Dear Friends,

My favourite Rally car is Porsche 911SC MARTINI from 1978 SAFARI Rally.
I collect everything about these two cars driven by Vic Preston jr & Bjorn Waldegaard.

Can anyone identify what number is this car: 5 or 14?



If you have any interesting photos or other information please send it to me.
Thanks in advance!

Nikolay

A bit too late for me.

Were the cars left hand drive? If so, the windscreen wiper not sweeping full screen would have been a real problem and may have been mentioned somewhere. But it was probably fixed at the next service point. If not it might provide a clue for comparison with other photos.

With the spotlight mounted on the right-hand door, obviously for the co-driver to use, the cars must have been left-hand-drive.

World Rallying 1 has a photo of Waldegard's Porsche and it has two wipers that clear the whole screen. Not that that proves the photo above is Preston.

I've a few pictures of Waldegård's car, showing clearly that his mount was left-hand drive.


Carles.

This is a link from where I find out the screenshot. Does anybody have this DVD film?

Dies ist ein Link, von wo aus ich herausfinden, den Screenshot. Hat jemand diese DVD-Film?

Il s'agit d'un lien d'où je savoir la capture d'écran. Est-ce que quelqu'un a ce film DVD?

Este é um link de onde eu descobrir a captura de tela. Alguém tem esse filme DVD?

Questo è un link da dove trovare la schermata. Qualcuno ha questo film DVD?



http://www.automodelista.org/viewtopic.php...&t=4997&p=50521

If you have any interesting photos or other information please send it to me.
Thanks in advance!

Nikolay

Nikolay,

I have been meaning to post this for some time.

In 1978 Porsche made a factory film titled 'Afrikanisches Marathon: Safari-Rallye 1978'. This is probably the film you are looking for:











The only DVD format of this film I have ever seen was when Porsche was featured on PBS's 'Great Cars' series.

See here: http://www.dvdempire.com/exec/v4_item.asp?...item_id=1271807

The other factory produced films on the DVD feature the '71 LeMans 24, 1971 Nurbürgring 1000km and '76 LeMans 24.

Finally I took this photo when I was at the Porsche Museum in '03.

WOW !

Many, MANY THANKS CarlBauer,

This is a great information for me!!!

Nikolay

Dear Friends,

I find out the following difference at front bonnet of the two MARTINI-SAFARI cars 14 & 5:

Ich finde die folgenden Unterschied an der Front Motorhaube des MARTINI-SAFARI Autos zwei 14 & 5:

Je trouve la différence ci-après à l'avant du capot des deux MARTINI-SAFARI voitures 14 et 5:

Preston's car (#14) The sponsors is in the order:
Shell
Dunlop
Teletron / Purolator
Bosch
Bilstein

Waldegaard's car (#5) The sponsors is in the order:
Shell
Dunlop
Teletron / Purolator
Bilstein
Bosch

If you have any interesting photos or other information please send it to me.
Thanks in advance!

Nikolay

According Jürgen Barth's book "Das neue große Buch der Porsche Typen" Company Porsche build Three brand new car for 1978 Safari Rally:

Selon Jürgen Barth le livre "Das neue große Buch der Porsche Typen« Société Porsche construction de trois nouvelles marques de voiture pour 1978 Safari Rally:

9118301446 - Recce Car / Quick service car (reg. number S-DE 6392).
9118301474 - Race # 14 (reg. number S-DE 6393).
9118301476 - Race #5 (reg. number S-DE 6394).


This is a quick service car (reg. number S-DE 6392). This car was recce car and during the rally was quick service car driven by Roland Kußmaul, and navigated by Jürgen Barth(on the PHOTO), who was coordinating all Porsche Service cars via Radio connection with the airplane.

Il s'agit d'une voiture de service rapide (reg. numéro S-DE 6392). Cette voiture a été la voiture de reconnaissance et pendant le rallye a été à service rapide voiture conduite par Roland Kußmaul, et navigué par Jürgen Barth (sur la photo), qui a été la coordination de toutes les voitures Porsche Service à la radio le cadre de l'avion.

Nikolay

The spotlight on the door has nothing to do with navigator they were desighned to let the locals know a Safari car was coming, and because the spots were mounted higher up they go less mud on them

I have some photos around I will look for them