Category: Porsche Road Trips

Just wanted to share with you the new look of Woodstock. We have taken our logos and had a front hood sticker made to promote TwinSpark Racing. In the Dutch GTTC championship we are allowed to run with “fitting” sponsor decoration, so we designed a period-style striping. Hope you like it. We’ll be running Woodstock on Monday at Spa in this new outfit.

Sometimes timing is everything. I wrote to my friend Steven in New York that family festivities would take me to the area of New York and whether lunch was in the stars. When I shared the dates with Steven, he responded enthusiastically and told me about the local R Gruppe’s 3 day rally through the Adirondack mountain range. He insisted I detach myself from the family matters for a couple of days and offered his Ivory White 2.7 RS clone (“Shivory”) for me to drive. Shivory and I had met in California a few years ago and this beautifully tuned, carburetted clone carried my wife and me around that state for a week. This offer could not be refused. The pink slip for 48 hours was obtained.

Jim Garfield and several of the local membership had produced the roadbook and selected the pitstops. We gathered at 8 on Friday morning in Newburgh NY and after [...]

Techno Classica 2010 was our first trade show where we exhibited TwinSpark Racing’s collection of parts for vintage Porsches. It was a very positive experience in that we got to meet some of you in person and could discuss the quality of our parts. Particularly our Zuffenhaus RSR Brakes were a client magnet. These brakes are a true to form replica of the original ones used on the 2.8 RSR, but have proven 930 brake internals (www.twinsparkracing.com).

We were joined by our partners from Zuffenhaus Products (www.zuffenhaus.eu), Keith Walters, Bob Aines and Aaron Winans, who had a first-hand opportunity to interact with the European clients visiting our booth. In a way the event turned into an R Gruppe reunion during the evening hours, as we were joined by John Glynn (www.johndglynn.com) and Vasco Ricardo (Portugal) for a meal or two. The overall impression was that the number of Porsche specialist stands were down from last [...]