9112111273:
I bought this car, and drove it for a few months... it was a real solid driver... nothing wrong and nothing special... A friend, Paul, had crashed his BMW 635i, and was in need of a car, I tossed him the keys, and that was that… It was a real solid driver... He ended up crashing it a couple years later, and it was an insurance write off… I have no photos, but have the CoA… Hope someone managed to save it...
first ride - 10 yrs old in a 73 911S - Silver - I was done for
Started 'playing' with them in the late 80s
Started racing a 72 911 T built to 2.9L RSR in SoCal SCCA, PCA, POC early 90s
Have owned over 50 long hoods from late 80s until 2000
dropped out from 2000 - 2018 - due to life, work, travel
Been building a 2.8 'RSR' inspired car since 2018 - 9111121235
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...1121235-a.html
9113100739:
I don’t remember much about how I came across 9113100739 or where it went… no photos, just CoA... Cool spec & hope someone has it & loves it!
first ride - 10 yrs old in a 73 911S - Silver - I was done for
Started 'playing' with them in the late 80s
Started racing a 72 911 T built to 2.9L RSR in SoCal SCCA, PCA, POC early 90s
Have owned over 50 long hoods from late 80s until 2000
dropped out from 2000 - 2018 - due to life, work, travel
Been building a 2.8 'RSR' inspired car since 2018 - 9111121235
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...1121235-a.html
9113102684:
My friend Carlo (my911s) traded this car to me as part of deal to buy 9113301270… It was gold metallic and reminded me of Doc Haslam’s 912 from when I was a kid in Indy… I only have the CoA, and hope Carlo turns up some photos… I didn't keep it long... too many cars... Can't remember who I sold it to or when...
first ride - 10 yrs old in a 73 911S - Silver - I was done for
Started 'playing' with them in the late 80s
Started racing a 72 911 T built to 2.9L RSR in SoCal SCCA, PCA, POC early 90s
Have owned over 50 long hoods from late 80s until 2000
dropped out from 2000 - 2018 - due to life, work, travel
Been building a 2.8 'RSR' inspired car since 2018 - 9111121235
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...1121235-a.html
9113102869:
This was a nice T other than the rear license panel - only photo I can find… I ended up selling this to a friend, I had too many 911s, but kept buying more…
first ride - 10 yrs old in a 73 911S - Silver - I was done for
Started 'playing' with them in the late 80s
Started racing a 72 911 T built to 2.9L RSR in SoCal SCCA, PCA, POC early 90s
Have owned over 50 long hoods from late 80s until 2000
dropped out from 2000 - 2018 - due to life, work, travel
Been building a 2.8 'RSR' inspired car since 2018 - 9111121235
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...1121235-a.html
UNKNOWN 1973 911T:
I can’t really remember this one… clearly around the time I have 9110123749 (pastel blue), but I have no idea where it came from or where it went… Looks like pretty clean though, even still has the front ’73 USA only front bumperettes…
first ride - 10 yrs old in a 73 911S - Silver - I was done for
Started 'playing' with them in the late 80s
Started racing a 72 911 T built to 2.9L RSR in SoCal SCCA, PCA, POC early 90s
Have owned over 50 long hoods from late 80s until 2000
dropped out from 2000 - 2018 - due to life, work, travel
Been building a 2.8 'RSR' inspired car since 2018 - 9111121235
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...1121235-a.html
9113103419:
I can’t remember much about buying this one, but I remember I found a unique 911T, made towards the end of the run… I think the factory was trying to get rid of parts for the F models, get ready for the G models, and / or fulfil some special orders… and this one had an RS ducktail and a front S spoiler… Sadly, I can’t seem to find any photos (hopefully will turn up in a box), but I have the CoA, and I think this one might have gone Carlo’s way… Hopefully he can shed some light where my memory is failing…
first ride - 10 yrs old in a 73 911S - Silver - I was done for
Started 'playing' with them in the late 80s
Started racing a 72 911 T built to 2.9L RSR in SoCal SCCA, PCA, POC early 90s
Have owned over 50 long hoods from late 80s until 2000
dropped out from 2000 - 2018 - due to life, work, travel
Been building a 2.8 'RSR' inspired car since 2018 - 9111121235
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...1121235-a.html
Sounds like your friend Paul sucks at driving! Don't ever loan him a car again.Originally Posted by dwa911
9112111273:
I bought this car, and drove it for a few months... it was a real solid driver... nothing wrong and nothing special... A friend, Paul, had crashed his BMW 635i, and was in need of a car, I tossed him the keys, and that was that… It was a real solid driver... He ended up crashing it a couple years later, and it was an insurance write off… I have no photos, but have the CoA… Hope someone managed to save it...
72S, 72T now ST
no risk of that! ��
first ride - 10 yrs old in a 73 911S - Silver - I was done for
Started 'playing' with them in the late 80s
Started racing a 72 911 T built to 2.9L RSR in SoCal SCCA, PCA, POC early 90s
Have owned over 50 long hoods from late 80s until 2000
dropped out from 2000 - 2018 - due to life, work, travel
Been building a 2.8 'RSR' inspired car since 2018 - 9111121235
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...1121235-a.html
PAY DIRT - 9112501899:
Finally a 72 911T showed up in the Recycler (LA weekly classified paper)… I used to pick it up early… I started going to where they printed it, or maybe distributed it, maybe it was both… Mainly because I could get it at around 6am on Thursday morning (my memory may be off, but that is what is in my head) instead of waiting for it to get to the news agents…
After a very early morning call to discuss the car, I arranged to come right away to see it… I always found how willing someone was to talk about selling their car at about 6am on Thursday a good gauge of how motivated they were to sell… is this an “O the good old days” moment…
Can’t remember where in L.A. 9112501899 was located… When I showed up to see it, I found it was in pretty good shape – especially for a European RoW car that had found its way to California – no idea to this day how many previous owners there were, or which one brought ‘1899’ to the USA… ‘1899’ was Bahia red with a black interior, had factory installed sport seats with corduroy inserts, S package, with a weird style fiberglass S front spoiler… and the wrong engine… not a big problem for me, as I wanted to change it anyway to the Euro Carrera 3.0… but, instead of a 2.4 liter T engine with Zeniths (RoW cars had carbs)… it actually had a ’73 2.4 liter S engine, albeit missing the MFI system, and with Weber 40s (I have no record of the engine number)… Not bad for a “wrong engine”…
After a pretty thorough once over to look for rust – I couldn’t find any, and none turned up later… I bought ‘1899’ for the princely sum of 4,500 USD! I finally had my race car!
first ride - 10 yrs old in a 73 911S - Silver - I was done for
Started 'playing' with them in the late 80s
Started racing a 72 911 T built to 2.9L RSR in SoCal SCCA, PCA, POC early 90s
Have owned over 50 long hoods from late 80s until 2000
dropped out from 2000 - 2018 - due to life, work, travel
Been building a 2.8 'RSR' inspired car since 2018 - 9111121235
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...1121235-a.html
CONTINUING EDUCATION – CONVERSION TO A RACE CAR:
Later that day, I brought 9112501899 to Otto’s for John, Tom and the guys to see, tell me if I screwed up, and if not, start the process of converting it into a race car… It was to be a phased process, as I learned to race, tried to increase my skill, and figure out the right class in SCCA racing for me and ‘1899’…
PHASE 1:
Phase 1 for ‘1899’ was to basically upgrade the mechanical components and keep the body/chassis mainly stock for now…
With John’s guidance (orders), “I” or I should say it was decided instead of a complete strip down and rebuild to full SCCA GT2 race spec… we would work in phases… I’m not sure, but I have a feeling John was steering me this way for one of three reasons…
1) making it easier for me to handle budget-wise and talent-wise, and move up at a rate that worked for both… I started with PCA and POC events before getting my SCCA race license…
2) making it easy for me to change my mind about racing, especially if I wasn’t any good at it, and still have a car that was basically a street car or easily put back to street car spec…
3) ensuring I would be a good customer, as I kept upgrading and replacing components and spending money…
Maybe it was all three combined…
In any case, for phase 1, we would basically keep ‘1899’s’ body intact, a narrow body ’72 with rolled / flattened wheel arch edges to clear the tires on the wider 7x15 Fuchs, and upgrade all the mechanical components…
I needed parts… John had given me a shopping list of used parts to find, so off I went to the next Pomona swap meet (https://www.pomonaswapmeet.com)… I had been going to the Pomona swap meet for a while, and knew it was just the place to find everything I would need… For those that don’t know, the Pomona swap meet back then was held about every month at the L.A. County fairgrounds, near Pomona, a city within L.A. County, about 50 miles from where I lived in Marina Del Rey, and not too far from what was left of the Ontario Motor Speedway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Motor_Speedway), and on the way to Riverside International Raceway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers...tional_Raceway), still there for a while, with the last club race held in 1989… I got to see some racing there, but unfortunately, never got to drive the circuit…
Back to Pomona… I ended up finding an aluminum front suspension cross member, used 3.2 Carrera brake callipers, another 915 gearbox with an LSD inside, and a pair of Fuchs 7x15s for the rear tires, and since I was shopping, a set of H4 headlights for 9113301270… I would eventually get a set for ‘1899’, but not this trip – I’ve just always liked the look of the RoW vs the USA headlights…
first ride - 10 yrs old in a 73 911S - Silver - I was done for
Started 'playing' with them in the late 80s
Started racing a 72 911 T built to 2.9L RSR in SoCal SCCA, PCA, POC early 90s
Have owned over 50 long hoods from late 80s until 2000
dropped out from 2000 - 2018 - due to life, work, travel
Been building a 2.8 'RSR' inspired car since 2018 - 9111121235
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...1121235-a.html
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