Web.ġ913 'WORLD-WIDE INCREASE OF LUNACY.', The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), 19 September, p. "WORLD-WIDE INCREASE OF LUNACY." The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939) 19 September 1913: 4. The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), p. Want more of the same? Head over to SEL1000.Article identifier Page identifier APA citation But he felt the car was capable of more than Audi would allow, and left to set up on his own where one of his creations was a retractable hardtop version of the all-wheel drive icon, though viewed from this angle it looks more like Audi’s answer to a Chevy El Camino SS. As head of Audi Sport at the dawn of the 1980s, Walter Treser was a key figure in the Audi Quattro story. Giving the DP Cargo a run for its money in the ugly stakes was the Treser Quattro Roadster. And we thought BMW’s clown shoe Z3 M coupe looked awkward… Things got even crazier with the later Mirage, a one-off 911 with a chopped roof, 500 hp motor and camera-based door mirrors.Įkkehard Zimmermann’s DP (Design and Plastic) Motorsport designed and produced the bodywork of the slant-nose Porsche 935 K3 Kremer used to win the 1979 Le Mans 24 Hours, and was soon offering similar cars for the street.īut if you were going to pick a DP car for a trip to the grocery store you’d be better off with the DP Cargo, a square-off shooting brake based on the 924 or 944 that looks more like a hearse in a hurry than a sports car. It also used a Ruf-tuned flat-six, but what really got people talking about Gemballa was the wide-arch body styling and a wild rear wing that made a regular Turbo’s whaletail look as apologetic as a trunklid lip spoiler. Yellow paint of the press/demo car aside, Ruf’s CTR didn’t shout about its performance, but Gemballa’s Avalanche certainly did. Mating 463 bhp of tuned turbo flat-six with the skinny Carrera’s shell, the CTR, or Yellowbird as its commonly known after the color of the demonstrator, reached 211 mph in a 1987 Road & Track test, wiping the banked floor of VW’s Ehra-Lessien test track with rivals from Ferrari, Lamborghini and AMG.
The Ruf CTR is almost too tasteful to be included on this list of questionable conversions, but we couldn’t talk about tuned German exotics without mentioning the most famous of them all. The result was hardly beautiful, but it certainly stood out, which was half the battle in the 1980s European tuning scene. But 911 + 28 is 939, which is pretty much what Rinspeed did, grafting the V8 GT’s front and rear lights onto the flat-six car’s body. If you’re thinking Porsche didn’t make a 939, you’d be right.
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The result looked strangely reminiscent of Honda’s much later CR-X sel Sol, though only the 928 got a T bar stuffed full of CB radio equipment. Porsche’s 928 had only been around for a year when B+B Auto Exclusiv set about it with an angle grinder, chopping off the upper rear bodywork and most of the roof. Early versions lost the standard car’s pop-up lights, but gained twin Naca ducts and a hood bulge, while later models like this 1992 Ultra Wing featured projector lights and Mercedes SLR-style doors. Voittorio Strosek cut his teeth at Koenig Specials before cutting up Porsches under his own name, most memorably, the 928.
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The Testarossa-style side strakes and that huge wing sit awkwardly with the genteel SL’s sheetmetal, and even more awkwardly with the buttoned leather interior of some Koenig-converted cars that looked like it was lifted out of a 1970s Detroit land yacht. In Game Name: GreatGooglyMooglyFeel free to add me or ask questions.Play Trove at. But looking at this R107 SL, maybe he shouldn’t have bothered. Though probably best known for his Ferraris, Koenig messed with Mercedes and Porsche cars, too. First to do it was Styling Garage, which unviled its SEC-based 500SGS Gullwing in 1982. The original Mercedes 300SL kickstarted the gullwing door craze back in the 1950s, so it was inevitable that someone would try to adapt the technology to a modern Benz in the decade when taste left town.
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