917PA, 917/10, 917/30, but what's this?
 

There is a clue or 2 in the photo of this rare Porsche CanAm car .....



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I could be way off, but the 3 showing velocity stacks make it look like a 6 cylinder version of a 917? But I don't think I recognize the car.

6 cyl. SP20

That's it. The Porsche SP20. Only CanAm car to run with the 911 motor. Raced once. Riverside 73. Qualified last, finished 9th (last car still running). 8 Laps behind the winning 917/30 - amazing what 6 more cylinders and 2 turbochargers will do for your lap times .....

"I" wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.....be fun and cheap to run in Vintage runs.....

It looks kind of like a McLaren with the big block removed and a 911 motor put in instead. In this case I guess it wasn't an improvement.

Curt, I tried to find out more about Hanns Muller-Perschl, but all I could come up with is that he finished 47th out of 73 in the 1964 Alpenbergpreis Rossfeld (?) in a Porsche 356 S90.

Some other drivers in this race were:Edgar Barth (Elva Porsche) who won, Reinhold Joest (356A Carrera) 24th, and Karl Wendlinger sr. who didn't make the grid in his Fiat-Abarth 1000 Berlina.

Getting back to Muller-Perschl.. his Can Am car looks as though he spent a lot of time looking at the McLaren M8D doesn't it?

It does, although the front end looks like its off of the Lola T-260! Wonder what ever happened to the car. Seems like an awful lot of time and effort for one race!



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Curt; This thread prompted me to check my copy of "Can Am" by Lyons to get more history on this since I had never noticed it. The car is pretty mysterious. At first I thought that it was related to the Costello SP7 and SP8 line that was designed an built by David Saville-Peck in 1973 and also in 1974 . Apparently he's still around and running a Super-7 business.

Anyhow, doing a quick web search turned up that the Porsche powered SP20 was raced once in '72 by Kurt Hild at the Salburgring in the European Sports Car Championship. Other then that I can't find anything on it.

I don't know where the SP20 is, but this Elva is for sale and I ....may.... make a move on it

Isn't the Elva Porsche in the Porsche Museum? I believe that it was a predecessor chassis-wise to the 910 and even the 908/3. Not a footnote in Porsche history by any means.

I jumped too quickly - different car. Here is the early bio on the one I'm looking in to:

"One of 19 factory constructed Porsche powered Elvas. Elva Porsche #70P/045 was imported by Carl Haas in 1964. The car was then sold to Charlie Hayes on May 22nd.

Hayes campaigned #70P/045 in the 1964 USRRC, the premier road racing series in the U.S. at the time. He and the Elva-Porsche claimed victories at Augusta Georgia, Laguna Seca, and Watkins Glen. The pair also finished third at Mid-Ohio, and at Elkhart Lake. By the end of the season, Hayes and the Elva-Porsche had claimed third overall in the Championship, missing second in the under 2 litre class by only one point. Jim Hall won the Championship that year behind the wheel of his 5.0 litre Chaparral."

Wow, cool car Mark. John, I've come up to a dead end on the SP20 as well - quite the mystery car.

BTW: check this thread in off-topic.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/144408-mid-engine-rear-engine-side-engine.html