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Are you sure you are not Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?!?
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That one I am for sure: if you see me as a 6'5'' slim white collar suit person in my profession and as this crease faced cranky (sanding)dusty dirty monster man in old multilayered thick working clothes in garage especially in my 'body department tent' work, you can easily get to that particular conclusion. When it comes to my shared personality in processes and love to cars, again plenty of reasons for such dual approach. Some of these shared personality issues of mine:
one hand - other hand cases of mine:
- I love factory original classic cars <> I love heavily modified cars
- I love fast street driven cars <> I love fast track driven cars
- I love modern cars <> I love traditional cars
- I love comfortable cars <> I love cars stonehard suspensions
etc.
In this case with these two quite modified, not that collectible 911s as in this case can be seen more through the issue of building and maintenance: everyone who has really driven racing knows how much work there is to build a proper working solid car capable of racing without weaknesses and then after that the amount of maintenance and service it needs to remain as such.
But then the events: historic races, historic rallies, meetings, parades etc. do have cathegory thinking which differs from active clubracing rules in competitiveness. As I wrote, the best solution would be to build 4 completely different 911 cars from which two will differ from two other quite little technically. I feel just too lazy for that.
As an amateur racer without permanent crew and professional workshop the maintenance of keeping too many cars capable of racing just is not the case even if I still would like to participate every now and then to very different events. This creates the dual setup.
The one street 911 (grey) can dress occasionally for rallies with 15" tyres and small brakes with small bumpers and without side skirts).
That's why modern 964 style bodywork can be temporarily removed and replaced with rally one. Also if driving some rally, the paint do destroy quite easily with stone chips even if you don't crash, so different bodyparts (front hood, front bumper, front archs, rear bumper) for rally purpose are only smart. They must be removed anyway after rally to be painted, why not then to dress same car with street parts to have it in use meanwhile preparing rally parts.
The another 911 (green) can dress to (club)serious track events with widest slicks possible for time attack purposes and for club racing to really challenge modern GT3 Cup cars.
That's why the wide bodywork, the need of fitting wide slicks has remained long time and I've been searching the solution: earlier in this thread I had a stoopid idea (photoshop) of spreading this smooth curvy green Strosek body with extra wheel archs and luckily I decided not to as it has a great flow in its form right now. But I want to have occassionally maximum slicks because then this engine and brake combo with excellent suspension can be occasionally outmeasured in the way it deserves
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And if you like to call such dualism Dr. Jekyll - Mr. Hyde setup, you are probably very right.
I would rather say that for instance green is still like sleeper with its street tuning Strosek outlook for the performance potential it is capable of. Therefore it would be liberating for it to let it be sometimes K4 kind of hard working character to feel free in track rather than be dressed all the time to its smooth sleeperlike Strosek evening dress.
