The Magic Of Dealer Plates 

"NoahthePorscheGuy" (porsche) 09/01/2015 at 15:33 • Filed to: None

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Sure its the last road legal Porsche Prototype Racer*, but that doesn’t mean you see it on the road every day.

*That anyone could buy at the factory then drive to LeMans. Not counting the single road registered 917k

RallyWrench > NoahthePorscheGuy 09/01/2015 at 16:23

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I remember reading that there was one 906 road registered in CA some time back, Jeff Zwart drove it from LA up to Monterey, as I recall.

WiscoProud > NoahthePorscheGuy 09/01/2015 at 17:46

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Goddamn, the wail that thing makes is glorious

904 GTS > RallyWrench 09/01/2015 at 21:37

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In Jeff’s case - [Cali Historic Vehicle] plate in the rear only.

904 GTS > NoahthePorscheGuy 09/01/2015 at 21:44

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There were at least 3 real P-factory-issue road registered 917Ks: Count Rossi’s, Herbert von Karajan’s and another gentleman’s in Germany.

NoahthePorscheGuy > 904 GTS 09/02/2015 at 00:40

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I was always under the assumption that Count Rossi’s was the only one from the factory. I heard #021/12 was converted to road use in the 80s, but was then converted back. Any idea of the chassis numbers for the others?

904 GTS > NoahthePorscheGuy 09/02/2015 at 11:03

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Count Rossi’s

The German gentleman’s, that has since been converted back to it’s glory days livery, here at Goodwood a few years ago

Herbert von Karajan was a famous Austrian subject and noted Salzburg orchestra conductor. Will need to ask at P AG Archive as well as ask my dear Austrian friends to shed more light onto that 917.

This one, that beautifully executed reproduction from Australia, was (or still is) road registered in Austria, able to do so only because of von Karajan’s precedent:

Equipped with a most potent 993 flat-fan engine built especially for that car. Perfect execution to be sure. Correct everything but the engine and gear box, now almost unobtainable and if found, priced in the stratosphere...

No wonder the above reproduction is so perfect in every way - it was created using Allan Hamilton’s 917-033 as a sample to follow... The above car even has the correct single nut hubs and correct 917 wheels too, both reproduced by the Australian. Amazingly good execution, indistinguishable from the original, unless viewed from the back or with the rear body work lifted of removed. A splendid looking 917K.

NoahthePorscheGuy > 904 GTS 09/02/2015 at 11:27

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Exactly. Only 1 917k (Count Rossi’s) was able to be driven on the street from the factory. The Martini car is 917-021/12, which is now no longer drivable on the street and was converted not, from the factory. The reproduction is a reproduction and therefore doesn’t count in this instance, as beautiful as it may be.

904 GTS > NoahthePorscheGuy 09/02/2015 at 12:12

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The 917K of Count Rossi was done at the factory as well as Herbert von Karajan’s 917, no doubt. No idea who did the German gentleman’s car at the time. But it was well known among the people in the know, so it’ll be relatively easy to find more about that car, perhaps when I’ll see them at the end of the month at the Rennsport Reunion at Laguna Seca.

NoahthePorscheGuy > 904 GTS 09/04/2015 at 18:27

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Yes, please ask for me. Would be very interested to know.