3.9 RSR project --- my Carrera reborn

[Jeff Alton]

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

[shbop]

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

[Bob C.]

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...

[911 in SC]

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

[EarlySport]

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.

[shbop]

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.

[Jeff Alton]

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....













Cheers

[pu911]

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

[ERH]

Jeff,

Love the wheels.

When will the 17 inch be ready for production?

Thanks.

Ed

[Jeff Alton]

Soon......

Cheeers

[911teo]

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....

[Gene Wilkes]

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

[mike monde]

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.

[efhughes3]

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.

[copbait73]

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.

[eimkeith]

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...

[87coupe]

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

[peppy]

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

[B18CXr]

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:

[SCHNELE]

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