A could weeks back I created a thread where I was lucky enough to see a 964 Lightweight in the flesh. (Crowds around a 964? Carrera 4 LWT)

Well the guys that own the car have done a really neat write-up about actually driving the car... (plus lots of detail pics)

Spending the day with an Uber Rare 911

Over the years, Kevin and I have played with some very special air cooled Porsche’s. Recently,we had the chance to spend the day with a special 911 that I had always been curious about from Porsche lore, especially, since not many Porsches after the seventies interest us.

The brain child of Jurgen Barth, the 1991 964 RS Leichtbau (light build) continued the lightweight tradition of Porsche street performance cars. After all, the 964 RS was the handy work of 40 engineers at Weissach’s competition department that were also responsible for the company’s racing program.

Not many modern 911’s project a presence like this car. There are no graphics to proclaim its model designation or pedigree. The 964 RS projects a feeling of focused purpose that brings to mind 911R and Carrera RS functionality. One has no doubt that this car is a hand built competition-inspired automobile...

(The article ends with this shocker!!!!) ...With only 20 hand-made examples leaving the doors of Weissach, this special 911 truly represents the Porsche lightweight ethos. Oh, did I mention that this car is chassis 001?

 

"to the poor fitting aluminum doors, to the thrashing exhaust note"

 

Nice pictures, noticed it has a power steering pump installed, thought these car cars were all manual.

 

You've got to love the "centered racing clutch". I thought mine was pretty well centered too. Sintered maybe?

These pics confort me in the belief that the rims are not Mg. I don't see how anyone would put clip-on weights on a Mg rim.

 

I think it was 10-12 years ago (I did have the '92 C4 at the time), pretty sure it was Steve Beddor, had a whole tranny/manual diff setup out of one of these for sale for about $5K or so. I just didn't know what I'd do with it, so I passed. Would be neat to have now............

Anyone ever driven the manual setup?

 

That's an interesting point. Only taped-weight?

Like most 964 RS owners, you store the real wheels, right?

I love the fact that the car is #001.

 

I would store them if I had a set.
My issue is that everyone talks about Mg D90s, yet no one has pictures of them, a serial number, a weight, or can document seeing one. Whereas the other rare Mg rims (phone dials from the 944 Turbo Cup) do indeed exist and demonstrate clear differences from the alloy ones.