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SOLVED - What car #515 - 1970s Diba GTC
« on: November 30, 2008, 05:14:54 PM »
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Re: What car #515
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2008, 06:14:24 PM »
michelotti body?

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Re: What car #515
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2008, 09:03:26 PM »
Nope - sorry ;)
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Re: What car #515
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2008, 09:07:32 AM »
monica?

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Re: What car #515
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2008, 06:59:37 PM »
Not related to her, no ;)
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Re: What car #515
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2008, 04:53:21 PM »
Time for an Expert opinion.
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Re: What car #515
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2008, 06:05:06 PM »
Diba GTC

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Re: What car #515
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2008, 10:17:38 PM »
Yes, it is!
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Re: What car #515
« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2008, 12:20:36 AM »
Yes, it is!

Would You mind giving more details, because it's the first time I see this car..

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Re: SOLVED - What car #515 - 1970s Diba GTC
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2008, 12:55:24 PM »
Made in Switzerland, Porsche engined

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Re: SOLVED - What car #515 - 1970s Diba GTC
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2008, 04:24:24 PM »
I quote from my source:

"The platform of the Porsche 911 was used for a masterpiece, dubbed the 'Diba GTC', built at the beginning of the '70s by a Swiss bodywork specialist.

The two-door coupé had an 0.88 mm gauge all-steel body upon the Porsche 911 chassis with original mechanical and electrical components. The 2-litre six-cylinder engine produced 148 bhp at 6,100 rpm, and the 7 in wide special magnesium rims were equipped with 185 HR 70 x 15 Dunlop tyres.

The wheelbase was 87 in (2,210 mm); the front and rear tracks 52 3/4 in (1,340 mm) and 53 1/4 in (1,350 mm) respectively. Ground clearance was 6 in (150 mm), the length 170 in (4,320 mm), while the Diba was 70 in (1,780 mm) wide and 44 1/2 in (1,130 mm) high.

Without fuel it weighed just about one ton (1,020 kg), had a total permissible laden weight of 3,086 lb (1,400 kg), and the unique GTC had a top speed of 134 mph (215 km/h). Consumption, according to the constructor, was between 15 and 16 litres per 100 km (18.8 and 17.7 mpg).

The interior was taken mainly from the 911."

No mention of the Swiss bodywork specialist's name, though...!
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Re: SOLVED - What car #515 - 1970s Diba GTC
« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2008, 06:22:26 PM »
It always astonishes me how some books/articles/sites tend to give you a billion unimportant details, like the ground clearance or volume of brake fluid or whatever, yet forget to mention the most obvious things like the name of the company, or a year or the name of designer etc.
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Re: SOLVED - What car #515 - 1970s Diba GTC
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2008, 04:23:46 AM »
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=4948.msg33555#msg33555
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This may be the swiss 1970 DIBA GTC of Carosserie Dietrich AG in Basel.

If I am right it was a one off, based on a 911 and a series of 20 was planned, but Porsche was not willing to give away 20 chassis for this project... 

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Re: SOLVED - What car #515 - 1970s Diba GTC
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2008, 10:33:27 AM »
Wild guess: DiBa = Dietrich, Basel...
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Re: SOLVED - What car #515 - 1970s Diba GTC
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2009, 01:37:13 PM »
In color:

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Re: SOLVED - What car #515 - 1970s Diba GTC
« Reply #15 on: June 21, 2011, 06:05:26 AM »
This car was actually built in Germany at the time when Werner Dietrich was student at the Meisterschule Kaiserslautern. The interior with Ford GT 40 bucket seat was refined in Basel/CH later. Weight was 60kg less than the original Porsche 911.

The current issue auf Auto Bild "Classic" features the Karosseriebaufachschule Kaiserslautern. Unfortunately they're not really aware of what they talking about..
Though pictured neither the Reitz Pinnaduo nor the DIBA GTC are named in that article.  :-\

More soon..

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« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2015, 07:50:43 AM »
This is a re-post from a different decade so is there for puzzlers who weren't on the site when it last appeared - which means it can only progress as far as the Experts..
1 point for identifying the car and its base.

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Re: NEH 4386
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2015, 07:40:47 AM »
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Re: NEH 4386
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2015, 03:10:15 PM »
Porsche 911 based:

DiBa GTC by Carrosserie Dietrich, Basel
 A series of 20 cars was planned, but Porsche refused to support the project with more chassis.

Often referred to as the HLS sister..




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Re: SOLVED - What car #515 - 1970s Diba GTC
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2015, 05:59:23 PM »
Very good.
Now I'll have to merge it.
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