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The Old Warhorse www.porscheroadandrace.com The Old Warhorse Published: 11th August 2017 By: Martin Raffauf Online version: https://www.porscheroadandrace.com/the-old-warhorse/ Porsche 935 chassis no. 009 00030, the Old Warhorse speeds up the hill at the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed with Brian Redman at the helm This is a story of the incredible career of Porsche 935 009 00030, one of the most amazing race cars ever, or as someone once said, the car of a thousand faces. Also known as the ‘Old Warhorse’, Porsche 935 009 00030 is one of the most storied cars ever to race. It has a long and distinguished history, racing in IMSA and World Championship events from 1979-1987. It has won some very big races both overall and class, and has an amazing finishing record in the races it was entered in. It probably has well over 125,000 racing and practice miles www.porscheroadandrace.com on it. It recently sold at auction in 2016, for over $4.4 million dollars! 1978 Dick Barbour The story actually begins with this car’s older sibling, in 1978. At Le Mans in 1978, the Dick Barbour Racing team entered two 935 Porsches in the IMSA class. 930 890 0033 for Bob Akin, Bob Garretson and Steve Earle. Also entered was 930 890 0024 which was a brand- new car for Dick Barbour, Brian Redman and John Paul Sr. While Dick’s car went on to finish fifth overall and win the IMSA class, Bob Garretson had a massive crash in the night at the kink on the Mulsanne straight. The car left the circuit and went end over end, and landed on its wheels by the side of the road. Bob luckily walked away, but does not remember too much of what happened. All he remembers is that the door was jammed shut and he crawled out through the windshield (or where the windshield used to be). The car was a complete wreck. About all we could salvage from the wreckage were a few of the dashboard gauges, and some of the engine and gearbox parts. www.porscheroadandrace.com The remains of 930 890 0033 sits at the workshop post Le Mans 1978. This car was the forerunner of 009 00030 Towards the end of 1978, Dick Barbour ordered a replacement chassis from the factory to replace this crashed car. The team would build up a completely new car from parts to replace the wrecked one for the 1979 season, using whatever we could salvage from 930 890 0033 (plus an extensive list of new parts). 1979 www.porscheroadandrace.com The Old Warhorse Porsche 935 chassis no. 009 00030 shows its “Made in Mountain View California” decal, Goodwood Festival of Speed 2015 Very early in 1979, Greg Elliff, Jerry Woods and I went up to the San Francisco airport with the team transporter to pick up a new chassis which had come over on Lufthansa from Germany. It was 935 chassis 009 00030. By early 1979, the factory was cutting back on building customer 935s, and just started selling chassis to the various teams. 009 00030 was one of those, an all-white 935 chassis, from the Porsche factory. The team proceeded to build up this car from the ground up, as a completely new car. It even had a decal on the rear wing that stated, Made in Mountain View California! www.porscheroadandrace.com Rolf Stommelen, Dick Barbour and Paul Newman finished second overall in the 1979 Le Mans 24 Hour race, and first in the IMSA +2500 class It would run its first race at the 1979 Le Mans 24 Hours driven by Dick Barbour, Paul Newman the actor, and Rolf Stommelen. It ran almost faultlessly (except for a stuck wheel nut), and finished second overall, and once again the team won the IMSA class. It ran again a few weeks later at the Watkins Glen 6 Hours, where again, Dick, Paul and Rolf drove. It gained some amount of notoriety in practice because Paul Newman was struggling to come to grips with the car on this circuit. He installed a milk crate on the floor on the passenger side, and while just hanging on to the roll cage, had Rolf Stommelen drive him around for some ‘driver training’. His lap times improved by several seconds, so it worked. There were of course many photos taken of this unorthodox method, which I am sure made the movie studios cringe when they saw them! This was the way of Paul at the races though, he was there to race, and did whatever he needed to, in order to improve himself. www.porscheroadandrace.com Paul Newman and Rolf Stommelen in discussion at Watkins Glen in 1979, where, together with Dick Barbour, they would drive 009 00030 to second place www.porscheroadandrace.com Old Warhorse 009 00030 at Watkins Glen in 1979 where it finished second The car ran only one more race in 1979, The Road America 500, driven by Dick Barbour, Brian Redman and Skeeter McKitterick. IMSA had added extra weight (150 pounds or so) to twin turbo 935s at that race, so we struggled somewhat. Brian Redman said the car was affected quite a bit. Peter Gregg went back to single turbo so as not to have to add the weight. The car ran with the front group and battled for the win but after 98 (of 125) laps, the engine died with some kind of electrical malfunction, and the car lost a wheel. 1980 www.porscheroadandrace.com This is Daytona 1980 during practice as the car is still very clean and all the decals look good! Bob Garretson is driving, Bruce Anderson is at the driver’s door getting feedback, while John Johnson is jacking up the car At the end of the season, the car was sold by Dick Barbour to Bob Garretson. That meant the car stayed ‘in house’ at Dick Barbour Racing, it just had a new owner. Dick had ordered a new Kremer car for the 1980 season. The 009 00030 car ran in the 24 hours of Daytona driven by Bob, Anny Verney and Skeeter McKitterick but at this point it was still running as a 935-79 with the stock factory setup. It still had the water system for intercooling air, and in fact we had trouble with this in the race as the water kept leaking out. Daytona is notorious for a lot of sand and such on the circuit and radiators over time got tiny holes in them from the sandblasting, which caused the water to leak out, which then caused the engine inlet air temperature to climb which would cause detonation in the engine. By the www.porscheroadandrace.com last six hours of the race we had to stop multiple times to re-fill the water tank, sending a mechanic into the ‘back seat area’ with a hose from the pit box. The car still finished ninth overall. Skeeter McKitterick After Daytona, the car was back to the shop to be converted as a Kremer kit had been ordered, and this car was to be converted to K3 specification. The kit consisted of new front and rear fenders, new rear wing, new false rear window, new front air dam, and an air to air intercooler system. Some modifications to the rear bulkhead were needed to fit the new intercooler, as this now projected into the rear of the passenger compartment quite a bit more than the old water system. The gearbox was also turned upside down to lessen the angle of the driveshafts, which allowed us to lower the car, which in turn improved the handling. www.porscheroadandrace.com #009 00030 in it’s first race sponsored by Apple Computer at Sebring in 1980. It was driven by Rahal/Garretson/Nierop to seventh place overall For Sebring, and the rest of the 1980 season, this car would be sponsored by Apple Computer. This was back in the early days before Apple was the household name it is today. Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founder) and Mike Markula (angel investor at Apple) came by the shop several times to see the status of the build-up for Sebring, but as I recall we did not see Steve Jobs until the race itself. We kind of gathered that Steve Wozniak was the car guy of the two. At Sebring, the car would be driven by Bob Garretson, Bobby Rahal and the young Canadian, Kees Nierop. Bobby at the time, had done Formula Atlantic, the Can-Am, and a few Formula 1 races. I remember the crew was thinking, great, a ‘formula car guy’. Bob Garretson told us, don’t worry, “We will train him!” Bobby went on to be a great driver for us, he got along with all the crew, and is still good friends with most of us today. www.porscheroadandrace.com Bob Garretson Bobby Rahal The car ran well in the race except for two small issues. At one point, there was some issue www.porscheroadandrace.com with something inside the cockpit. Some work was done, and Rahal was sent back out. Rahal pitted again almost immediately, shouting, “Get the fxxxing tools out of here, they keep jamming the brake pedal.” A few wrenches had fallen under the seat and were rattling around in the pedal assembly, so John Johnson and I crawled in there and removed the errant tools. Later in the race at the night time with a few hours to go, Bob Garretson did not come around. Back then we did not have radios, as the technology was not that good, and didn’t work most of the time.
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