List of 1968 Sports Purposes 911S, L and T/Rs

[blue72s]

One more fake VIN stamp: VIN11820791

Attachment 563717

What makes you think that?

[beh911]

What makes you think that?

The font is a one year only, MY69 on a MY68 chassis

[blue72s]

The font is a one year only, MY69 on a MY68 chassis

I didn't know that. Thanks.

[Eric Gratz]

This was the first competition for the 1968 911TR. Two cars were entered by AB Scania-Vabis in the Swedish Rally, and one won the event. A successful first outing for the 911TR.

Björn Waldegård and Lars Helmér won the rally in 11820422 with Swedish Plate BB 2277

Åke Andersson - Sven-Olof Svedberg retired after an accident in 11820421 with Swedish Plate BB 2276

Motorsport Images has 54 pictures of the Porsches that were in the rally.

https://www.motorsportimages.com/pho..._id=265225&p=1

Here are a couple BB 2277 and BB2276. There are also some great shots of the skid plate used as well.





McKlein has a half dozen pictures as well.

https://www.mckleinimagedatabase.com...mageIdsCommas=

[Chuck Miller]

Very cool Eric !!!!

Here's a little more on BB 2276... Post #6 ...

https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...haracteristics


Cheers,
Chuck

[Eric Gratz]

I would like to add 11800224 to the list for Sports Purpose 1968 Factory Rally Kit cars. This was really a very successful Porsche 911S. It won its first race, a SCCA National Points race at Las Vegas, finished 7th over-all and won its class at the Sebring 12 hour International race, and then qualified for and won an SCCA National Championship. There are not many cars that were run in three different categories in one year and had wins in all three.
Attachment 563651

Here are pictures of the Burns and Johnson 911S at its first race in Las Vegas. These pictures and more can be found here:

https://www.thehenryford.org/collect...asc&terms=Scca

[Eric Gratz]

1968 911S SN 11800988 to be auctioned on 4 March 2023 in Amelia Island

Highlights from auction description

- Purchased by Claude Humbert from Auto Hamer Porsche in Montreal on 7 June 1968
- “Optioned with Recaro sport seat, front stabilizer bar, extended-range fuel tank, limited-slip differential, Talbot mirror, Dunlop tires, and five-speed transmission with removable 2nd gear cluster”
- Not on Kardex, but “Humbert’s mention of “lightweight” option codes 9541 and 9542, which altogether deleted the car’s cabin soundproofing and chassis undercoating”
- Purchased by Jacques Bienvenue on 16 June 1971

Ownership history from prior sales listing

http://www.finecars.cc/en/detail/car/7234/index.html

April 1968 Porsche KG Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany
May 1968 Volkswagen Canada Ltd. 1920 Eglinton Avenue East Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
June 1968 Auto Hammer Porsche Sales and Service 5465 Royalmount Avenue Montreal, Canada
June 6th, 1968 Claude Humbert 2150 Maissonneuve Montreal, P.Q. Canada
October 1969 Peter Ritz Montreal, P.Q. Canada
Jun 16th, 1971 Jacques Bienvenue Lac Etchemin P.Q. Canada
June 21st, 1981 Andre Thibault Montreal P.Q. Canada
1989 Jacques Rivard 121 2é Rang Deschambault, P.Q. Candada GOA 1SO
1993 Jack Boxtrom R.R. #2 Picton, Ontario, Canada KOK 2TO
1994 Joe Hish ON 413 Old Kirk Road Geneva, IL 60134
May 11th, 1995 Todd Morici 821 Rifle Camp Road West Paterson, New Jersey 07424
2005 Frank Gallogly 438 Lime Rock Road Lakeville, CT 06039

Other mentions

https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...=1#post1144177

https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...e-Champion-Car

https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...l=1#post491652

Le Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant, Québec
June 12, 1977



Grand-Prix Molson de Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières, Québec
September 4, 1977




https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...otos-1967-1982






https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/a...1324726/photos

RM Sotheby’s Description below

“With their purpose-built and far-too-obvious 911 R project relegated by the FIA to run as a Group 6 Prototype, Porsche in late 1967 reorganized their homologation structure for GT-2 and GT-3 class racing. Entering the 1968 season, the company’s 911 T and 911 S models were newly approved to use the same range of engines. To support this reorganization, Porsche released the 60-page Sports Purpose Handbook—a wide-ranging catalogue of competition equipment to be ordered by racing customers. Some of these competition parts were familiar, others were revised, and many were entirely new—but all of them were FIA-approved. These “sports purpose” parts could be factory-supplied to new orders or installed by Porsche dealers upon preexisting customer cars.

As the handbook was updated over the next four years, customer T or S race cars were often thoroughly upgraded beyond their original (if any) “sports purpose” specifications provided by the factory. Such was the case with this 911 S. Boasting extensive documentation and even better provenance, chassis 11800988 is certainly one of the winningest Canadian-run privateer Porsches from the period.

The Montreal-based racing enthusiast and itinerant SCCA competitor Claude Humbert took receipt of this special-ordered 911 S on 7 June 1968 via his local dealer, Auto Hamer Porsche. Specified in Ossi Blue over black leatherette, Humbert further required his order to be fitted with a specific single Recaro sport seat (yet with two sets of safety belts), front stabilizer bar, extended-range fuel tank, limited-slip differential, Talbot mirror, Dunlop tires, and five-speed transmission with removable 2nd gear cluster.

Though unrecorded on its factory Kardex copy, period racing photographs and Humbert’s sales ad for the car clearly illuminate additional, significant modifications grafted directly from Porsche’s competition handbook. Most interesting is Humbert’s mention of “lightweight” option codes 9541 and 9542, which altogether deleted the car’s cabin soundproofing and chassis undercoating. A note in car’s original warranty book states that the factory warranty was voided due to the lack of undercoating, confirming that at least this one option was from the factory despite not being noted on the Kardex. Humbert strictly used this 911 S for an extensive regimen of endurance racing undertaken during the summers of 1968 through 1970 during which he, rather incredibly, accrued more than 35,000 miles of seat time.

Humbert’s best result with the car came on 14 September 1969, during the CASC Quebec Regional Molson Trois-Rivieres Grand Prix. In this event, he finished 3rd behind two other racing 911s run by perennial Quebecoise champions Jacques Duval and Jacques Bienvenue. In fact, it was Bienvenue, one of Canada’s premier endurance motorsports drivers who—recalling the pesky Ossi Blue form that followed closely in his rearview mirror that day—became its very next owner on 16 June 1971.

Bienvenue was a regular on the world motorsports stage, contesting top-tier endurance events for notable Porsche-powered teams such as Brumos, Heimrath Racing, George Dyer, and Bytzek Automotive. Over the next nine years, he successfully ran the car in regional and national Canadian GT-2 events, including notable victories at the 1973 and 1977 editions of the Mayor’s Cup held at Bienvenue’s home circuit of Mont-Tremblant.

In 1977, Bienvenue and this 911 S clinched the FASQ Regional D-Production Championship, as well as the CASC National Championship title within the same class. Never the flowery type, Bienvenue simply remarked to newspaper columnists that his steed was “an old 1968 Porsche that I purchased for $3,000 from a guy here in Quebec.” In 1980—his last competitive season with the car—he finished as runner-up within the FASQ Regional GTU-2 class.

In June 1981, Bienvenue sold the car (for a more significant sum than $3,000) to the up-and-coming racer Andre Thibault, who continued to use it in regional endurance events for the next four years. By 1989, the now-tired 911 S had been acquired by fellow racer Jacques Rivard, and fastidiously restored over the following four years to its “as-raced” specifications with important input from Humbert. Notably, the car’s current engine is a period-correct, magnesium-case Type 901/02 “twin plug” unit which was professionally upgraded to 911 R specifications during Rivard’s restoration. Meanwhile, it owes its exterior livery to Bienvenue’s 1977 championship-winning season with the car. Historic imagery which accompanies the sale verifies many correct details throughout, including a set of magnesium Minilite racing wheels and interior roll cage with harness bar. Currently, it is fitted with two seats for more practical use on the road.

Passing from Rivard onward through the collections of several notable vintage racers over the following two decades, this remarkable 911 S “Sports Purpose” example was acquired by the Los Angeles-area consignor in 2007. Under their careful ownership, the car has benefitted from mechanical upkeep provided courtesy of marque specialist Callas Rennsport in nearby Torrance, California. Accompanying invoices show a complete rebuild furnished to the car’s potent 2.0-liter 911 R-spec race engine in early 2020 and continued extensive servicing with Callas Rennsport to ensure the car was always ready to drive. Only limited non-track miles have been recorded since the restoration of the engine, transmission, and gear box.

Presented today in its most interesting “as-raced” configuration—which saw it claim victory in the practiced hands of one of Canada’s most in-demand endurance drivers of his day—this 911 S race car would be an ideal entrant to contest a great variety of top-level vintage racing events.”

[alarson11]

For the Don Burns and Alan Johnson 1968 Sports Purpose 911S Rally Kit #11800224, here are three pictures from Sebring 1968. Does anyone know what the three black round discs might be for?
1) Were they reflectors? (If so, they do not show up in the nighttime picture.
2) It looks like the top of the license frame holder is still intact but the bottom may have ripped off. Might they be a vibration absorber or protector so the license doesn’t vibrate against the car?
3) Are they trailer lights so the car can be spotted at night?
4) OR???
Any and all ideas are encouraged!

[Eric Gratz]

Trailer lights for signaling the pits?

[911 TR 68]

Source : Edition Maurice LOUCHE, book Monte Carlo 1952 - 1982