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Price is $49,500
Where else can you get so much bang for your buck?
The Porsche Turbo 2.1 RSR Carrera Turbo of 1974 was a “halfway house” between the normally aspirated RSR Carrera of 1974 and the mighty 935 of 1976. Briefly, Porsche were, at this time, gearing up for their foray into World Championship racing with the 935, which was slated to start races in 1975, until the FIA put the start back to 1976, for reasons that we won’t go into here.
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Very briefly (for a fuller in depth look at the 1974 Turbo 2.1 RSR Carrera Turbo, see our forthcoming book, “From R to GT2 – The Racing Porsches”), the race department at Weissach took two old 1973 Group 5 “Werks” cars and gutted them. They then installed the new, 2.1-liter turbocharged engine, added even wider wheels and a huge rear wing, and put the fuel tank alongside the driver, to aid weight distribution. Into the front went a large fuel tank and a separate oil tank. Suspension was by coil springs, as per the 1973 factory entered cars and the brakes were also standard RSR/917 type. Gearbox was a strengthened 915 RSR type, with pump and cooler.
The car we are offering here has been built up on a 1980 911SC bodyshell and has just one hour of track time on it after a complete “Rotisserie” build up. Complete coil string suspension, big brakes and all properly set up and sorted. The specification sheet (see photos) shows all the new parts used in the build up. It is extremely impressive. The 3-liter turbo engine has some 10 hours on it and is thought, by Price Cobb who tested the car, to give: “Somewhere between 500 and 550 horsepower.”
This is an opportunity to buy a very quick racing Porsche for not much money; fast, agile, a potential race winner, this Porsche Turbo RSR Carrera is an excellent buy.
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