{"id":11318,"date":"2024-07-03T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=11318"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:52:34","slug":"kalmar-builds-modern-day-porsche-911-st-for-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=11318","title":{"rendered":"Kalmar builds modern-day Porsche 911 ST for USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the \u2013 granted, oversaturated \u2013 market of Porsche 911 restomods, Danish builder Jan Kalmar manages to stand out. His 7-97 C1 is the modern take on the 911 ST the USA was unaware it needed. Until now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u20187-97<\/a>\u2019 starts with Tom Kristensen. Denmark\u2019s most successful racing driver \u2013 9 Le Mans wins \u2013 was the first customer of Jan Kalmar\u2019s aircooled 911 restomod. The car series \u2013 Kalmar does other Porsche conversions as well \u2013 was named in honour of Kristensen\u2019s Le Mans palmares. In 1997, he won for the first time in the Joest-run TWR-Porsche WSC 95\u2026 carrying race number 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Kalmar Automotive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1970 ST<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With the 7-97 series, Kalmar visually refers to the 1970 911 ST, the lightest ever 911 built by Porsche. The 911 ST weighed just 780 kilos, for 245 hp from a 2.4-litre six-cylinder engine. G\u00e9rard Larrousse drove a factory-entered 911 ST to third place in the 1970 Tour Auto in France<\/a>, behind the Matra prototypes. It did without soundproofing material and had fibreglass door panels, bumpers and front wheelarches. Famously, metal parts were drilled to gain weight. Glass was replaced by plastic at the sides and at the rear. It was extreme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Porsche\/McKlein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

993 4WD basis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The 7-97 C1 might seem less extreme at first glance, but that is only because Kalmar refuses to sacrifice usability. The 7-97s come with aircon, adaptive suspension and a sound system (features which can be deleted). In the case of the C1, a four-wheel drive 993-type 911 served as the base model. Knowing it would have weighed around 1400 kilos in standard trim, the Kalmar 7-97 C1 impresses with a weight of around 1215 kilos (2675 pounds). If you order it as a rear-wheel drive model, weight drops to just 1150 kilos (2500 pounds).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Kalmar Automotive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

400 hp<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The aircooled flat-six grows to 4-litre capacity. The crankshaft is taken from the 4-litre 997 GT3 model and is known for its high-revving character. Output is 400 hp and over 400 Nm of torque is available. It comes with a six-speed manual gearbox. Kalmar\u2019s attention to detail come to light as you glance over the specifically created exhaust system, the individual throttle bodies (drive-by-wire activated) and the Motec M150 ECU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Kalmar Automotive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

USA only, with Bruce Canepa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now for the bad news, if you don\u2019t live in the USA. The 7-97 C1 was made at the demand of Kalmar\u2019s North American distributor, California-based specialist Bruce Canepa. It also means the C1 is \u2018USA only\u2019. Price depends on specification. Kalmar builds just twelve 7-97 models per year, so supply is limited. The 7-97 C1 is available for viewing with Canepa Group<\/a> in Scotts Valley (on appointment only).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the \u2013 granted, oversaturated \u2013 market of Porsche 911 restomods, Danish builder Jan Kalmar manages to stand out. His 7-97 C1 is the modern take on the 911 ST the USA was unaware it needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,252],"tags":[1592,1593,1116,1529,680,1531,119,137,138,1590,1589,191,626,1591],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-11318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-pictures-videos","category-racing-related-products","tag-bruce-canepa","tag-canepa-group","tag-gerard-larrousse","tag-jan-kalmar","tag-joest","tag-kalmar-automotive","tag-le-mans","tag-porsche","tag-porsche-911","tag-porsche-911-st","tag-restomod","tag-tom-kristensen","tag-tour-de-france-automobile","tag-twr-porsche-wsc-95","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/sergeizjuganov_ZJU_3136-copy-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11325,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions\/11325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11318"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fthb-sponsors&post=11318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}