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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo - broadside

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Created on August 1, 2021

Reading time 9min

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Bruno von Rotz

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - basiert auf dem Serien-Turbo 930

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - Verschmelzung von Keilform und klassischer 911-Silhouette

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - Heckansicht mit 944-Rückleuchten

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - mit Recarositzen, Highend-Hifi-Anlage und viel Leder veredeltes Turbo-Interieur

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - Meilentacho und geringe Gesamtfahrleistung

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - Rinspeed-Gepard auf den Sitzpolstern

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - elektrisch verstellbare Recaro-Sitze

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - der 300 PS starke 3,3-Liter-Turbomotor

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - die Klappscheinwerfer stammen vom Porsche 944

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Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo (1985) - Heck ohne Flügel

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VW Golf Rinspeed (1980) - mit Turbolader - Genfer Autosalon 1980

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Rinspeed Aliporta Turbo (1982) - Flügeltüren-Golf, von vorne her gesehen

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Rinspeed Aliporta Turbo (1982) - Flügeltüren-Golf von hinten her gesehen

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VW Golf (1982) - am Genfer Automobilsalon von 1982 - optimierte Cabriolet-Version "spider" von Rinspeed

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Rinspeed Golf Gli Spider (1982) - noch eine Abwandlung des VW Golf Cabrios

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Porsche 924 Rinspeed - zwischen 924 Carrera GT und 944 von der Optik, Rinspeed 949 genannt - am Genfer Automobilsalon 1984

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Porsche 911 Turbo 969 Rinspeed (1985) - glänzend gelungene Transformation von Rinderknecht - Genfer Automobilsalon 1985

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Rinspeed Porsche R69 911 Turbo Rinspeed Cabriolet (1986) - deutlich von der Serie abgewandelt

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Eine bekannte Grösse am Genfer Autosalon - Frank Rinderknecht alias Rinspeed - Genfer Automobilsalon 2019

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Summary

Car customization was very popular in the 1980s; discerning sports car customers did not want an off-the-peg car. Companies such as Rinspeed offered a high degree of customization and often also vehicle versions that were not available from the manufacturer. With the Rinspeed Porsche 969 Turbo, Frank M. Rinderknecht even succeeded in creating a small "series", as twelve of these coupés with flanks reminiscent of the Testarossa were produced. This report tells the story of the Rinspeed Porsche and shows it in current and historical pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

From sunroof importer to Porsche tuner
From the 939 to the 969
Presentation at the 1985 Geneva Motor Show
Handcrafted with a sense of proportion
One of twelve
Slow farewell to Porsche

Estimated reading time: 9min

Preview (beginning of the article)

In the 1980s, courageous car tuners outdid themselves when it came to refining Porsche vehicles. The sports cars couldn't be wide and flashy enough. Gemballa, RUF and Rinspeed were the names of the companies that outdid each other at the motor shows of the time. Frank M. Rinderknecht, a car visionary who regularly surprises with mobility studies at the major motor shows, spent part of his student days in the USA and observed a new trend there: the sunroof for cars. He immediately installed one of these glass roofs in his Fiat 128 Coupé and aroused so much interest among his acquaintances that it became a business. An advertisement in Automobil Revue brought him so much interest that he dropped out of his mechanical engineering studies at ETH Zurich before the seventh semester and founded "Rinspeed".

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