Opened on the finish of 2022, Malaysia’s first Porsche Basic Companion Centre at Porsche Centre Johor Bahru has wheeled out its first ground-up restoration – an unique early-Seventies Porsche 911 T.
This silver instance, which seems to belong to Karrus Automotive Group founder Reza Mutalib, is the product of a months-long course of undertaken completely in-house by technicians licensed beneath the Porsche Basic Companion programme. The nut-and-bolt restoration noticed each worn-out panel and element disassembled, documented and rebuilt to unique manufacturing facility specs, guided by manufacturing facility requirements.
Launched in 1967, the 911 T (brief for “Touring”) changed the four-cylinder 912 as a much less highly effective, cut-price various to the usual 911. Regardless of boasting simply 110 PS from its 2.0 litre naturally-aspirated flat-six, this stripped-out mannequin holds an outsized affect on Zuffenhausen even immediately, serving as an inspiration for immediately’s entry-level, manual-transmission 911 Carrera T and the GT3 Touring.
The “2.2” rear windscreen sticker marks this out because the later circa-1970 911 T, which featured a bigger 2.2 litre mill churning out 125 PS.
The Basic Companion certification signifies that Porsche Centre Johor Bahru’s physique and paint providers and its restore strategies have been tailor-made particularly for fashions which have been out of manufacturing for at the very least ten years. The ability joins one of many few world shops endorsed by Porsche AG itself to protect the model’s basic sports activities vehicles.
We visited the Porsche Basic Companion Centre at Porsche Centre Johor Bahru just a few years in the past – click on right here to observe our video tour.
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