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Originally Posted by felix83
Someone wrote it was a late prototype. Hopefully, the finish was a bit better on the production cars.
This makes me think about when I visited a former Porsche dealer here in Sweden. He had some great stories about when he picked up 959's from
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Originally Posted by Flojo
is it just me, or does the area around the filler cap look like backyard bondo repair?
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the factory and trailered them to Sweden with a 928 as a tow car. From what I remember, he sold three new 959's through his dealership, despite the fact they couldn't be made road legal in Sweden at the time. He still had one when I visited in 2015, never registered. |
This was a prototype car, and earlier cars did not have the hydraulic fill flap installed in them, so most likely, this was added after the fact since it was never meant to be sold as a production car.
notice anything missing from these photos (this would be before Brumos acquired the car):
-Ben