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Is my old 944 S2 out there?

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I have just joined the club after quite a long absence due to kids and wondered if my old guards red 944 S2 coupe is being looked after by a fellow club member? I sold Reg H182 KBL in 2001 to JZ Mactech in Hertfordshire. She was totally standard with pinstripe interior.

Would love to hear from the owner if they are a member.


 

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I have just joined the club after quite a long absence due to kids and wondered if my old guards red 944 S2 coupe is being looked after by a fellow club member? I sold Reg H182 KBL in 2001 to JZ Mactech in Hertfordshire. She was totally standard with pinstripe interior.

Would love to hear from the owner if they are a member.
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Now that is a car with an interesting history! I bought it from Henry, drove it around for several years then got the track bug and stripped it to build a race car about 4 years back. I ended up doing an exchange with EMC on it who raced it with Alex Eacock and Pete Morris in CSCC and many times, Pete's son Ross drove it as well including some PCGB race events. For a couple of years they had the number plates on the wall of the garage. I believe H182 KBL is now with Stuart Eddie, it was raced last year a bit in PCGB not sure what is happening with it this year. Great car though I used to drive the thing everywhere and for 3 years it was my only mode of transport but it was up over 160K miles by the time it started its rebirth.

The pinstripe seats btw are now in a VW camper van in Yeovil.

The small world thing in all this has many circles. Pete for example knows Henry Firman pretty well as they raced together I believe several years back in GT3s.
 
Neil many thanks. Kind of sad as the missus and I have some great memories of the old girl but the idea of her blasting round a track is also fantastic.

I wonder if this is opportunity to get my race licence and bring her back into the fold.

What's the best way of trying to contact Stuart Eddie? Any help appreciated.

Cheers




 
Kind of sad maybe, but in fact the conversion to race-car has probably saved the car. At one point Neil and I were looking at swapping this S2 for my Turbo. I dismissed it as being just on the cusp of becoming a money-pit, as a result of rust starting to fester in the usual places, and seriously fading and hard cut-back paintwork. As a road car it would of course have been more viable to break for spares and that would have been that. As a race-car, with all the saleable bits already removed to save weight, and the relevant racing bits added, a little welding here and there is no great expense or effort alongside the other work. Perversely, it is probably now in better shape than ever if some-one wanted to put it back on the road!

I remember it as one of the sweetest handling 944s I have driven.
 
1st of all as this thread needs some gratuitous pics of said car burning round a track!

James, can I chip in with a suggestion possibly..............

I have be in a similar situation and having tracked another marque of car down realised too slowly what a money pit it was as a result of having had a hard life after my ownership.

If you would 110% go out there irrelevant of this car and race something then by all means try and find this car and see if its serviceable.

If you would only race it as thats the state its in, why not spend some money on a nice road going example that someone has already put some work into and is a good example that you can create some new memories in!
 
Fair points from all!

The idea of a well looked after S2 with someone else pouring the cash in sounds great! I reckon the missus would love a cab, just need to free up some garage space.

Happy driving all.
 
Tref is spot on. Part of my motivation with the race car build was simply the fact that putting a lot of money into either a 160K mile 944 or 968 is money down the drain. Good ground up built S2 race cars are worth £10K+ all day long whereas most S2s these days are down around 2 or 3 grand. I also loved driving on track so had poured money into the cars mechanicals over the years, it was perfect in terms of stop go and cornering and had a near perfect interior but this is the reality with these cars sadly and at that point it was worth as much as a scraper as a usable car for someone.

Punch my name into youtube and you can see me racing against Ross Morris at Silverstone a couple of years back.
 
Or: did you exchange the body with one that Kevin had already prepared meaing that your original Guards car became a bitsa?
 
2nd option is closer to what happened, my car is now F333 GHR (I think, need to remember to put the SORN in again). As you know most race cars are bitsas anyway as things break, get rebuilt, get replaced and get crash repaired. Kev's outfit (EMC) is about as close to a production line for race cars as I think I have seen or heard of for a UK specialist, I believe some years they have built close on double digit numbers of race cars and probably 2/3rds or more of the front engined race cars in the UK have either been built by them or have EMC motorsport body shells.
 
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