1968 T/R - "Out Of Africa"

[John Straub]

Nice Tim!

John

[LongRanger]

Kept the 'Zoll' plates all this time . . .

[Bantam]

Not too much to add at the moment, mainly continued research, recent contact has put me in touch with the wife of the supplying agent so hopefully I might gain a little more background information.

[Bantam]

Di Bowser (nee Crow), wife of the East African Agent at the time has kindly provided further archive material and confirmed that the photo (first photo) I had seen in a recent Classic Porsche magazine article of a car carrying the registration KGT 345 is my car, the registration being the Kenyan number allocated following the removal of the German Zoll plates.

The second photo Di provided me with was another shot of the car in the workshop; these are probably sometime in 1969 because the car is sharing workshop space with the Zasada East African Safari Rally car (car with bonnet up).

The other two photos are from newspaper cuttings which demonstrates the eclectic mix of cars that competed together!

(Thanks to Classic Porsche magazine editor Keith Seume and author of the recent Kenyan Memories article Peter Pocket for their help in putting me in touch with Di).

[Schiefer]

Fantastic story! One of my favorite threads her, thanks for sharing!
BTW: I was spending some time in Uganda a few years before I believe you found this car. But it never crossed my mind this was a place it was possible to go looking for cool cars!

Best, Radmund

[72targa]

Love the history! How's the car doing?

[Bantam]

Still mainly research although currently assessing bodywork required; gearbox and engine have been broken down and I will try and post some 'detail' photos shortly.

[Bantam]

The 1968 Sports Purposes document lists 'Unpolished aluminium rims' as part of the specification and the early photos of the car clearly show the unpainted wheels (see first photo); what we didn't know was what constituted 'unfinished' other than the absence of black paint.

Standard wheels receive machining/polishing that rounds the petals as shown on the standard deep 6 in the second photo.

The original wheels had received a couple of crudely applied layers of paint during their time in Uganda (although this probably helped to protect them) however the team at Canford Classics carefully removed this paint to reveal the bare state. We found that the 'unfinished' element was that the machining/polishing that the normal Fuchs receive was not undertaken as you can see in photos 3, 4 and 5. We believe that this more basic finish was then just anodised to give the Sports Purpose 'unfinished aluminium rim'.

[will hung]

That's a really cool detail on sports purpose 911's from period. Never saw it before. Will be interesting if others like Harvey have ever encountered it.

[Cornpanzer]

For clarification, all four wheels look like this?
Thanks