Some early 911..: R.I.P.

[911T1971]

Old thread but new post!

I today was contacted about the Imsa racer above in post 49
Here more to the story - cant verify content, but here the info.

„The car in the pics in the yard - believe it or not, I found the chassis number for the car - 119-22-0830.

It was shipped out to Porsche of America Corp in May 69, and there is a suggestion from the Kardex, which has no sell-on or first owner info, that the car was one of the 1969 Porsche of America Racing Team (PART) 911s which did the 1969 Trans-Am. We have two of the chassis numbers, but not the third.

We do know for sure that Bob Bergstrom bought the car in 1973 "race ready" and with it won the '73 IMSA GTU title.

Car lay unused for a year until Bill Freeman bought it. It was ill who gave us the chassis number. He says this is the car he shared with Paul Newman in 1977.

In 1978 Bill converted the car as a 935 clone - Bill sent me a load of pics of the car being built-up from the bare shell, which was blue'ish, like in the pics - see attached before the serious work started on joining the cage to the shell

Raced by Freeman '78 Sebring, then again in at Sears Point by Bob Harmon. 1979 to RSR Associates and Tom Marx as an RSR, then it was re-bodied AIR style, then apparently to a Swiss junkyard sometime after Tom switched to his yellow car... “

Pics from 2009