Maybe a Motorsports ranch like Ascari's could put something together to store the cars, maintain them and provide a private circuit for the cars with dates blocked off specifically for the owners? The major difference is that the Ascari's can be driven on the street too.

http://www.ascari.net/secciones.php?...4cb4fb3ce0b767

Video on the Ascari Resort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlDI6n0Wc0

 

I have seen the red car up close at CA Speedway earlier this year, it was beautiful. I think it would be a lot of fun but you aren't going to make much (if any) money, unless you already own a business building glass replicas and can add the 917 to your line of cars and can build them cheap. At least their starting price isn't totally unreasonable- the guys from Ultima are trying to do the same thing in the US but are asking $2 million!

 

Not sure about other countries, but here in Oz it is relatively easy to get cars like that roadworthy. They obviously have to meet certain criteria, but not as demanding as mass produced vehicles. We can get them registered on a ' small volume manufacture' system. It basically has to pass our governing bodies engineering standards, which I'm sure it would or could with little effort. And let's face it what a fantastic road car. 800HP TT 3.3 pushing along 7-800kg, holy snappin' duck****!

 

Lola is reintroducing the T70, which can be driven on the road as well as the street from what I understand. Even the ERA GT40 can do both http://www.erareplicas.com/gt/gt.htm . But the thing about the 917 is its ALL FIBERGLASS. There's no monocoque tub. Just some very small/light tube framing and the fiberglass is attached to that. I think in a GT40 or T70 you survive a side impact but I certainly wouldn't want to get hit/driven over by an Escalade/Tahoe in a 917.

But, from what I understand, you can race an ERA GT40 in historic and you'll be able to do the same with the "new" T70. Unless you can get a flat 12 for one of these I'd doubt you'll be able to run it in that series.


Check out Carl Thompson's car (Porsche chassis # 037) at Gunnar Racing and you'll see what I mean about the construction:
http://www.gunnarracing.com/project/...rl917-1111.htm

http://www.pbase.com/917carl

 

It's hard to tell from that single picture, but it appears to me to be a tube frame and it's not small tubing except that used to hang the rear tail and front nose. I suspect it is race worthy.

Still the car is way too low for street use. If you did, you would need a very loud horn to alert the lane changing SUVs that they are about to run over you.

 

Right...where do you find one of these?

 

Jeff,
I bought a 427 cobra from ERA and while I was at the factory I watched them building a GT 40. Their car is far superior to the original in every way except weight. They build a beautiful set of cars. The fiberglass is only a shell because the tub is built like the old brick **** house. I would drive it anywhere.