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RS#12 the yellow "2.7S" in the RS book has a 2.7 badge, RS 13, a blue one, has the badge but it was restored in the 90's so a badge may have been added if it was not there, RS #15 with the blue prototype lettering had a badge, RS #16 was the Paris show car and had a badge, RS #17 was a press car and it had a badge (pp106 of the RS book)Quote:
Originally Posted by varunan123
Varunan123:
I had also thought about the fact that a rally S would have had limited slip, and thus not needing it listed as a new option. How do we explain the aux. heater though, except the intended use as a cold season rally car. I don't think any RSRs had this option.
I still can't come up with a way to reconcile 020 and 002 being the same car with the TF cars #9 and #107 because we know 107 was 002, but if it was really 020, then it is the museum car, and which car is #9 (The museum thinks their car is #9)? Also, 107 had the same rear flares from the Strahle days to the press car to the TF (with that little mud flap) still present, so it doesn't fit that this car was at the TdC as one of the LEO ZA cars I don't think.
I think #9 at the TF was 020, while it had been Larrousse's car at the TdC and was reconfigured as a wider rear flare track car as shown several times in this thread. #107 was 002, and was E42 in Singer's notes. What documentation or photos disputes this conclusion.
Gib
I have been thinking about the sticker on the quarter window of car 8 and 9 shown in the pic and why it was not on car 107 or other cars in other events.
I now think it may be a temporary registration sticker.
The Targa was run on public roads and was more like a rallye than circuit event.
Even the 908's etc had registration plates (love to try that here!) and 107 had the plates as well (LEO ZA 68) so it did not need temp plates.
However the other cars would not have been road registered. They still give track cars temporary registration papers here in events like Targa Tasmania so it could be the same in this case. The factory cars all had similar stickers on them the last time I saw them here for targa tas.
as an aside I was trying out Curt's trick forum searcher (see off topic) and I ran across a dutch forum with pictures of the museum car and commentary about this post.
I was interested in this picture of the sticker in the rear window saying R2. (i am not sure what the other letters mean)
I am sure it was not there originally......probably added in a factory restoration ..........(so they could keep track of which car it was :p )
I just moved from the netherlands to Australia, so I hope I have this pictures on the laptop I brought with me....:(
I'll check this evening. They're quite high resolution pictures, so there could be more stuff we initially missed.
Reading the last Esses, it seems that Van Lennep is alive and well, shouldn't someone someone sit down with him and ask him what he remembers about the 73 Targa? I gather he will be in Florida for the Porsche meeting this weekend.
I seems that we're grasping at straws now and have not moved forward with any hard evidence, perhaps he could help?
But, what would you ask him?
I mean, I don't think people that raced 30-odd years ago where too bothered with details like decals, type of mirrors or even chassisnumbers.
I was going to ask him about the picture posted of him a couple of pages ago, but I only had time to have him sign my 1:43 917 model when I met him the other day....:D
I would ask him about the crashes and Pucci....and how many cars they were on the spot, and when was he assigned the number 8 car....
Sorry, there are no more pictures then the ones I put on the dutch forum already.Quote:
Originally Posted by patrick911
hmmm .... 4 cars in the Porsche pit: Looks like 2 Nr. 107s - one with a different hood stripe and number orientation.