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"If you weren&amp;#039;t blown away by Magnus Walker in our June profile, we need to have a talk. He is among the foremost of a new group of Porsche builders turning out increasingly startling restomods, and we liked his 1972 Porsche 911 STR II so much that we put it on the cover. The response was rather good, enough so that Magnus is selling the car at the Gooding &amp;amp;amp; Co. auction in Monterey.  As with companies like Singer and DP Motorsports, Walker is building Porsches that match our imaginations and halcyon memories, and not the sometimes inconvenient realities of old air-cooled cars. He called the 1972 STR II &amp;quot;his best build to date,&amp;quot; and the sale has attracted wide attention in the 911 community, with many people thinking it will exceed Gooding&amp;#039;s $125,000\u2013$150,000 estimate, though it&amp;#039;s sold without reserve. He doesn&amp;#039;t generally sell them\u2014they&amp;#039;re personal projects, true labors of love; so I&amp;#039;m inclined to agree with the Porsche guys. For collectors at the Seinfeld and Leno level, going over the estimate for an opportunity that may not come again makes sense.  So what&amp;#039;s the big deal? There are the many external modifications, evoking ST and R models of the period with appropriate Gulf Racing Team-style colors, a completely rethought interior, and approximately 275 hp from what began life as a 3.2-liter SC engine with a 915 transmission built by Team VDS. Suspension is thoroughly modernized to cope with the power\u2014Walker&amp;#039;s stated intention was to build a comfortably streetable race car, which is a knife edge that even heavy hitters from Auburn Hills or Maranello can&amp;#039;t always manage. But where they have sometimes failed, the English dude with the dreads from L.A. has succeeded. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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