Street legal Porsche 962 Group C car
11-10-2012, 02:05 PM
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For more amazement, click Speedhunters.com's "Porsche 962C Prowls the Streets," posted yesterday:
First off this is not an actual Rothmans Group C 962, but rather one of only six (or is it five, hard finding concrete info on this) Vern Schuppan 962s The second prototype to be precise. Unlike the 956s and 962s that Porsche built for racing, the six $1.5 million cars that Australian racing legend Vern Schuppan built had a carbon fiber monocoque chassis. Furthermore this car is even more unique as all of the racing parts from the 956 and 962 were swapped over including the 956′s mid-mounted, 2.65L, twin-turbocharged, flat-six engine. This being the second ever created, it sports the same carbon-Kevlar body as the race cars, something that as production of the other four cars picked up was replaced with a very different, curvier shell featuring two round headlights. Those cars were actually referred to as the 962CRs.
Originally Posted by Dino Dalle Carbonare
First off this is not an actual Rothmans Group C 962, but rather one of only six (or is it five, hard finding concrete info on this) Vern Schuppan 962s The second prototype to be precise. Unlike the 956s and 962s that Porsche built for racing, the six $1.5 million cars that Australian racing legend Vern Schuppan built had a carbon fiber monocoque chassis. Furthermore this car is even more unique as all of the racing parts from the 956 and 962 were swapped over including the 956′s mid-mounted, 2.65L, twin-turbocharged, flat-six engine. This being the second ever created, it sports the same carbon-Kevlar body as the race cars, something that as production of the other four cars picked up was replaced with a very different, curvier shell featuring two round headlights. Those cars were actually referred to as the 962CRs.
