....how one particular ex-works competition car was searched for, located and acquired by its present owners. Ex-Works 911ST
This stuff of dreams!
"Kevin had heard of a works car that was in Ireland that had become a rally car. It was rumored to be a 911R. He then had to find that car! It’s sort of been his holy grail trying to find it. And all of this was pre-internet and email, so tracking it down involved lots of writing letters and waiting for replies. Eventually he tracked the car down in the Isle of Man, but he’d missed the car by a couple of weeks and again it went quiet. What had happened was a lady—Cicely Nicholls—had bought it from a classified advert for a “Porsche Race Car.” She took it to a Porsche event and showed a couple of Porsche experts. They basically said, “You’ve got a competition car. We don’t know exactly what it is, but it’s got lots of factory parts on it, so it’s got some history.” That scared her a bit as she was driving it on the road at the time. Luckily for Kevin she just put it away in her garage and forgot about it for a while. Then some eight or so years after Kevin missed the car in the Isle of Man, there was an article in the UK Porsche magazine about the car and the woman owning the car. My dad saw it and he just drove straight up there, negotiated a price, and bought it."
This stuff of dreams!
"Kevin had heard of a works car that was in Ireland that had become a rally car. It was rumored to be a 911R. He then had to find that car! It’s sort of been his holy grail trying to find it. And all of this was pre-internet and email, so tracking it down involved lots of writing letters and waiting for replies. Eventually he tracked the car down in the Isle of Man, but he’d missed the car by a couple of weeks and again it went quiet. What had happened was a lady—Cicely Nicholls—had bought it from a classified advert for a “Porsche Race Car.” She took it to a Porsche event and showed a couple of Porsche experts. They basically said, “You’ve got a competition car. We don’t know exactly what it is, but it’s got lots of factory parts on it, so it’s got some history.” That scared her a bit as she was driving it on the road at the time. Luckily for Kevin she just put it away in her garage and forgot about it for a while. Then some eight or so years after Kevin missed the car in the Isle of Man, there was an article in the UK Porsche magazine about the car and the woman owning the car. My dad saw it and he just drove straight up there, negotiated a price, and bought it."
