Not bad for a 21 year old package and car. Not a very detailed car, but for $10 delivered, I have no complaints! Made in Portugal by Vitese. I will also add this to our Porsche thread...

Rothmans Porsche 962, driven to first place by Hans-Joachim Stuck Jr,
Derek Bell, GB and Al Holbert, USA.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/WilsonRacePhotos/Road%20Racing/DSCN1695.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/WilsonRacePhotos/Road%20Racing/DSCN1696.jpg

Oh my - I LUV IT :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

The cigarette, (Rothmans) livery is getting tougher to find these days.


Denis

Made in Portugal, so this is an old one before they transfered production to China... They went out of business in 2001 and were bought by Sun Star - see http://www.vitessegroup.com/. BTW, the S is double (hard to see on their old trademark) - Vitesse means speed in French. See http://www.vitessemodels.com/ for their new site (warning - music). :wave:

Very cool information, I had no idea the history of this company, nore that they had been bought out. Yep, I was very pleased for a $10 dollar bill!

Porsche 962.

Opps, sorry bout that Alex, what would I do without you! I posted the correct model number in the text, but indeed reversed the sequence in the title. It is indeed a 962. I will ask a mod to correct that since I have no access to edit titles.

lol ;)

Porsche 962.

Do you know what 62 in 962 signified?

Do you know what 62 in 962 signified?

The 62 of itself nothing - the three digit Porsche 9xx project numbers began with the 901- Peugeot objected, because they used three digit model numbers with a "0" in the middle - so the 901, became the 911. Even though the 911 is still with us, internally at Porsche the succeeding generations have had their own 9xx numbers, 964, 993, 996 & current 997.

Of course, Porsche did use 90x numbers, but, only for racing cars, the 904. 906, 907 & 908, or specific mechanicle pieces - 905 was the designation of the 4-speed Sportomatic gearbox.

Other designations - 945, the right hand drive version of the 944, but, not called such - 945s were still marketed as 944s. The current Boxster is project 987 - not used as the model name.

It should be noted, that Porsche project design numbers began much earlier than the 901 - it just followed on in numerical order. For instance, #7 was a pre WW II 6-cylinder Wanderer saloon, #22 was the Auto-Union 16-cylinder GP car, #101 a Tiger tank, #328 a Tractor, #356, the first Porsche car, #550 & #718 Porsche sports racing cars & #804 a Porsche F1 car.

The next 911 will be project code 998 - the numbers are probably now in four figures with the new designs on the way.

Ok....that is just fun to read! And all in post 633! (just liked the three number thing going on here!)

Ok....that is just fun to read! And all in post 633! (just liked the three number thing going on here!)

According to my records, Project #633 was a design exercise for Studebaker of all companies....