Is this Vasek Polak 911 with decals still around?

[kouwenhoven]

Does anyone know if this specific car is still around? The text below the picture says it's a 1967 Porsche.



Is it the same as this car perhaps? This is supposed to be a '68S.



Thanks!

Erik

[Chuck Miller]

Does anyone know if this specific car is still around?

Erik, as far as I know this car has not shown up anywhere....

The text below the picture says it's a 1967 Porsche.

It is indeed a '67S, it's the first 911S raced out of Vasek Polak's dealership. And raced by Davey Jordan for most of the '67 SCCA racing session.
(The year before Jerry Titus raced a white '66 911 for Vasek, but it wasn't an S.)

Prior to the beginning of the '67 SCCA racing session this 'silver' car was delivered to Vasek in it's original light ivory. Vasek in turn gave this stock 911S to Davey for a week to break in. Later when Davey next saw the car it was painted silver with Vasek's livery. Davey raced the silver car to a Southern Pasfic National championship.

In '68 Davey raced a Toyota 2000GT for Shelby with Scooter Patrick and the silver Vasek car was raced very successfully by Milt Minter for the early part of the '68 SCCA session.

Is it the same as this car perhaps? This is supposed to be a '68S.

Nope, it is indeed a '68S that Davey raced for the one race at Daytona......


I'll be seeing Davey this Saturday and ask for any more info on the 'silver' car....

[kouwenhoven]

Hello Chuck,

Thanks! Unbelievable that you guys know all this very nice history stuff. Please do.

Best regards,

Erik

[Cornpanzer]

Certainly a mystery car...whatever happened to the silver Vasek/Jordan car?

[kouwenhoven]

I got these pics from the always helpful Chuck Miller, who got them from Davey Jordan. This shows a pretty 'stock' 911 S. Mr. Jordan e-mailed me a few days ago that he got the car before the racing seasonfor a week from Vasek Polak to get used to it and then they painted it and did all the race-stuff afterwards. Davey does not know what happened to the car either...




The thing is that I just finished the restoration of a car that was sold to Vasek Polak's private address. It's a '67 911S, it has been raced and it was Hell Elfenbein. The only thing is that this march 2 1967 car should have been at the factory during the '67 season, because according to the kardex it was only sold to Polak in jan. '68. Maybe it was only paid in january for tax reasons. The funny thing is that it had a tan interior, just like the car in the pictures, even though the Kardex says mine was supposed to be pepita. Was it re-upholstered in tan? Did they put the interior in again after it was turned into a streetcar again? Or - more likely - was this one of the sister cars, a spare race car for the '68 season? Or did Vasek just drive this one as a daily driver?

Anyway, would be nice if the silver racecar would be traced, but nobody seems to know the vin number.

Erik

[Rennman]

Did you find any silver paint under the Light Ivory, roll bar mounts ect?? The March build date could have still had the car in the US to race that late Spring/Summer. The names were added to the Kardex later. In the case of the #58 car in this thread, Vasek owned and raced it however his name did not make the Kardex, the customer who bought it from him later did. You could have the missing car. Look for silver paint!!

Don

[Phil Gilsdorf]

According to my info, Davey first raced the silver car in Phoenix February 21st 1967.

[Phil Gilsdorf]

Here's a photo from Nov. 11 1968 in Las Vegas.

[Phil Gilsdorf]

Here's another photo from that same race in Las Vegas. So the 58 car and the 11 car are not the same

[Cris Huergas]

saw it yesterday