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356 Carrera 2 GS/GT

Carrera 2 GS/GT, s/n 123627. One of 14 Factory built Porsche 356 Carrera 2 GS/GT’s This is a full–blown streetable race car based on the production 356B T-6 Chassis built by the Porsche factory competition department.

Featuring Porsche famous 2000cc four cam Carrera racing engine type 587/2 fitted with two Weber 46 IDM-2 carburetors producing 155 hp @ 6,600rpm. A four-speed gearbox with a limited slip differential, ATE annular disc brakes, 110ltr. Fuel tank with the large filler cap thru the front hood. The body used aluminum for doors and front/rear hoods, the rear hood has additional louvers for extra engine cooling. The body shell also had a special lower weld bead added for chassis stiffening. Door and window frames were alloy, along with door, side and rear windows being Plexiglas. A Spartan interior also has lightweight aluminum shell sport seats and a wooden steering wheel, and optional roll bar.

#123627 was originally sold to Paul Ernst Strahle and was raced by him in 1963/64 in various hillclimbs and Norris Ring races in Nurnberg. List of owners also include: Karl Habben, Armin Baumann, Thomas Strumann, Ray Marbay and Robert Manschot.

This car has also had a complete restoration in 1985 by Armin Baumann of Switzerland, and has had a recent (4/04’) complete engine rebuild by George Lizalde to exact factory specifications.

One must consider this car to be an automatic entry to any world wide major historic event, and recently has been accepted to the Tour Auto, Tour of Spain and Steve Earl’s Wine Country Classic. Recently (5/04’) Mark Leonard reported the sister car sold for $250,000 and compared to Carrera GS’s selling for around $160,000, a Carrera GTL Abarth over $500,000 and Alfa GTZ @ 250,000 “ These cars offer a great bang for the buck”.
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