1973 Carrera RS Cars for Sale

[mbmcrae]

Bonhams selling a Bahia Red car
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26125/lot/124/

[Rick Cabell]

The description is wrong right off the bat.........it is a early 3rd series car, not a late 2nd series car. # 1025

[DB68]

Porsche Geneva selling a (claimed) 30k mile Touring CHF 699,000

https://www.orchid-classic.ch/porsche91127rs

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[DOUGS73E]

Bonhams selling a Bahia Red car https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26125/lot/124/

The description is wrong right off the bat.........it is a early 3rd series car, not a late 2nd series car. # 1025

August 2017 - Listed for sale at DPM Motors, Monaco
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Bonhams The Monaco Sale 'Les Grandes Marques à Monaco', Monte Carlo, 23 April 2021
1973 Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7L RS Touring, Lot 124
VIN: 9113601025
Engine: 6630994
Trans: -
Color: Bahia Red/Black
Mileage: 35,596 km (indicated)
Auction Estimate: €450,000 - 550,000/US$540,000 - 650,000
Sold for: TBD

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Auction Description:

• Original and rare late 2nd Series car with thin steel body panels
• Delivered new to Italy
• Rare original colour scheme
• Extensively restored in 2006
• Matching numbers crankcase offered with the car
• Registered in Monaco

This 2nd Series Carrera RS in Touring specification was delivered new in Italy in April 1973 equipped with the following options: 220 (limited-slip differential); 258 (headrests left and right); 409 (sport seats), 438 (Carrera side lettering in white); 441 (power antenna and loudspeaker); and 459 (yellow H3 fog lights). A recent inspection by Porsche 2.7 RS specialists Gaby and Gert Callewaert has revealed that this RS has the correct thin steel body panels (front bonnet, roof, doors), which are found on 1st series cars but very rarely on late 2nd series cars. The chassis number stamping was found to be correct, as was the original VIN plate, while the correct tunnel strengthening (retaining its old paintwork) is in place also. Both bumpers appear original and correct. Most importantly, the correct 'secret' number is located behind the dashboard.

Extensively restored in 2006, the Carrera was the subject of an article published in the March 2007 issue of RS magazine entitled 'Red of Pleasure'. The body has been extensively refurbished and repainted in its original and rare ex-factory red Bahia livery, it being estimated that only 40 cars were finished in this colour. The original Fuchs wheels are shod with partly worn Pirelli P6000 tyres, while the spare wheel housing contains a steel wheel without tyre. A towing ring is fitted beneath the rear bumper.

Upholstered in a combination of fabric and chequered skai, the interior is original apart from the front seat material, while the standard instrumentation is complemented by a Becker Grand Prix radio. A cut out switch is installed beneath the dashboard on the right-hand side and there is a fire extinguisher mounted on the passenger-side floor.

The original, matching engine crankcase (correctly stamped with the number '6630994', in good condition) accompanies the car and is bubble-wrapped for protection (the fragility of these magnesium cases is well known to RS enthusiasts and the original was changed as a precaution). Stamped with the original number, the strengthened 7R Type 911/83 engine currently fitted is of the same type and year as the original. The engine was last overhauled in 2018; the five-speed gearbox has been restored; both batteries are recent and the mechanicals are said to be in good working order. The car is currently registered in Monaco and comes with the relevant registration document and a file relating to its restoration.

[DOUGS73E]

Porsche Geneva selling a (claimed) 30k mile Touring CHF 699,000 https://www.orchid-classic.ch/porsche91127rs

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[LongRanger]

. . . Bonhams The Monaco Sale 'Les Grandes Marques à Monaco', Monte Carlo, 23 April 2021
1973 Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7L RS Touring, Lot 124
VIN: 9113601025
Engine: 6630994
Trans: -
Color: Bahia Red/Black
Mileage: 35,596 km (indicated) . . .

Previous appearance . . .
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...l=1#post939323


. . . and still showing @DPM . . .
https://www.dpm-motors.com/v4/index....etail&id=15341



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[Gert NGT]

The description is wrong right off the bat.........it is a early 3rd series car, not a late 2nd series car. # 1025

There is a passage in the Carrera RS book which suggests that the transition from second to third series wasn't exactly at #1000, but actually a couple of numbers later : #1036.
That would make this car a late second series car.
Extra : because the cars weren't made in exact sequential order on the production line, some cars after #1036 (but actually on the line before #1036) got the same 'treatment' like the other second series cars. They mention 46 cars were built like that.
Just repeating what the book says here.
#1025

[bell 904]

There is a passage in the Carrera RS book which suggests that the transition from second to third series wasn't exactly at #1000, but actually a couple of numbers later : #1036.
That would make this car a late second series car.
Extra : because the cars weren't made in exact sequential order on the production line, some cars after #1036 (but actually on the line before #1036) got the same 'treatment' like the other second series cars. They mention 46 cars were built like that.
Just repeating what the book says here.
#1025

May be the following remarks help:

On June 14.1973 Porsche issued an internal memo with a supplement to the building specification for the Carrera RS Modell 911 744 of 18.1.73 - M 471 of 2.8.72 -M 472 of 22.9.72

This supplement states

• that the earlier supplement dated Jan 22,1973 is void

• that with the finalization of the RS-Serie’s of 1000 vehicles the requirements of the homologation are fulfilled

• that the Carrera RS (Typ 911 744) M471 and M 472 may differ from the building specification in the following points

I. Bodywork

1. Thin sheet metal parts 0,80 mm will cease to be used
Vehicles will be manufactured in normal sheet metal 0,88mm

III Chassis

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[911MRP]

Not mine no affiliation

https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5bKJsF...=1tvj7qqp9y5q8

I can can only see three photos on this social media teaser but based on one detail of what is shown is in a blurry shot if original means built no earlier than end of March .. if so ... It’s a late second or maybe third series? Maybe the HK car ?


From memory only about a handful white red M472 were made in RHD of which two were the important first 500 series quota of about 50. White red in U.K. was more popular on the rare RHD M471 Sport than RHD M472 Touring iirc.

Maybe I missed the vin also possible my memory is faulty on RHD RS built in white/ red colours but should be easy to narrow it down as RHD it is in very small numbers territory

Steve

[911MRP]

Hearing through the grapevine the RHD car has sold already