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timarnold
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My mate has just "restored" his 993 GT2 racer (Paul - you know the guy and the car [
])... restored in so much as completely stripped down had a bare metal repaint and been put back together. It was looking decidedly tatty and he wanted it minted to keep in his garage having now retired it from racing. The car was one of only 4 built by Roock for Porsche and run by the factory at Le Mans. Since then the current owner has run it in British GT, Britcar, Belcar, etc with great success. He's not planning to sell it so in a way the value of it is irrelevant, but he believes it will be worth upwards of £250,000 with the history it has -- someone else suggested double that (?)... would you consider repainting it to be a bad move? On a slight tangent -- when is any race car original? The day it leaves the factory? Most race cars that are used for the purpose they were designed are going to be changed -- upgrades, mods, accident damage repairs, engine rebuilds/enginne replacements, repaints (for sponsor changes for example). Does that really affect their value? 20 years after it left the factory, is it really ever going to be the same car?
timarnold
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Paul, are there hire drives available in these classic/historic Porsches in the Silverstone Classic? If so what is the cost?
I quite fancy doing some historic or classic racing! Had been thinking about doing something, a one-off or something. The other alternative I've been thinking about was going back to my roots, so to speak, and doing some classic Formula Ford. Some of them are silly money now though -- the first race car I ever drove when I was 15, was a Merlyn Mk20a, I then trained in those and Van Diemen RF78's at JRIRDS and then won my first ever race in a Merlyn Mk20a, so the Merlyn would be the preferred choice, but they are fetching £20K plus today!
Being a long time Porsche fan I would love to race a historic or classic one!
I asked Porsche about the original build numbers for my 996 GT3R-S2.
They made it quite clear that they do not wish to do this for Race cars.
Why ? Because cars are often supplied with a selection of numbered replacement assemblies, so which is the original car ?
They no longer supply replacement shells because duplicate cars were created, so now you can only exchange a shell and retain the original Vin.
On which basis, it the shell is original and straight, you are doing well []
If it has history, even better []
But can you image advertising -- previous shells have ... [][][]
They made it quite clear that they do not wish to do this for Race cars.
Why ? Because cars are often supplied with a selection of numbered replacement assemblies, so which is the original car ?
They no longer supply replacement shells because duplicate cars were created, so now you can only exchange a shell and retain the original Vin.
On which basis, it the shell is original and straight, you are doing well [
]If it has history, even better [
]But can you image advertising -- previous shells have ... [
][][]
DSCBoy
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Paul, you'll need a lot of cars to get on the Classic bill... the Touring Car grid for Super 2000 etc didn't get a look in this year which was a real shame as there was a lot of interest in the cars after last year... despite having a good 20 FAMOUS cars in original liveries on offer to the organiser (as I was told... ).
Problem with GT90 can be summed up in 1 word.... RATEL. As usual costs are silly for track time available as you are subsidising his current baby... but not place for that rant (again!).
Problem with GT90 can be summed up in 1 word.... RATEL. As usual costs are silly for track time available as you are subsidising his current baby... but not place for that rant (again!).
Watch it he's got good solicitors![]
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