The only one road-legal version of Walter Wolf's Porsche 935

One-OFF As far as street-legal race cars go, Walter Wolf's Porsche 935 is like nothing you've ever seen before. As we all knew, that Walter Wolf is a very successful Austrian-Canadian entrepreneur who got his start by working on oil rigs himself. He then made a fortune as a supplier of oil-drilling equipment in the North Sea. This enabled him to live an extremely lavish lifestyle, one in which he fed his love for adrenaline with a collection of wild and unique exotic cars.

The one-off road legal version of the Porsche 935 K3 Spec by Kremer Racing commissioned by Walter Wolf. (Picture from: RoadandTrack)

He has many exotic car collections designed to meet his specifications and specially hand-built, each is crazy in its own way, featuring increased power, cutting-edge brakes, incredible aerodynamics, and more. Notable examples were his Lamborghini Countach supercars that almost had him buying the factory to save it.

This famous Lamborghini Countach LP500S Custom was one of Walter Wolf's exotic car collections. (Picture from: RoadandTrack)

However, even then those special Lamborghinis got superseded by an even better street-legal supercar built based on the celebrated Porsche 935 race car. It was a racing car preceded by the Porsche 911-based 934 series, and developed to compete in the Group 5 class in the '70s.  At the time, the class was considered the pinnacle of GT racing.

The one-off road legal version of the Porsche 935 K3 Spec has wide and heavily-aerodynamic exterior was constructed with body panels made of Kevlar. (Picture from: ClassicDrivers)

Initially, Porsche didn't want to sell one of this racing car to Walter Wolf, but with deep pockets and a good standing in motorsports, such being the then owner of the Wolf Racing Formula 1 team, no wonder he could be bought it from those Stuttgart-based automaker. 

According to Kremer Racing, the Walter Wolf's road legal Porsche 935 K3 Spec is 98 percent identical to its racer sibling that won Le Mans outright in 1979. (Picture from: HotCars)

At first Walter Wolf had approached Porsche to build him a special custom road legal version of Porsche 935, but they turned it down. After that, unlike other people who usually took the donor car to a well-known coachbuilder company, instead he took it to the Kremer Racing's workshop and asked them to make him a Porsche 935 K3 Spec.

The only one road-legal version of the Porsche 935 K3 Spec is powered by a twin-turbo 2.85-liter six-cylinder engine similar to that used by its race-winning sibling at the Le Mans racing of 1979. (Picture from: HotCars)

For your information, the Porsche 935 K3 Spec racer made by Kremer Racing in 1979 won the Le Mans race, beating even Porsche's factory racing team cars. In short, the racing team based in Cologne accepted the wild request, and consulted closely with Wolf and emphasised to him that almost any mechanical aspect of the car could be adapted to his tastes. But in that respect, Wolf insisted the car was as close to the racer as possible.

The Porsche 935 K3 Spec racer made by Kremer Racing in 1979 won the Le Mans race, beating even Porsche's factory racing team cars. (Picture from: HotCars)

So, according to Kremer, the car is 98 percent identical to the K3 that won Le Mans outright in 1979. Unlike most supercars, the wide and heavily-aerodynamic exterior was constructed with body panels made of Kevlar, not aluminum or carbon fiber. 

It rolls on 16-inch BBS multi-piece wheels. The car's suspension was softer than the one used in the Porsche 935 race car, while its Bilstein dampers were adjusted, so the ride height could be raised to 3.93 inches.

The one-off road legal version of the Porsche 935 K3 Spec has many unique features on the outside included tiny sidelights and indicators installed to make it roadworthy, as well as a specially-fabricated exhaust. (Picture from: HotCars)

Walter Wolf's street-legal Porsche 935's only unique features on the outside included tiny sidelights and indicators installed to make it roadworthy, as well as a specially-fabricated exhaust. The latter, tailor-made for Wolf's car, took six months to make. And after several months, Walter Wolf's Porsche 935 was ready for the road.

No other street-legal Porsche 935 racer from that period has ever been built, making it unique. Still, one thing's certain: being a one-off, this Porsche 935 is nowhere cheap. Ordering it new in 1979, Walter Wolf forked out $1.8 million (adjusted for 2018). We can guess whoever bought it had to pay over more than that.😮 *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | HOTCARS | ROADANDTRACK | CLASSICDRIVERS  ]

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