Slipstream - April 2019

it on vacation over there. They then brought it back and enjoyed
it for another 19 years. They put 80,000 miles on it.
BK: How many miles does it have on it now?
BH: I’ve only put another 9000 miles on it since 1984.
BK: What an incredible journey you have been on, with some
of the best cars in the world.
BH: Not bad I guess. But you don’t want to hear about my racing?
BK: So you continued to race? Not just club races?
BH: Oh, that was only the beginning. We bought the 904; I
think only two were here in the States. We raced it in ‘64 at
the 250-mile Daytona Continental, in which we finished fifth.
This was really the start of my professional racing, actually
getting paid.
BK: And there’s the 935 too?
BH: Well it was really a 934 that was converted to a 935,
which they referred to as a 934.5 in those years. That was in
‘78 when we started at the 24 Hours of Daytona but DNFd.
But then we came back at Sebring and led the race until we
lost our brakes, but managed to come in second.
Wow, and to think that I was only coming over to talk about
some guy’s “tub” car!
BK: We’ve talked about an RSR – how did that come about?
BH: In 71 several of us went to Monte Carlo and stopped at
the Porsche factory to look at a new car they were trying to
sell; they had to sell fifty before they could race them. As it
turned out it was the ‘72 RSR. I think I managed to get them
to sell it to me for about $18k.
BK: And how did that work out?
BH: I brought it home and wrecked it in a practice run. So
Peter Gregg had another car as a spare but it was painted in
his livery so he sold it to me.
Above: Bob Hagestad attending the Porsche Grapevine opening along
with David Robertson and Bill Kruder.
Below: Bob and his 1964 Porsche 356.
BK: Peter Gregg like in Brumos?
BH: That would be the guy alright. Trouble was, we couldn’t
race in his livery, so we bought what is like floral kitchen contact
paper and covered up his scheme. That was at Elkhart Lake.
BK: How long
did you race the
RSR?
BH: We raced
the RSRs from
about ‘73-‘77. I
had some pretty
good drivers
driving for me
and with me.
BK: Anyone we would know?
BH: Let’s see: Skip Barber, Jerry Jolly, John Paul, and Hurley
Haywood. I might be forgetting someone, but these guys were good.
BK: Something tells me there is more . . .
BH: Yep! Then about ‘76-‘77 (I can’t remember for sure), we
bought our 934 turbo. Think we paid about $50k back then
for it, which was a lot, trust me. Hurley Haywood drove for
me in all the one-hour races and I co-drove with him in the
endurance races; we had some pretty good success in it.
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