Porsche 964 Carrera RSR 3.8
The 964 RSR 3.8 is the air-cooled era's last factory racing 911: barely 50 hand-finished Weissach cars whose 1993–94 class wins at Le Mans, Daytona and Spa made them blue chips before they were old.
History
Weissach built the Carrera RSR 3.8 in 1993 as the 964 generation's competition farewell: Turbo-look wide body over centre-lock Speedlines, the M64/04 3.8-litre flat-six at around 350 hp with slide throttles, close-ratio G50 gearing, and suspension hardware a customer could race out of the crate — the RS 3.8 road car existing largely to justify it.
The record came instantly and internationally: GT class wins at the 1993 Spa 24 Hours and Suzuka 1000km, the 1994 Le Mans GT2 class (Larbre's famous campaign), Daytona and Sebring class honours, and national GT titles as privateers ran the type against emerging GT2 machinery. Production stopped at roughly 50 cars — Porsche's smallest modern RSR run — as the 993 generation took over.
Collecting recognized the finality early: matching-numbers RSR 3.8s with period race history now trade well into seven figures, Weissach build records documenting each car, while the model's eligibility across historic GT racing (Le Mans Classic's 90s grids, Peter Auto's Endurance Racing Legends) keeps values anchored to usability the purely static blue chips lack.
Palmarès
Le Mans GT2 class winner 1994 (Larbre Compétition); Spa 24 Hours class winner 1993; Suzuka 1000km GT honours 1993; Daytona and Sebring class results 1993–94; ADAC GT and national championship wins across the customer fleet — the compressed, complete record of a 50-car run.
What to check before you buy
Weissach's build records identify every RSR 3.8 — chassis and M64/04 engine numbers, delivery specification, and the factory's competition-department paper trail are the transaction's spine, with period entry-list history the multiplier. Distinguish genuine RSRs from RS 3.8s uprated later and from Cup-car conversions (both legitimate machines, different universes of money). Slide-throttle induction and centre-lock hubs need the small specialist circle that knows them; tub repairs from period racing are documented car-by-car. At this tier, the marque historians' report precedes any offer.
Did you know
- Roughly 50 RSR 3.8s made it Porsche's rarest modern customer racer — fewer than the 917's production run that required a famous homologation bluff.
- The slide-throttle M64/04's intake bark is so distinct that Rennsport gatherings identify RSRs by ear before sight.
- Larbre's 1994 Le Mans class win came against newer GT2 designs — the air-cooled swansong beating its successors' generation on the way out.
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