The original Porsche 911 S/T is a cult classic.
. It's a tribute to a past model that outside of hardcore Porsche enthusiasts, not many people know about. It’s a Porsche that is very important to the 911 story.Almost as soon as the Porsche 911 started rolling off the assembly line, it was racing. Porsche quickly began developing racing modifications for the 911 both for factory teams and privateers. The first special racing model was the 911 R of 1967, a fiberglass-body, 8000-rpm lightweight built in extremely limited numbers.
Porsche sold fiberglass fender flares to accommodate six- and seven-inch wide front tires and eight- and nine-inch rear tires. The classic "S/T" look features the wider fenders, with some cars sporting Minilite rear wheels instead of the classic 911 Fuchs alloys, as nine-inch Fuchs didn't enter production until 1970. Most S/Ts featured a number of other fiberglass parts to keep weight down, the most obvious being the fiberglass hood held down by rubber latches at the front.
The Porsche factory offered tons of different components for racers around the globe, and all were detailed in what's become known as. These are essentially catalogs and setup guides for the 911, and later, the 914/6. Sometimes these special components were installed by the factory, and in other cases, they were installed by dealers or racing teams. That's what makes it so hard to define an S/T. It's not a specific set of components, but various combinations of components.
established in California in the late Nineties built cars inspired by the 911 R and S/T and treats the Sports Purposes manual as a bible of sorts. Later 911s like the SC and Carrera 3.2 became a popular base for S/T-type builds as they have wider fenders than the longhood 911s of 1964-1973. Highly regarded restomods like those created by Singer Vehicle Design very much owe their aesthetics to the S/T.The new S/T is quite different than the original in its brief.
The original 911 S/Ts helped establish the 911 legend with their multidisciplinary racing success; the new S/T revels in that legend. It's a victory lap for the world's most celebrated sports cars.A car enthusiast since childhood, Chris Perkins is Road & Track's engineering nerd and Porsche apologist. He joined the staff in 2016 and no one has figured out a way to fire him since.
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