Have you blokes ever seen this car?
This is a very significant & almost mythical car. It is the 1974 Paris Motor Show Porsche Turbo prototype. It was built on the shell of a 1973 911S coupe. The chassis number shown on the sales sheet should have a 6 between 3 and 0. It's the first 911 to wear the bigger bumpers, turbo flares and a whale tail. As shown in Paris the car's engine had a real bottom end but the upper "turbo" plumbing was in fact made of wood. The car is often referred to as having a wooden engine, but this is not correct. The car did the Motor Show circuit here in Australia and then returned to the factory, its life as a show car over. It soon returned to Australia to become a successful race car and had many victories. Once its race career finished, it was turned into a road car and passed through a number of hands over the years. I took these photos at a Sydney dealer in Jan 2007. The paintwork looks a bit flat because it was being polished at the time. I believe that the car was sold to a fortunate new owner in Chicago.
I saw this car race as a young chap many times in Australia.
Anyone know anything about it now?
