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"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 08/06/2017 at 07:32 • Filed to: Paaaaarsh, Dots

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This is like porn to some of you, I’m sure.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/06/2017 at 07:40

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The 911 Safari 4? Awesome!

for Michigan > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/06/2017 at 07:43

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Rally Porsche is best Porsche.

pip bip - choose Corrour > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/06/2017 at 07:44

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GIB!

AuthiCooper1300 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/06/2017 at 07:59

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Plus point: it’s got the ducktail spoiler. For reasons unknown, “tribute” and “replica” Safari 911 SCs usually wear the ‘84-on Carrera wings. Ugh.

Minus points: the pod of auxiliary lights looks like the one in a Stratos (or later tarmac-spec 911 SCs). The real Safari SCs had three (not four) free-standing aux lights on the bonnet, plus one affixed to the navigator’s door (probably the swivelling type?)

Maybe the law prevents the owner from fitting an odd number of headlights so I’ll give it a pass.

Not very happy with the spare wheel mounting either (you don’t want to make a Safari spec 911 even more top-heavy) or the roof rack but some people seem to have a sort of fetish with these things.

Or else regulations forbid the use of service barges (assuming the owner actually enters the car in competitive events, of course).

7/10.

JeepJeremy > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/06/2017 at 08:57

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That’s rad as fuck!

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/06/2017 at 09:45

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This guy puts some insane miles on.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > AuthiCooper1300 08/06/2017 at 21:06

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Doesn’t matter if it’s historically accurate, it’s still cool.

AuthiCooper1300 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/06/2017 at 21:18

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Not saying it is not cool, but given the fact that building a replica Safari 911 is not exactly inexpensive... why not doing it right? Granted, at least it is not a bad copy with a botched Martini paintjob.

In any case, in my quite facetious analysis I also admitted that installing three driving lights on the bonnet (or one on the door, for that matter) may not be at all legal, so it is ultimately OK.

But why anyone would put such a huge, heavy spare wheel so high on a car which now is not exactly low beats me. Handling must be rather “interesting”.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > AuthiCooper1300 08/06/2017 at 21:25

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Who says it’s made to be a replica of a Safari? Maybe it’s the owner’s own take on how to do a rally car.

AuthiCooper1300 > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 08/06/2017 at 21:26

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Oh dear, I had not noticed the rear view mirrors. I’ve heard those are basically useless. They are definitely for the track only: ever seen a rally car with those?

The owner must be trying to reduce the cross-section of the car then. But good for him if he indeed drives long distance and long events in it.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > AuthiCooper1300 08/06/2017 at 21:35

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Him and 3 others trekked out from NY to Cali for the Luftgehuhlt meet in May.

AuthiCooper1300 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/06/2017 at 21:48

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Well, because rallying 911s were never like that! Rallycross... maybe. Rally 911s, not. So if you do something with your car that looks so close to the only two cars that ever existed with that specification, I assume it must be some sort of replica.

The only rally 911s with that amount of ground clearance were the Works “Martini” ones for the ‘78 Safari and the Rothmans (and later Foltčne) 4x4 Typ 953 for the Paris-Dakar (which, incidentally, is not exactly a rally, but a raid).

Not even previous works entries in the Safari (with old-style bumpers) were so tall.

The reason is simple: old 911s were best on tarmac (dry or not), or, at a pinch, on “clean” forest stages which don’t need such enormous suspension travel. Once you start dialling the torsion bars for max ground clearance, the rear suspension arms take a huge beating - and break.

The only outfit that has managed to make the old 911 really competitive (meaning: able to consistently finish as victors) on Safari-type events is team Tuthill... now, but nobody in period achieved anything like that except with the Typ 953. However:

a) it was a different kind of event (raid); and

b) the car did not have to comply with international rallying regulations such as the previous Group 4 or, at the time, Group B.

I imagine Tuthill took advantage of the lessons learned by Prodrive when they were doing some semi-official rallying in the Middle East. (Interestingly, instead of trying to start off with what Porsche had done for decades they rethought comletely how to deal with rear arms breakage, and it seems they mostly succeeded.)

AuthiCooper1300 > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 08/06/2017 at 22:07

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I like him much better now!

(But I still think it would be very nice if one day he decided to go the whole hog and add the Martini livery, install the right lights, and fashion a copy of the Safari front and rear ‘roo bars.)

(OK, the Martini bit is quite OTT, but matching the rest would be lovely)

TFSIVTEC drivesavolvo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/09/2017 at 14:05

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My dad saw that last Sunday as well and is obsessed.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > TFSIVTEC drivesavolvo 08/09/2017 at 16:05

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Oddly enough it was parked outside the food pantry... Must have spent all their money on the car :D