One to Buy: ex-Ernst Kraus 1979 DP 935 I Porsche 911 3.3 Turbo (930)
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At the Le Mans 24 Hours in June 1979, Klaus Ludwig along with infamous Whittington brothers Don and Bill, took an incredible victory driving a Kremer Porsche 935 K3.
What made the result even more remarkable was, for the first time in a decade, the French classic had been won outright by a production-based Grand Touring class machine, in this case based on the fabled Porsche 911 Turbo (aka 930).
Now, an off-the-shelf 930 was a pretty cool car in 1979, but an altogether different proposition was a flat-nosed and fully re-profiled replica of the kind of of 935s that were racing at Le Mans, something not even Porsche themselves offered at the time.
Where to find such a machine?
The answer was DP Motorsport in Overath near Cologne who supplied all local partner Kremer’s bodywork and could assemble a tailor made Porsche with a wide-ranging array of uprated mechanical enhancements from all the best suppliers in Germany.
As a consequence of DP’s motorsport credentials and the highly focused nature of its products, they appealed to customers that wanted the ultimate 911 of its day – both from a driving and styling perspective.
One individual who appreciated the performance enhancement represented by DP’s first generation product, the DP 935 I, was privateer Ernst Kraus who raced various iterations of the Porsche 917, 910, 908 and 911 between 1968 and ‘76.
Kraus had a brand new 911 Turbo, chassis 9309700131, immediately delivered to DP Motorsport where it underwent the full 935 I transformation and, as you can see here, the results were spectacular.
Trimmed to absolute perfection, in our opinion this 55,000km, numbers matching, fully certified car represents the pinnacle of 1970s super tuning and it can be yours as Autosport Designs in Long Island, New York, have decided to place it up for sale direct from the collection of company boss Tom Papadopoulos.
