XR4Tim

I would estimate between 15 and 20 in the US. There are undoubtedly a couple in Canadia as well.

JPP

Man, you ARE late! .. where have you been all summer? BTW .. here's an engine bay shot of the 959 at the Porsche Museum. We had a guide last time that let us come up on the diaz and open all the doors/hoods and really check it out
Our guide told us those yellow 'tabs' you see on either side of the engine are the 'dipsticks' for measuring engine oil and suspension oil levels ....

pkrasusky

Oddly enough the left yellow tab does not appear underhood of this Turbo S (circa former Drendel Collection) - I esp enjoy the 'gold' underhood treatment... gives a NASAesque element to the presentation:



less than 900mi... <<<insert Homer-drool-sequence>>>:



just damn:



this is one of those cars that made me feel all sorta funny 'down there':










sigh...

I know the styling is polarizing for some - me, I feel it is the most sexayestest 911-derivitve EVER... the paragon of 911'dom... SERENITY NOW!

I could look at these cars infinitely, xPi. Lucky folks who own / have driven them. I've resigned mysef that this is as close as I'll ever get...

Dr. No

Well played.

OP - So did you see Bill Gates in the waiting room?

FrenchToast

You can easily distinguish a real 959 from a fake. The mirrors and wheels are both unique to the 959.

Everything is off. The giveaways are the 951 turnsignals and 993 headlights.

Me too! I have seen a CGT at a DE event though.

Before Canepa started federalizing them, there was an estimated four or five. There are many more now. Canepa made a guess in one of their articles, IIRC around thirty.

The only ones I've seen have been at shows. Still waiting to see one 'in the wild'!

Take care!

timothymoffat

One of 29 US Sport models, different from the small handful of ROW Sport models in having a rollcage (leather padded), power windows (the cage would block the manual window winders of the ROW Sport), cutouts for the 4-point harness in the sport seats, and fixed height suspension with regular shocks (ROW Sports were also fixed height but retained the adjustable shocks of the Comfort model). Porsche tried to import them as "race cars" in 1988 and failed. Cars were returned to Europe and sold. There was a story in Autoweek at the time that featured several pictures of the batch of 29 in a fenced compound Stateside.

JPP

^^^ Yes .. Gates car was in that compound. Porsche got into a hissy fight with D.O.T. over crash testing and Gates offered to create software that would simulate an actual crash test to satisfy the D.O.T. ... and we all know who won that fight. All those cars were sent back to Germany but interestingly .. there were several sightings of a Red car (Allen's) and Silver car (Gates) around Seattle at various times sporting Canadian plates ... heh ....

timothymoffat

^^^^^I thought both Gate's and Allen's cars were the standard Comfort model?

gonzilla

I know of at least 3 in the LA area. I'll try to dig up photos and post them here when I find them.

JPP

Could be Tim .. but the compound in the article is where all inbound 959's were being held hostage .. same place that SpeedArena came through in Oakland. It's like an embassy .. not considered U.S. 'Soil' until you exit the gate .. and you only exit the gate when they tell you it's ok to exit the gate ..

timothymoffat

Just doing some research JP and it looks to me like the "Microsoft 959s" were imported (and subsequently held up) later than the "US Sport" 959s. The US Sport 959s appeared to end up at Al Holbert's shop sometime during 1988 (well at least 8 of the 29 produced). After being inspected, they were then returned to Germany. The 2 Microsoft 959s were indeed brought in through Oakland in the very early 1990s where they stayed for quite some time.

cmat

Here's a car that I saw at a C&C in Lake Mills, WI in 2011. It was gone before I had a chance to talk to the owner but apparently he had it for a while in Germany and had recently brought it over.

pirahna

These where a couple of the cars at Canepa in September, there were a few more 959's that I didn't take pictures of.





Edit: Found one more...

EntropyChaser993

A couple of poor quality cell pics from last month...

pkrasusky

edit to my use of 'formerly' Drendel Collection - I don't recall seeing this one on the 2012 Amelia Island results

I shot those in NC (USA) 3yrs back, seems they all didn't get punted. It's prob still there. Good for Matt's father...

the smell of of those rough textured Sport seats... intoxxxxxxxxxxxication ahhhhhhhhhhh...