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Anyone ever heard of a 928 S4 GTE?

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Old 01-17-2008, 12:22 PM
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Default Anyone ever heard of a 928 S4 GTE?

This is from 911 & Porsche World (I think) published a bunch of years ago. The letter from Porsche seems to confirm this special addition. Wondering if the body add ons are original to the car from Porsche or AIR products?

Interesting....

Old 01-17-2008, 12:54 PM
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Chuck,

The article mentions Kremer making the mirrors. Kremer made a similar front bumper cover as well as rear valance. There is a Kremer S-4 here in Fl that I looked at about 8 months ago. Here is a picture.
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looks identical to the $1399 kit we have been discussing here recently.
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erm $1295 kit
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The first time that I see a body kit on a 928 and I like it!!!
And the rear, looks even better!
here some more photos
http://www.flat-6.org/forum/showgara...r_owned_id=471
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Roger, in case you missed it, according to Lefteris' link above, the owner is in the US and you can contact the owner via PM, IM or email.
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Samuel's 928 CS pages had some info of it but they are under construction now.
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Nice story ! I wish I could believe it
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I guess this means AIR got their design idea from this car?

Great pics from Lefteris' link:







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Originally Posted by heinrich
I've seen that article many years ago Chuck, the GTE lives (or lived) in the town where I was born and lived most of my life. Nobody has ever seen that car on the road there though.
hoax?
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If you had a one of a kind factory built Porsche would you drive it ????
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Here's the biggest reason I'd call BS .. it is LHD.
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Originally Posted by Jim bailey - 928 International
If you had a one of a kind factory built Porsche would you drive it ????
Nope.

Originally Posted by heinrich
Here's the biggest reason I'd call BS .. it is LHD.
I hear about cars all the time in the area where I live that I had no idea were here. But I guess if the guy drives it someone would see it? Why would LHD surprise you, if Porsche were truly building a prototype of sorts wouldn't you naturally assume they would do it in LHD?
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Originally Posted by Jim bailey - 928 International
If you had a one of a kind factory built Porsche would you drive it ????
Of course.
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Originally Posted by heinrich
Doesn't make sense. If Porsche built this car in 1987/1988, it didn't show up in Johannesburg, South Africa on a showroom floor. Porsche had his name and address the day he bought the car, in other words he bought it new. To import a car from Germany at that time would have subjected him to 100% import duty. Whereas, he could have simply walked into one of hundreds of Porsche dealers there and requested this car for that market, which would have been RHD. The Porsche dealers did not sell LHD cars. The only LHD Porsches there, are imported from mostly the US, here Porsches are cheap.

Wow H, 14,000 posts! What does someone say in this case? Congrats?

From what I gathered reading the article in my original post is, the owner saw it while at the factory and didn't order the car. The article says he badgered the factory unitl they sold it to him (this is the part I find a little difficult to believe as Porsche can be rather obstinate when it comes to stuff out of the ordinary......


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