ltc

Friend of mine forwarded this to me. Ad claims this is the first Carrera Cup USA car built, and delivered to Brumos.

Any of the Carrera Cup experts (Cupcar, Cupcar#12, Adrian, et. al.) care to take a look and comment?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...ayphotohosting

Monique

I would think a cup car would have a full cage, zippo carpets and a fire extinguisher.

Somebody still thinks its April fools day!

Smokin

But... But... It's got a badge on the dash!

Monique

Ooooh wow! I had missed this very significant detail. If it looks like BS, smells like BS, you prob don't need to taste it... right?

Computamedic

It's also got the very special lightweight 5 (yes - 5) cylinder engine!!!!


Dave

Monique

Was puzzled how to build a boxer 5 cylinder

ltc

From what I consider to be the definitive source on these cars:
http://www.carreracupusa.org/

Number 392 a pre- production car with RS water bottle bracket, rear seat area fully finished, carpet glued in.

These are unique cars, not all are identical, some were converted to race series and then converted back, and are different than the 964 Euro Cup car.

I will wait for the aforementioned experts to comment further.

Cupcar

It is the first "Carrera Cup USA Edition" built for the aborted USA Carrera Cup racing series and is a little different than the rest.

It is one of 16 of the 45 that was never convertered to racing specification.

Basically its a European Carrera RS with American bumpers, American lighting, alarm, aluminum wheels and airbags.

It has all the cool stuff aluminum hood, trick brakes and suspension, trick gearbox and limited slip, no undercoating, lightweight interior, seam welded chassis, etc.

The seats are Speedster seats installed by second owner, they are similar to but not identical to Euro RS seats which have the pass through on the bottom for 6 point seat belt. It was the only one built with the RS water bottle bracket installed, the second owner installed a bottle. The carpet was also properly glued down at the factory.

garrett376

I've seen that car - that shop has had that car for a very, very long time - over 5 years (maybe 8) if I remember correctly. They are a very well known dealer, so I doubt they'd have a BS ad...

Monique

Guess I have to eat crow!!

Did not seem very legit in the ad...

CarreraCup03

Is that the car that was featured in EXCELLENCE a few months ago? I think it is. If so, as Rob mentioned, it is unique and different from the other Cup USA cars.

Cupcar

Yes, It's the one in Excellence.

clubrcr

I thought there were 20 cars sent to andial for conversion, which would 25 that weren't converted?

Cupcar

45 cars total shipped to Charleston Port in South Carolina by Porsche, 29 of these shipped to Andial in California. Of these 29 that went to Andial, 25 were converted to race spec then back to street spec by Andial, 4 were converted to "parts cars" which were to be donors of parts for the series cars at races as needed. These 4 "parts cars" had the engine dynoed, a racing clutch installed and than's it.

16 cars never left Charleston, SC. #392 was one of these and it was sold as imported with no changes.

clubrcr

Thanks