Calling Jack Olsen out

[canyonlands]

I spent some time looking at Jack's car page on the renn list... http://members.rennlist.com/jackolsen/Jalopy.html
...and just have to say wow! What a nice job! Is this thing a sweet in person as it comes across on the net?
I guess there might be some that would disagree (I don't know, hardcore old schoolers?), I think you've totally done that 73 justice.
Was putting the C2 motor in it harder than expected or had you experience with this kind of swap before?

Again, nice!



Cheers

[Jim T]

Originally posted by canyonlands:
I guess there might be some that would disagree (I don't know, hardcore old schoolers?), I think you've totally done that 73 justice.

I think it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to find ANYONE that would disagree!!!

[Kurt B]

Oh, I thought you were calling him out to kick his @ss or something.
I think what you're giving him here is what the brothers call a "shout out."
Mostly agree, but I'd like to see a meaner look on it. More in the direction of Rarly's machine especially with the 3.6.
But I can also appreciate its more conservative style. There is definitely a fine line between Rice and Just Plain Bad, and Rarly's walks that line. It's possible to cross the threshold, but I can't think of anyone here who'd done that yet.

In the [Gruppe] club, there's a white ducktailed Porsche. It's got numbers and stickers etc. Looks like a real screamer.

That is awesome. An early car with that ducktail just commands ownership of the 70s!

[orbmedia]

At first I thought he was "outing" Jack Olsen, but we recall he just got married.

[Fishcop]

Well he is a very handsome man.....

[canyonlands]

Yeah, I believe this phrase is typically associated with gunslingers calling their opponent out of the saloon. I thought it was a bit more interesting than "nice car".
I've looked at a fair number of customised early 911s and while I've liked many there is often a few mods that I'm not crazy about. To each their own of course. Tastes certainly vary.
To me though, from what I've seen of Jack's 911 it's like rolling art. Fast rolling at that!
I'm always up for visiting another gallery though. Where can I see Rarly's car?

Cheers

[emcon5]

Jack's car used to be my favorite, but now I am not so sure. Sorry Jack.

Between Jack's Black Beauty,
Randy Wells'sWhite Autocross killer,
Paul's (pwd72s) Virgin 72s,
Randy Jones's Iris the Slut
and others too numerous to mention, I don't think is is possible to have a favorite any more.

So many great cars.

Tom

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82 911SC Coupe

[This message has been edited by emcon5 (edited 10-05-2001).]

[Jack Olsen]

First off, Canyon, let me say I think you should have been more respectful of John Walker in your C4 versus 968 thread. Mr. Walker runs his own Porsche shop in Seattle and is very generous with his time and expertise on this board. You're new to this crowd, so you had no way of knowing who was who, but he is a very decent guy.

Now, however, I'm really starting to warm up to you (don't worry about what Fishcop said, though -- I did just get married). Thanks for the kind words about my 73. It's a patchwork Porsche, with the pieces I like from the 2.4, 2.7, 3.0, 3.2, 3.3 Turbo, 3.6 and 3.6 Turbo rolled into what -- in my mind -- is exactly the Porsche I've always wanted. Different guys here like different degrees of more and less extreme design touches, and the bottom line is that there's no one perfect version of this car. RarlyL8's is a viscous-looking son of a b*tch. Randy Wells is a case of engineering perfection within the confines of very specific classification mandates. Randy Jones' car is truly a work of rolling art -- if I owned it, I think I'd find it too beautiful to track, though. Mike Marshall (MMarsh) is finishing up a Euro 3.2 swap into a white and red Carrera RS replica with beautiful 17-inch Fuchs (yes, 17), and a host of other track-specific mods that make it more at home on the track than the road, probably. Mark Hargett has gone the later route, turning out a 993 replica that he honestly built by hand with a supercharged engine in it that genuinely earns its 'beast' nickname. David Griswold is another visionary who's unencumbered by stock history. His 4WD 965-ish machine is so clean and so perfect you could eat off of it in a museum restaurant.

There are others, too. Black Beauty is less beautiful in person than in the photographs I take. There are more chips than the camera shows, for example. But that's all the mark of real use -- both in California canyons and the different tracks in the southwest.

I think Black Beauty is in the middle ground, in terms of attention to detail and museum-quality engineering. But that's exactly what I was shooting for. I don't want to own a car that I'm the least bit hesitant about driving very seriously. It's an ideal car, for example, for the seven-tracks-in-seven-days Open Track Challenge that's happening this spring.

But thanks for noticing. I'm driving the car at Willow Springs in a week, with Toyo R-compound tires for the first time. Very excited about it.

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Jack Olsen
My Rennlist page • My Pelican Gallery page • My Porsche Owners Gallery page

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[turbo dave]

Damn, that's some serious hardware! I just got a '73T with 2.7 liter for R Gruppe, but she's going to have to park down the street from this lineup. No problem, with the approx. 1000hp distributed between these cars, the parking spot down the street will be the only one available when I get there! Here's an image of one of my favorite cars from Cambria:






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David Schultz
1973 911T 2.7
http://home.earthlink.net/~kineticdg/Porsche1.htm

[canyonlands]

Thanks Jack.

It's unfortunate that we got off to a poor start. I made some pretty pointed comments after feeling that my original questions were being played off as "no brainers". Maybe they were to most but since I’ve been way out of the Porsche loop for a long while I was wondering about tail heavy/happiness in the C4 and everyone kept bringing up the all wheel drive thing. While many folks kept a cool head, myself and Mr. Walker were not among them. I'm not an ill-willed person though and if you go back you'll see that I was trying to convey that. I sum much of what happened in that thread up to being results of a misunderstanding. Funny but if you look at any other thread where I've posted and you'll find that I'm always polite and mean well. In the whole scheme of things I feel that our disagreements really mean little. We're here one day at a time and events of recent make light of the fact that we should make the most of our days.
I know that Mr. Walker must be a great guy (afterall you said he's in Seattle). I've seen many of his replies in the threads I've been reading through. I don't have hard feels toward *anyone* at this forum. That's more than enough about that and I'd rather not keep going back to it.

Bottom line is I got into Porsches way back when I was in high school. P-cars and BMWs are in my blood. Though my wife (which I dearly love) has done a pretty good job of diverting me from them, I'm back. I've been softened up a little though. We started looking at newer Porsches but true to my soul, I've been slowly drawn back to the cars of the 60s, 70s and early 80s. Magical times it seems.
The fact that your 73 is a real driver’s car makes it even more ideal in my book. German cars were meant to be driven and that’s what they are happiest doing. Preserve the really rare stuff but take what's left and use it to preserve enthusiasm for spirited driving and the sport of racing. Thanks again Jack for bringing such a wonderful looking car to life. I hope to see it in action some time. Since it sounds like you are out West I may just bump into you at an event one of these days.

Best regards and have a blast at Willow Springs!

[rstoll]

Well now, Oprah and Dr Phil would be proud.

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Robert Stoll
83 SC
83 944

[wckrause]

Jack's car reminds me of that Johnny cash song, where he builds a Caddy by stealing parts out of the factory over a course of many years... Jack just has had the advantage of knowing the best years to take certain parts.



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Bill Krause
'79 911SC Euro
MY PELICAN GALLERY

[pwd72s]

"So many great cars."-Ecom

Tom, you got that one right. Like "so many women, so little time", now it's "so many cars, so little money."