If you Walter Röhrl and get the Porsche 924 Carrera GTS as a gift for your 74th birthday, what is your reaction? It depends on execution. Does it keep it a secret before the decisive day? “Walter Röhrl knows so many people here (in Porsche) that it is difficult to keep the project calm,” Ancient Werner said, Head of the Porsche Museum Workshop.
The car in question is 924 Carrera GTS rally. Based on the most expensive Porsche vehicle in 1981, the 924 Carrera model is proof of the life of the Porsche successful Motorsports campaign using the Brand Transairle concept: a four-cylinder engine in front and transmission and rear axis) at the back.
This year, Walter Röhrl and Co-Driver Christian Geistdörfer will commemorate the 40-year anniversary of the Porsche 924 Carrera GTS successful campaign in the Rally of Adc Metz 1981. Finishing Second-Place Overall, Röhrl and Geistdörfer also won in Hessen Rally, Rally Safari Serengeti, Rally The anterior palatinate, and the Baltic rally, all in the same gold and Black ‘Monnet’ Porsche 824 Carrera GTS.
After a star campaign at Boulllar de Spa Rally in 1982 with Jacky Ickx behind the wheel, Porsche 924 GTS spent the remaining time in restoring the Porsche Museum, waiting for the right time. Now wearing black and gold paint from the original Cognac Monnet manufacturer. However, restoration focuses more on preserving original patina cars, until the last detail.
For example, the red safety belt harness that fades under a glass dome is the original component of Röhrl and Geistdörfer’s Porsche Rally Days. However, Porsche takes the freedom to rebuild or overhaul all the original parts that can be serviced (such as machines, gearboxes, and brakes), but tires of Pirelli and racing clutches are period – right.
Porsche went as far as commissioning people who built the actual car in 1981 to facilitate recovery. Roland Kussmaul is an engineer, a break driver, and driver rally that made 924 Carrera GTS rally in two months for the 1981 German rally championship.
Walter Röhrl Porsche 924 Carrera GTS Rally is a fifth of the nine prototypes built, and a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine does not have a serial number. Even so, the machine completed the rally season without giving up on damage, and still wore 10,371 kilometers originally proud of the odometer.
In early March this year, Walter Röhrl got Roadworthy ‘Monnet’ 924 Carrera GTS rally for his 74th birthday. And what did the former rally driver when he was given a racing car he had driven to Stardom forty years ago? He took it to spin and gave beans.