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FS: @H&H Classics --- '73 911 RS . . .
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'. . . The most successful race rallying Porsche of all time according to Classic 911 Magazine, a right- hand-drive Carerra 2.7 litre lightweight, AUI 1500, will be sold privately by H&H Classics.
It has recently undergone a total restoration and it will be on display at the H&H Classics showroom in Hindhead, Surrey.
This remarkable car is a living legend and its success has turned it into something of a media star featured on film and a song dedicated to it and numerous mentions in leading motor racing magazines. This August it featured in an eight-page spread in Classic Porsche Magazine and on Sunday 21st August it will appear on National TV Channel program "Posh Pawn", in connection with raising finance to expand the owner's Classic Car Forensic Business.
Dominic Lyncker, MD of H&H Classics, says: “We are delighted and honoured to be chosen to sell this legendary race car.” Dominic knows exactly just how important a car this is as he has hands on experience of Porsche management. Until recently he was responsible for introducing motor racing to China. He has held senior management positions at Volkswagen Group China and Porsche Germany. Till recently he was Head of Group Sport Cars, Motorsport and Car Culture at Volkswagen Group China and is responsible for all linked, cross-branded activity within Volkswagen Group China's sports car brands - VW, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Porsche. He adds: “This car is the stuff of motor racing history and is the greatest Porsche Carrera 2.7 RS of all time.”
Research confirms that 9113601501 competed in over 40 rallies, 14 of which were International.
Truly this car is a star. Its exploits were captured on rare period film by the BBC of an 1973 911 RS rallying and is available today five motorsport DVD’s containing this footage. Sponsors Dunlop and Porsche have used its image in period advertising campaigns. A pop song was written about the car and it’s driver by Eurovision song contest winner Phil Coulter and released in single and album formats on vinyl in 1974. The title of the song “Hey CB” is named after it’s driver Cathal Brendon Curley. The car was filmed earlier this year for a National TV program “Posh Pawn” in relation to raising finance for the development of the owner’s pioneering Classic Car Forensic business. The Brands Hatch Circuit in Kent was booked exclusively for the purpose and the program will be broadcast on Sunday 21st August at 7pm on Channel 4.
The car was one of seventeen RHD Porsche 2.7 Carrera RSs supplied with Sport “Lightweight” equipment in 1973 and the last one imported to the UK. It therefore had all the new homologation features of the later cars that included RSR short trailing arms. Of the seventeen RHD cars supplied fifteen have known to have survived.
In 1973 9113601501 entered the RAC Rally, round eight of the World Rally Championship, and finished as the highest placed Porsche wining the Team Prize. It is one of only eleven RSs known to have entered the RAC Rally and one of six that has ever finished this gruelling event in period.
In 1974 it won three International Rallies outright against the toughest opposition found anywhere in the world – fourteen other RSs. Nowhere else was in the world was there such intense competition from fourteen of the same car. The events were also diverse: a five-day two-night event, followed by a three-day event and finally a two day format with night driving.
Porsche never won an International Rally in their works backed 2.7 RSs, managing only a 2nd place.
The wins broke the domination of the works backed Ford Escorts in the 1970’s beating their best driver Roger Clarke in the process starting a period of intense competition between the two companies that lasted for 6 years.
9113601501 is the only surviving 911 RS that has won the Circuit of Ireland International Rally, the third oldest rally and the longest tarmac rally in the world. It finished with a record breaking 5m 48s a time that can never be beaten by an RS now that it has changed into a three day event. No other surviving RS has won a five-day two-night rally.
As a result of it’s success the car featured on the front cover of a specialised book on Porsches in Rallying.
The car was sponsored by official Porsche importers, Porsche Cars Great Britain and Porsche AG Stuttgart that sent a cheque to the driver for the equivalent of approximately £1,000 after the driver won the Circuit of Ireland.
In a return to the RAC Rally in 1978 it was one of two cars used to develop a new rally aid, an electronic trip meter, invented by navigator John Cartwright named
the Terratrip.
When homologation ran out in 1979 for the use of an RS as a Rally car it was exported to South Africa where it was converted with parts supplied by the Porsche factory into a 3.4 Litre RSR. Competing in the Rolo Motors Historic Championship and Porsche Club SA events sponsored by Lindsay Sakers, the official Porsche importers at the time for South Africa.
Following an accident after achieving pole position at the old Kyalami F1 Race Circuit in 1987 it was stored for 23 years until 2010 when it was purchased by RS specialist Mark Waring and restored.
The restoration of the car set a new standard for doing so as each panel was carefully unpicked to facilitate preserving as many factory welds as possible. It was on a factory jig for two years.
Back in the UK and fully restored it is the only Porsche ever to return 40 years later and celebrate its wins by being photographed on the Finish ramp of every Rally it won in 1974 and in the livery that it wore on each event.
When attending a charity event at the Loughgall Festival of Motorsport in Armagh in May 2014 Cathal Curley and the two navigators that accompanied him on the winning events, Austin Frazer and Terry Harryman were in attendance. All three signed the bonnet of the car. The navigator Terry Harryman partnered Finnish driver Ari Vatanen through his greatest years of rallying.
The car has been reissued a missing ID Plate by Porsche AG Germany confirming in writing all criteria were met in full during the process and the current Managing Director of Porsche Cars Great Britain wrote a personal letter and the Register Secretary of the Porsche Club Great Britain to the DVLA supporting the reallocation of its Irish number AUI 1500 when it won the rallies in 1974.
The car has been on display at Porsche OPC’s Guildford and Mid Sussex since 2014.
The PCGB Brands Hatch Festival of motorsport was attended by Porsche AG and their museum cars and 9113601501 was included as the only RS in two sessions of display laps. Derek Bell in his Le Mans winning 962 and Richard Atwood in a 917 were in attendance.
The car recently returned to a special “Circuit Deja Vu” reunion event in 2016 with 172 Circuit of Ireland rally cars and took pride of place in a display outside the Hotel headquarters for the event. Cathal Curley and Austin Frazer drove in the car, reliving the Ireland’s infamous Mols Gap Stage and Cathal Curley was filmed driving the Healy Pass from inside the car . . .'
Other 'mentions' . . .
https://www.justcollecting.com/cars/...sche-rally-car
'. . . The RHD Porsche 2.7 Carrera RS, chassis 9113601501 is regarded as "the most successful race rallying Porsche of all time", with an extensive period racing history.
"We are delighted and honoured to be chosen to sell this legendary race car," said Dominic Lyncker, MD of H&H Classics. "This car is the stuff of motor racing history and is one of the greatest Porsche Carrera 2.7 RS of all time."
The car is one of only eleven RSs to have been entered into the gruelling RAC Rally, and is the only surviving 911 RS to win the Circuit of Ireland International Rally, the third oldest rally in the world.
In addition, chassis 9113601501 won three International Rallies outright during the 1974 season, was filmed by the BBC for a documentary, appeared in numerous magazines and specialist Porsche rallying books, and even inspired a song by Eurovision song contest winner Phil Coulter!
In 1979 the car was shipped out to South Africa, where it continued its racing career as a 3.4 Litre RSR in the Rolo Motors Historic Championship and Porsche Club SA events.
Following an accident at the Kyalami F1 Race Circuit in 1987, the car was finally retired and placed in storage for 23 years, until it was acquired by RS specialist Mark Waring in 2010.
After undergoing years of painstaking restoration, the car was then taken on a tour of its former glories, and was photographed on the Start/ Finish ramp of every Rally it won in 1974.
It has since featured in a number of prestigious vintage racing events, including the PCGB Brands Hatch Festival of motorsport, and is currently the subject of an eight-page spread in the August 2016 issue of Classic Porsche Magazine.
The historic car is now on display at the H&H Classics showroom in Hindhead, Surrey . . .'
Another threade . . .
http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...ght=9113601501
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FS: @RM | Sotheby's London - '73 Carrera RS 2.7 Lightweight
Now up at auction . . .
Other posting reference:
http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...l=1#post888928
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RM|Sotheby's London Auction, Battersea Evolution, Wednesday, September 6, 2017
1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Lightweight, Lot 125
VIN: 9113601501
Engine: 6631453 AT
Trans: -
Color: Grand Prix White/Black
Mileage: -
Auction Estimate: £825,000 - £1,000,000/~US$1,062,270 - $1,287,600
Sold for: NO SALE
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Auction Description:
- Widely considered to be the most successful Carrera RS 2.7 in international rallying
- Winner of the 1974 Circuit of Ireland, Donegal International and Castrol Manx International Rallies
- Exhaustively researched rallying history of nearly 40 rallies, including 14 international events
- The last of 17 RHD 2.7 RS Lightweights
- Four-year highly authentic restoration overseen by an acknowledged RS specialist
Boasting a hugely successful rallying career in Ireland and Great Britain, this late-production Carrera RS is the beneficiary of a recent four-year restoration that has returned the car to stunning, factory-authentic condition. Chassis number 9113601501 is one of just 17 lightweight examples configured with right-hand drive, and the final one sold in Great Britain. The car was therefore equipped with many of the latest homologation racing features concurrently utilized on the factory-campaigned RSR examples, including the shorter suspension trailing arms that desirably improved handling.
Finished in white paint with red Carrera script, the 2.7 RS was sold new to Harold Morley, a British rally driver who had won the 1972 Motoring News Rally Championship. This car is the second of two Carrera RS Lightweights that Morley purchased from Porsche of Great Britain in 1973, registered on 1 August as ‘OM 77’. Morley entered the 911 in three international rallies during 1973, including the final round of the World Championship, the RAC Rally, where the car was the highest-finishing Porsche and winner of the team prize.
In January 1974, Morley sold the 2.7 RS to Cathal Curley, a highly accomplished Irish driver. Borrowing £8,500 to finance the purchase and with no money left over for insurance, Curley re-registered the Lightweight ‘AUI 1500’, and with this designation the car achieved its greatest feats, which were widely captured in media and the popular imagination, even being the subject of a pop song! At the gruelling five-day, 1,200-mile Circuit of Ireland Rally in April 1974, Curley emerged victorious, beating some half-dozen other RSs.
It then went on to win the Donegal International Rally in June, beating one of the new alloy-bodied Carrera RS 3.0 examples while earning Curley his third annual victory at the event. It was during this momentous win that photographer Esler Crawford snapped an iconic image of AUI 1500 as it launched several feet off the ground from a rise in the course, a picture that has been widely reprinted.
In September 1974, Curley entered the RS in the Castrol Manx International Rally, and once again managed to defeat some of the period’s greatest rally drivers, including Roger Clark. The victory marked Curley’s third outright win on a major tarmac rally, and he finished the 1974 season in 4th place in the RAC Championship, and 8th in the Castrol Autosport Championship. The season was also notable for the sponsorships that accompanied it, with AUI 1500 being featured prominently in period print advertisements for Porsche and Dunlop, and receiving support from Porsche GB and Porsche A.G. in Stuttgart. After flirting with retirement following the season’s conclusion, Curley entered AUI 1500 for a final race at the Galway International Rally in 1975 and led the event until retiring.
The Lightweight then passed to several British owners over the next four years, continuing an arduous racing career that saw almost 40 rallies, including 14 international-level events, including the 1978 RAC Rally. After the model’s homologation eligibility expired in 1979, AUI 1500 was sold to an enthusiast in South Africa, where it was entered in several local rallies.
The 2.7 RS was acquired by South African Albert Van Heerden, then upgraded in 1984 to Group 4 RSR specifications (including a 3.4-litre twin-plug werks engine) and raced in events such as the Rolo Motor Historics Championship. Van Heerden’s racing resume came to an inauspicious end leading from pole at the Kyalami circuit in Johannesburg in 1987, when an accident rolled the car and left the driver unhurt but badly shaken. Too damaged to warrant repairs at that time, the RS Lightweight was sold to a private Porsche collector who domiciled the car in unrepaired condition for 23 years. In 2010, the collector offered the 911 for sale, and it was purchased by the consignor, a well-known RS expert residing in Great Britain.
He meticulously planned, then commenced, a comprehensive restoration, returning it to original factory specifications utilizing as many new original-stock parts as possible, which were sourced at great effort. The roof, wiring loom and dated parts, for example, were sourced from donor cars made in the same period, carefully installed and attached. Particular care and attention was given to repairing the original shell retaining factory welds where possible and replicating new welds carefully completed to look identical to the originals they replaced. The last two available original right-hand-drive floor panels were obtained from Porsche’s Parts department, and a proper 911/83 crankcase was sourced for a rebuild of a correct engine, which was then re-stamped with a proper AT (abschrift) replacement suffix.
To authenticate the RS’s identity, the car was fully inspected by Porsche AG and issued a new factory chassis plate. The managing director of Porsche Cars Great Britain and the registry secretary of the Porsche Club of Great Britain both wrote letters testifying to the importance of the car. Completed in April 2014, the meticulous restoration is believed to be the most comprehensive private refurbishment ever conducted on a 2.7 RS.
AUI 1500 immediately commenced a celebratory exhibition tour, photographed the day after the restoration’s completion on the finish ramp of the Circuit of Ireland, 40 years after winning the rally. Commemorative appearances at Donegal and Manx soon followed, as well as a special invitation for display among Porsche museum cars at Brands Hatch when it returned to the UK.
