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- South Africa
...Right, it's been a while since I suggested anything, I need to do this right.
First, the photos, courtesy of Speedhunters and TG.com.
So a little story to go along with the car.
A bloke named Vern Schuppan got interested in building carbon-fibre tubs for Porsche 962s in the 80s. With a full backing of the German carmaker, he went on to produce a handful (read five or six, depending on who you ask) for racing and for road going purposes. Obviously I'm greatly shortening the story here.
What we have here is one such tub clothed to look like a Rothmans 962 LM racer; a second of the prototype tubs to be exact. The first and second bodies to carry Schuppan labels wore the same Kevlar body as the LM cars while the later cars looked like this:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/schuppan-962cr-1992.310524/
Contrary to how it looks, however, the car features 956's oily bits - that means it has 935/82 dry-sumped 2.65 liter, twin turbo flat six punching out somewhere north of 630 horsepower. The suspensions are straight out of a 956 too. So yeah, it is a race car through and through.
You might have noticed by now this car is being driven on the road. That's because, under the Japanese law, this car is road-legal. Just as the writer of the TG.com's article said, "it looks like a racing car, it sounds like a racing car, and has the innards of a racing car" yet this freaking thing is a road legal!! How cool is that.
The owner of this amazing car, one Takeshi Moroi the president of Vantec, keeps a crew of mechanics to look after his baby. As one would, when owning a road going race car.
Here's his face for you to secretly direct your jealousy at, while you play the denial card:
Each Schuppan 962s cost $1.5 million back when new, so who knows how much this one will go for nowadays???
Since the fate of Porsche licence is still unknown, including cars like this in GT games should solve the pain of not having one of the most iconic names in the annals of motorsport.
And as a bonus, it's a freaking road legal race car. Nothing gets better than that. Imagine popping out to pick up a burger in this thing...
As usual, I need your help here - the production years for this particular 962C seems to change between 88 or 89 depending on the sources. If anyone can locate more concrete info, let me know so I can amend it.
Thanks.
First, the photos, courtesy of Speedhunters and TG.com.
So a little story to go along with the car.
A bloke named Vern Schuppan got interested in building carbon-fibre tubs for Porsche 962s in the 80s. With a full backing of the German carmaker, he went on to produce a handful (read five or six, depending on who you ask) for racing and for road going purposes. Obviously I'm greatly shortening the story here.
What we have here is one such tub clothed to look like a Rothmans 962 LM racer; a second of the prototype tubs to be exact. The first and second bodies to carry Schuppan labels wore the same Kevlar body as the LM cars while the later cars looked like this:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/schuppan-962cr-1992.310524/
Contrary to how it looks, however, the car features 956's oily bits - that means it has 935/82 dry-sumped 2.65 liter, twin turbo flat six punching out somewhere north of 630 horsepower. The suspensions are straight out of a 956 too. So yeah, it is a race car through and through.
You might have noticed by now this car is being driven on the road. That's because, under the Japanese law, this car is road-legal. Just as the writer of the TG.com's article said, "it looks like a racing car, it sounds like a racing car, and has the innards of a racing car" yet this freaking thing is a road legal!! How cool is that.
The owner of this amazing car, one Takeshi Moroi the president of Vantec, keeps a crew of mechanics to look after his baby. As one would, when owning a road going race car.
Here's his face for you to secretly direct your jealousy at, while you play the denial card:
Each Schuppan 962s cost $1.5 million back when new, so who knows how much this one will go for nowadays???
Since the fate of Porsche licence is still unknown, including cars like this in GT games should solve the pain of not having one of the most iconic names in the annals of motorsport.
And as a bonus, it's a freaking road legal race car. Nothing gets better than that. Imagine popping out to pick up a burger in this thing...
As usual, I need your help here - the production years for this particular 962C seems to change between 88 or 89 depending on the sources. If anyone can locate more concrete info, let me know so I can amend it.
Thanks.
