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I am pleased to offer this most interesting Porsche 935 for sale. It was built on a 1976 Porsche 911 Carrera bodyshell by Kremer Racing (who built the chassis, engine, gearbox and suspension) and DP Motorsport (who made and painted the bodywork) in Cologne.
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Eckerhard Zimmerman of DP Motorsport developed this style of 935 bodywork after his enormously successful K3 design for the Kremer Brothers.
Built up for a Mr. Jurgen Schorn, it ran some races in Germany (most particulars unknown at this moment, but at least one race on the "Nordschleife", the grand old 14 mile plus circuit of the real Nurburgring) before it was sold to the well known German racer, Jurgen Opperman. He and his partner, Otto Altenbach, then raced the car many times, particularly at the old Nurburgring. To see the car in action there, from the cockpit, take a look at the website www.youtube.com and search for "Porsche 935-Nurburgring". Here you can see the car dicing with Franz Konrad’s 935, which "our" 935 finally overtakes!
In 1989, Opperman and Altenbach won the "Veedol" Championship in Germany, which consisted of several long distance races (Langtreckenrennen) over the old Nurburgring.
In 1990, this 935 was sold to Willi Rabl, an Austrian driver from Vienna, who was a longtime customer of the Kremer Brothers racing team. From them he had bought (and later sold back to them) a 1975 RSR, 911 560 9117 and then a 934, which he later had converted to a 935 K2. All Willi’s racecars were sponsored by the Vaillent air conditioning company with their characteristic green and multi-colored striping color scheme. Willi was a specialist in the long hillclimbs (mountain races) that are such a distinctive part of the European Racing scene. Willi Rabl won two European Hillclimb Championships with this car.
To accomplish this, Willi Rabl had Kremer Racing remove the 3.4-liter engine that was in the car at that time and install an IMSA spec, twin turbocharged 3.0-liter twin-plug engine, complete with flat fan. This was a very special engine built up by Porsche Motorsport at the factory and supervised by Gerd Schmidt. It is exceptionally powerful, though tractable in the manner of Porsche’s turbocharged flat-six. Willi Rabl kept the 935 in his stable for fifteen years.
935 IMSA DP is race ready. There are 10 hours on the engine type 962-72 now. There are another 25 hours to go. Engine life is expected to be 30–35 hours total.
Engine rebuild can be done at the Porsche factory, where the engine was rebuilt all its life. Gerd Schmidt from Porsche Motorsport knows the car and engine. The gearbox is a standard 4-speed turbo box with stronger gears and bearings.
So this is one very powerful Porsche 935, built and set up by the Kremer Brothers and Eckerhard Zimmerman of DP Motorsport and now ready for the vintage/historic circuit. Very fast, with excellent handling, it should be a winner wherever it appears.
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