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Sorry to be a pain VZ935, if you have the racing numbers for your GREAT info below, I would really appreciate it. I am combing through vintage Panorama articles to find any on this car.

Thank you!


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Originally Posted by VZ935 View Post
I know a lot about this car and had a meeting with a certain company, that sponsored it at one time, about buying it and putting it back in their sponsorship livery. Unfortunately the price tag at that time was more than twice what Adam paid for it. At the time I had estimated the car at 3mm.

This car started life as a Dick Barbour 935 in factory bodywork. It was run by Barbour/Garretson with local PCA/GGR region volunteers as they were based out of Mt. View near San Jose. I remember when I bought the Coca Cola 935-84 it had a decal on the dash that said, "To Hell With How They Do It In California" and that was directed at Barbour and Garretson.
Car is back in factory bodywork after Carlos DeQuesada had Paul Willison restore it before he sold it five years or so ago.

It was also the Apple K3 for six or seven races and it was the sister car to one of my old 935's , the blue Style Auto #9 . Then again shared the black BP livery to my 930 770 0911 935 . Then it became the yellow Red Roofs Inn car then Flyling Tigers livery

Various livery's while yellow with Pelican's own Grady Clay (R.I.P.) as a driver for 3 or 4 races then back to black for Le Mans in 1982 where my old 0911 935 finished 5th overall.

Then the car went to Wayne Baker in 1983 who kicked butt with the car as a 934 including an outright win at the Sebring 12 Hours

For 1984 the car went back into K3 bodywork and with the GTX class abolished had to run in the GTP class with the prototype cars but was still competitive.

1985 the car went into 934 bodywork again and raced as the red Electromotive/Chester Vincent car in GTO until 1987

Only had two outright wins, Daytona 24 in 1981 and the Sebring 12 Hour in 1983 at the Wayne Baker GTO 934 but if you are going to win a race those are two of the better ones to win.

It would not be my first choice in a 935 to own just because of my own personal preference but it is certainly one of the more significant 935's . Adam has a great car and hopefully now that the car is living in the USA again we will see it on track in the future.

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