Koenig C62

This car was one of the cars being offered in the weekend auction at the Coys International Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's a Koenig C62, built in the early 1990s. Willy Koenig was a wealthy publisher who raced with some success in the 1960s, winning the German Hillclimbing Championship with a Ferrari 250 GT SWB in 1962. In 1974 he modified a Ferrari 365 GT4 BB to make it perform more like the sports racing cars with which he was familiar and this became a hobby, culminating in a business in 1977 offering these modifications to other people. When the FIA Group C and the IMSA GTP Series ended in the early 1990s a large number of cars, many of them Porsche 956 and 962, were left without any races in which to compete. Efforts were made to turn some of these into road legal cars and Koenig created the Koenig C62 using the Porsche 962 as the basis and increasing the size of the flat-6 engine to 3.4 litres. Only three cars were built, one yellow, one red and one black.