962 Koenig C62 (Porsche 962 road conversion) - BTS with DTS - Ep. 4
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- čas přidán 24. 01. 2021
- “Race car for the road” blah blah blah. People say it all the time. THIS is a race car for the road. And not some rally special or touring car, it’s a Group C prototype. The kind that goes 250 mph down the Mulsanne straight, the kind that wins Le Mans 6 times in a row and then comes back and wins again 7 years later just because. And someone (Koenig-Specials) made a street legal version of it, so of course Derek Tam-Scott drove it on the street.
In this video, he explores the background of the Porsche 956 and 962, which together represent one of the most successful race car franchises of all time. For years, they were indomitable, routinely filling most or all of the top ten positions in the races in which they competed, both in America’s IMSA series and the global World Endurance Championship / Group C events. Porsche and the private teams who ran these cars did this through intense technical innovation and relentless development, which made it all the more remarkable that several tuners built street-legal versions. Derek drives the car on the road a) to establish what it’s really like in this environment and b) for the hell of it.
This car is for sale on issimi.com.
BTS (behind the scenes) with DTS:
Derek Tam-Scott’s spirit age is excess of 75 years old, and nowhere is that clearer than his taste in cars. At age 16, he went to work at one of the United States' foremost vintage car dealers, which cemented his elderly taste. Now with a decade and a half’s experience buying, selling, driving, and brokering classic and exotic cars, he’s experienced many of the world’s most iconic cars. And even liked some of them.
Most of the car enthusiasts of Derek’s generation (and well, let’s be honest, even a generation or two before him) don’t have much experience with the magic of vintage cars prior to the 1980s, and therefore lack the knowledge and exposure to get genuinely excited about them. The goal of BTS is to give an insider’s perspective on why these cars particularly are great...or at least interesting and noteworthy. Derek brings his encyclopedic knowledge and broad experience together to contextualize these cars to give the audience understanding of both why it matters, and what it’s actually like to experience the cars.
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The car is 11/10, as is this video. Bravo.
The interior driving shots of this are worth gold
I want to build a kit at reminiscent of group C
The ultimate power is power of weight, the cheeta is not fast because it has bulky muscles but rather is is lean and sleek as possible and has explosive power.
We need to see every second of driving footage you recorded with this thing. And if that footage is under an hour, please do whatever you have to do to get more. Love that you didn’t play music on top of the pov footage you showed.
wow, Derek, you keep surpassing yourself with each video! not to be cocky, but having spent all my 20 years of life investigating on cars, and classics in particular, and mostly porsches, i seldom find stimulating content on youtube... yet, i keep learning something new with each of your videos. this is something i had not experienced in a long time, until i discovered you and jason (though i also watched him on motor trend). the quality keeps getting very noticeably better, not that it ever was bad. and i just wanted to thank you for making this utter car porn. on a happy sidenote, my uncle used to work at koenig specials, but in the spanish division, which was tiny, and led by a crazy man. his stories are pure baddassery. on another sidenote, i must confess that ireally prefer the dauer version, i remember discovering that car when i was sixteen a couple of years ago, and did not stop dreaming about it for the whole summer! i even found people who will sell you a monocoque out of carbon fiber (actually period correct,as you must know, vern shuppan experimented with carbon tubs on these cars) or aluminium tubs as well! ......anyway.... in a nutshell, thank you very much for an amazing and obviously hard worked video! keep up the good stuff!
kind regards from Spain!
Pablo.
Who are these people that sell the monocoques?
@@karimsaadoun6526 Race car replicas in the USA, superb quality, realistic pricing
@@ValladolidArde Do you have a link?
@@karimsaadoun6526 Yeah bro, let me know if you need any help with the engineering, could do with some work atm, I'm a UK trained motorsport engineer. My engines won mitsubishi UK the 2010 british rally constructors championship with Gwyndaf Evans second in drivers championship. I have a TON of contacts in the Porsche race scene, Regards race-car-replicas.com/rcr-962
@@ValladolidArde You got Instagram bro? Message me on @acarnut
In 1986 I rode in the Lowenbrau special on the autobahn at over 200 mph with my dad driving. I was 14 then and at 52, I remember it like it happened last week !
Between this 962 and the Dauer 962 are some of my favorites. Amazing.
The Schuppan and Lotec cars aren’t bad. Any 962 is good 962
The Sultan of Bruni bought 2 Dauer 962C's for his collection. The Dauer cars have leather interiors. Dauer raced 962's in the 90's.
@@bicyclist2 The Sultan bought at least 5 Dauer 962
@@reneengelke3218 It seems like he bought all of them...
@@markusjuenemann Not really, there are the 3 GT Racecars and another normal street car as well. Dauer themselves claim to have sold at least 13 cars but they are a very unreliable source.
I recently saw this car for sale. I gasped in shock and awe. I haven't seen a picture of one of these since the 80's. I love Porsches, and the 962 was arguably their greatest racecar. I've sometimes seen tuners ruin the looks of cars, but thankfully Koenig didn't ruin this. I hope to just get the chance to see a car like this some day. Thanks.
Stunning! Well dome! Koenig Specials Vompetition Evolution 1000 HP next 🤩
How about vector cars
@@tambosnipes1652 Please no. 17 assembled cars over 25 years of company history is nobody's idea of a successful "manufacturer".
@@paulallen8109 what?
Absolutely knocked it out of the park in this one!! Amazing. An amazing vehicle beautifully conveyed.
Honestly getting Jaguar XJR-15 vibes from this.....and that's a REAL good thing. What a machine!
This is the content 🥲 that is just impeccable
My dad was a lifelong Porsche enthusiast. Shortly before he passed he was on a trip with my mom in Texas when some guy in a Luby's saw his Porsche hat and struck up a conversation. Turned out the guy had one of the Dauer 962's at home that he had bought new. I will never forget that phone call. Only time I ever heard my dad sound like an excited teenager.
Truly a passionate man, respect.
"It made the Lambo look like a VW Golf" 😂😂😂 that's insane....
That aged Like wine
I get a lot of value from these BTS videos. Keep it up! 👏
This series brings me so much joy and inspiration. Beautifully written and produced!
Man, these videos gets better with every episode! It’s nice to see the improvements first-hand.
Wow! Another epic video! These just get better and better. Love all the historical video clips, the storytelling and the cinematography. Great work! Wish I had gotten a ride in it.
This video - Chef's kiss! Great stuff, DTS.
Insane lesson on this machine.
Beautiful and gorgeous photography. I bet everyone can appreciate the time and effort put on this production.
Greatly appreciated, please keep them coming.
I remember when I was a kid about the Koneig specials they really were a big sensation back in the time. Sadly I never saw this one I heard about a few months ago and suddenly out of nowhere you really surprised me with this amazing video, the detail clearly makes the difference. The channel gave a huge leap forward this year, keep up that brilliant content 👌
I wouldn't hesitate to be able to drive it. A very nice piece, well put together. Great work! Great piece of history as well. Love it!
What a fantastic car but have to say a fantastically presented video also. Thank you for the content, it's channels like yours (few and far between at this quality) that have proven to be a god send in these covid lockdown times!
Amazing video, cool songs and great footage 🙌
Absolutely wild car! Another great video Derek - lyrical narration underpinned with well researched and presented historical context.
i appreciate you for sharing those cars with us
Loving this series
Great visuals , and wonderful commentary to boot
Thanks for the great video Hyphen!
Great vid, well told, and cinematic. Thanks!
Man ! This was awesome content .I never knew about this car . Thx for the great content .
loving these hyphen videos!
Vicious and beautiful at the same time.
Terrific video. The Dauer and Schuppan road cars seem equally uncompromising and preposterous, yet I can't help but love that these exist.
Amazing video, amazing story, amazing story.
Great work Hyphen!!
There’s a Schuppan CR 962 for sale in the U.K. The few road legal versions made are so cool and the fact they even exist. Nice video!
That 962 looks so beautiful
Jay Leno reviewed a black 962 Schuppan. I like the Dauer and Koenig versions better.
Excellent video
Love the Koenig, as all the other road-versions of the 962, but I would love to see more content about the one, in my biased opinion, is the best of all the 962 conversions: the Dauer 962 LM
Another one masterpiece produced by Issimi. More videos like this will change the perspective about classic cars for young enthusiasts
Excellent video, Great information on the Koenig!!!
At those speeds it’s probably a good thing that speedo is disconnected..
o no just as i was going to film it down this quite country road then the speedo suddenly got unplugged o no the horror
What a wonderful review 👏👍
Another excellent video Hyphen.
Another GREAT vid! 👏👏👌👌
Very informative background if the predecessors leading up to the 956/962 👍
This car is insane...and I love it❤
Really well done and interesting! Nice job DTS. I have anxiety just watching you drive it.
Excellent music choices. Thanks for providing links
Just amazing!!!
I can't believe this video has such few views.
Great filming. Great vehicle. Great driving.
Amazing content, just soooo good!!!!
The way these videos are shot and lit 😮🤭😍 good lord...
Amazing video
Great vid!!
Stellar video of an amazing car.
This guy is a legend
Top notch content
This channel should be more popular...👍
If I saw that while driving near Tunitas Creak Road I would freak. Now I will be driving there more often :)
Wonderful!
Best of 2021
Need a Koenig special company now!
i love how hes very cautious with it and yet the speedo doesnt work haha
love it
I'm guessing it was disabled.
My dream car!
Unreal video
This is next-level awesome...
Great work DTS I’d kill to have a go in one lol
Epic car for Epic driving experience !!!
I LOL at the thought of you driving that on Kings Mtn. Rd. (@ :17). Your teeth and spine would never recover, not to mention it's probably wider than the road in places. Great video, happy to see it on the road!
In the words of Franco Bertollini from Gumball Rally ”what’s behind me is not important “
Great video, look forward to the next one.
Nice Derek, very nice.
this is a good video, hyphen
the music on point (Y)
Good music choice
Amazing video!
I'd add two small cameras in each mirror
OOOOOF at the horrrible mis-shift moneyshift over-rev into redline at 12:10, I'm surprised you included that. And to do that on such an incredibly rare, expensive, sacred car.......OUCHhhhhhhhhhhh
Very nice
The interior driving view reminds me of Gran Turismo 3.
Outstanding sound recording on the interior. So many videos just capture wind and tire noise. Does Porsche consider Koenig and Dauer cars to be "real" Porsches?
I believe Dauers were actually factory supported at Le Mans in 1994 I believe.
Now I guess this was an inspiration for Ferrari F 50 design.
Just on first impression 😳🤤
I believe, all that 962 road legal versions (Dauer, Koenig, DP, Derek Bell SIgnature, Schuppan) are the coolest road cars ever made. Extremely light, fast, beautiful (maybe except Schuppan:), and connected to glorious Porsche racing heritage of the golden racing era, which we have lost lost beyond retrieval
Remembering back when racecars were beautiful and required a firm hand, like a Kentucky thoroughbred that can run all day. Well done Derek.
Analog vehicles is ny favv
Koenig-Specials world class 👍💪👌✊😊
Top tier
Awesome video. The 911 Turbo (Typ 930) Street Car was derived from the 934. Not the other way around.
The Dauer 962 trades its Le Mans victories for the top speed record for a production road car, and the exact car that took Lemans' glory and lost its fastest post was the Mclaren F1.
Nice to see this Koenig C62 got totally rebuilt after it was totally burned down in flames round about 1 decade ago.
The only question is, if the needed spare parts have come from Koenig and they're "original", or if the parts were reproductions "self made"; what of course affects the originality and the car's value.
Koenig has built 1x C62 for race (his personal car) and 4x customer cars = 5
Of the 4 customer cars 2 were yellow, 1 was red, and 1 was in black and not finished (but got finished in the UK years later).
The red one (the only one in this colour) was destroyed by a fire. In this forum you can see some photos of the red wreck ...
www.carpassion.com/forum/thema/20156-koenig-c62/
Looks like a lobster with its claws out front. Very nice.
Nice to see such great footage of this rare Koenig-a real treat. Is this car really a 962 conversion? What was the chassis number then? I always thought these were made from bits of replica and real parts. At some point this was the fastest road-going car in the world.
Today, there is Bugatti, Pagani and Koenigsegg hyper-cars. In the 90s they just took Le Mans winnng prototype and did a "street conversion" :-D
Now do Mosler MT900 THE INTERNET NEEDS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS CAR!!!
Great vid. Can someone point me to the synthwave music used in the beginning
hnnnngh I love it!
Great video! I wonder how the Dauer 962 LM and the Schuppan 962 CR compare to it.
There is one of these in a Connecticut garage the only road legal one with the same engine as the race car
That red C62 sure would look a lot better with stickers! #becauseracecar
In the first race footage there is a 928 chasing up the rear..
Did you schedule the wet roads? Great video. Gree up watching thr 962 race in IMSA. Very cool
Yup, it sound like an air cooled 911 too. 👍
Derek your video is so much better than Matt Farrah's was. On a side note, did you notice the speedometer is disconnected???? I'm guessing it's so there won't be an accurate account of it's mileage.
I saw this car was for sale, somewhere, recently. Guess I'll need to find out if it sold & for how much.
Thumbs up from Mark in Ohio.