Back in the old Porsche Cup days, the early shells were the cars of choice to chop up and turn into race cars.  It made sense – they were light and plentiful, and who would want a stylish long nose car when Miami Vice influenced the trends of excess.  Everyone wanted a 911 that looked like the outrageous Gemballa Avalanche and Konig Road Runner specials that had tails so big you could land a helicopter on them.  Heck, I still want a Scarab and a pet crocodile just like Sonny Crockett…

 

The dilemma now is what to do when you have a one of those early shell Cup Cars…  With the price of the early model cars, particularly like a 1969 E like this one the choice is quite difficult. One option is to rebuild the car back to standard, find the matching number engine and pretend that owning a car that has the power of the average lawn mower actually excites you.  Or you could go down this path and build a toy that can be used on the road and on the track…

This build is not cutting any corners at all!  Unfortunately the firewall was substantially cut out as was the trend for the old school Porsche Cup Cars.  New panels needed to be welded in and I needed to form a new transmission tunnel to suit the stronger G50 gearbox while retaining the standard look.  The full cage was cut out and replaced by a beautifully welded bolt in cage to make it road legal again.  The car already had MCA shocks which are as good as money could possibly buy, so only the spring rate needed to be adjusted to suit other than replating everything and making sure everything was spotlessly clean.

I have never been a fan of the 993 GT2 look so it was quite a relief to cut the quarters off the old yellow car.  They were replaced by rear flares that could be best described as ‘911 ST flares plus a little bit of extra width’.  The whole body was taken back to bare metal.  Every dint in the body and place in the floorpan where the car was jacked up where it shouldn’t have been, has been repaired.  The shell really looks amazing as repainted in Ivory White.

To sum this build up with a few dodgy photos really doesn’t do it justice to the amount of work to get it to this stage…