ease coast always gets their excellence mags last...
I cant wait though for this issue!!!!!!!!
Bob

Just got my copy of EXCELLENCE! Great write up! Congratulations to everyone that made it happen!!:cool:

Agreed. I probably won't see mine for another couple of days. Maybe the mailman takes it home for a day or so before he delivers it... :D

Gosh, I don't have a look at the boards for a bit and look what I miss! That's a helluva car...subscribed...duh:)

finally!!! It arrived a few minutes ago! Now to find a quiet corner or room to imerse myself in this issue...
Bob

COOL! I got mine today too. Congrats Matteo, Keith, etc. Great article. Seeing the car in person made it all the more special.

Nice to hear descriptions of some very cool roads too. My Grandmother lived in Clatyon, GA for many years when I was younger. It did seem like we stepped back in time every time we visited.

congrats Matteo!

I read the article, very nice! Kudos to you, Zuffenhaus and the other contributors. It didn't mention Peter Dawe, unless I missed that.

Has the eagle landed in the UK so you can do your own first-hand evaluation?

Doug

Excellent article, and stunning car. Enjoy it.

Great write up and pictures. (I could always use more detail pics but that's me)

Matteo, if you haven't yet seen the article I think you will like it. Congrats and enjoy that beauty.

I have not seen the article yet.

I spoke to the writer (Bob Chapmann) and he was very very excited abt the car. One of the things he liked the most was the note of the exhaust (and he didn't really push the car past 7,400rpm as the motor was new).

I am still waiting for my copy of the magazine.

I do not know if Bob did write it in the article but I would not have engaged in this project without the Pelican Forum.

Cars like BBII, Tom's, Doug's and Rdane's, Scruffy, Porsche Doc's creations etc all gave me an inspiration. Plus they showed me it could be done.

Then again I was super fortunate to have guys like Keith and Aaron around the corner.

So really thanks everybody for having taken part to the ride and for your suggestions.

The car is not here yet. I do not want to look at the date of the 1st post on the thread....

It will be my Xmas present!

Keith

as soon as the car's here I have my wife (she's studying to become a pro) take pics of every little detail from the list above and I could send you a CD with them.... if you want.

Great car!!!

I will finish reading tonight.

Matteo

The article is sitting on my night stand. I have not has a chance to read it yet but the pics look great.

Congrats on a great car and a great article. Hope you get the chance to enjoy it soon.

I'm dying to see this article! No joy here as of yet.

Congrads to all involved...it is an awesome car!

sorry for the confusion... haven't had time to read the last 3 issues
I just got the november issue, so I guess I'll have to wait about another month

Teo:

Great car and article. I've always loved the IROC. Sorry to be a wise guy, but after reading the article I'm confused. What part of the wreck was reused? It sounds pretty much like build from scratch.

I have to say that it has been so, well, cool to have followed this thread through the interminable twists and turns - and to open the latest Excellence Magazine to see the Mexico Blue beauty in all its glory!

I found myself showing the pictures to other friends and saying "See that? See that? I know that guy!!! ... Well okay, I don't know him, but I sure as h*ll know that car!"

What a trip, what a saga, what a pleasure to watch the story unfold.

Mateo - thank you for the vicarious thrills. You got some serious auto-motivating a-coming! :)

Cheers -

Teo have you a date the car will be landing in the UK yet ?

Not necessary, having seen it in person I know how much more detail there is that just couldn't be put into the magazine. Have a Merry Christmas:D

Now you can get 911 & Porsche World to do another write up!!

Congratulations Matteo!! Wish you many miles of happy driving.

I was sitting outside the hotel at RRIII with Keith, Aaron and Bob when a fellow walked up with his copy of Excellence and hands it over to Keith and Aaron. They looked justifyably proud of the article and pics of the car!

That is a killer car done by a great bunch of folks who really know their craft!

Cheers

Watching this project progress has been terrific. Thanks for letting us live vicariously through your efforts.

Paying back
 

Matteo... After driving your IROC-look 911 sideways up and down GA 197, I figured the least I could do was leave you with a full tank of gas. The proprietor of this fine establishment assured us that the fuel started life as 93 octane. What it was by the time I pumped it is anyone's guess (varnish).

;)

Seriously, though... Great car! Keep it between the lines...

http://www.autosportimage.com/excell...828_c_2878.jpg

Thanks for registering and posting the pic Bob. Very, very cool. Beautiful area to take a beautiful car!

I don't know if I should be saying this or not, but I am disappointed in the Excellence article on Matteo's car. This car IMO is simply amazing - the kind of car we nearly all would dearly love to build or own, hence the popularity of this thread.

The article covered a bare minimum of the technical aspects of this car, and the photographs showed nothing of the inner workings of this beast. To me, it really looked like a hurried story.

Excellence is my favourite Porsche mag, and Matteo's IROC is one of my favourite Porsches, and so I guess I expected more from this story. I feel like the true nature and uniqueness of this car would be lost on a typical Excellence reader who has not seen this thread.

Craig, I have to agree, but unfortunately it's not a technical magazine. While many of us were jazzed by the project, I think most readers would have been lost on the inner workings of the build. It's ok, as we got a great deal of the technical-side right here. :)

I agree, they only mention a "custom headliner" but Aaron hand stiched that sucker out of alcantara..... But, they have to print what the average reader is likely to respond to.....

Anyways, here is the prototype (IN A RAW UNCOMPLETED FINISH) of one set of wheels that will end up this car once it is converted to centerlocks ! Note the center lock design. The wheels and center lock hubs will be available from exclusively from Zuffenhaus and any dealers they select....... :)

I believe the car will have these in 18 inch (pic is a 15) and our 917 style in 15 and then one of other custom wheels in 15 or 17....





http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1194749136.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1194749211.jpg

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Cheers

The excellence article was pretty lukewarm towards car, I was more than a little surprised after reading it.
Phil

Jeff,

Love the wheels.

When will the 17 inch be ready for production?

Thanks.

Ed

Soon......

Cheeers

I finally received my copy of Excellence and managed to read the story....

Before I express my opinion let me say that:

1) When you let a professional journalist drive your car for a feature on a magazine you have to accept whatever judgement is made on such car.

2) I built the car for myself. Really I did not have anybody else in mind. I am pretty happy of how it turned out.

3) Excellence is my favourite Porsche magazine and having my car featured on it is a great honor.


Now personally I found the article balanced and very appreciative of the car. I read it several times and I think Bob really liked his time with it.

You have to remember that the circumstances for this story were a little atipical. The car had probably 70 miles on it, the owner had never driven the car (apart from a rough shake down done just before leaving) and he was not even present during the shooting/drive.

Now put yourself in the authors shoes... would you really go 10/10 with a car that really has just been completed. The motor wasn't even run in properly...

Also since I was not there I had to talk to Bob over the phone. It's completely different when you spend an afternoon talking about your toy and driving it and showing every single little detail.

The car was leaving the US for good so there was really no other way to do it.

I think for the people that follwo the thread the article can be a little reductive but this thread has covered 58 pages (sorry Wayne).

Every friend that has read the story was impressed. Maybe they were just polite.

But bring it on... I'd to hear everybody's opinion... and don't just be nice....

Matteo,
The write-up by EXCELLENCE was a good write! The best write-up is 'THIS THREAD'!!

Matteo,
It was cool seeing your car in Excellence, but I felt the write-up fell short in many areas in its discription of your car. Overall, OK, but after being spoiled with this thread it would be hard IMO for any writer to capture the detail in your car that we got the oppurtunity to read about and see here.
Great car and thanks for sharing it with the rest of us.

The article in Excellence was fine. As noted above, the magazine only gets so technical with these types of articles. If they got into more detail, it would have been a very long article to cover all of the parts.

They have a magazine to publish every month. The editor keeps a format. So many articles, so many words and pics in each one, etc. The only reason people are saying the article fell short is because everyone that has been subscribed to this thread has seen the car evolve.

I subscribe to EXCELLENCE out of desperation. There really are very few Porsche magazines in competition with them. I find it interesting how many feel the need to put a positive spin on what to me is very consistent in the coverage of this great project. There are rules:
1) get rich, buy a nice Porsche and leave it alone. If it’s a collectable pay someone to bring it back to it’s as new beauty.
2) if not in the general grouping above, live in California home of truly beautiful people and their Porsches.
3) be a California R Gruppe member. Only then can you visualize and capture what makes an IROC clone.
4) if one is going to clone a great car one must go out and search dusty warehouses (preferably in California) for true race car parts then spend enormous funds in a California specialty house (preferably an advertiser) before having them bolted on.
This projects greatest deficiency was geographical. Excellence is a magazine about Porsche IMAGE and how that can rub off on the owner if they follow the rules above.

I think it's great!
 

Well, I for one think it is a great article - 7 pages for an east-coast project!! Wow.

Also, good nod to the pelican community, IIRC.

Beautiful photographs, and I can assure you the journalist really picked over the car and took his time with it. Excellence is incredibly professional and did a good job, as far as I'm concerned.

I'm proud of the exposure of one of our favorite projects thusfar, and appreciative of the time and effort that went into publishing the vision of an incredible client and friend.

And my name was mentioned a couple of times - which doesn't hurt my opinion of the article, either... ;)

Looks just like the Denny Hulme Mexico Blue IROC, #6 I think. Sooooo nice! Congratulations!!

The article was ok, but I liked the pics. (not ashamed to admit it). I can still dream.

Contents page says it all:


"A 3.9-liter IROC replica even tricker than it looks"


A novel (much less 7 pages) on this car would still not do it justice. Most who read will have no idea what was done on this project.




Cheers Matteo!! :beer:

I broke my leg at Daytona during the Rennsport Reunion and I must say the highpoint of being home among my loved ones is that they will bring me my Excellence mags and new laptop to any corner of my home. The article was well executed IMHO, it is tough to capture the esscence of a car like Matteo's on just a few pages. How many pages should be spent to describe someone's opus, too many for some, not nearly enough for others. Best to all