First Carrera Cup USA edition built
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First Carrera Cup USA edition built
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
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
Last edited by ltc; 04-11-2005 at 01:20 PM.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Last edited by Cupcar; 04-11-2005 at 12:21 PM.
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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...
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Originally Posted by Cupcar
It is one of 16 of the 45 that was never convertered to racing specification.
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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.
16 cars never left Charleston, SC. #392 was one of these and it was sold as imported with no changes.