vendredi 20 décembre 2013
jeudi 19 décembre 2013
PORSCHE 911 CARRERA RSR
So I know that I featured a Porsche 959 yesterday and today I’m dropping another car from Stuttgart on you, I thought for a moment that some people might find this annoying, but then I realised that no one who finds it annoying would be worth listening to. So here we are.
If you ask any Porschephile for their opinion as to which was the greatest racing 911 ever built, you’ll start regularly hearing the acronym RSR. These lightweight 911s were first introduced in 1973 by the Porsche factory as both an official works team car and a car available for privateer race teams in full competition trim.
The 911 RSR was originally introduced with a 2.8 litre flat-6 capable of 300hp but this was upgraded in 1974 to a 3.0 litre unit that produced 330hp. Many buyers of the 1973 RSR bought this larger engine as an upgrade and retrofitted it, including the man who owned the car you see here.
Weighing it at just 900 kilograms (~1984 lbs), the car was a revelation on both the race tracks and rally stages of the day. It won consistently throughout the mid-70s and was considered to be the car to beat at almost any North American or European GT race during the era, the 911 RSR you see here won the 1973 Mexico 1000 Kilometers at the hands of its then owner Hector Rebaque and his co-drivers Guillermo Rojas, Fred Van Beuren and Hurley Haywood.
After its big win in Mexico, the car went on to race extensively in South America until 1977 when it was sold onto Manfredo Lipmann. By 1983 the car was auctioned off to the Blackhawk Museum in California where it lived for almost 20 years before being sold onto a collector.
Still in pristine, original condition the car is now for sale, as 1 of just 52 1973 Porsche 2.8 Carrera RSRs ever made it’ll have a price tag that’ll make your eyes water if your net worth is anywhere south of Elon Musk’s. If you’d like to read more about the car or enquire after its asking price, you can click here to visit Maxted Page.
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Analog MC’s Bimota DB3.5
When it comes to exotic donors, you don’t get much more special than a Bimota, in this case a 1996 DB3 Mantra, based around the M900 engine. Back in ’96 it wasn’t exactly hailed as Bimota’s finest hour when it came to styling, but there was no denying the quality of chassis parts and handling. All it needed was a serious makeover.
This stunning build is the handy work of Tony Prust and Mark Ardito from Analog Motorcycles – a workshop based around the idea of simplicity. Tony’s roots were in music recording. He always loved the warmth and character of analog audio over digital, and most of us can appreciate exactly how this translates directly into the world of creative custom building. Bikes like the Bimota are all about simple high quality components and good engineering; the perfect starting place for some stripped-back automotive beauty.
The bike was a customer commission, where the brief had been to build something unique, but having found the bike at a swap meet at a vintage festival it took Tony a while to convince the customer that this could be something very special. Happily for Tony – and for us – he eventually saw the light.
The bike also caught the eye of Cafe Racer TV who had come to Tony asking if he anything special cooking in the workshop. He explained his vision for the bike; “…a modern cafe racer with some vintage flair. I knew I wanted the tank to be a Ducati style tank from the 70′s era 750ss and I wanted spoke wheels. The rest was making sure all the lines met and worked together”.
While the Bimota was genuine exotica, it wasn’t pretty, and was only going to benefit from Tony throwing away all the original bodywork. From being stripped-down the bike got a custom subframe, tank, seat pan and hump in aluminium – the combination of angular lines and curves working together to complement the Bimota’s rounded box-section trellis frame. The seat was upholstered by Rod’s Designs.
The twin valve, aircooled 900cc engine was rebuilt by TJ at Ducati Milwaukee with a more efficient oil cooler and breathing through FCR carbs and velocity stacks, and ceramic-coated custom pipes. A slipper clutch was added for true racetrack manners. Getting spoked wheels to fit was a major challenge. From the start Tony had wanted wire-spoked wheels, but the forks and swing arm on the Bimota were considerably narrower than most bikes that accommodate 17inch spoked rims, dual brake rotors and a rear cush drive. The problem was eventually solved with a pair of tubeless Alpinas from JCPak Bikes designed for early model Monsters.
The Bimota OEM brakes were not known to be lacking but the bike still got an upgrade to a full ISR brake system, sourced through Mike at Power Barn, with flawlessly beautiful and well-made components throughout. Many of the bike’s parts were anodised aluminium which had been matched to the Alpina’s orange wheels, so Tony put his painter Kiel from Crown Autobody onto the task of matching the rims and incorporating the same colour into the bodywork graphics. The base colour paint was matched to the engine’s grey powdercoat finish.
Other details include Vortex clip-ons with Speedymoto bars and CRG bar end mirrors, while the rear pegs and foot controls are Rizoma. The headlight is an Emgo British 7″ bucket with integrated LED turn signals and LSL brackets.
The speedo is a Koso DB-01R and the bike runs a light-weight Earth X lithium battery and LED tail light array, also featuring integrated brake and turn signals. It’s all very Tron Legacy.
The end result is a bike that rides as good as it looks – in fact, maybe even better. The Bostrom brothers took the DB 3.5 out for a hard ride on-track, in front of the Cafe Racer TV cameras, and described the bike as being light, quick and able to stop on a dime. Both Tony and his initially reluctant customer are extremely happy with the outcome, and we would be too if Analog MC’s DB3.5 was in our BSMC shed.
Huge thanks to Tony for sharing this beautiful build. We look forward to seeing what comes next out of Analog Motorcycles. Follow them on their Website and Facebook, or here on The Bike Shed.
Photos by Andrew Barkules
Posted by Dutch@TheBikeShed
Get to the point: George Clooney for W Magazine
We don't know whether George Clooney had measles as a child, but Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama now appears to have infected the Hollywood star with polka dots for 'W Magazine'...
Two photographs by Emma Summerton, featuring Clooney and the polka dots, are now for sale in the online art market Artsy. In February, George Clooney will be starring in the film 'The Monuments Men' that he also directed.
Photos: Emma Summerton via Artsy.
More details at artsy.com.
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