Porsche 959 SC by Canepa Design: green on green is very good (10 photos)

If you want to buy a factory Porsche 959 now, you will pay from 1 to 1.5 million euros. Pennies compared to how much this instance must go. Because there is something special about this 959. And we don't just mean its color...





RM Sotheby's will hold a series of auctions in Miami. One of the lots event will be captured in the photo Porsche 959 SC Reimagined by Canepa.

Note that the original Porsche 959 is already a very rare car. The model was produced from 1986 to 1993, and for this time the Germans have collected only 292 commodity dvuhdverki.



In this case, we have a restomod from the Canepa Motorsport workshop, built on the basis of a 1988 car. The creation of such machines atelier started back in two thousand and fifteen, and then the tuners planned release 50 copies of the SC Reimagined modification.





The founder of the studio, Bruce Canepa, notes that the study Restomod creation program took his team more than 20 years, with In this case, the construction of one such car takes about 4,000 hours.



By itself, the Porsche 959 SC Reimagined by Canepa has about three thousands of new and modified parts, with the customer directly participates in the development process, choosing the color scheme of the car, some individual external touches and features of interior decoration.



In terms of technical characteristics, restomod may well compete with any modern Porsche. The two-door is set in motion by a regular 2.85 liter engine, but here it is rebuilt and seriously modified.



In the process of tuning, the in-line "six" received a pair of BorgWarner turbines, and they are installed in parallel. Plus the motor boasts new camshafts, valvetrain, forged pistons and titanium Pankl connecting rods.



The sports car was also equipped with a modern stainless steel exhaust system. steel and titanium. All this made it possible to bring the engine output to 825 hp. and 881 Nm. Recall that for the stock model, these numbers are much more modest - 450 forces and 500 Nm of torque.



Restomod also has a custom suspension with Penske shock absorbers and titanium springs. The car is put on 18-inch magnesium wheels with hollow spokes.



Specifically listed for sale is a 959 SC Reimagined by Canepa was finalized a year and a half ago, and he received $172,000 worth of improvements. The car has a mileage of just over 38,000 km, and they want to sell it for 3.0-3.5 million dollars (from 188.3 to 219.7 million rubles).