Description
• Original Colour Lime Green (137)
• Superb Restoration
• Seven page feature in leading Porsche magazine
This is a superb LHD example of one of the highly desirable period successors to the Carrera RS: the Euro Spec 1973 Porsche 911 2. 7 MFI; a car that shares the same RS 2. 7 mechanical fuel-injected engine, as well as suspension and gearbox. It also comes in its original 70s colour scheme of Lime Green.
The subject of a seven-page editorial entitled In the Limelight in the latest issue of the top-selling Porsche magazine 911 & Porsche World, tells the full story of this remarkable car and its genesis, as the director successor to the iconic Carrera RS.
The ‘European-Specification’ 1974 Carrera retained the remarkable 210 brake horsepower, type 911/ 83, 2. 7-litre mechanically fuel injected engine from the 1973 Carrera RS, as well as the suspension and gearbox. The arches and rear quarters in the new Carrera 2. 7 ‘MFI’ were tastefully flared to accept seven- and eight-inch-wide Fuchs forged alloy wheels. Power was delivered through a Type 915/ 06 five-speed manual transaxle, and the handling characteristics are therefore virtually identical to an RS.
This particular example is one of the earliest successors to the legendary Porsche RS leaving the production line in September 1973. It spent the first six years of its life in Germany, before it was sold to a Japanese buyer in 1980, where it remained for nearly forty years during which time it was subject to a concours restoration by Technicalmate. It was sold to a European collector in 2017, where it has remained along with 120 other cars, until recently.
