In 1981 Peter Schultz became the new CEO of Porsche. He had witnessed himself in america how dominant Porsche was in motorsport with the 935's a few years back, and therefore one of the first things he did was visit the motorsport departement. Here he invited all the engineers to sit with him and have a talk about racing and which projects were currently in the works. "What is our most important race and what are we running?" was his first question. The engineers noted that this was the 24 hours of Le Mans and that they were running a few 924 Turbo's to show how potent and reliable their new car was. "So what are our chances in winning that race?" Schultz asked. The engineers laughed and told him there was NO chance of winning. "Well from now on every race we will attend will be with the objective to win."
The engineers went straight to work and it became clear they already knew how to win this race. They took two Porsche 936'es out of the museum that they were running in 1978, and mounted 2.6 liter engines with water-cooled heads they initially developed for indianapolis (this programme came to a premature halt however). To make sure the gearboxes wouldn't break down they used the same gearboxes they were using in the 917 can-am programme (which prooved to be capable after running over 1000 horsepower). Shultz then received a phone call from a man called Jacky Ickx, he said that he was actually retired but if the rumours he was hearing about them running his old car again were true he would gladly drrive at Le Mans again. After that Derek Bell, Vern Schuppan, Jochen Mass and Hurley Haywood joined him.
Note that this was all 63 DAYS before the race. Bell and Ickx drove a flawless race and ended up on the top step securing the 5th overall win for Porsche. They completed a total of 354 laps finishing 14 laps ahead of number two, a Rondeau. That car chassis 936-003 is now left to rest at the museum.
As some of you may know Mizen is doing well in becoming the first person to complete the post war 1/18 Le Mans winners collection and to complete that a few non-exsistent models have to be created. After mailing back and forth a few times a plan was made and two TSM Porsche 936 models were send to me both to be converted to chassis 936-003, one for Mizen and one for me. We started with the 1983 Jagermeister car because this was the cheapest and it already had the correct wheels.
The models arrived and I immediately ripped them apart.. (strange thing to do with base models this expensive...)
Next I stripped of the paint and removed the side blades of the wing.
Then some more serious work began as I started modelling the air outtakes in the bonnet.
I also started to do some work on the noses:
That's it for now!
Cheers Luuk
The engineers went straight to work and it became clear they already knew how to win this race. They took two Porsche 936'es out of the museum that they were running in 1978, and mounted 2.6 liter engines with water-cooled heads they initially developed for indianapolis (this programme came to a premature halt however). To make sure the gearboxes wouldn't break down they used the same gearboxes they were using in the 917 can-am programme (which prooved to be capable after running over 1000 horsepower). Shultz then received a phone call from a man called Jacky Ickx, he said that he was actually retired but if the rumours he was hearing about them running his old car again were true he would gladly drrive at Le Mans again. After that Derek Bell, Vern Schuppan, Jochen Mass and Hurley Haywood joined him.
Note that this was all 63 DAYS before the race. Bell and Ickx drove a flawless race and ended up on the top step securing the 5th overall win for Porsche. They completed a total of 354 laps finishing 14 laps ahead of number two, a Rondeau. That car chassis 936-003 is now left to rest at the museum.
As some of you may know Mizen is doing well in becoming the first person to complete the post war 1/18 Le Mans winners collection and to complete that a few non-exsistent models have to be created. After mailing back and forth a few times a plan was made and two TSM Porsche 936 models were send to me both to be converted to chassis 936-003, one for Mizen and one for me. We started with the 1983 Jagermeister car because this was the cheapest and it already had the correct wheels.
The models arrived and I immediately ripped them apart.. (strange thing to do with base models this expensive...)
Next I stripped of the paint and removed the side blades of the wing.
Then some more serious work began as I started modelling the air outtakes in the bonnet.
I also started to do some work on the noses:
That's it for now!
Cheers Luuk