MINHAS MINIATURAS – Uma breve explicação sobre o porque deste Porsche. Como muitas miniaturas que tenho este é mais um dos que montei já vai muitos anos, e tinha feitos as devidas transformações para fazer a réplica do Porsche do Clemente Ribeiro de Sousa da Arbo, projecto nunca acabado e guardado numa caixa, uns anos mais tarde lá o tirei da garagem todo partido e com uma reparação e sem qualquer objectivo de decoração lá ficou verde, caixa com ele, mais uns anitos e eis-me a vaguear pela net e descobrir es
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miniatura, como é verde e eu sou a favor da reciclagem decidi prestar a minha homenagem aos ecologistas, (nem queiram saber o que me custa dizer estas palavras) e depois de muito pesquisar encontrei alguns dados sobre este Porsche. A ver se este não é mais um projecto a 20 anos.
A miniatura para ser tranformada
O CARRO:
Pilotos: Bill Webbe e Hurley Haywood
Chassis: 911.460.0037
Este foi um dos 15 RSR 3 litros construídos para a IROC (International Race of Champions)
. Segundo o livro de John Starkey's "Porsche 911 R-RS-RSR, Production and Racing History, Individual Chassis Record RSR 2.8/3.0 & RS 3.0" na página 134:
"Chassis: 911 460 0037, Engine 684 0027, Production number: 1040211, Lime green, IROC Championship. Riverside (1) October 1973 : DNS (back-up car). Riverside (2) October 28th 1973: Mark Donohue 12th, DNF. Riverside 3 George Follmer, 5th. Used as practice car at Daytona IROC final. Then prepared by Franz Blam Racing in Atlanta to 1974 RSR specification. This is the car owned by Bill Webbe of Applejack Racing, Lake Zurich, Illinois and shared with Hurley Haywood.
Mid-Ohio 1974
Mid-Ohio 1974
1974 TransAm series:
Road America: 4th, Haywood
Ontario: retired (engine) when 3rd, Haywood / Webbe
Mid-Ohio: 2nd, Haywood / Webbe
Daytona Paul Revere 200: Haywood / Webbe 1st overall
Talladega: 9th Webbe
Charlotte: 2nd, Haywood
5/9/74 Lime Rock: retired in first heat, 5th in second heat, Haywood
12/5/74 Laguna Seca, Haywood
21/4/74 Road Atlanta: 6th, Bondurant
Watkins Glen: Haywood, 1st
1974 IMSA Camel GT Series
12/4/74 Road Atlanta: Webbe / Bondurant, 6th
15/5/74 Laguna Seca: Haywood 6th
19/5/74 Ontario: Haywood DNF
30/6/74 Mid Ohio: Webbe / Haywood 2nd
4/7/74 Daytona: Haywood 1st
10/8/74 Talladega: Webbe 9th
18/8/74 Charlotte: Haywood 2nd
2/9/74 Lime Rock: Haywood, 31st in first heat, 5th in 2nd heat
20/10/74 Mexico: Haywood / Gregg, 27th (leading when bearing went)
Sold to Marcell and Miguel Quintinella, Mexico City
Sold to Doug Lutz
Sold to Karl Durkheimer
Sold to James Hadley
Sold to Don Orosco
Actual estado do Porsche
Carta datada de 18 Abril 1988 de James Hadley para Don Orosco detalhando a restauração:
"My particular car is the "lime green penalty box" referred to in the Road and Track article. It was a back up practice car at Riverside that was used in the second and third Riverside races with Mark Donahue and George Follmer, respectively, driving. These two drivers finished first and second overall in the 1974 IROC series.
The car was subsequently purchased by Bill Webbe of Applejack Racing where it was campaigned by Hurley Haywood when he was not codriving with Peter Gregg. Hurley and Peter Gregg co-drove this car in Mexico where the car was leading when it retired due to a bearing problem. The car finished first overall in both the IMSA (Daytona) and SCCA TransAM (Limerock) races. The car was sold after the 1974 season to Roberto and Miguel Quintinella in Mexico, then returned to the states in 1979 and campaigned by Doug Lutz.
Restoration efforts have taken more than four years, much of which was devoted to locating original parts to restore the car to its IROC configuration as the years of racing had taken their toll in terms of modifications.
The chassis has been restored from the ground up with original steel RSR 9" and 11" flares, dry sump relocated to the rear as original, fuel cell removed and RSR plastic gas tank installed etc.
Fontes:
1974 Porsche IROC series & Forum Auto, Les Porsche des grandes écuries américaines (Frances)
e muitos outros que não anotei os links e que posteriormente vou acrescentando.
AGRADEÇO MAIS DADOS E FOTOGRAFIAS SOBRE ESTE CARRO
ai dai numa atitude nada chauvinista a vitória vai para o 5º classificado, que por acaso, só por acaso era um Citroen DS21 conduzido por P. Toivonen. A confusão estava estabelecida mas para azar dos franceses a enorme publicidade em torno deste lindo episódio favoreceu como nunca a BMC, por vezes Deus escreve por linhas tortas… Mas em 1967 os ingleses voltaram ao ataque do Monte Carlo com a armada Mini a ser constituída por: 
