Black Porsche - The Original
Status: New built
Date: 14-Apr-2021
Comments: 30
Hi Gents
This is my Tamiya Black Porsche 934 (Original 58001 - Black Special Edition). Has to be one of Tamiyas most beautiful and certainly rarest and most iconic of cars.
Car was brought over from Japan by Rob Smith and owned then by Mark Johnson until I became caretaker of it this week - thanks gents for all your help with her.
Taken the bones of below from Lars famous review in Tamiyabase:
The Black Porsche 934 was released by Tamiya to celebrate the sale of 100,000 of is original 934 (58001) in 1976. The Black car was only available in Japan as a limited edition and believed not to be distributed through normal channels but only used as a give-away and for special promotion towards special customers, racers and other Tamiya affiliates.
The car wasn't given a kit number. NIB cars are obviously rare and sought after but I believe few built models exist and in varying conditions. Tamiya did not produce spare parts for this car so spares are impossible to find.
All of the aluminum plates for the chassis are anodized black. The parts themselves are the same as the 58001. The motor in the black kit is a RS380, slightly longer and more powerful than the 360 in the 58001. The MSC is part number 50010MSC (First used in the 58002 Porsche 935). The front bumper is again from the Porsche 935 and marked 'Made in Japan'. The body set is Black plastic with no markings on it (the 58001 has markings). The Black Porsche is, however, marked 'Made in Japan' inside the front bumper just like the 58001. Window class is tinted.
This car has slight wear/age marks to the chassis, outside of the body has been painted matt black (which looks awesome) and inside left bare plastic. Boot and bonnet open as no to very little glue inside - think the doors will also but haven't tried too hard. Wheels have been painted gloss black (funnily just like some of the top end 1:1 cars nowadays so someone back then had vision. Came with a minty build manual which is specific to the Black Porsche, outer box, inner parts box, spare decals, and spurs with some unused body parts as the same spurs were used for the original static kit, a canvas bag that you can put the box into
and a vintage handset to pair with electronics in the car.
Extremely delicate body set so not surprised few survived - has my lucky number 7 lol.
Hope you like and hope above detail gives a bit of an insight into the history and rarity of the car.
Super stoked to own her...at last.
Few shots with a few old friends also
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Comments
BH+Struggle
What a stunner - never gets better than black and gold.
Thank you for sharing this very very cool car - the shot of the three cars makes me question my life choices
Futureworks
Looks great, and fascinating to see a really good built example and to have some of the information behind this very special model. I hadn’t realised that this one had a slightly larger motor, and used the SP.10 MSC from the 935, Tyrell P34, XR311 and B2B.
MAD-BEE
Wow now thats cool and special!!
Doc007
Thanks Gents, glad you appreciate it and found the small write up of interest - only recently found out about the detail of this car myself
Re-Bugged
A very enviable and well preserved piece of history you have scored, very nice indeed.
Doc007
Thanks Re-bugged - yes amazing it survived in this condition all these years
purple_rob
It gets better every time I see it. It's nice it made it into your collection. I really need to get some picture of mine on my profile.
Doc007
Cheers Rob - yes really chuffed to have it, I'm the same need to catch up with a few cars but looking forward to seeing yours in all its glory
koenc
No other words than: AWESOME Mark. One day ....
enjoy it!
Doc007
Cheers Koen - will do mate and thanks for commenting - it's what made this page originally
mackerb03
Magnificent !
Doc007
Tha ks mackerb03- glad you.like
Phillenios
Iconic and fabulous…..
Tamiyastef
This matt black really makes this car shine
Tha,k you very much for telling us the story behind this car, very nice. It doesn't get much more exclusive than this, enjoy ownership.
Doc007
Thanks Tamiyastef and Philenios- yes the matt really works well here .
Lars full article.on the car is well worth a read as much more detail than I've given - was an interesting learning curve for myself.
Glad you like and many thanks
DesPrinzla
Waoohhhh congrats... Black is beautiful. I love it.
Doc007
Thanks Des - you have a stunning collection
DesPrinzla
Thank you. At the sight of your Beauty, I have to resist the urge to tear open my NIB Black P. A beautiful kit,. A Dream, maybe I'll get weak one day.
Doc007
Hi Des - yess aw that in your showroom - beautiful- please resist urge on that one. Sent you a message through contact on Tamiyaclub.
zakspeed
Nice model.. And great to see it built..
Doc007
Thanks zakspeed - glad you.like
Challenger-RT
Congratulations to this gem! The blackened wheels match perfect in my eyes.
Doc007
Thanks Challenger - yes would have to agree - quite visionary paint scheme for something this old
FoxRaCing
Wow wow wow! What a great collection you have mate! You cannot beat the look of the old vintage Tamiya's, compared to the new stuff!
Doc007
Thank you - I have tried to keep it quite small and early as these are cars I remember. Been patient and met some grewt guys to deal with so been lucky. Glad you.like and appreciate
kelvinkhng
Love the matt look on this!
Doc007
Thanks Kelvinkhng - I'd agree with that - just a little bit more unique
kougercat
Hey Mark how are you mate?
That is the poodles plums and the Porsche's aint bad either ha ha.
I consider this to be Tamiya porn I just can't stop ogling lol.
Really pleased for you to see a black Porsche in your fine collection.
Doc007
Thanks Kevin, yes delighted to add this guy to the set, Its really.lovely in this flat black paint scheme- now I need a shiny one also lol. Got your mail so ill get that done for you no problem. Saw you met Rad with his one years back so one day fella maybe we will meet up also. Take care for now
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