Road-legal hard-core Porsche 935 emerges

Lanzante has converted two of the 77 limited-production Porsche 935 race cars for road use, opening the door for the pair of ultra-rare hypercars sold in Australia to become street-legal.

According to the British engineering firm, which is also behind the road-legal McLaren P1 GTR conversions and the astonishing Formula 1 TAG-powered Porsche 911, its latest project begun after two Porsche 935 owners approached the former race team for help.

Converting the track-only 935 for road use was no mean feat and took Lanzante 18 months to complete.

Revealed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the street-legal Porsche 935s were fitted with headlights, a hand brake and an overhauled the braking system.

The road-ready 935s also get new suspension and revised electronics designed to make the Porsche 911 GT2-derived twin-turbo 3.8-litre flat-six more useable.

Even the alloy wheels are all-new and were created to match the original hypercar’s aero design.

There’s no word whether the full titanium race exhaust has been retained, but it’s likely to have been swapped out for a quieter exhaust system.

Lanzante has not confirmed how much it cost to convert the Porsche 935, but back in 2018 the standard vehicle was priced from €700,000 plus taxes ($A1.1 million).

Originally commissioned by Porsche Motorsport in 2018, the Porsche 935 was said to be inspired by the 1977 935/78 that was affectionally nicknamed ‘Moby dick’ on account of its huge whale tale.

Backed by advanced aero, the original racer’s extreme 621kW twin-turbo 3.2-litre flat-six enabled it to hit 366km/h on the Mulsanne straight at the Le Mans 24 Hour.

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