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31 Mar 2004, 00:11 (Ref:924609) | #1 | ||
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Porsche 956/962
Simple but fundamental question: how many 956s and 962s did Porsche build?
Is the rising cost of construction and advance of technology the reason why Audi couldn't churn out similar numbers of R8s? |
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177 built chassis , but there are a lot more from Brun , Fabcar and Holbert , Schuppan and a few more . The factory has 177 chassis listed . Your guess is as good as mine mate !!!
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Cripes, that's way more than I expected!
One doesn't expect Audi to churn out 200 R8s, but another half-dozen wouldn't hurt. |
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177 was the last approved factory example which was raced at LeMans by Brun Motorsport in blue Repsol colors , 1993 I think it was and had a notation on the rear wing in french-swiss "Merci Porsche" . Excellent car and excellent team too .....
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177 factory + 43 non= 220
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43 non , Jesus , I never thought that !!!
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Does that mean that they could homologate it as a GTS car ? lol , just a thought or has the homologation run out after production stopped ?
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I think this one is for paulzinho, our resident 962/956 expert. Over to you Paul
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I think both 956 and 962s were numbered in different sequences for works and non-works cars. So the customer cars started with 101, and the works with 001. I think 10 works 956s were made, ie 001-010, don't know how many 962s.
If this is right it means that there were 'only' 77 customer 962s. I think there were 18 customer 956s made. Including works cars, I suspect the total is nearer 120, plus all the 'non-Porsche' cars, eg Schuppan/Lloyd/Fabcar etc. |
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That´s right. That the same number scheme that was used by the 993GT1 and GT1-98. The factory cars are 0xx-099 and the customer cars 1xx-xxx. In the late 80s and early 90s Joest Racing received a few 0xx cars of the 962C.
And i´m sure that some of the RLR, Thompson, Kremer, Schuppan build 962 are build up on existing Porsche 962C chassis. |
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Yes, that's correct about the numbering sequence...so the corrected numbers are:
Factory 956/962s= 124 Non factory= 46 Total= 170 |
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Not a full 956, but if you have money sat around and want a good centre piece for you car collection have a look at ebay.
Someone is selling a Rothmans 956 showcar, says it has the original body work from Le Mans mounted on a space frame chasis. ebay number 4120710876. |
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