Porsche 911 Carrera RS

The vehicle in detail

1973 Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7 RS Touring coupe

Chassis highlights:

• Grand Prix White with Black leatherette
• Chassis Number 9113601537
• matching numbers original engine
• 2.7 litre 210hp air cooled engine
• one of just 1,580 2.7 RS built
• owner’s manuals and tool roll
• iconic “ducktail” rear spoiler
• factory build sheets on file
• M472 Touring option
• delivered new to Italy
• original color 329 Dalmatian Blue
• late production 3rd Series example
• two decades in the Bruce Meyer collection

Built to race, and infinitely usable on the street as well, the all new 911 Carrera RS 2.7 was produced to homologate for racing in FIA Group 4 Special GT class.  The initial run of 500 RS 2.7 to satisfy homologation rules quickly sold out, so a second series of 500 were built, and then yet another 500 built for the third series.  The Carrera RS 2.7 was the first 911 to use the Carrera name, a nod to the 550 Spyder’s class win and 3rd overall finish in the 1953 Carrera Panamericana border-to-border road race in Mexico.  And the RS 2.7 the very 911 where the iconic “ducktail” spoiler debuted, with the RS the first Porsche to utilize both front and rear spoilers.  All this neatly packaged in the last year of the F-body 911, with Carrera graphics adorning each side along with color matched Fuchs alloy wheels, wide rear wheel arches to accommodate the staggered wider 7 inch rear wheels, and of course fitted with the mighty 2.7 litre flat six cylinder air cooled engine making 210hp.

RS 2.7 S/N 1537 was delivered new into Italy where it would live until coming to California in the 1990s.  1537 was born in the vibrant color of Dalmatian Blue, and once Stateside was fully restored and then showing in classic Grand Prix White with blue graphics.  In the early aughts the RS 2.7 would join the collection of a real car guy, Bruce Meyer of Beverly Hills.  The RS would be in Bruce’s collection for the next two decades, and now comes to us after a brief visit in a small East Coast collection.  The Carrera has just been serviced and sorted by marque specialist, Jerry Pellegrino’s European Performance Engineering, and is ready for the spring and summer driving season.

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