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Year of manufacture1971
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Car typeCoupé
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DriveRHD
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ConditionUsed
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Exterior brand colourWhite/Blue
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Interior colourOther
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Location
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Exterior colourOther
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GearboxManual
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Drivetrain2wd
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Fuel typePetrol
Description
Coys Auction - The Festival Auction
Incorporating The Excellence of Porsche
Brands Hatch
Kent
Sunday 25th May 2008
Collectors'' Items: 2.30pm
Motor Cars: 4.30pm
One of the most famous Porsches ever built, the 911 Carrera RS has come to be regarded as one of the top sports cars to emerge from the 1970s. It was designed with motor sport very much in mind: Porsche''s engineers wanted a car that could be successfully used on the race track and the road. Few people could ever argue that they did not succeed in their aim, for the RS is an eminently useable car just as at home trickling through traffic as it is ploughing down the overtaking lane of the autobahn, yet when competing at Le Mans, Daytona and in the Targa Florio it was almost invincible, often winning outright against pure racing prototypes.
The RS (for Rennsport) was based on the 911 model but used lightened bodywork and a revised 2.7 litre, fuel-injected v