Great story, I am sure you had a very interessting afternoon, does WK still own the 917 Porsche ?
Would be interested in who else was personnally sponsered by Heuer during the mid 70ies ?

Cheers

Arno

www.heuerchronographs.com

: Hi Heuer and race Lovers...

: heres the next famous german Racedriver on Porsche 917 - 908 Syder
: and le Mans film set stuntdriver ! WILLI KAUHSEN!

: please have a look at his history on wikipedia
: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Kauhsen

: Willi Kauhsen and Jasper Bitter with Arnos Book, he likes it very
: much, but missed his MONACO inside, so i offered him to visit
: his Porsche Team Workshop and take a view on his heuer watches

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: Today i was their and willi presented me 2 of his heuers for a
: service job !!

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: But how did willi get to Heuer and how did that big heuer sticker
: came as ad on his Porsche 917 / 10 !!!???; Heres Willi Kauhsen
: personally story:

: As Willi Kauhsen was a very good friend of Jo Siffert and also
: under contract by Porsche Stuttgart , in september 1971 tie, jo
: and he made a deal for willi to buy Jo Sifferts Porsche 917-10 (
: chasis No oo2 ) Syder in red colour ( because Jo Siffert should
: drive in the next season allready on the new modified porsche
: 917) so he could also drive in the CanAm- series. Willi only had
: Bosch as main car-sponsor and asked seppi to help him with other
: sponsors to finance the series. So seppi spoke to Jack Heuer
: about the very talented german racedriver willi kauhsen..... But
: then Seppi died on the 21.oct. 1971 in Brands hatch. At his
: funeral in Fribourg willi spoke to Mrs Siffert about the deal
: and finally got the car that was promised him by seppi for only
: 150.000 D-marks!!

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: Then in the beginning of the race season 1972 willi got the new
: prototyp Porsche 917-10 2 version from the factory race team
: that was build formally for jo siffert. He contacted in memory
: to seppi , the heuer and iwc branch office of heuer germany ,
: Mr. Gert Rüdiger Lang ( today owner of chronoswiss) and former
: ceo for heuer in germany. A few days later Jack Heuer rung up
: willi kauhsen at home and offered him a sponsoring deal over 3
: years with Heuer stickers on his race cars in value of 30.000
: D-marks--15.000 cash and the over half -15.000 in heuer and iwc
: watches!! So willi made the deal and you see the sticker on the
: side of the Porsche in the next Fotos.....

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: Enjoy Jasper Bitter
: Classicheuer

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