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You Can Now Buy the Most Interesting 911 Ever Built

By Christian Moe August 10, 2017
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When Porsche enthusiast dreams come true, it looks a lot like this.

In the land of Porsche, there are a few names that every enthusiast knows and loves. Names like Hurley Haywood. But for us, the greatest modern Porsche madman is Dr. Erik Brandenburg. The medical doctor/falconer/vintage rally racing enthusiast has spent years buying, driving, and creating wonderful off-road Porsches. After he raced the famous Transsyberia Rally in 2007, Brandenburg had a trio of cars made that were replicas of his rig.

And now there is one for sale.

We see the 911 “Safari” cars as the pinnacle of air-cooled achievement. Utterly capable, nearly indestructible, and undeniably unique and interesting. The rugged truck tires are massively tall 215/85/16s, yet somehow they make the 911 look more aggressive and capable than comical. In some sort of nod to maintaining a semblance of Porsche purity, those tires are mounted to factory Fuchs wheels.

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This particular car started life as a 1979 SC, and the drivetrain was left mostly unchanged. The body was seam welded and stiffened, and the suspension received a major upgrade, but there is a lot more 911 SC here than there is rally upgrade. The car is currently sitting with an asking price of just over $150,000, and we can’t even describe to you how much we want this thing.

 

If you become the new owner of this superlative machine, please honor the legacy of the good doctor who had it built: Drive it as hard as you can. Try your damnedest to break it, and then when it laughs at your futile attempts, bash it even harder.

 

If you asked, “new 911 GT3 or 911 Safari?,” we would be liable to slap you across the face for asking such a stupid question.

The Porsche 911 is our favorite car. Seeing one fettled, changed, and then launched over massive jumps just makes us feel like a child inside. We are filled with wonder and giddy happiness that is nearly indescribable.

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If you become the new owner of this superlative machine, all we ask is that you honor the legacy of the good doctor who had it built: Drive it. Drive it as hard as you can. Try your damnedest to break it, and then when it laughs at your futile attempts, bash it even harder.

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You Can Now Buy the Most Interesting 911 Ever Built

By Christian Moe August 10, 2017
0  COMMENTS

   

Porsche

When Porsche enthusiast dreams come true, it looks a lot like this.

In the land of Porsche, there are a few names that every enthusiast knows and loves. Names like Hurley Haywood. But for us, the greatest modern Porsche madman is Dr. Erik Brandenburg. The medical doctor/falconer/vintage rally racing enthusiast has spent years buying, driving, and creating wonderful off-road Porsches. After he raced the famous Transsyberia Rally in 2007, Brandenburg had a trio of cars made that were replicas of his rig.

And now there is one for sale.

We see the 911 “Safari” cars as the pinnacle of air-cooled achievement. Utterly capable, nearly indestructible, and undeniably unique and interesting. The rugged truck tires are massively tall 215/85/16s, yet somehow they make the 911 look more aggressive and capable than comical. In some sort of nod to maintaining a semblance of Porsche purity, those tires are mounted to factory Fuchs wheels.

Porsche-2-1000.jpg

This particular car started life as a 1979 SC, and the drivetrain was left mostly unchanged. The body was seam welded and stiffened, and the suspension received a major upgrade, but there is a lot more 911 SC here than there is rally upgrade. The car is currently sitting with an asking price of just over $150,000, and we can’t even describe to you how much we want this thing.

 

If you become the new owner of this superlative machine, please honor the legacy of the good doctor who had it built: Drive it as hard as you can. Try your damnedest to break it, and then when it laughs at your futile attempts, bash it even harder.

 

If you asked, “new 911 GT3 or 911 Safari?,” we would be liable to slap you across the face for asking such a stupid question.

The Porsche 911 is our favorite car. Seeing one fettled, changed, and then launched over massive jumps just makes us feel like a child inside. We are filled with wonder and giddy happiness that is nearly indescribable.

Porsche-Safari-Main-1000B.jpg

If you become the new owner of this superlative machine, all we ask is that you honor the legacy of the good doctor who had it built: Drive it. Drive it as hard as you can. Try your damnedest to break it, and then when it laughs at your futile attempts, bash it even harder.

How could you not get excited when the mad dr's bio ..lists falconer ??

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Who is up for a nice looking 944 turbo for $13,500 USD.  You'd get that here and registered for less than 25k I reckon.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-cars-sale/966119-excellent-86-951-944-turbo-pearl-white-ebay.html

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There was a white LHD 86/87 for sale in Melbourne Listed at 24,500? Took ages to sell.

 

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Thoughts are maybe the roll cage is holding it together, if its not rusty then it does look a fun bit of kit.

Im just suspect of those little rust bleed throughs.. especially on white cars..been there done that ..pocket was much lighter as was a car that kinda presented the same way .. the car was very light after I took out all the filler and many coats of primer

 

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A 968 turbo custom build for sale 
listed here: 
 
Reproduce 9 magazine articles about the car & build here: https://goo.gl/MNeK2K
watch the page numbers as the article is copied out of order
 

 

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If only you could buy that car here for $110K.  What would it cost in AUD to buy and ship over and have it compliant for our roads?

Tasty looking 930...

http://www.milleniamotors.com/1976-Porsche-911-Turbo-930-Turbo-Longwood-FL-32750/6125202 

 

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That thing looks sweet.  I wish I could buy it for 

That looks sweet.

If only you could buy it here for $110K.  What would it cost in AUD to ship it here and make it compliant

Sorry Scott I seemed to have messed up and hijacked your post, Unsure how I did that.  Tried to edit it and just made it worse:huh:

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Yeah tried to copy in Turbo Tom but that link did not work either.  I must be having a bad day

 

No worries Phil ;-)

I'm not well placed to comment on shipping and compliance. I know others are. Maybe @turboT ? 

Hi Guys - interesting car. Costs to import are pretty easy to approximate:

Purchase price  - $137,000 OZ ($110,000US)

shipping - $5k OZ (approx)

GST worked out on 10% of  purchase price + shipping costs - = $14,200 OZ

LCT - 30% tax on anything over $60k (purchase price) approximately. So 30% of $77K = $23,100 OZ

So total costs to land in Australia i recon would be about $180k

You then have compliance and this is where it might get difficult. As far as I understand it you need the car to be near original. This car has clearly been heavily modified so I'm not sure how you would go with this one. Supposed to be a non inter cooled car -  I have no idea the cost to undo that ...From memory I spent at least another $10k getting mine through compliance and then rego. Has to be at least a $200k cost before you get it in the road would be my thoughts.

 

 

 

 

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