ex Willy Kauhsen '72 Porsche 917/10

[John Z Goriup]

What a pleasant, enjoyable and highly informative surprise yesaterday morning at the Canepa Cars & Coffee morning to see this unique car in the shop for a comprehensive refresh, overhaul and race prep.…………with most of its clothes off, no less.

It's rare enough to see these hisrtoric treasures in the metal at all, let alone with the body panels removed, to give one an idea of the masterful job the Weissach engineers did packaging the first Porsche turbo race car. This particular specimen was raced by Willy Kauhsen at the '72 Riverside Can-Am event. If you'll notice I've arranged the photos to more or less move from the front of the car to the rear.

Please look for regular coverage of yesterdays Canepa C & C later today or tommorrow in the "Drives, Tours, Gatherings forum".

Thanks for taking the time to log on,

JZG

PS: Moderators, please correct the title to "ex - Willy Kauhsen, etc " - JZG

[Flieger]

Safety in 1972

CanepaTour 292 by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr

[John Z Goriup]

……….and on to the second set.

JZG

[John Z Goriup]

The final of the three sets.

JZG

[LongRanger]

. . . Safety in 1972 . . .

CanepaTour 292 by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr

Safety-schmafety . . . we're talking SIEG!



Besides check-out those 'saddle' tanks . . .


. . . not to mention the pedal position

Ay-yay-yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Not 'fixed' until the 962


Great pics, JZG

[50/50]

Safety in 1972

CanepaTour 292 by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr

What are you talking about safety?
That 1mm thick FRP panel is impact resistant and fastened with DIN spec wire ties.

[Nine17]

This particular specimen was raced by Willy Kauhsen at the '72 Riverside Can-Am event.

John, my friend, I hate having to be the one to rain on your parade, but the chassis in your photos is not the car that was driven by Willi Kauhsen at the 1972 Can-Am rounds at Laguna Seca and Riverside -- a car which I photographed and that can be see at the far left of the photo below. That chassis was 917/10-001.

For the 1973 Interserie Kauhsen obtained a new car from the Porsche factory, chassis 917/10-015, which was also painted in his distinctive yellow Bosch livery. It is this car, 917/10-015 that is depicted in your photographs. Ridden hard and put away wet, 917/10-015 sat for many years in the wonderful Rosso-Bianco collection in Aschaffenburg Germany and is finally being properly restored after having "made the rounds" of those less able to get the car on-the-button like the owner of the ex-Georg Loos 917/10-017 can.

-- David