ONE CHASSIS THREE BODIES

 As a general rule a race car is obsolescent almost as soon as it leaves the drawing board to be turned into

metal. This Porsche 935 is an exception that proves the rule. It was campaigned over a decade and only very

narrowly missed winning all three of Sports Car racing's three greats - the Le Mans 24 Hours,  Daytona 24

Hours and the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Fascinated as we are by race car modification we decided to bring this slice of history to our model collection.

Le Mans

In 1978 one of Dick Barbour's Porsches was virtually written off in a crash. Using all the salvageable parts

Barbour rebuilt the car and ran it in the 1979 race. Sharing the drive with Paul Newman and Rolf Stommelen

they were contesting the lead with the Kremer K3 (which we shall issue later as LM79)  when wheel problems

and a dying engine forced them to settle for 2nd place.

SPARK will bring out this model in its red Hawaaian Tropic colours as catalogue number S2015.

DAYTONA

In 1980 Bob Garretson bought the car after Barbour had modified it to K3 specs and he ran the car in the

1981 season. Garretson along with co drivers Bobby Rahal and Brian Redman took first place in that year's

Daytona 24 Hours.

SPARK will issue this one catalogued as S1927.

SEBRING

At the end of 1982 the car was bought by a third owner, Wayne Baber. He decided to convert it to 934 specs

and run it in the GTO category of the IMSA series whose liberal rules would accept such modified entries at

the time. To widespread amazement the old warhorse came first overall in the Sebring 12 Hour race driven

by Wayne Baber, Jim Mullen and Kees Nierop. No GTO class car had ever managed overall victory before.

We shall be issuing "Big Orange" (so called - despite its yellow bodywork) as S0934.