Taking the Mickie

A music producer with a penchant for Porsches convinced Le Mans winner Kremer to build this unique street-legal racer

- CHARLIE CALDERWOOD

The stereo head unit reads not 'Blaupunkt' in this Porsche, as you'd expect, but 'Decca'. You don't need to be told this isn't a normal 911, but it's this detail that reveals the story of this Flachbau (slantnose) more than any other. Owned by Mickie Most, the music producer behind acts such as The Animals, Jeff Beck, Lulu and Hot Chocolate, this is the only Carrera 2.7 MFI ever to receive the attentions of Le Manswinning privateer outfit Kremer.

The Cologne-based racing team shot to fame when it won an outright 24 Hours victory in 1979, beating the Porsche factory team's prototype 936 racer with its 935 (a racing version of the 911 turbo). It was a victory that came due to no small amount of good fortune: all of Kremer's close rivals suffered mechanical issues, while heavy rain reduced the speed differential between the Kremer car and the pursuing 936s. Regardless, the image of the Kremer Porsche, flat-nosed, bespoilered and wearing a red stripe that flowed up and around the bodywork as if it were painted on in a wind tunnel, seared itself into the minds of marque enthusiasts in the early 1980s.

Soon, Kremer was being asked to produce road-legal versions of its Le Mans winning car, the 935 K3. Formula One team owner Walter Wolf was one of those early customers. His Kremer 935 'Le Mans' was a genuine Le Mansspec 935 made road-legal and painted in a blue-and-red livery that almost certainly inspired the paintwork of the car in front of us today. Wolf's car was an exception, however; Kremer's street-legal cars were nearly all built from roadgoing 911s. Enter, Mickie Most.