My mom is visiting for the holidays and she brought up some of my old car books from back in the day for my son. One of them was a picture book of 1989ish "super cars". As I was flipping through the book and I came across the 959. I had almost forgotten about this car.... found a decent web page to read up and I am shocked how "advanced" this car was...if you are interested...http://erntheburn.tripod.com/autos/959/
By the way my son's (he's 2) favorite car...Lotus Esprit Turbo....MN Boxster would be proud.
Yep, the 959 is a legend......in my opinion, one of the greatest cars ever made. Saw one in Germany once for a split second. If I were rich, I'd have to have one. Would park it in between my Ferrari 288 GTO, and Mercedes Gullwing
Canepa in the Santa Cruz, California area always has several.
He does the emission conversion, upgrades, and so on. I have been to 3 or 4 tech sessions at his old and new shops. He usually gives a talk about the history of the 959. His own is black.
There are 959-look cars out there, so I doubt if a real one has been sitting in a parking lot for 5 years.
At the first Canepa tech session I went to years ago he had about a dozen of them. He likes to buy them from Japan.
He kept this black one. I forget the exact history. It was built for a Porsche race car driver. Porsche did not want to make it black because heat might delaminate the body panels.
Yep, the 959 is a legend......in my opinion, one of the greatest cars ever made. Saw one in Germany once for a split second. If I were rich, I'd have to have one. Would park it in between my Ferrari 288 GTO, and Mercedes Gullwing
Just like Ralph Lauren does. His collection is great to see.
There's a cover page article on 959, 911 GT1, and Carrera GT in the current Excellence mag. 959 may be rare and spectacular for its time but I can't say that it's body captivates me much today. It actually borders on ugly. Just my opinion, of course.
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