Need to Use Your Porsche 935 For The Road? Lanzante Has You Covered.
A quick stop to Lanzante in England will get your 935 on the road. No joke.
We’ve all been there. Your Porsche 935 track car is really cool and all, but, you’d really like to use it on the road every now and then. But that’s a problem because Porsche made them for track use only. Frustrating, right? Well, we know a place that can help with this ever so common problem. It’s the folks from Lanzante.
You might not have heard of Lanzante specifically, but chances are you know their work. The McLaren F1 that won overall at Le Mans in 1995? Developed and ran by Lanzante Motorsports. I think that’s all we need to tell you about the company’s pedigree and know-how.
But winning at Le Mans and making a race car road legal are two different things. Lanzante’s first task was to add lighting. Though the 935 ran at Le Mans and needed lights there, they were placed where fog lights would be. Thus, the flat nose design. And when Porsche re-created this iconic car number, they did the same. So headlights needed to be added.
The headlights were not just added, but integrated into the exquisite bodywork of the 935. Note how they match the ducting in the frontal area looking like they should be there. And if we might add, even looking a bit like an alternate version of something you’d find on a Taycan. Add in wiring and switches, which all look like they are standard Porsche units, according to Octane.
Other items were changed too. The brake system grew an emergency brake, required to pass road legality tests. The wheels were changed too. Octane doesn’t explain why but we’ll guess the center lock system was changed to that of Porsche’s road-going cars. Even cupholders were added… just kidding.
Two of the original 77 examples are now road legal. One is a Marlboro-esque livery with V-angled shades of white and red. The other is an artistic interpretation of the silver and blue/red Martini livery.
Seeing that the two examples shown by Lanzante’s Goodwood display have European looking numberplate plaques, that’s likely where those two will end up. What that means is that maybe one day, we’ll see a Nurburgring cool car compilation with one of these beasts as the centerpiece.
Photos courtesy of Octane
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