DSCBoy
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Well folks, I finally took delivery of the new beast yesterday following a lengthy wait and as promised when I've been picking the brains of you all on this forum here's the full SP:
The car on initial visual inspection is a 40,000km, widebody 964 with integral Matter cage, painted a slightly bizarre Mercedes Designo colour, it looks battleship grey in some lights (actually very cool) and metallic light blue in others (like the standard 964 colour). It has a full bespoke interior, with carpet made to match the paint and a dark red leather lining that covers roof... all glued in around the tied in cage.. including the dash being fully covered and some carbon fibre highlights. However beyond this nothing in the way of sound deadening has been added. And someone has spent LUDICROUS amounts of dough on it... even down to the "RS" logo stitched into the back bulkhead being leather cut outs in the same leather.
Doors are aluminium, wheels are full 3.8 RS Speedline for Porsche, brakes are big and red running on Girling aluminium hubs.
Paperwork shows it to be 1 of the first 50 RS Clubsports, originally Red, but shell is clearly unaltered and under the current paint appears to have been Grand Prix White originally.
Finally, it has a 3.6 litre BiTurbo grunter... built (again at major cost) by Turbo Technics Pietz who I am told do the Gemballa engines, with a water cooling system for the turbos.
My documentation notes the car as having been rebuilt into the shell of 96ZPS497@@@, for which I have a copy of the original logbook, which shows it to have been a Grand Prix White 3.8 RS Clubsport.
The question I'm going to get asked next is who, what and most of all why? Well as often with these things, it's a story about having just TOO much money!
I've bought the car from a company of architects, who were given it by it's creator, Dr Schumacher. The Herr Doctor was the boss of German chip company, Infineon, and was making rather a lot of money during the dot com boom. From what we know, his collection ran to 40-50 cars, included in which were at least 2 RS C/S (one of which he lent to a friend for a track day, and when the guy finally got around to giving the car back 2.5 years later he hadn't noticed it was missing!), a 3.8 RS C/S and a couple of 3.8 RSR race cars.
However, the 3.8 RSR's were not factory builts, instead they were created by race teams from shells sold by the factory, so while they had a shell number, they didn't have a VIN and hence couldn't be made road legal. However, following a smash that destroyed the RSR's engine (broke the crank apparently), Dr S decided that he'd like to convert this into a road car, so he took the engine and the VIN from the 3.8 RS C/S and Robert's your mothers brother, one road going 3.8 RSR!
They now had a problem of what to do with the engine-less 3.8 RS... but the good Herr Doctor doesn't seem to have been the Worlds "luckiest" driver, and some time previously he had attempted to interface the hand brake lever on his Red RS C/S with a tree trunk... fortunately (!?) via the passenger door rather than the drivers one and this wreckage was sat in the corner of the collection... so another simple swap of the VINs onto the pristine 3.8 RS C/S and the car was headed for the road again... however given he already had one totally hard core 3.8 on the road now (the ex- race car), the decision was made to unload a truck of Euros in the direction of his favourite mechanics to build him "something unique".
Hence we have what I suppose should be known as the Infineon 3.8 RS Biturbo.
Some of you may be aware of the downfall of Dr S and it's not the place of this forum to stray too far into it, suffice to say there was accusations that Infineon's very high profile sponsorship of a team in the SuperCup series involved some kick backs that definitely went to the marketing guy and may have gone higher... and this cloud of suspicion was a little hard to shake... there was then some suggestion that the architects retained to build the new Campus for Infineon didn't go through the correct bid process/ and were family friends of Dr S and the board terminated his contract (and that of the architects). So just 6 months after it was built, the car was given to the architects as an apology for the loss of the deal, and has been off the road ever since while they worked out what to do with it. (Sep 03).
Rest assured, she's now fully re-commisioned, freed from captivity, and with 450bhp and 510nm of torque, she's ludicrously quick as you can imagine given I would guess she weighs only a smidge more than a normal 3.8 RS C/S...
In fact, after 600km together yesterday, I think I'm in love!
As always, love to hear your opinions on the story above! Now to work out how to post some pics!
Cheers
Rick
The car on initial visual inspection is a 40,000km, widebody 964 with integral Matter cage, painted a slightly bizarre Mercedes Designo colour, it looks battleship grey in some lights (actually very cool) and metallic light blue in others (like the standard 964 colour). It has a full bespoke interior, with carpet made to match the paint and a dark red leather lining that covers roof... all glued in around the tied in cage.. including the dash being fully covered and some carbon fibre highlights. However beyond this nothing in the way of sound deadening has been added. And someone has spent LUDICROUS amounts of dough on it... even down to the "RS" logo stitched into the back bulkhead being leather cut outs in the same leather.
Doors are aluminium, wheels are full 3.8 RS Speedline for Porsche, brakes are big and red running on Girling aluminium hubs.
Paperwork shows it to be 1 of the first 50 RS Clubsports, originally Red, but shell is clearly unaltered and under the current paint appears to have been Grand Prix White originally.
Finally, it has a 3.6 litre BiTurbo grunter... built (again at major cost) by Turbo Technics Pietz who I am told do the Gemballa engines, with a water cooling system for the turbos.
My documentation notes the car as having been rebuilt into the shell of 96ZPS497@@@, for which I have a copy of the original logbook, which shows it to have been a Grand Prix White 3.8 RS Clubsport.
The question I'm going to get asked next is who, what and most of all why? Well as often with these things, it's a story about having just TOO much money!
I've bought the car from a company of architects, who were given it by it's creator, Dr Schumacher. The Herr Doctor was the boss of German chip company, Infineon, and was making rather a lot of money during the dot com boom. From what we know, his collection ran to 40-50 cars, included in which were at least 2 RS C/S (one of which he lent to a friend for a track day, and when the guy finally got around to giving the car back 2.5 years later he hadn't noticed it was missing!), a 3.8 RS C/S and a couple of 3.8 RSR race cars.
However, the 3.8 RSR's were not factory builts, instead they were created by race teams from shells sold by the factory, so while they had a shell number, they didn't have a VIN and hence couldn't be made road legal. However, following a smash that destroyed the RSR's engine (broke the crank apparently), Dr S decided that he'd like to convert this into a road car, so he took the engine and the VIN from the 3.8 RS C/S and Robert's your mothers brother, one road going 3.8 RSR!
They now had a problem of what to do with the engine-less 3.8 RS... but the good Herr Doctor doesn't seem to have been the Worlds "luckiest" driver, and some time previously he had attempted to interface the hand brake lever on his Red RS C/S with a tree trunk... fortunately (!?) via the passenger door rather than the drivers one and this wreckage was sat in the corner of the collection... so another simple swap of the VINs onto the pristine 3.8 RS C/S and the car was headed for the road again... however given he already had one totally hard core 3.8 on the road now (the ex- race car), the decision was made to unload a truck of Euros in the direction of his favourite mechanics to build him "something unique".
Hence we have what I suppose should be known as the Infineon 3.8 RS Biturbo.
Some of you may be aware of the downfall of Dr S and it's not the place of this forum to stray too far into it, suffice to say there was accusations that Infineon's very high profile sponsorship of a team in the SuperCup series involved some kick backs that definitely went to the marketing guy and may have gone higher... and this cloud of suspicion was a little hard to shake... there was then some suggestion that the architects retained to build the new Campus for Infineon didn't go through the correct bid process/ and were family friends of Dr S and the board terminated his contract (and that of the architects). So just 6 months after it was built, the car was given to the architects as an apology for the loss of the deal, and has been off the road ever since while they worked out what to do with it. (Sep 03).
Rest assured, she's now fully re-commisioned, freed from captivity, and with 450bhp and 510nm of torque, she's ludicrously quick as you can imagine given I would guess she weighs only a smidge more than a normal 3.8 RS C/S...
In fact, after 600km together yesterday, I think I'm in love!
As always, love to hear your opinions on the story above! Now to work out how to post some pics!
Cheers
Rick
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