My journey (Chris Stretton) to Porsche ownership started when I was still a teenager in the 1960s. My father, Lionel...
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There is little that you can add to the vast history that is already known about the Porsche 917, or...
Owning a sports car is a compromise: on the one hand, it doesn’t have the space of a family estate,...
RM Sotheby’s, in collaboration with the Porsche Experience Centre Atlanta, will host the Porsche 70th Anniversary Auction, an exclusive, single-marque...
The Rennsport Reunion VI just concluded on September 30 in Monterey, California as Porsche celebrates its 70th birthday. Happy birthday,...
It may be a little after the official publication date, but I have only recently come across this book by...
The Story of the Porsche 911 – A Timeline Porsche Prepares To Evolve Beyond The 356 By the early 1960’s,...
Without any doubt, one of the highlights of my year in motorsport in 2018 was the opportunity to pilot the...
It’s hard to know where to begin when writing a report on Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI. It was both an...
Porsche’s sixth edition of the by now much-anticipated Rennsport Reunion kicked off on Wednesday 26 September 2018. You could have...
‘Porsche around the World’ is a new section of the Porsche Road & Race online journal where we will post...
There are a few major endurance races around the world that roll off the tongue quite easily and quickly, such...
There will be few who would argue that the decade of the 1960s was one of the most innovative and...
I received the email inviting me to join the judges panel for the 2018 Concours Masters Celebration of 70 Years...
Porsche – It’s My World: what is this book all about? Well, for starters, you won’t learn anything about Porsche’s...
If the title, 911 LoveRS, leaves you with a slight question mark in your mind, turn the pages, and you...
Brian Redman is about as down-to-earth as they come, which for a top-flite racing driver, is not an attribute common...
The 2018 Concours Masters at Salon Privé on Saturday, 1 September will celebrate 70 years of Porsche with a spectacular...
With just 125 pages in total, this book is not a detailed narrative description of the Porsche Spyders between 1956-1964....
I have always wondered, what the Goodwood FOS (Festival of Speed) was all about. Was it a race, a hill-climb,...
A great many of Derek Bell’s racing achievements were achieved while behind the wheel of a Porsche racing car and...
It is unique in the motor racing world, and in historic racing circles, nothing comes close to the quality and...
Although the temperatures have hovered around the 30° C mark each day of the event, it feels a lot warmer...
This coming weekend sees the running of the ninth Le Mans Classic on the famous Circuit de la Sarthe. The...
The 911 Carrera Club Sport was Porsche’s attempt at rolling back the years and once again, stoking the fires of...
Much has been written about Porsche’s racing exploits over the years, but there is perhaps one model that has served,...
The Porsche company, now 30 years old in 1978, had moved from being the small-scale manufacturing company to being a...
There are just a handful of racing drivers that can list the number and quality of achievements that Hurley Haywood...
So, what is this book, PORSCHE WERKS/TEAM, all about? Basically, renowned photographer Frank Kayser teamed up with journalist Heike Hientzsch, to...
The Tour Auto Optic 2000 is one of the most prestigious historic racing events in the world. As early as...
In 1973, the Porsche 911, by now a decade old, was ready for a make-over. The 3-litre engine had reached...
First impressions – Can-Am 50th Anniversary is a big book! It’s not that it is so thick, but dimensionally it...
Most people will enjoy a 30-40 year working life, and then go on to retirement. Others take a different route,...
This year’s venue for the Luftgekühlt 5 gathering will be the recently opened Ganahl Lumber Company South Bay at 2600...
So, you think that $250 is a lot of money for an annual subscription for just four issues of a...
I know that motor racing circuits around the UK are renowned for being cold places, and that’s because many of...
2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Porsche sports car, a fact that has been well promoted...
2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Porsche sports car, a fact that has been well promoted...
Set for this weekend, 17-18 March, the 76th Members’ Meeting at the Goodwood Motor Circuit is bound to be an...
This edition, spanning 1980-1989, covers one of the most exciting post war periods in motorsport. The 1960s and 1970s were...
Last month we looked at some of Porsche’s milestones around the time of the company’s 50th anniversary in 1998. This...
Open to visitors from Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th February, the 2018 edition of Rétromobile held in Paris at the...
The 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed will be particularly notable this year, as the nation’s favourite motoring event celebrates its...
If you follow Porsche motorsport around the world, then Porsche Sport 2017 is not a book you want to be...
The latest edition of the Porsche Victory in Le Mans series is out and it is as good, if not...
The fabulous story of this car’s life begins in 1970 with the construction of chassis #021, one of the first...
Now in its 20th year, RM’s 2018 Amelia Island sale is once again set to take place in March 2018....
This year, 2018, Porsche will celebrate its 70th anniversary. Although the official date for the registration of the first car, 356-001,...
A large package landed on my desk just before Christmas, and being weightier than normal my interest was aroused, so...
If your favourite sports car comes from the Porsche stable, then you will want to know about this product –...
With a company like Porsche developing powerful and efficient race engines, it was inevitable that other body and chassis builders...
After three years of restoration, the Porsche Museum will finally present one of the newest additions to its collection –...
Simply entitled Porsche Carrera, this monumental work by Rolf Sprenger and Steve Heinrichs is nothing short of sensational. The two...
The 22nd edition of the Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2016-2017 (covering the 24th season of auctions), can comfortably be regarded...
The 22nd edition of the Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2016-2017 (covering the 24th season of auctions), can comfortably be regarded...
The story of Mark Donohue’s racing achievements has been told in numerous magazine articles over the years. His achievements too,...
There can be few people better qualified to write about a race car than those who drove that car in...
In the early 1950s, Porsche was still a very young company, and they certainly did not have the budgets enjoyed...
Officially licensed with the ACO, the organisers of the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race, this lavishly illustrated book is...
This book not only describes the huge success of Jochen Mass as a racing driver, but it also reveals more...
Without any doubt, one of the most exciting classes or motor racing during the 1970s was the GT class, which...
Not only Porsche enthusiasts all around the world, but rallying aficionados too, will appreciate the skills and achievements of Walter...
As their race director and one of the leading figures in their experimental department, Peter Falk contributed significantly to the...
This last weekend’s 2017 Silverstone Classic was a triumph in many ways, but probably most of all for the spectators...
In a new series for Car Throttle, John meets up with some friends to embark on an epic roadtrip to...
The origin of the model name, Porsche Carrera, is not only interesting but also somewhat hazy. It all started in...
‘Genius on wheels’ is the name of the exhibition at the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen that honours rally racing legend...
The introduction of the Type 904 heralded a new direction for Porsche’s race cars. Gone were the aluminium-bodied racers, as...
When Brian Long’s latest 911 tome arrived, I could see the postman physically relieved to be handing over the package....
It has been said before that there have probably been more books written on the Porsche 911, than almost any...
It is by now well known that Porsche won the prestigious Le Mans 24-Hour race in 2016, the company’s 18th...
This is the second edition of the well-known and much loved book by Michael L Shoen. The Cobra-Ferrari Wars: 1963-1965,...
Porsche AG reopened its pavilion at the Autostadt park in Wolfsburg 15 November 2016, after a significant expansion programme. The...
A couple of world records were set at the Silverstone Auctions’ NEC sale at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show,...
Much has been written about the Porsche 911, in fact there are few manufacturers in the world, that could boast...
The 914 is the Porsche that most sports car enthusiasts turn up their noses at. Let’s face it, the 914...
John Fitzpatrick needs little by way of an introduction. He learned his trade the hard way, by racing his own...
Most people, even those only vaguely interested in motor sport, will have heard about the Porsche 917. The first of...
The Porsche Museum is a living museum, and is equally at home at its state-of-the-art headquarters in Zuffenhausen as it...
The clue is in the sub-title, The Complete History of Types and Models, as this three-set volume will provide the...
Every now and then a truly good book comes along, one that is not only excellent in its content, but...
The author starts his book, The Monza 1000km: 1965-2008, by calling the first chapter, the years between 1965-1971, the ‘Golden...
This is an autobiography by a man who enjoyed what many would describe as the perfect job. A talented mechanical...
The very existence of the Porsche sports car must rank as one of the more unlikely histories in the automotive...
Porsche Sounds is another fine publication to have been produced by the Porsche Historical Archives in Stuttgart. But why, you...
Author Brian Long needs little introduction to the serious motorsport enthusiast, and in particular, Porsche racing. This title covers Porsche’s...
Porsche’s domination of sportscar racing in the 1960s and 1970s by the 917 is well known, but the manufacturer’s rise...
If there was one Porsche racing car that set the Stuttgart company on the road to motor sport stardom, then...
Every once in a while a man or woman comes along who wants to shake the tree, turn convention on...
For starters, when you pick up your copy of Kussmaul Chronicles, you can jettison any preconceived ideas of reading a...
The name Porsche is synonymous with the world’s toughest endurance race, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, boasting an unbroken run...
An exceptionally original, never restored, beautifully preserved 1956 Porsche 550RS Spyder, estimated at £4.7-6.2 million has been announced for the...
VIDEO: 1986 Porsche 962 At Laguna Seca During Monterey Motorsports Reunion Porsche 962 chassis 122 helped Dyson Racing to propel its...
Porsche 918 Pictures With the Rennsport Reunion taking place in Monterey this upcoming weekend, we thought it was prudent to...
