America GS Wheels
04-06-2009, 09:00 PM
#20
Do you have a time frame of completion?
Your A-Arms, are they solid carbon fiber? I am confused as to how something like that is crafted
04-06-2009, 09:08 PM
#21
Although I have tried, and failed, to predict completion before (as, every time, something new for testing arose), assuming the engine is resolved, I think the end of this year or the first quarter of 2010 is it. Yes, the A-arms are solid carbon fiber -- if this was a race car and one was not concerned about longevity, they would be pocketed in the center. As to how they were built, layers of carbon fiber, different materials, in different directions.
04-07-2009, 09:47 AM
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that 930 is AWESOME!!!!!Love the slant nose, the tail, and the entire car; in any order. It reminds me a bit of the 80's Gemballa cars.
04-07-2009, 10:12 AM
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04-07-2009, 10:40 AM
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For a man who doesn't collect cars he owns my dream garage and would happily give all my cars away for any one of his.
I guess these wheels would be grounds for divorce if the wife came home and said she curbed a wheel.
Good Luck Robert.
04-07-2009, 10:46 AM
#26
I'd welcome the chance to see the 930 in person. Can we do a garage tour of Robert's place? I occasionally check ebay, but I never see the old school Gemballa's around. Robert's truly reminds me of that vintage.
04-07-2009, 10:54 AM
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Believe you me there are very few Porsche's that can hold a candle to Bob's cars. The option list alone on the 930 is enough to make you drool. The Gemballa's were all fluff in comparison this thing is all factory and unique in every aspect.
04-07-2009, 03:34 PM
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Yes, indeed, the Turbo is all factory original and it was the last 930, the last 930 Cabriolet and the last Tubro Cabriolet Flachbau (flatnose or slant nose) made by Porsche.
And, if you will permit me a moment of puff, I will quote the last portion of a story about the car once written by Randy Leffingwell:
"In May 1990, the car was completed. The build sheet ran 32 pages.
"Yes, this could be true!" Sprenger recalled it all two years later. "He had so many special options and so many special things. My people really came in trouble. There was a lot of testing, engines, tires, suspensions, a great deal of testing. I think it might be the longest bill we have ever written.... It is not something we would ever do again."
Sonder Alptraum. Special Nightmare.
But when it was finished, before it was shipped, Herr Rolf Sprenger and his colleagues took a last look. The special wish which had become a private nightmare had finally become the Porsche dream car-come-true. It was the most and the best of everything they'd ever imagined. Sonderwunsch. Sonder Alptraum.
Traumwagen in Wirklichkeit. Dream car in reality.
More than 300 individual pieces were covered in leather. More than 500 non-standard pieces were fitted. More than 200 pieces were custom fabricated.
Ernst Fuhrmann recalled the first Turbo and its impact on the fifteen years of production cars that followed. He was proud.
"We never stopped the 911, of course. It came through all this better than the sales people expected.
"We really did something for the 911."
The New Yorker recently recalled the last Turbo Cabriolet Flat Nose. He thought that his Manhattan Project may be the "perfect" Porsche. Others might disagree; "ultimates" are a matter of taste. But as surely as Ernst Fuhrmann conceived this car and Rolf Sprenger executed it, Daniel Webster defined it:
"Perfect: adjective, verb or noun; from Latin, perficere, to finish through; 1. Complete in all respects, without defect or omission. Sound. Flawless. 2. in a condition of complete excellence.""
And, if you will permit me a moment of puff, I will quote the last portion of a story about the car once written by Randy Leffingwell:
"In May 1990, the car was completed. The build sheet ran 32 pages.
"Yes, this could be true!" Sprenger recalled it all two years later. "He had so many special options and so many special things. My people really came in trouble. There was a lot of testing, engines, tires, suspensions, a great deal of testing. I think it might be the longest bill we have ever written.... It is not something we would ever do again."
Sonder Alptraum. Special Nightmare.
But when it was finished, before it was shipped, Herr Rolf Sprenger and his colleagues took a last look. The special wish which had become a private nightmare had finally become the Porsche dream car-come-true. It was the most and the best of everything they'd ever imagined. Sonderwunsch. Sonder Alptraum.
Traumwagen in Wirklichkeit. Dream car in reality.
More than 300 individual pieces were covered in leather. More than 500 non-standard pieces were fitted. More than 200 pieces were custom fabricated.
Ernst Fuhrmann recalled the first Turbo and its impact on the fifteen years of production cars that followed. He was proud.
"We never stopped the 911, of course. It came through all this better than the sales people expected.
"We really did something for the 911."
The New Yorker recently recalled the last Turbo Cabriolet Flat Nose. He thought that his Manhattan Project may be the "perfect" Porsche. Others might disagree; "ultimates" are a matter of taste. But as surely as Ernst Fuhrmann conceived this car and Rolf Sprenger executed it, Daniel Webster defined it:
"Perfect: adjective, verb or noun; from Latin, perficere, to finish through; 1. Complete in all respects, without defect or omission. Sound. Flawless. 2. in a condition of complete excellence.""
04-07-2009, 05:07 PM
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Not to get off topic here but I've always admired that beautiful black 930. I have the Excellence magazine in which it is featured as well as the 911 & Porsche World article and the Porsche Top Ten book. I remember the 911 & Porsche World article on the GS as well and was pretty sure they must be owned/commissioned by the same individual. Thanks for sharing Robert. You wouldn't happen to have any more recent shots of the 930 as well as some period shots of the GS with the as appeared in 911 & PW BBS wheels would you?