FS: @John Starkey Cars - The Ultimate 1972 911ST

[Macroni]

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http://www.johnstarkeycars.com/pages..._230_0769.html


This would be fun on a rally......

[rsr1975]

A very nice car and a really cool piece of Porsche history. I was privileged to drive it at The Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV at Laguna Seca in 2011.

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[Longballa]

I based my gas tank from this car. It's bad ass! In person it's just awesome.

[letsrollbabe]

This car represents a true piece of Porsche history in racing the 911. Very little was known about the factory practice of 'reusing' special 911S competition cars until this thread...http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...eal+RSR+winner
This 72 911 ST, renumbered as the prototype 0001 in the RS series, is more important in Porsche history than the McQueen LeMans 911S. I saw it at RRIV and it has many of the prototype bits the factory was trying out as they were pursuing a factory effort in the racing scene in the early 70s. A true collector's gem.

[LongRanger]

VIN = 9112300769, 9113600001
Eng# = ?
Trans# = ?


From Seller . . .

. . . When Porsche started series production of the RS 2.7 Carrera, they started with chassis number 911 360 0011, not 0001. Porsche deliberately left the first ten numbers open, so that they could renumber some old 911Ss, which could then be further modified . . .

. . . As far as I have ever been able to discover, Porsche only renumbered two 911Ss for this batch of early serial numbers; they were 911 230 0769 as 911 360 0001, (RS1) and 911 230 0841 as 911 360 0002 (RS2). Straight away, I have to say that I have never discovered what happened to 0002, so this could also have been Norbert Singer’s “mongrel”, known to him only as “E42”. Rumor has it that this RS2 was later on “destroyed in Hong Kong” but I have never found out any details of this . . .

. . . However, I do know most of what happened to 0001, as I have known of it in England since 1974 and I have helped to sell it in the past, and have carried on a long discussion with Jurgen Barth, the now retired head of the customer racing department of Porsche . . .

. . . Here’s what we know: 911 360 0001 started life as a 1972 competition “ST” with a 2.5 liter engine and chassis number 911 230 0769 and it was driven, successfully, in many rallies by Sobieslaw Zasada, the Polish Rally Champion. In July 1972, “our” car had an accident on the Polish rally and went back to the factory for repairs. Upon it’s return, now re-numbered to 911 360 0001, and fitted with an experimental 2.8 liter engine, it did a further five rallies before going back to Porsche at the end of January 1973, being allocated to the “Press and Sport division”. However, Jurgen Barth, who worked in that department at the time, and has consulted their files, can find no mention of it, nor can he remember it there. The present owner, however, has a photo of it outside Werk One in 1973 and Steve Carr, then of Autofarm in the UK, remembers collecting it from Werk One, with Jurgen Barth’s help, in February 1974 . . .

. . . That was when 911 360 0001 was sold, via “Autofarm” in England, to Stanley Palmer, together with three early RSR 2.8 liter engines. In the factory documentation that came with it, it is noted as a “Group 4 lightweight R.S. with 2.8 liter engine”. It then pursued, via a succession of owners, a vigorous life as a rally car in Britain and Ireland, scoring many good results before being restored by Autofarm in England, during which time a line of holes was found on the rear wings denoting that, at some point, this car had side skirts of the “Mary Stuart” collar variety fitted. There is much documentation, including the import papers, to document this car’s history . . .

. . . So the question is, just exactly what did 911 230 0769/ 360 0001 do at the factory from January 1973 until February 1974? It was, effectively, an almost new RSR and surely would not have been left unused . . .

. . . This intriguing race/rally 911ST still has its original ST production number, both on the dashboard and in greaseproof crayon under the dash pad. Its line of ownership is unbroken. A truly fascinating piece of early Porsche 911ST/RSR history . . .

P.O.A.

[SpencerWilliams]

Niiiice car. Anyone know the "asking"?

[Grzegorz Wozniak]

photograph from England without motor 1974


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