After almost 2½ years of working on this project I thought it was finally time to post here about it. Let me first start off by saying that this project could not have happened without a lot of help from friends and previous owners who helped me to not only finish the car, but also piece together the complete history and documentation back to 1974.
The car is a 1974 'Euro' Carrera. As many here probably know, these cars were the spiritual and mechanical successors to the legendary 1973 Carrera RS. This particular car is special for a variety of reasons, but as I dug deeper into these little understood cars I discovered that the very early '74 cars have their own uniqueness.
In much the same way that the early '73 RSs were special because of lightweight panels, glass, and other features, the earliest '74 cars had the same rear flares, torsion tube reinforcement, orange hood badge, and rear grill as their predecessor. According to sources, somewhere in late '73 early '74, these features were phased out of production of the '74 cars.
This car is one of the earliest cars, built in October of 1973 only two months after the summer break and the factory started to produce the G-Body cars. The original owner worked for Porsche Hamburg and he was a racer who also taught at the Scuderia Hanseat driving school at the Nurburgring. He raced 3 times at LeMans in the '70s. Because he intended to use his car at the track, he ordered it with optional 7" & 8" Fuchs (6" & 7" were standard) and the optional upgraded suspension with Koni shocks.
Because at the time he could not order a ducktail in Germany, he did what many Germans did. He had the dealership install the ducktail and then had the car individually certified at the local TUV before taking delivery. In addition to the dealership installing the ducktail, he also requested that they install a roll bar, which was TUV certified at the same time. Luckily I was able to find all the documentation for this by way of the car's Farhrzeugbrief.
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