History: 1969 Porsche 911S GT Factory Works, Marathon De La Route Winner

[Warm Tea]

Love to see that there are a few 69 911's with some historical racing reference. Great thread!

[Eric Gratz]

The Revs Institute digital archives has a few pictures of a car with license plate S-H 7686 used on the 1969 911 GTS 119300003. This is from their group of photos taken at the press day held at Hockenheimring in December 1969 in advance of the 1970 season.

A black and white photo had been posted a while back

https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...e-911&p=735291

Here are a number of color photo, cropped to show detail.









The side view doesn’t show the license plate, so it may or not be 119300003.

[blue72s]

mounted on large and heavey sport seat console.

I think that seat console you see in post #1 is a non-tilting version...

[beh911]

The Revs Institute digital archives has a few pictures of a car with license plate S-H 7686 used on the 1969 911 GTS 119300003. This is from their group of photos taken at the press day held at Hockenheimring in December 1969 in advance of the 1970 season.

A black and white photo had been posted a while back

https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...e-911&p=735291

Here are a number of color photo, cropped to show detail.

The side view doesn’t show the license plate, so it may or not be 119300003.

I don't think it's a 69 GTS, but rather a rare MY70 limited edition S. German market car (?), the one on the right in the MY70 intro brochure. I don't recall the details, but there is a discussion of it somewhere on the forum.

The butterfly engine and MFI pump look very special

Edit: Found reference:
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...d-73RS-concept

[sanders]

I'd like to see the uncropped photos, please.

[Eric Gratz]

Here are the original versions of the cropped photos. Engine photos were not cropped.

[sanders]

Just a few observations. Black oil filter. Oil filler neck with 908? plumbing appears to need support and is attached to the drip rail. Tag panel appears to me have a unique stamping and lacks the channel for the rubber seal to lid. Car would have been built in 6/68 and most likely would have SWB taillights, can't tell from picture. By Sept 69 all these research cars had many parts changed so the rear lid having provisions for both left and right rear wiper mounting is inconclusive, but steel and alu 3 bar lids only had provision for a left wiper mount. Also, I believe GTSs were built with standard "S" engines, but it is 9/69. Thanks for sharing. And I'm glad Porsche reconfigured 914 flares.

[GeorgeK]

Seems to be all pictures of the same red car, with the wipers inverted left/right.

[Eric Gratz]

Thanks for the comments.

Here’s one more photo from the Revs Institute digital archive. This was dated 8 January 1969 and titled Porsche Racing Team Presentation. It was part of the Eric della Faille Photography Collection.

The car in the background must have carried someone important or been loud enough to draw attention away from the berg spyder.

The temporary number plate on the front looks to be S-04587 or S-04507.

[beh911]

Thanks for the comments.

Here’s one more photo from the Revs Institute digital archive. This was dated 8 January 1969 and titled Porsche Racing Team Presentation. It was part of the Eric della Faille Photography Collection.

The car in the background must have carried someone important or been loud enough to draw attention away from the berg spyder.

The temporary number plate on the front looks to be S-04587 or S-04507.

That looks like a Marathon car with that center stripe and could be a GTS. Tag is not the one used in MdR. Definitely a different car than your previous post