Impact Bumper Porsche T-Shirt in Essential WEVO Tool Kit

May 7, 2013

Had a cool pic through from WEVO Hayden, at work servicing Lola the Porsche 356 rally legend during the Great South American Challenge earlier this year. H sports his Impact Bumpers.com Tissot RSR t-shirt: part of a batch I had made for IB a few years back. “Day off in San Pedro de Atacama, doing [...]

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Modern 18-inch Fuchs Alloy Wheels on Classic Porsche

May 7, 2013

Just had a few pics through from JZM Porsche, UK Fuchs distributor, showing various classic 911 models owned by satisfied customers running the 18-inch Fuchs wheels. This first one is from Brad in North America, running the RSR style on a 964. Fuchs make the wheels with offsets to suit the different 964 set up [...]

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Cars I See: Great Porsche 930 Video

May 7, 2013

Love this Porsche video by Frazer Spowart on Vimeo, telling the story of Jim Goodlett and his quest to own a 930. Properly-shot video is quite the technical challenge but, no matter what gear you use, there has to be a story. Tamir did well with Magnus Walker because a: Magnus is a great story [...]

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New Porsche 911 Turbo: Driver on the Options List

May 3, 2013

The new Porsche 911 Turbo has arrived. Priced from £137,000 for the bare-bones Turbo and a mega £165,000 for the Turbo S, peasants should look elsewhere for their kicks. This latest 911 is as most expected, given the spec of 991 Carrera and newest GT3. It’s got active aero, rear wheel steering and is 100mm [...]

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Birth of a Safari Porsche at Tuthills

May 2, 2013

Today was a good day, spent hanging out at Tuthills watching the finishing touches going on a brand new Safari car. This 911 is destined for Kenya in November, but the Swedish owner will run the car at in the 2013 Morocco Historic from May 13-18 as an African ice breaker. Tuthills have three cars [...]

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You’re Never Too Old for a 996 Turbo

May 1, 2013

I’m excited by 996 Turbos at the minute and clearly I’m not the only one. Porsche 996 Turbos have been selling fast at JZM Porsche since the start of the year, and I loved this pic just received of a recent handover. “Derek Mellish is still power hungry at 76 years of age,” says Russ [...]

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Porsche Leipzig Job Search Massively Oversubscribed

April 30, 2013

Porsche’s search for 1,400 new workers to fill its expanding Leipzig site has been massively oversubscribed. Recently appointed Production and Logistics Director, Dr. Oliver Blume confirmed that over 30,000 applications had been received for the 1,000 vacancies remaining after 400 engineers were sourced. Leipzig is in the midst of a €500 million growth spurt to gear [...]

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RIP John Thornton, Godspeed Michael Walkerden

April 30, 2013

Popular California Porsche racer, John Thornton, recently passed away. The news came soon after another bad news email, to say Australian 911 racer, Michael Walkerden, had also shuffled off the mortal coil. John was a bloody good bloke. He’d spent some time in Europe back in the 70′s, living the high life with Gran Turismo [...]

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EB Motorsport Porsche Fuchs Wheels in 11×15″ RSR Finish

April 29, 2013

EB Motorsport has just released its second-generation Fuchs 11 x 15″ wheel. Seen here prepared for EB’s FIA World Sportscar Masters Championship Porsche racers in RSR finish, the Gen II wheel retains the lightweight strength of the original, but uses a closer radius on the rim edge to perfectly replicate the original Fuchs alloy wheels. [...]

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Tuthill Porsche out of Classic Baja

April 29, 2013

Tough times for Team Tuthill today, with retirement from the Mexican 1000. All was going well: Richard (above) described a high speed run across a dry lake bed as an incredible, almost transcendental experience. Sadly, a less bouyant experience was waiting at stage end, where a problem was found on the car that could not [...]

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