Re: [928uk] The ‘Derek Bell’ 928

[Martin Dunks]

It was a prototype SE as such, but not the same.
It was one of 4 IIRC , one was for sale in the UK for about  £28,000 16/17
years ago.....
Probably less than twice the price of a GT at the time.

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, 9:42 pm tom.foulkes--- via 928uk, <
928uk at lists.928.org.uk> wrote:

> So I’m doing what I think we all do at one time or another.
>
> I’m looking at old 928 articles on the internet.
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> And I end up at the Bonhams listing for the ‘Derek Bell’ 928.
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> And forgive me if this has been discussed at length on this forum before
> and if so, please just forward me the email thread as I’m sure it predates
> me joining the mailing list.
>
> But the Bonhams listing has the car (which sold for €253,000!) as a
> ‘prototype’ and having chassis number WP0ZZZ92ZHS842014.
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> So out of interest I check the SE list and there’s a:
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> WP0ZZZ92ZJS842014 in the list of SE chassis numbers at about midway in the
> series at number 22 I think…did Porsche really have chassis numbers so
> similar but separated by a single H instead of a J? Seems a little
> foolhardy / careless if you ask me.
>
> And then there’s the photo attached which is apparently of a (the?) Derek
> Bell car taken in c.92/93. Which shows it in the UK but still on German
> plates (not E709 LOW) but with weird white (GTS?) painted wheels and an
> aerial.
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> Isn’t this all a bit odd?
>
> But I might have just gone down a rabbit hole and ended up adding 2+2 and
> making 5.
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