Tom,
This is one of the best and well read threads on our board....... :)
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Tom,
This is one of the best and well read threads on our board....... :)
I agree with Randy... and since very little documentation was available publicly in print, or in any one source for these special cars, Tom's posted details and the contributions of others have provided a great resource for our community. When combined with the Ultimate ST thread, this Board has facilitated the creation of a resource that would be hard to top, even in a book. But I would be one of the first to buy such a book if Starkey, Hugh, Tom or Barth would put it all together...or maybe just a great CD.Quote:
Originally Posted by a911s
Keep those details coming Tom.
i 2nd that , a book on this with all the detail would be a winner !!! i have downloaded this complete thread so far , trimmed it , printed it and have it as a refer fileQuote:
Originally Posted by letsrollbabe
not sure about a book - I can't see how any book can cover the richness of the detail in this post, let alone some of the other info on the board
HOWEVER a DVD perhaps with the proceeds going to the registry might be another thing :)
the problem is, as with all of these things, is who has the time to do such a thing. I know from past experience the hours it takes to put much smaller projects together
+1 great thread...:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by a911s
Definitely a 1%er when it's done:cool:
Thanks to all those who responded so positively in the recent posts to this thread. I am most grateful for all the favorable reviews.
But actually, there have been many board members whose contributions to this story provide much of its unique content. And, it is worth pointing out that our story remains in the exclusive domain of the Early 911 S Registry.
Many on the board have worked hard to provide photographs of factory prepared cars to serve as illustrations to all of us who share an interest in the wonderful pre-aero 911 based race cars popularly recognized now as "ST" (in quotation marks as Raj points out in another thread). Others shared rare images and factory documentation off-line but allowed me the freedom to publish their material.
We have shared a long journey but our hot rod project advances now to its assembly phase.
As we have seen, factory race parts emerged from their slumber in old parts lockers, even sometimes the scrap bins of shops too proud to use a cosmetically challenged panel. Parts finds aplenty there have been along the way: production parts, race parts and those wonderful parts of the third kind.
It is as if each has been invited to a grand entertainment. Each part having emerged from the Race Department some 40 years ago, each went astray but now is to be reunited, all of a piece.
The entertainment we will present does not rise to the status of a factory race car, those heroic examples of automotive passion, regarded now to be of Wagnerian proportions, but only a simpler score composed from those faint airs of such obscure cars that were written off in forgotten shunts, evolved unalterably into later configurations of the the racing 911, some even by the Werks itself, where the left over ST suffered untold indignities. Such was the lot of many an ST: re-stamped chassis numbers, a denial of their true indentity; hard use as development mules or factory loaners for international rallyists; moving test beds for the constant parts development of the Race Department and the engineering staff. And, as the seasons passed, those ST in the hands of privateers evolved into RSRs, 934s, 935s and finally tube framed club cars.
So it was that our parts fell to the status of orphans, their parentage unknown, their future uncertain.
The score for our grand entertainment was composed by the Werks but alas is one that played only for two brief seasons of FIA sanctioned race meetings. Most great shows play extended engagements, but that was not to be for the ST.
In the coming weeks and months, we will attempt to play the piece as the Werks intended it be played.
Let the entertainment begin.
Thanks for the update, Tom. I just re-read every page of this thread earlier today. :D
Well done Tom......the Great Entertainer and one of his greatest Werks........this should get me through the Autumn/Fall.
Best Wishes
Bring it on Tom ;)