Indholdsfortegnelse for December 2023 i Classic Porsche

CLARKE CONTRACTOR DEVIL 351C CERAMIC HEATER Britain’s biggest specialist supplier of tools and machinery, Machine Mart, has grown its extensive line-up of workshop and garage heaters with new models from Clarke’s Devil range. The latest of these products is the Clarke 351C ceramic heater. With its minimal warm-up time and variable heat output, a constant and comfortable room temperature can be raised quickly and easily maintained. The 351C is made from a tough, tubular, fixed-angle steel frame for added durability and features a colour LCD panel displaying six individual heater settings. The unit also includes an automatic shutdown timer and can even detect an open window. The 351C has a supply voltage of 110V with heat output ranging from 1,200W to 2,400W. Machine Mart’s experienced sales teams are on hand…

How far gone would a classic 911 have to be for you to consider it done for? It’s a question anybody involved in salvaging an air-cooled Porsche from years of neglect has asked themselves, but the truth of the matter is this: no matter how decayed, decrepit or dilapidated an old sports car might be, there is always the chance of turning a rusty bucket of bolts into a show queen. Of course, determining whether to walk away or embark on a journey of restoration comes down to how much time, money and determination you possess, as well as the availability of not only spare parts, but also a specialist with expertise in the field of historic sports car restoration. Fortunately, for the owner of this late short-wheelbase 911, Maidenhead-based…

Can’t decide between heavily modified or standard specification? Afraid you’ll make the wrong decision? Perhaps you should do as Dave Lewis did and buy air-cooled Porsches of both persuasions? Not only is he the proud owner of the immaculate three-gauge Aga Blue 912 you see pictured on these pages, he’s also in possession of an S/T-aping 911 SC backdate powered by a 270bhp Carrera 3.2 engine. Nine years ago, he bought the four-cylinder Porsche from a company in Banbury specialising in importing air-cooled Porsches from the USA. We’ve championed the 912 in previous issues of Classic Porsche, but beyond the model’s low price point (when compared to a same-age 911), what is this four-cylinder Porsche’s appeal? For the benefit of readers new to the 912, let’s delve deep. Despite being…

This job provides me with the opportunity to come into close contact with some of the world’s most extraordinary Porsches. Indeed, I’ve lost track of the number of historically significant 911s I’ve been lucky enough to encounter over the years, and though I never fail to get excited at the prospect of getting up close and personal — and, often, behind the wheel — of cars widely considered ‘unobtanium’, there’s something uniquely enticing about the Light Ivory-coloured air-cooled classic I’m in the company of today. You see, where many of the rare Porsches we showcase in this magazine fall into categories loosely described as ‘the first of this’, ‘the last of that’, ‘the most original surviving example of the other’, the long-wheelbase 911 seen here features factory firsts from nose…

What goes around comes around. What was once a title-winning race car is now a trackday sprinter. There are two key players in the colourful history of this zesty 911. The first is John Shaw, who turned the Porsche into a dedicated motorsport machine and used it to win back-to-back Road Sports championships with the Historic Sports Car Club in 2013 and 2014. The second is the car’s current owner, Graham Hughes. This 911 E is an early long-wheelbase edition, running a 1,991cc flat-six mated to a five-speed Type 901 transmission. The car was originally supplied to the Hannover-based dealer, Petermax Müller, in September 1968 for the 1969 model year. That is has served time in the heat of battle is appropriate because Müller was himself a veteran German racer,…

Tucked out of sight down an unmarked driveway punctuating hedgerow on the A129 between Brentwood and Billericay is the unassuming workshop of Porsche specialist, PR Services. So discreet is its location, you could easily miss it. Those who discover the entrance and venture further within, however, are greeted by the sight of a bygone era. You won’t find huge wings, turbochargers or carbon-ceramic brake discs here, nor will you see technicians tapping away on a laptop in order to tune the advanced ECU of a car fresh from the Zuffenhausen production line. No, this is a Porsche experience in the most original sense — PR Services has shunned the automotive equivalent of keeping up with the Joneses, instead focusing its business on providing a sanctuary solely for owners of the…

Frankfurt Motor Show, Autumn 1963. The covers were whipped off the 901, a pretty two-door coupe previewing Porsche’s replacement for the highly successful 356. This sensational show car was precursor to the 911 — a name change was required following Peugeot’s challenge to Porsche, when the French car maker claimed rights to three-digit nomenclature with a zero in the middle. The rest, as they say, is storied history, but just as interesting as the svelte new 2+2’s slippery lines was its engine. Carrying on where the design of the 356 left off, the all-new flat-six was mounted behind the rear axle, setting the 911 template, which hasn’t changed dramatically over the course of six decades. The story of the then new Porsche engine (retaining 901 designation until 1970) began some…

In late December 1959, Derek ‘Bill’ Jennings packed his tools, spares and suitcase into the passenger seat of his self-assembled GSM Dart-Porsche sports car and drove from his home in Cape Town to East London, a trip of more than six hundred miles in the days before fast-paced highways. There, he not only took part in the Sixth International South African Grand Prix, but finished the 150-mile Formula Libre race in eleventh place (from twenty-four starters, averaging nearly 75mph) before adding a pint of oil to the car’s sump and driving six hundred miles back home to be ready for work on Monday. “I had some annual leave to take between Christmas and New Year,” he recalled after the event. “The race was on New Year’s Day 1960, a Friday,…

COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION OF Classic PORSCHE ORDER BACK ISSUES AT bit.ly/issuescp PRILL PORSCHE CLASSICS AND HUFFAKER MOTORSPORTS ANNOUNCE NEW TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP Following successful collaboration at the 2023 Le Mans Classic, UK-based independent Porsche restoration and historic motorsport specialist, Prill Porsche Classics, and US-based full-service vintage race car preparation outfit, Huffaker Motorsports, are pleased to announce a new working partnership. The heads of both companies realised they could successfully collaborate by offering their respective clients hassle-free, cross-Atlantic motorsport support services. With each firm’s extensive experience of Porsche race and rally car preparation, as well as on-the-ground event support, it is now easier for owners of classic Porsches to participate in overseas events, whilst reducing the cost of support staff travel, as well as the shipping of tools and equipment.…

In 2005, Porsche boss, Wendelin Wiedeking, suggested the Stuttgart concern should invest in Volkswagen. In terms of return on investment, the potential upside was considerable, while the downside seemed to hold little risk. Wiedeking marshalled his ideas and arguments, presenting them to five members of the Porsche and Piëch families at a meeting in Salzburg. Among the clan members present was Wolfgang Heinz Porsche, youngest of Ferry Porsche’s four sons (Ferdinand Alexander, Gerhard, Hans-Peter and Wolfgang). “When listening to Wiedeking’s proposal,” he recalls, “my first thought was that it was a little crazy. Volkswagen is, after all, a big company. When we looked at the numbers, however, his suggestion made a lot of sense. It had a persuasive logic for Porsche’s future course of business and, crucially, for securing the…

Rennsport meets Revival. If you’ve just returned from luxury motorsport festival, Velocity Invitational, held at Sonoma Raceway, thirty minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge, you’ll know what we’re talking about. A celebration of racing from every era, this highly anticipated event is fast becoming a must-attend fixture on the calendar of Californians whose blood has its own octane rating. In fact, year on year, an increasing number of visitors and exhibitors attend the show from all over the world, as demonstrated by the presence of French painter, Jean-Yves Tabourot, whose big, bold canvases, which depict high-end sports cars and historic racing machines, earned him a place as this year’s official Velocity Invitational artist. AS CHRISTMAS 2017 DREW NEAR, JEAN-YVES IMPORTED A LEFT-HAND DRIVE 1982 911 SC TO THE UK…