On display at the 20th annual The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, in Carmel Valley was a strange little car that caught my attention. The car had a Porsche emblem on its nose and a confusing “Porsche VW 914-6” script on the rear. It was the farthest thing from a Porsche...
Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Clubsport (1985) in the Museum workshop As I’ve explained on the few occasions I’ve burst into print in Porsche Road & Race, my enduring love affair with the Porsche brand was developed and nurtured from the late 1950s. My father, a dentist by profession, was very...
Some people grow up obsessed with Porsche. Others, like Stuttcars contributor Terence Wah, take a different road. His journey into the world of Stuttgart came after years of loving cars from a distance. Once he got his first taste, there was no going back. Terence’s story started with Japanese performance...
1972 Porsche 911 2.4 S, Inchydoney Hotel, West Cork, Ireland – we were peppered with heavy rain showers on the day of the photo shoot. You could almost draw a line from the clouds above past the back of the car, and see that we were getting drenched, but just...
Professor Fred Poordad is a doctor out of passion. The American is an expert and globally renowned in liver research. He is as ambitious and successful a medic as he is in his second career as a race driver. As a child, Fred Poordad only ever doodled one make of...
How Did Your Passion for Porsche Begin? My name is Aaron Tang and I am born and raised in Calgary, Alberta here in Canada. I am an engineer delivering projects within the energy industry. I own a 2012 Porsche Cayman S Black Edition with a 6-speed manual. My first love...
Photography courtesy of Road Scholars. No need to squint. That lump hanging out the back of this Meyers Manx is a genuine Fuhrmann four-cam engine. Indeed, this is a real, fully functional, road-and-track ready (if you have the balls for it) Meyers Manx, the output of a collaboration between noted...
My first “real” racing car was a Porsche RS/R, which I bought in the mid-1980s. Previously, I had done quite a lot of Hillclimbs in England with, first of all, a variety of Jaguar XK120s and then a 1974 Porsche RS 3.0, (911 460 9034), which was followed up by...
1987 Porsche 911 3.2 Carrera Sport Targa at the top of the Black Mountain Pass (A4069) in South Wales My journey (Chris Stretton) to Porsche ownership started when I was still a teenager in the 1960s. My father, Lionel Stretton, was a serious petrol-head owning many different cars and competing...
911 Carrera 3.0 “Arschloch” I have an Australian delivered 1977 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0, which I purchased in 1985 from the car’s original owner. The car had 80.000 km on it and no major work carried out. In January of 2015, some oil leaks prompted me to re-build the engine....
A Porsche 911 Turbo “Barn Find” Having first driven a naturally aspirated 944 for seven years and then spending another five behind the wheel of a turbocharged version of the same water-cooled transaxle Porsche family member, it was finally time to get personally acquainted with the best known of them...
I must be crazy Why on earth would someone sell a perfect color combination 911 Turbo with manual transmission and buy a Cayenne instead? Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it. When I originally bought the 911, I was certain that I would...
One year later Using the Cayenne as a daily driver has been quite a ride, pun intended. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m really happy with it all in all. It does have its quirks, but as a car to take you from A to B, it’s superb....
The first day of the rest of your life Certain things/events/people define our lives, our beliefs and attitude. Most of these are somehow scheduled, but a few appear out of nowhere and create irreversible impact, good or bad. It was August 2000. Days after the completion of my mandatory army...
The survivor-look 911 Obsession, it can strike at any time. Unfortunately, mine struck about five years too late after the price of air-cooled 911s had rocketed. I can’t quite put my finger on why I now needed an air-cooled 911, obviously the timing was out five years ago. Maybe a...
Yippee ki-yay Panamera This well known quote from the infamous John McClane* immediately popped into my mind the first time I put my foot down in my Panamera. It was followed by a grin in the size of the equator. But… but… but… why? I was content with my 2009...
Looking back to the 2018 Le Mans scrutineering of Monday 11 June, the teams, spectators and assembled media enjoyed equal quantities of bright sunshine and torrential downpours. The Ebimotors team gathered with their #80 Porsche RSR for the family snap just as another downpour descended upon all and sundry (drivers:...
Porsche Classic recently completed a factory restoration of a very rare super sports car: the Porsche 959 S. The Porsche 959 is a known trump card by car enthusiasts from the 80s and 90s. It had the best of both worlds; it is a rare super sports car with the...
D.E. ( Driver Education) It’s a gateway drug. You are happily driving your Miata, Mustang, or Cayman on the street; you’re enjoying yourself, not a care in the world. Whether it’s peer pressure or a chance meeting, someone gets you hooked on the hard stuff. You head off to a...
The Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0, which was produced for only 2 years in 1976 and 1977, is a very special version of the inimitable 911. Due to its low production numbers, with only 3,687 units produced, it is also one of the rarest of the non-special edition 911s out there....
In the past, we have covered a Type 964 911 Carrera 2 Speedster, a Type 986 Boxster spec race car, and even a 914/6 Restomod. Today, we continue our Porsche Profiles series with a Type 987 Porsche Cayman S that is, for one man, his complete unicorn car. As well,...
Let’s face it, the Porsche 914 was not the most iconic of sports cars in the storied history of the brand. A joint collaboration between VW and Porsche, it was designed to be both the entry level car for Porsche, as well as a sports car for VW that would...
Note: Some images from this article provided by Roger Katz. The Type 964 Porsche 911 was a revolutionary car when it came to market in 1989. It was the first non-supercar Porsche to feature all wheel drive as an option. It was the first 911 to come as standard with...
If there is one thing that Porsche does better than pretty much any other car manufacturer, that is providing their customers with race cars thinly disguised as road cars. This has been the way of things since the original 356 Speedsters and 550 Spyders, to the Carrera 2.7 RS (RennSport...
Porsche 993 Carrera RS ‘RSR 9’ parked in the pit lane at the 10th RS Track Day Oulton Park, March 2010 If any two letters have encapsulated Porsche’s sporting prowess over the years, it is these – RS. It is now forty-seven years since the introduction of Porsche’s first RS,...
1957 Porsche 356 A Speedster – looking chocolate box pretty! It was Max Hoffman, the New York-based Porsche importer, who was instrumental in getting the factory to produce a lightweight sports car for local competition in the USA. Hoffman’s clients were demanding a stripped-down factory version of the 356 to...
Kieron Fennelly sitting behind the wheel of his 993 Owning a sports car is a compromise: on the one hand, it doesn’t have the space of a family estate, and for some it is slightly less practical as a daily run around. On the other hand, it has superior performance...
1956 Porsche 356 A Carrera 1500 GS – 752 LMA For many years now, the name ‘Carrera’ has been associated with Porsche sports cars. But the story of how the fledgling 356 first got its ‘Carrera’ name is a fascinating one. This required the far-sightedness of the company founder, Ferry...
The 996 Turbo basking in the beauty of the Western Cape How our man, Richard Wiley, came to be the custodian of two Porsche 911s over a period of nearly nine months. Porsche Road & Race contributor, Richard Wiley, has spent many hours of his life in aeroplanes, travelling primarily...
Driver’s Parade at the 2016 Mexican Formula One GP with Carlos Sainz sitting in the 356 A 1600 Super Cabriolet (centre) ©Sergio Nieto For some Porsche enthusiasts, the road to ownership follows a course which perhaps starts as an interest back as a young child, followed by increasing interest through...