SpeeddemonC2

One of the original Gulf livery painted from the factory with matching interior piping and luggage is for sale at DuPont registry! I am certain the price is a hefty premium for all the customization done by the factory and unique value of the car! But damn it is nice looking!

http://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/...he/918/1361019

Tass

Nice! I just got a personalized tour of this car and it's (almost) matching sister car this afternoon. Both are on display in the front windows of the dealership

SpeeddemonC2

cool! Are both for sale or just one? Do you know what they are asking for it?

C.J. Ichiban

I'll trade some stuff for it but imagine they want some SERIOUS coins

Tass

I believe that only 1 is for sale but don't quote me on that

bbs993tt

If I was in the market for a 918, it would be the Gulf or Martini livery. LOVE the historical racing significance of each.

unotaz

So does anyone know how much they are asking for?

os993

How's this work regarding using the name "Gulf"? Just curious. Do you have to get some sort of approval from Gulf?

Again, simply curious in today's happy litigation world.

anonymous918

asking $3m

we now officially have the most expensive paintwork in automotive history

Z356

Yes. I believe PAG required individual Porsche customers such as
Canadian Vaughn Wyant to get a license from Gulf Oil to use their
colors & logos on their particular Porsche factory-painted 918s.

Rennlister 'crisis' reported what he heard when Wyant revealed his
two 'Gulf' livery 918s at Porsche Centre of Saskatoon back on 8/27:

'The owner of the dealership, Vaughn Wyant, went into quite a bit of
detail about the ordeal he had to go through with Porsche and Gulf to
be able to get the cars painted in the Gulf Racing scheme. He initially
approached the President of Porsche Canada, who went to Porsche
AG with the request. The reply was "if you can get approval from Gulf,
we will build them for you. But you will never get it approved." Turns
out that the approval from Gulf wasn't really all that difficult, and after
some back & forth with Porsche, they agreed to build them as requested.'

Post #4
https://rennlist.com/forums/porsche-...ulf-918-a.html

Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel
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GreenLantern

Resurrecting a ~2 week old thread...

Anyone know the VIN of this car (I want to dig up the build sheet to see how some of the customizations were encoded)?

Thanks!

anonymous918

if you get the number of the car (out of 918), you can back your way into the VIN that way: last 3 digits of the VIN match number of the car.

GreenLantern

Sadly, I'm not able to extrapolate the VIN from the chassis #'s that I have of the two cars that are at this dealership (one for sale, one he's keeping). I have a handful of 918 Spyder VIN prefixes, but none of them work for the chassis #.

Brumos

What other [I]painted[I], and not vinyl wrapped livery 918 are out there?

Here is a pic of Hurley's Brumos livery 918...

Z356

https://rennlist.com/forums/porsche-...r-stories.html

Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel