Porsche 956/962 - Page 2

**Aysedasi** · 2 Apr 2007, 11:55 (Ref:1881897)

Lovely thread guys.

I don't know anything about any of the cars save for the fact that I consider myself truly lucky to have watched so many of them race. I remember watching Gartner win the Interserie race at Thruxton in 1986 - just a few weeks later he was dead. Very sad indeed.

Bullett · 2 Apr 2007, 11:55 (Ref:1881898)

Great thread!!!
A bloke here in Australia has the 'Iseki Tractor' 956, I have some pictures of it but don't know a chassis number. He also owns a Joest Blaupunkt 962. He races them at Historic meets and hillclimbs. Very well presented and seem original but I don't know everything about them to judge. Does anyone know anymore about these cars?

Thundersports · 2 Apr 2007, 21:08 (Ref:1882278)

Anyone know the chassis number of the 962 Mark Sumpter drives so well in Historic Group C?

fausto · 2 Apr 2007, 22:00 (Ref:1882320)

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Originally Posted by Thundersports

Anyone know the chassis number of the 962 Mark Sumpter drives so well in Historic Group C?

Don't know the number, but it's one of the special Schuppan carbonfibre chassised cars, was practiced only at LM '91, for the race the team reverted to a standard 962C, and was the design of former Dymag Wheels boss Max Boxstrom

benjabulle · 2 Apr 2007, 22:21 (Ref:1882334)

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Originally Posted by Thundersports

Anyone know the chassis number of the 962 Mark Sumpter drives so well in Historic Group C?

chassis TS/03C, which did Le Mans in 91. I enjoyed those 956/962 and made some pages, with photos of course, first part begins here :
http://www.gurneyflap.com/porsche956part1.html

**John Turner** · 3 Apr 2007, 14:33 (Ref:1882736)

I think that there is now enough good info on this thread, particularly from Jesper to warrant returning it to the archive.

driftwood · 4 Apr 2007, 08:33 (Ref:1883188)

1 Herve Regout is alive and well i spoke to him 2 months ago
2 there is a porsche book listing all chassis numbers
3 i know of at least 2 # 118 cars a mate prepped 1 he called the car christine- it was a real btch of a car just like in the film
4 Richard Lloyd built 2 or 3 of his own cars on carbon chassis plus many 962 cars had John Thompson carbon tubs fitted in the later years to replace the alloy tubs
plus the Schuppan cars and Jochen Daur built 1 car for 93? LM
5 i suspect more "real" 962 cars around today than where built in period

AMICALEMANS · 4 Apr 2007, 13:58 (Ref:1883392)

Is this link helpful ?

http://962.com/registry/956_962/index.htm

Nordic · 6 Apr 2007, 15:48 (Ref:1884973)

Here is a picture I took at the first race a 956 entered, the 1982 Silverstone 1000ks.
Rothmans 956

I wonder if the Grp C era would have been so memorable without the 956. Would Jag annd the later entrys from Lancia Nissan etc have ever happened?

Nordic · 7 Apr 2007, 11:45 (Ref:1885396)

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C08033

004 is for sale. There is a line of ownership and race meetings it attended listed at the bottom of the page.

davyboy · 9 Apr 2007, 17:46 (Ref:1887361)

Wow... if only I had the money

Any idea what the guide price for that would be expected to be ?

rcarr · 31 May 2007, 17:22 (Ref:1925538)

I just found a 962 for sale in France for 550,000 euros! Just been rebuilt but practically £300,000 for a 1987 car with no livery and he shows no history with the car, is it really worth that much??

benjabulle · 31 May 2007, 18:20 (Ref:1925579)

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Originally Posted by rcarr

I just found a 962 for sale in France for 550,000 euros! Just been rebuilt but practically £300,000 for a 1987 car with no livery and he shows no history with the car, is it really worth that much??

Which one is it ?

driftwood · 31 May 2007, 21:14 (Ref:1925675)

expect to pay £200k---1 000 000
all depends on spec history last rebuilds etc

allenbrown · 1 Jun 2007, 09:02 (Ref:1926028)

No history with the car? That's got to take the value down.

driftwood · 1 Jun 2007, 10:26 (Ref:1926101)

chassis 131 not had time to look in my book what car it is

driftwood · 1 Jun 2007, 12:01 (Ref:1926181)

Car is Swiss racing team, Salamin
Joest used the car but nothing special on the car's history; a customer car.
I can't see 330 bags of gold for the car myself; it would need to be a mint car that can win to achieve that price. The last car sold for 175k last year at auction. It was a running car but needed some $ and time on it!

Dan Rear · 5 Jun 2007, 14:38 (Ref:1929398)

The Salamin 962 was badly beaten up in a crash 1988-89 IIRC, this may have been a non-works tub, which he used the -131 no. on ???

driftwood · 5 Jun 2007, 15:04 (Ref:1929415)

962 was alloy tub from the factory some cars later had the carbon John Thompson tubs fitted so there would be "spare " tubs around for a rebuild

AMICALEMANS · 10 Jul 2007, 18:23 (Ref:1959945)

These cars were present at LMStory 2007

956-008 the n°2 Rothmans at Le Mans 83 DNF with Mass & Bellof
962 CK6-88 n°10 Kenwood livery
962-010 n°17 in shell Dunlop livery 2nd at LM 88
962-011 n°7
962-116 n°8 blaupunkt

Thundersports · 5 May 2010, 17:42 (Ref:2684920)

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Originally Posted by Thundersports

Going to have a "driftwood" moment now! I know where chassis 138 the TLD car was hiding up to 1998 not sure it is still there. It was in secure storage in Maidstone Kent after being seized by a "financial recovery" company it was in pretty poor condition with no engine.

Had a chat on the web with TLD the 138 car is in an Indianapolis museum and the Carbon car Team Davey had was bought by Landhurst Leasing (Brabham owners in the early 90s).

Thundersports · 5 May 2010, 17:46 (Ref:2684924)

I also understand 962-118 was rebuilt again by Kremer after Gartners accident.

McBridge · 22 May 2010, 15:15 (Ref:2695978)

Can you tell me which car(s) were the CANON 956 from/by Richard Lloyd and where are they now?

The last Canon-956 I've seen was at Silverstone Classic 2007.

Patrick Morgan · 6 Jan 2012, 12:34 (Ref:3008125)

Quote:

Originally Posted by McBridge

Can you tell me which car(s) were the CANON 956 from/by Richard Lloyd and where are they now?

The last Canon-956 I've seen was at Silverstone Classic 2007.

956 106B is being restored at Sywell Aerodrome, Northampton.

rivardcompe · 4 Nov 2012, 23:05 (Ref:3162624)

i bought a 962 c that was in japan up to 2003 thereis no id onchassis,it was partially converted for street,it is not a Schuppan,Dauer,DP but is factory Weissach chassis
i was on 138 TLD original chassis but i found your post
anybody that can help me

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