This subject popped up in another thread. According to Paternie's little red book there were 3 911R prototypes based on 67 cars, 307670/1 and 305876, the rest had 68 VINs:
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This subject popped up in another thread. According to Paternie's little red book there were 3 911R prototypes based on 67 cars, 307670/1 and 305876, the rest had 68 VINs:
If memory serves, the "silver weenie" was a '67...pretty rare bird indeed. It raced in the '67 (I think) Sebring race, Gary Wright at the wheel... Alan Johnson won in a sister car...I might be off on the year, but remember Gary telling me of a fading engine costing him the race, later backed up by reading a letter written by Terry B., who managed Porsche Cars Northwest...I'll post the pic again here...I think these cars deserve a seperate thread...
PWD72 (et al):
Was this "silver weenie" an all-steel car?
If not... how much of it (bumpers, hood, etc) was fiberglass?? I'm just curious as to the mix of fiberglass and steel on this obviously a "non-911R" configuration. How about the engine...any specs available?
A related question to all: Were the early "rally" cars all steel as well? how about any fiberglass/steel mix on those?
cheers
Thom Kuby
All the later Porsche rally cars I have seen were all steel (they needed to be for strength). The 1969 Tour de Corse (which was more of a race) 911R was a lightweight car. These had GRP front wings, bumpers, top and bottom of dashboard, tail light assemblies, front lid and engine cover. Some doors were GRP, some aluminium.
There were actually 4 prototypes built in addition to the 20 'production' models.
I have personally witnessed the ground-up restoration of prototype #3 & have provided Ernie Wilberg with detailed pictures of both prototypes #3 & #4 for display on his excellent website:
http://www.pbase.com/911r
I'm sure it won't be long before Ernie chimes in here...
As far as I know, the silver weenie was all steel. But as it's race carreer went on, things "evolved"...as race cars tend to do. For example, I believe that is 2.0 engine "evolved" into a 2.5 by the time it ran it's last race...also, I don't think the term "prototype" was used when it was built, but could be wrong here..
Excerpt from some book on my shelf- :confused:
Were any of the "R"s converted to "S"s?
My old mechanic in Miami said he bought one from Brumos in the late 60s and it had started off as a race car and then converted to an S. I never saw the car, but I remember him telling me about it. I think he passed away in the last 10 years.
here's another obscurity-
Again, scanned from my bookshelves. I don't know if the word "prototype" is the term ze engineers at ze fectory used to describe the experimental lightweight precursers to the O-ficial 911R. But they did exist-