The Stainless 911S

[tazzieman]

I found the answer to my question recently posed in the resurrected galvanised Porsche thread . This is really cool. The rear window sticker says it all!

Retro-Motoring: Porsche 911 S Stainless Steel Car

This Porsche 911 S served as a test model for the use and processing of non-corroding steels in automotive manufacturing.

The body parts are made of cold-rolled sheet steel shaped by machine and in part by hand. The individual parts are welded. The body was not painted, but only ground and brushed. During its 7 years of operation, the car was driven 150,000km. The material passed all tests.

(text from the Deutsches Museum verkehrszentrum).

Want! Can't have!

[DRACO A5OG]

Back to the Future... De Lorean??? Must be heavy though, no???

[Tony911Z]

Very cool; thanks for posting. I wonder if it shows fingerprints like the Delorean...looks shiner than just a brushed finish.

[billybek]

You could even say it glows....

[ppickerell]

Density of steel= .283
Density of SS=.286

Not much difference.

[BernieP]

Allegheny Ludlum in Pittsburgh made stainless bodies for Ford to show their expertise. 4 Door Lincoln, a 58 Thunderbird and one other I can't remember. They still look great.

Bernie

[tazzieman]

The Delorean was SS veneer over fibreglass ; the one I tapped and prodded in the Haynes motor museum felt a bit tinny - like a Hollywood mock up car (which , funnily enough...)

That 911 would be rock solid. Again , want!

[sc_rufctr]

WOW...

[nineball]

indeed

[tazzieman]

Wonder if it has SSIs?

[Quicksilver]

Wooooooow... Shiney! (must get control of inner raccoon...)

Lots of stainless alloys tend to be very ductile. Wonder it it needs to be thicker gauge to resist dents?

[fbarrett]

Stainless is great, and it's good to learn of this factory-built car--which probably led to the 1974 and later galvanized steel bodies--but I predict that one day someone with way more time and skill and bucks than I have will build an entire 911 body out of aluminum. A friend built a 356 Speedster that way, then an Abarth Carrera replica. Think about it: An aluminum 911 would weigh far less than a 911R...

Frank

[Flieger]

[tazzieman]

Want even more than before! (and I saw it first )

Weight is 1030kg with the 2L engine

[gshase]

Munich had one in the museum in the Olympic region. I was in the US Navy and took several pictures of it and every picture looked like a blur (1978) It was cool to see your great pictures.