Porsche 911 2.7RS lightweight review. What makes this 50-year old icon so special?

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  @baronvonteuchter1412 · 4 years ago

  I wish manufacturers these days were more focussed on 900kg 200hp cars than 1800kg 400hp ones

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  @bobwilson7384 · 4 years ago

  My mother is from Germany. When I was 12 she took me to meet all of our relatives. One day her aunt in Ludwigsburg took us on a bus tour to Strasbourg France. I had never been on a large tour bus. All of a sudden a gulf blue 911 flew by us, pulled over and a tall blonde woman climbed out of the passenger seat. She was our tour guide and her boyfriend was an engineer at Porsche. This has been, hands down  my favorite 911. I also began a thing about tall blondes

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• GR

  @grantchallinor5263 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Between them, "The local farmers" in The Cotswolds do seem to seem to have some interesting vehicles tucked away in their barns - and they don't seem to be very agricultural....))

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• BR

  @bren333 · 4 years ago (edited)

  One of 17 UK Right Hand Drive (M471) Porsche Carrera 2.7 RS Lightweights - Manufactured by Porsche in Stuttgart, West Germany in March 1973 and finished in Light Yellow with factory option: (220) Limited-slip differential.<br><br>Supplied new in 1973 by AFN, Isleworth to Anthony Bamford of J.C.Bamford Excavators Ltd and first registered in the UK as JCB 123. In 1974, AFN then supplied the car to its second owner– Dessie McCartney of Ireland, who re-registered it as GIA 7200. Purchased for the sole purpose of beating the mighty Ford Motor Company works two-litre BDA Escorts in their heyday, McCartney began to carve out a career in rally driving with GIA 7200.<br><br>The 1975 Galway International Rally was Dessie’s only outright international win in a Porsche but his multiple, second-place finishes are legendary. If there was to be a ‘Mr Porsche’ in Irish rallying, that title would, without doubt, belong to Dessie McCartney, who’s rally career was the envy of many.<br><br>GIA 7200 Rally History:<br><br>1974<br>Donegal Rally - 3rd<br>Texaco Rally<br>Manx Rally - 2nd<br><br>1975<br>Galway Rally – 1st<br>Circuit of Ireland - 2nd<br>Donegal Rally - 2nd<br>Lombard RAC – 13th<br><br>By the end of 1975 the dominant Porsches were beginning to struggle and feel the Ford reaction and it was becoming a simple numbers game in terms of BHP. The trusty 2.7 Carrera RS with 210bhp was showing sign of a power struggle and so it was eventually sold and replaced by a 270bhp 3.0 Carrera RS.<br><br>In 1976 GIA 7200 was sold to Richard Jackson and re-registered in the UK as SPY 44. Richard competed in national rally events and entered the 1976 and 1977 Mintex Rally.<br><br>In 1979, the car was sold to Alan Baker, who kept it for ten years, and then sold in 1989 to Richard Allen. In 1993, Richard Jackson was then able to re-purchase SPY 44 and this time he kept it for the next twenty years, until eventually selling it to William Loughran in 2013.<br><br>William Loughran then commissioned Tech 9 Motorsport Ltd to restore the car, carrying out a meticulous two-year restoration. The restoration gave absolute regard to preservation, with hundreds of hours spent on dressing out rally dents and preserving the factory bodyshell and floor-pan. The car also retains its matching-numbers, type 911/83 engine, number: 6630943, which Tech 9 stripped and rebuilt. They also report that it retains date-matching cylinder heads and cam housings, intake system and fuel injection pump, etc., items which very often become replaced in a competition car.

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  @1994joao · 4 years ago

  That number plate … 😌

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• MA

  @martinboulden4388 · 4 years ago

  Mr Bamford does have some gorgeous cars.

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• YU

  @yugo4576 · 4 years ago

  You literally have hundreds of so called &quot;Automotive Journalists&quot; on You Tube but when you listen to this legend and depth of his knowledge, very few compare.

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• FI

  @fishbert17 · 4 years ago

  911s of this era are much better looking than the current models IMO.

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• CJ

  @cjw-1991 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Going off the reg ‘JCB’, I’m guessing the ‘farmer’ may well be a certain Lord Bamford….

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• SI

  @simonsays602 · 4 years ago

  Watching at 2am here in Oz. Yellow might be the best looking I&apos;ve seen of these RS.

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• KL

  @klasseact6663 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Give this a thumbs up on that &quot;whirling&quot; sound, it&apos;s intoxicating❗️

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• FR

  @Freimopp777 · 4 years ago

  I hope you can review a 2.8 RSR one day

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