ICYMI: This Porsche 911 GT1 racer can be driven to the shops

If you've ever fantasised about road registering a V8 Supercar, keep dreaming. Australian regulations place that idea deep in the too-hard basket. 

This UK owner has proven it's possible to convert an even wilder ex-Le Mans racer for the road, however, by embracing the short-lived GT1 rules' requirement to keep the racers vaguely car-like.

The 1995-1997 GT1 regs actually stipulated that 25 road-going versions of the race car needed to be built to meet homologation, but this isn't one of them.

Porsche 993 911 GT1 chassis #104 started life as a racer and saw duty in FIA GT Championship rounds like the Nurburgring and Spa, before DNFing at LeMans in 1997 and having its greatest international success with a third place in the 1998 Daytona 24hr.

Rather than let it languish in a museum like most GT1s, and even their officially road-going counterparts, this GT1's owner has done surprisingly little to make it worthy for UK rego.

Aside from general maintenance to keep it running, he's fitted a handbrake, road-legal tyres, catalytic converters and not much else.

It won't trouble a Macan for everyday practicality, but it'd be pretty awesome to go and grab the paper on a Sunday morning with.

It's worth noting that a similar demonstration of eccentricity has actually been managed on Australian roads in the past, with local race legend Alan Hamilton managing to strap a set of Victorian plates on an example of the GT1's 908 ancestor in the early 80s. Just imaging doing Chap Laps in that.

Alan Hamilton pulled off a similar feat with his Porsche 908 (image credit: Porsche Forum Australia)

Clearly Victorian rego standards were far more lax in the early 80s. (image credit: Porsche Forum Australia.)

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