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Rasta Monsta · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 11733 Location: PacNW

Really awesome, thanks for sharing all this.
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john h · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:33 pm Post subject:

I was at Sinsheim a few years ago so I'll look tonight and see if I can find any decent snaps of the car there. From memory there was the 924 rally car (a bit like yours) and also a 924 GTR look alike. I think the way the rally car was displayed I couldn't get very good snaps but will see what I have.

By the way if anyone is in Germany around Frankfurt area I would definitely recommend visiting this museum (http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en) it has a concorde open to view along with the Tupolev TU-144 and heaps of really neat cars and military stuff as well. The sister museum at Speyer is also worth a visit (http://speyer.technik-museum.de/en). I was in Germany on Holiday and we stopped in at both on the way through to Frankfurt after playing at Europa Park in Rust (a really good amusement park). I had my 12 year old daughter with me and she wasn't keen to go to either but by the end of each day I had to drag her out and she wanted to go back to both of them
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p-talk · Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 152 Location: Tucson, AZ

A hard life, and a fun life! Thanks for posting, this car is fascinating.

john h · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:46 pm Post subject:

Found some photo's of two 924's at sinsheim - see attached link
http://imageshack.us/g/1/9850792/

This one of them

the other one like yours?

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Raceboy · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2327 Location: Estonia, Europe

These are 911S aluminium calipers. They are two-pot fixed ones.

Obviously 911 steering knuckles had to be used or custom ones as 911 has the tie-rod connections on the wrong side.
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pofg · Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 48 Location: Zurich

She's actually in pretty good condition other than the sunroof -roof panel which the idiot who owner her between myself and Herr Ristl welded onto her. Rust is mostly superficial elsewhere.
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pofg · Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 48 Location: Zurich

Thanks for those photos John... does look like her sister car (the Monte car in your first photo) might have had the US reflector stampings on her rear quarter as well... thanks for that!

That's what we reckoned they were Raceboy... 911 S calipers... loads of 911 parts on her.

Cheers for that all!
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pofg · Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 48 Location: Zurich

IS it only me, or have the photos stopped working??
Rick
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9xx · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 627 Location: Jarvenpaa, Finland

Still visible here.
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brealytrent · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Goldsboro, NC

This is awesome! Sadly most of these special 924s have ended up like this one, or worse. It's sad, but maybe one day people will give these cars more interest and credit as they get more and more rare.
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pofg · Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 48 Location: Zurich

Well we know of the 6 + 1 cars built (the 1 being the one that was built in Aussie not by the factory but was first victory for a 924) there are supposedly 5+1 surviving.
The 2 safari cars are "out there" but from what I understand from their state when they finished the rally: "basically broken in half" was the quote, they must have been reshelled or are museum pieces I'd guess.
Jurgen still owns one of the recce cars (which is in Sinsheim disguised as a safari car) and the Monte car (also in Sinsheim) but neither of these 2 look likely to move far in the near future.
The other Safari recce car was supposedly destroyed during the recce.
So my car will need to be fully restored and demonstrated else the chances of people seeing these cars in action will be zero.

Therefore we have a responsibility. So she will be fully restored.

Rick
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