The real 73 RSR TF Winner - Porsche Factory Scam??

chuck

i have never seen it either , or some of those photos, especially #2 and the last one

Well this was interesting after my last post on this thread.......

I was at the Coronado Historic races last weekend and I noticed a Martini livery RSR... then I noticed old Carl Thomson (ex-Vasek's parts manager/917 restorer) in the trailer next to it. Knowing Carl I asked him what's'up with the RSR... and he said "Hey, it's the real deal". He went on to say that this car came over in the same container to Vasek's as the 2.1 Turbo prototype they had on display for ever. He said that the thing was REALLY hit hard by Follmer and it just sat in the corner of our shop for a long time. He said they got rid of it and it became a turbo car and then finally was picked up by the Collier museum. The new owner got it from the Collier and now races the hell out of it !!!!!!!

The car is beautifully restored, I couldn't get a good shot of the ID stamp in the trunk because of the many coats of white paint and the glare ... but it matched the tag.

So, here is 9113600576 R-5 as of last weekend...... :)
I'll post the pics as high def as I can.........

Cheers

Looked like Follmer recently signed the trunk, apologizing for crashing the car in '73........ ;)

Cheers

might be a repost, but a great vid showing the RSR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x__bLJBKqT4

Here's the same car, earlier last year at Sears Point in June '10 during the Wine Country Classic, and again at Laguna Seca during the Reunion in August '10..........as the Brits would say, " on track he really does give it a bit o' stick ".

( You realize of course that now I'll be two shots short for my future daily postings )

JZG

WOW!
You never know what your gunna find at the Early 911 S reg site.........always good stuff...........well almost always! In this case something really cool for me and Brad!
I bought 576 (R-5) from Vasek Polak while skiing in Lake Tahoe (Heavenly Valley) sometime in the early eighties! I was on assignment for a Good Looking 60 something year old gal, her name was Mrs. Read, she was Miles Colliers Mother! Mrs. Read and I would find something interesting for Miles to the get as a Christmas present....every year!
So here I am skiing with Miles and trying to finalize the RSR Turbo deal with Vasek Polak! One of the Christmas deals with Miles Mother was that Miles had to be surprizzed! And remember we didn't have cell phones in those days, so it was pretty difficult to keep telling Miles that I had to go the the bathroom again and again and then sneak to a pay phone to call Mr. Polak. Vasek was pretty cool to deal with but nothing was ezzie when 250K was involved. The good news was that Polak liked me....mainly because of my Porsche-Racing relationship with Carl Thompson, we go back to the 70s.
Anyway back to 576. Yes it did win the 1973 Dijon race with Muller and Van Lennep. 576 was crashed in the left rear and then went to the Prototype shop where the boys decided to "cheat" the "rules" one more time.
576 became the very first Turbo Charged (2.1L) 911 (street or race car). It was raced by Folmer and DNF'd. then sold to Polak for "Peanuts"!!
I traded for it with a 906 from Miles sometime in the late 80's(circa) and then converted it back to the normal RSR that did win at Dijon and sold it to Brad H. That's kinda the story..... in short form!
Kevin Jeannette
PS thanks for the heads up Lee
I don't know how I pulled it off but we did surprise him on Christmas morning, one more time. (we gave him a 911R once too)

Great story!

The paint and detail on Brad's car is spectacular!! It is definitely my favorite livery on a '73 RSR. 576 was was in the final stages of restoration at Gunnar while they were building my '72. Most of the unique factory details on mine were copied directly from 576 while it sat next to mine in the shop a few years ago.

BTW - The background on the RSR Turbo Conversion is all documented in pictures on Gunnar's website (www.gunnarracing.com) under the "Projects" tab.

Another good '73video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWOm4...eature=related

Number plate on the 1st RS - PGF270L (44 secs) RHD UK Registered .....

great vid....