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MODS: After giving it plenty of thought, I've made the decision to keep her. Please close this thread. Moving the backstory thread over to the 911/930 sub-forum. Thanks.

i count at least 5 "stable" references....

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Originally Posted by juanbenae (Post 12082543)

i count at least 5 "stable" references....

I could only squeeze the reference in twice!

That said, to bring it to five… stable, stable, stable.

Meow. :)

To provide some additional background on where she came from and who built her…

John Simone and Ron Palmer out of San Diego built 10 of these 930 chassis 993 GT2 Evo/RSR race cars almost 20 years ago. This exact one was the 10th and final, which was John Simone’s personal race car until ~5-6 years ago.

5-6 years ago a gentleman in AZ bought her as an occasional HPDE track car. Then 3 years ago he listed her on BaT where she went RNM (the depths of COVID-craziness might have been a tough time to list a not-street legal race car). He and I got in touch following the auction and we struck a deal outside of BaT where I brought her home to Illinois and where she began her radical transformation into her current form.

Since she wasn’t registered or driven on the street for ~20 years, registration was the first point of order and the state of Vermont assisted with that (hence the VT plates - a loophole that’s since been tightened up). We then added all of the necessary lights (bi-xenon headlights, turn signals, reverse lights, gauges/gauge lights, etc) and we removed the classic Simone checkered livery and went with an exterior repaint to Polar Silver. She’s also been heavily sorted over the past 3 years (~5k miles) with rebuilt JRZs, fresh rear axles, brand new everything fueling and ignition related, brand new chassis wiring, new Tillett seats and Schroth harnesses, replaced rear wing with a true GT2 deck lid + banana wing, new massive twin Setrab oil coolers (which fit beneath the headlights), URW custom exhaust, added new lightweight rear carpeting and sound deadening, and much more.

And while the below thread isn’t about this exact car, @ted had his 911 built by John and Ron almost 20 years ago and he did an extensive write up about the build process back then here on Pelican… talk about finding a time capsule!

LINK: 911 re-body, from RSR+ to the EVO2.

Extremely tough car to give a valuation on which I imagine is why you're here.

The car was presumably bought around 35k, where the auction stalled. You've put a bunch of work into the car, and a bit of work into marketing (photos, video). If you're selling the car, I'd put it up on BaT with a reserve around what you've got into the car - if BaT says that's reasonable - and hope for the best. Worst case scenario you keep the car (which looks like a blast, and your buy-in was pennies on the dollar VS original build cost). Best case, 2 or 3 dudes start swinging their disposable incomes around and you make a couple bucks.

Good luck!