The saga of Porsche U27 continues….
January 27th, 2010, Features
Photos: provided by Steve Knoll of www.laprecord.com
The saga of Porsche U27 continues, but, from the beginning. If you have been following the story, you have seen the end result of Marc’s monumental effort to build what is without question, one of the finest tribute cars ever.
Remember the car was built as a tribute to the 1968 Trans-Am under 2.0 liter championship winning Porsche- piloted by our good friend and Orange County resident Tony a2z. Unlike most tribute cars however, those who were involved in the original engineering, building and driving of the championship winning car, were involved in this car as well; pretty heady stuff when we think that it all happened over 40 years ago.
We have shown you the finished product, but, what did it take to get it there? A lot!!!!
This build is no - throw together - paint it nice so it only looks good effort. Marc wanted the car to represent the championship winning car in every possible way. It had to be as accurate to the original as possible and not only aesthetically, it had to perform too.
History would again prove that it does indeed repeat it-self. “When the project commenced, and much the way Tony’s second car of that season came to life, this car started out as sort of a junk yard dog” says Marc. A roller chassis came from Dave Bouzaglou at TRE. The balance of the needed parts came from where-ever they could be found.
Marc built a rotisserie for the chassis and then the work started. All of the cars undercoating and seam sealer was removed….pounds of it. The rotisserie was also used for all of the body work and paint prep. Marc states “as all of the work was being done, Tony and Mac were compiling mountains of detailed information as they recalled the car”. Marc also found the “blueprint” of the car intriguing as “these guys developed the car, many of the modifications were utilized for years to come, yet few people seem to know how many of these (modifications) came from this car”.
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