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Look who honoured us with signatures for the Limited Edition of Tazio 9, the Porsche 911 edition. None other than Belgian Legend Jacky Ickx.
Ickx and the 911 share a significant amount of history. The Porsche 911 appeared in Ickx’s career at a time when the momentum in his Formula 1 career was dwindling. And competing further down the grid in F1 was simply something he couldn’t be bothered with.
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Enter Porsche, with a contract proposal as a works driver from 1976 on, with the 936 prototype at Le Mans and with the mighty 935 turbo in the World Endurance Championship.
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Moby Dick
In Tazio 9, Ickx talks at length about his days with the 911: with the famous Moby Dick version, with the ‘Baby’ 935, and of course his favourite topic of all: how he convinced Porsche they should take the 911 to the desert. “After my Paris – Dakar victory with Mercedes in 1983, I happened to witness Roland Kussmaul perform a shakedown of one of the old rally 911 SCs. I went to see the head of motorsport, Professor Bott, and I told him: ‘I think you have the car to win Paris – Dakar 1984 right here.’ At the time, it looked like Porsche was going to axe the 911. I got a ‘yes’ from Professor Bott, but as always with him, it was a ‘yes, but…’.”
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The Limited Edition of Tazio 9 is out now. Just 50 copies exist, individually numbered. Artwork Wibalin Buckram cover paper, 120 grams.