Vehicle Description
A Real DP935 Turbo with only 19,000 Miles For the serious Porsche
Enthusiast! DP Motorsport was (is) one of those tuners that can
actually rely on experience in motor-racing. DP Motorsport�s 911
Porsche racers for the street appeared very similar to the Kremer
Porsche 935 racing cars for which DP designed and produced the
bodywork. DP Motorsport offered two different body modifications
for the Porsche 911 in their regular program: the DP 935 I and DP
935 II. The latter, the Version II, was the widest and had the most
racy looks. These racy looks were more than looks alone. Ekke
Zimmermann�s DP Motorsport was in many ways different from other
Porsche tuners like Gemballa and Rinspeed. The latter two modified
cars merely to create extreme looks and a high boulevard-profile,
whereas the DP 935 Porsches were race cars made for the street. The
racing looks were matched by the car�s performance (or the other
way around): the Porsche DP 935 II were usually fitted with
modified engines of 400 Horsepower or more and with the modified
suspension and weight reduction the car was very racetrack worthy.
Reducing the weight was accomplished by the modified looks:
replacing most of the Porsche�s bodypanels with DP�s glassfibre
ones (in the latter part of the 1980s carbon fibre was also an
option) the overall weight of the DP Motorsport 935 was 550kg (!)
less than a stock Porsche 911 Turbo (930). Only the roof and the
doors were left untouched. The typical slanted nose, which
originated from the racing Porsches and which was a very popular
tuning-option in the 1980s was also present on the DP 935 II,
although different types can be distinguished. DP Motorsport
offered the slant nose as a version with pop-up headlamps and one
without. The version without the pup-up headlamps was to go
incombination with the big front-bumper which included headlights
as well, although several cars have both the pop-up headlights and
the front bumper with headlights fitted. The official US-version of
the DP935 II Street lacked the front bumper with the big racy
headlights and only had a small bumper modification with foglights
installed, retaining the original Porsche bumper. This was done
because of stricter US safetyregulations which didn�t allow the all
new DP Motorsport bumper to be installed, at least not without the
pop-up headlights. As with most of the 1980s high-end tuners, the
DP Motorsport prices were steep: just the bodykit plus suspension
upgraded used to cost 60.000 DM (1984). Upgrading the stock 3.2
litre Porsche engine from 300BHP to 360BHP was priced at 14.000 DM
(1984) and the modification up to 400BHP incuding the increased
displacement to 3.3 litres at no less than 20.500 DM (1984).
