It pains me to do this but for once I’m going to let my head overrule my heart.
Many of you won’t know me so I will do the right thing and introduce myself first. I’m a Porsche nut and have been for a long, long time. During this time I’ve been fortunate to own many many Porsches of all variants. That said my main love has been for the 911 and I enjoy more than anything taking my cars on track and using them like the maker intended, so ultimately have become of a devotee to the RS and RSR! Also stripped out race bred cars with roll cages and no sound deadening are not popular with my wife and 3 small children so I get to play with my toys on my own.
Those that do know of me will do so probably because I bought Chris Nielsen's (endo911rs) 1973 RSR homage car at the end of 2007. I ended up becoming very good friends with Chris and came over to Seattle in April 09 to do the RGruppe 10th Anniversary Treffen with the PacWest guys - driving from Seattle to Cambria in his blue ST. A great bunch of guys I hope to join each year now.
In the UK I’m well known in The Porsche Club Great Britain and DDK and think I have gained a reputation of maintaining my cars to the highest standard and being extremely passionate about my hobby.
Ok boring drivel over, what is for sale?
Well when I bought this car I intended to keep it for a very long time, well into my old age, and restore it as I went along. I had also contemplated taking it to the west coast and leaving it there for my annual RGruppe trips. But circumstances have changed in the last year and I have my eyes on other toys. So I ended up doing everything I would have done, over time, in just 12 months. Yes it was at enormous expense but I’m glad I did it and I don’t like any car to leave my stable without looking as good as it possibly can!
The Car
One of the earliest 911S ever produced. An August 5th 1966 completion date car with original matching engine and transmission. Originally sold on November 13th 1966 through PC Southeast in Jacksonville.
The certificate from Porsche Heritage states the following:
Legal Specification: USA Left Hand Drive
Manufactured: 1966 Stuttgart, Germany
Chassis: 305360S
Engine: 960073
Transmission: 103077 type 901/02
Colour: Sand Beige
Interior: Beige Leatherette
The cars 70’s history is not that well known but it spent most of the 80’s in California ending up in San Francisco in the 90’s and there are some old photo’s showing it on California plates and some large receipts for maintenance work.
In August 1999 the car was imported to the UK and its history from that point is extremely detailed.
Body
The car was purchased in the UK by a Mr D Bonner of St James, London at the end of 1999 and transported to Gantspeed to be restored over the next 18 months. Robert Gant has been restoring Porsche since 1975 and Gantspeed are renowned as one of the top UK restorers of classic Porsches, having a tendency to deal with people who appear to have bottomless pockets!!
The car was stripped and a detailed bodywork and mechanical restoration carried out. Invoices for Gantspeed alone total over £30,000!!
Over the last 5 months we have been restoring under the front bonnet area and the engine bay. I’ll not go into the amount of hours of work that went into this but from the pictures I’m sure you will agree it was a hell of a lot! So perfect you could eat your dinner off it….although I have never tried!
The only area of the bodywork that I would have sorted, had I been keeping the car as originally intended, is that the sill and bumper trim although correct for a 66 car….are not for the 67S where it was ever so slightly wider/taller. I guess it gives the new owner the opportunity to put their mark on the car just a little over time…
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Originally Posted by 964RS UK
