Category: Porsche Road Trips

The bi-annual BergMeister Tour for R Gruppe members has achieved a reputation of being one of the toughest public road driving events for classic 911s. R Gruppe members from around the world return to the event and ship cars in from afar, just to experience the atmosphere and driving with their friends. It is traditionally held in the mountainous areas of Europe and includes 30 cols of various degrees of altitude. The idea for this event was born from the desire to drive some of the classic rally roads of the Coupe des Alpes and the Monte Carlo Rally.

The BergMeister Tour is organised by TwinSpark Racing’s Leonard Stolk and he has been receiving regular requests from classic car enthusiasts to be invited. So TwinSpark have decided to start organising similar events for a broader audience, outside R Gruppe.

To cater towards the tastes of a variety of drivers, be it Porsche aficionados or [...]

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 [...]

We have some great news for owners of earlier 911s through the Carrera 3.2: We now have the Zuffenhaus RSR brakes in stock to bolt onto your original chassis! It allows you to take advantage of the supreme stopping power of these race proven brakes.

The original brakes on all these types of cars were single piston equipped. The real heavy duty, race oriented brakes were reserved for the Turbo 3.3, which came with larger, wider, cross drilled ventilated disks and for piston brakes in the configuration of the 917 and 911 RSR race cars. Contrary to popular belief 917 brakes look nothing like RSR brakes, as they were not equipped with cooling fins. Those were only added for the 2.8 RSR. The internals however were the same.

The reason you should get our RSR brakes is that it is the only big-brake bolt-on solution which fits both front and rear bolt spacing and [...]