .0-not accepted

number 74-Porsche 911-by porsche factory-GT 2.0-not accepted

now if we can only find a picture of these two cars.

raj

I wonder why they were not accepted?

[CurtEgerer]

I suppose that maybe they had not yet homologated the LWB cars and had to modify the 68's. I think I may have fotos of those cars .... somewhere.

[Rennman]

Just a guess, Maybe they were Rs and since not a regular production car they were not allowed to run?

Don

[matt911]

The 69' Monte cars are LWB 1969 cars. Waldegard did win the Swedish Rally in 69' in a 911L (SWB) The other rally winners from that year are; Acropilis Rally - Toivonen 911S(LWB)
Polish Rally - Zasada 911S(LWB sister car to Monte Winner)
Tour de France - Larrousse 911R
Tour de Corse - Larrousse 911R

Im pretty sure the 69 Lemans cars were all SWB (TR's etc).

Other than the 69' Monte winner I found another LWB factory race winner.....Porsche entered 3, lightened, fuel injected 911E's with Boge Self-levelling suspension for the Marathon de la Route. I have this info from a book, the year isnt stated, it would have to be 69' (the first year of the E), unless the factory wanted to test the suspension and injection in 68', like they did with the Sporto R, earlier? Anyway, they finished 1,2. Where are these cars now?

Very interesting.....

[matt911]

More info;
Car 31 (S-L 2264) is being rallied in the 69' Monte. I have a feeling it is the Larrousse car that came second to Waldegaard (car 37, S-L 2263). Toivonen ran car S-L 2266.

Its interesting to note that the Polish winning car of Zasada was also reg - S-L 2264, now car 100.

The 69' Acropilis winning car of Toivonen was S-M 2929, car no 1.

Now Im going to have to search through all of Curt's pics to find more of these cars .

[HughH]

here a some of my Le Mans pics from 1969.
the first is car 63 from the le mans Test
63 Jean Mesange / F Marcel Martin Porsche 911T
the rest are from the race

[HughH]

and the rest of them............................

[HughH]

there were also quite a number of 911's at the 1969 Targa, some called T's at least one "S" and "R" etc
this one is interesting as it is on "ZOLL" ( export) plates meaning it is probably brand new at the time.
it is shown as a Porsche 911T in the GT2.0 class BUT was disqualified for "Illegal valve" the entrants were Ennio Bonomelli / Cesare Guzzi. Bonomelli was a serious Italian Porsche racer at the time (up to and past 73 and 74 RSR's) and i believe was known to modify the cars a bit - HE may have put bigger valves in it OR it may have ben a new 69 not yet thru homologation???

any ideas?

I have a number of other photos of the 911's at the targa in 1969 but none of them are good enough, or from the right angle to see if they were SWB or not

[Paul Schooley]

I'm probably totally not up to speed on this but I noticed pretty much all the LeMans cars had no outside driver's mirror. What was the thinking behind that one? Aerodynamics??? Doesn't seem like a very intelligent thing to be doing in a race of that calibre and I'm surprised that wasn't a safety requirement of the times.

[Flieger]

What book are these photos from?