One to Buy: 1 of 1 Jade Green RHD 1973 Porsche 911 2.7 Carrera RS
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Porsche first used the Carrera name for its range-topping dual overhead cam 356. It was adopted to honour the German firm’s success in the gruelling Carrera Panamericana road race held between 1950 and 1954.
Although the Carrera moniker subsequently appeared on a couple of purpose built racing cars during the intervening years, Porsche did not resurrect the name for a road-going model until late 1972 when the fabled 2.7-litre 911 Carrera RS was unveiled at the Paris Motor Show.
Fittingly, the new Renn Sport 911 was every inch the successor to those four cam 356s of yesteryear; Porsche created their hot new 911 in order to go Group 4 GT racing in 1973 and to that end fitted an array of trick parts with a view to exploiting maximum performance.
The bean counters in Germany initially thought the company would struggle to sell the 500 cars required for homologation. However, the 2.7 Carrera RS ultimately proved so popular that three times that figure were ultimately built although later cars did without many of the weight-saving measures installed on the first 500 units.
One of those early cars, chassis 9113600471, is set to go under the hammer at Bonhams’ Goodwood Revival auction on September 9th.
One of just eleven examples painted Jade Green and the only one completed in right-hand drive, this spectacular matching numbers machine was configured to M472 Touring specification and also optioned with the extremely desirable limited-slip differential upgrade.
Having covered just 69,000 miles from new, ‘0471’ is offered in superb highly original condition throughout.
