The Rarest Color, the Right Provenance
The 911 Carrera RS 2.7 is the car Porsche collectors return to first. Built for Group 4 homologation and produced in a run of 1,580 cars, it remains the benchmark early 911 more than fifty years on. What separates one example from another is what it carries: color, identity, specification, documentation, and the integrity of what was done to it afterward. This example carries all of it.
At production number 212, this car falls within the first 500 RS examples built, the threshold that defines the earliest and most original specification. Cars in this range left the factory with lightweight thin-glass windows, a detail that distinguishes them from later production and one that serious collectors know to look for. That glass remains on this car today.
Paint code 6868/13, Hellgrün, was delivered on just 11 Carrera RS 2.7s worldwide. It is among the rarest factory colors in the RS production run, and it gives this car an immediate, correct presence that cannot be approximated. In the RS market, factory color is not cosmetic. It is foundational to identity and to value.
The car retains its original delivery gearbox, number 7830210, and a correct 911/83 RS engine block with documented engine number. Identity was formally confirmed by Classic Data appraiser Peter Deuschle using Fry etching and ultrasound thickness measurement. No anomalies were found. Five factory-listed options accompany the car: Sperrdifferential (limited-slip differential), Standheizung (auxiliary heater), Sportsitz Fahrerseite (driver sport seat), verstärkter Federkern Beifahrersitz (reinforced passenger seat spring core), and Antenne links (left-side antenna).
A Restoration with a Point of View
The restoration was initiated in April 2015 and supervised throughout by Jochen Bader, one of Germany's most respected authorities on correct Porsche RS restoration, with decades of work on documented, numbers-correct examples. His involvement is not incidental. It is a material part of this car's story and a meaningful contributor to its integrity.
Bader's direction was unambiguous from the outset: no upgrades, no modifications, no cosmetic reinterpretation. A photographic archive of unrestored original Carrera RS examples was assembled and used as the reference standard for bodywork, hardware, seam sealing, stone-chip protection, and assembly details. Original 1972 and 1973 components were used wherever possible, with restoration favored over replacement where appropriate.
The bare shell was chemically stripped and phosphate-treated at EZZ in Zweibrücken. Metalwork was performed by Hackenberg on a frame alignment jig. All exterior fittings were trial-fitted to the bare shell before paint, a detail that matters and one that most restorations skip.
Paint was completed by Herr Dogan of Lackierwerkstatt Dogan in Freiberg am Neckar, a Porsche Classic specialist with over two decades working exclusively on classic Porsches. His process followed original factory practice: thin application, period-correct seam sealing, correct stone-chip protection. Bader visited in person during the process to confirm the standard of work.
Engine and gearbox work was carried out by Wolfgang Reile of Classic Power in Haubersbronn. The marriage of engine, gearbox, and body, the Hochzeit, took place at Classic Power.
Bader's restoration supervision letter, dated December 10, 2017, delivers the clearest possible summary: "The RS has achieved a high level of originality and presents a perfect appearance. It is not over-restored like so many vehicles." The RS market has no shortage of cars made too glossy, too new, too interpreted. This one was restored to feel like what it is: a properly preserved original example, correct in every detail that matters.
Documentation
Offered with its factory data card, Jochen Bader's restoration supervision letter dated December 10, 2017, documented ownership history, original books, tools, jack, and spare wheel. Showing 7,103 km. Last serviced in 2022.
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