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Originally Posted by Reaper930
If only 1 944 GTP was ever made how do you explain the following:
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In that picture, one of those cars is based off a 924 and the other is based off a 944. They are not hte same as the Bruce Jenner/Elliot Forbes-Robinson car that Holbert made. They are more accurately decribed as GTP cars.
I have a book on the history of Porsche motorsport which talks about those two cars specifically. The 944 based one has a one-off 16 valve head which debuted racing before the 944S even came out; it was based on the head from the Indycar v8 porsche developed in the early 80's that never happened.
The 39 car is the 944 and the 36 car is a 924.
this is the 39 car's motor:
The Al Holbert racing GTR's were single overhead cam. The one pictured along side it's 924 GTP twin is a 16v car and very, very special.