Coys Auction - Spring Classics
Royal Horticultural Halls
Elverton St
Westminster
London SW1
Tuesday 8 March 2011

Estimate: £30,000 - £35,000
Registration Number: HOT 222N
Chassis Number: 9114600812

Only 6 Carrera RS’s were supplied new in RHD format, and it is strongly believed that one of these has been converted to a left hand drive. The result of this is that a genuine Carrera RS commands ‘telephone number’ prices. This Carrera RS was actually born as a 1974 2.7 Carrera, making the underpinnings of the car quite correct. The car was delivered new to the city of Hull in September 1974 and the car passed through four owners before it was bought in March 1986 and subjected to this completely irresistible transformation. The restoration, as you could imagine, was quite an involved affair, painstakingly carried out by the late great Peter Clark, a member of the BRDC, but perhaps better known as a successful Porsche raci