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After 2 years of anticipation and months of prep work to plot routes, organise hotels, polo’s, stickers and the like, our departure is near. BergMeisteR Tour III will see 8 early 911’s cover 4.500 km in 8 days. Our route will take us through Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France , Switzerland, Italy and Monaco.

Judging by a regular flow of enquiries, this event has started to reach a bit of halo-status among aficionado’s as the toughest test of early 911 resilience, shy of an endurance race event. Every element of the car is challenged in this road trip. Although we drive by the rules of the road, the driving is spirited and involves intense acceleration and braking. To give you an idea: last time, in 2012, I went through a set of Michelin TB’s in a week.

 

Silverado, our 2.7 RS engined ST model, has participated in 5 Winter Trials and Lex renovated the front [...]

The TwinSpark Racing team is proud of its customers, and is always eager to support them in fulfilling their dreams. Through the TwinSpark Blog we are going to present you stories about our clients around the world.

The first client we would like to present to you is Marco Leijten, an R Gruppe member in The Netherlands and a proud early Porsche fan. Marco and Leonard, our MD, go back all the way to Leonard’s Early Porsche 911&912 Club Netherlands days. Even back to the first trip that Leonard took to the Moselle Valley with the 1971 car we now call Silverado. And I was folded in the back!

Marco’s car is a Conda Green 1970 911 S which badly needed restoration. He has decided to follow a path we much recommend: modify the early car but in a way that the factory would have or could have done. That’s how you end up with a great, valuable early [...]

Last weekend saw the start of the historic racing season for team TwinSpark with a few thrilling races at Zandvoort. Our Dutch Historic Racing Championship 66-81 saw a field of 34 cars head into qualification and 25 cars finishing the weekend’s last race. Quite an improvement in numbers compared to last year.

We believe that more and more drivers are gravitating towards classes which insist on FIA homologation compliant cars and the fair competition to match. Our races could not have proven the point of fairness better, looking at the bumper to bumper battle yours truly undertook with a very similar car of Jan van Elderen and fights going on in the group of Escorts behind us. Everybody wins: participants, who feel they have really raced for their cups and spectators for seeing us slug it out as gentlemen. In our first race Jan headed for the lead from the rolling start, as the [...]