Because Race Taxi?

I've had this idea for a while ever since I read about the BMW M5 that was the "ring taxi" at the Nordschleife. Could you build a fun HPDE car that was still street legal and could seat 4 people at the track in racing seats?

I think a lot of back seats use elevation for leg room so not sure how that would work with a racing seat. Or if you could even run harness bars because if the car was on the street it would have to be removable?

So is it possible? What would you use?

http://www.race-taxi.ch/indexx.htm

Awesome

That's eventually my plan for the P71.

I'd love to swap in a Coyote V8 and 6-speed manual transmission, upgrade the brakes and suspension, and get some of those pimpy new Recaros that are in the new Mustangs.

I probably won't go with full on race seats and harnesses, because the car is primarily street driven, and the back seat folks will be fine flopping around the bench seat for a session if they'd like to go out. That's probably part of the appeal.

I was thinking about a P71 as a basis for an american version. Actually some of the pictures of the new mustangs rear seat etc make it look pretty deeply scooped bucket wise maybe it would not be so bad

I was thinking P71 as well. Even better if it really IS a former taxi. At minimum, it's yellow. At best, it has former company markings on it.

A couple of years ago in a Euro mag there was a bit story of a Eurovan with 996 drive train. Did something around 190 mph if I recall and seated 5... Here it is!

Properly mounting the front harnesses will complicate things.

Cage design will be the hard part in something like this.