"Tripper" (tripe46)
05/05/2017 at 12:04 • Filed to: None
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"Tripper" (tripe46)
05/05/2017 at 12:04 • Filed to: None | 1
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I love 911's. Modded ones, stock ones, pink ones, ratty ones. However I hate “RWB” cars. They are the “daytime TV” of 911's. I can’t conceive a worse fate for an otherwise beautiful car (total destruction excluded).
I have found though Oppo, and chatting with a few Type 2 owners, that most people feel the same way about any mod to a Type 2. If that is how you feel I completely understand. So this is a warning that the video below contains a heavily modded Type 2/911 on a racetrack.
Leave your praise or hate below. I’m excitedly awaiting my root canal appointment, I can feel my heartbeat in my tooth. You can’t hurt me right now.
McMike
> Tripper
05/05/2017 at 12:25 |
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That started off life as a crew-cab Vanagon truck (DOKA). They stretched the split window bus body in order to fit over it.
Unfortunately, their website is no longer up. They had a great gallery of the build. http://www.race-taxi.ch/
But here’s a video with a few of the photos in it. A LOT of work went into this thing.
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Tripper
> McMike
05/05/2017 at 12:30 |
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Wow, you aren’t kidding. That is awesome!
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McMike
> Tripper
05/05/2017 at 12:41 |
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We were discussing that thing on Vanagon message boards since they made it. :) None of us were upset by it one bit.
BobintheMtns
> Tripper
05/05/2017 at 13:24 |
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That is just buckets of sickness. Too cool.
Except I think it’d be a bit disconcerting to be on the track in a car where you have literally no protection/impact zone in front of you.... I’m sure some roll cage has been added.. but still.. your whole body is forward the front axle.
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Tripper
> BobintheMtns
05/05/2017 at 13:24 |
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I thought the same thing about it being on a track.
AuthiCooper1300
> Tripper
05/05/2017 at 14:11 |
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I think it is fine. For me, however, putting a big 911 engine and big wheels doesn’t go very well with such an early Typ 2 - not “period” enough. The modification itself I don’t mind that much.
It seems Porsche got the inspiration for their B32 from a VW Transporter with an 911 engine which they had for harsh climate testing of preseries cars: obviously the standard engine could not cope with following, say, a 944 Turbo going full tilt through the Algerian desert. I have never found out, however, whether it was a “bay window” one or a T3. Does anyone here know anything about it?
(Incidentally, don’t believe the story of the B32 starting as a support vehicle for the Paris-Dakar. It did not happen that way. For that they had very nice MAN trucks and Merc G-Wagens - even one with a 928 engine.)
torque
> McMike
05/05/2017 at 23:24 |
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I was going to say much the same, I remember reading the build years ago. In case you couldn’t of guessed, the shell was widened quite a bit (12"?) or something like that. Really amazing build
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McMike
> torque
05/06/2017 at 08:20 |
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Shame their website is not longer up. Everyone enjoyed that gallery.
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torque
> McMike
05/06/2017 at 19:49 |
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I completely agree!