Tag: 911

You may remember my blog entry about Diederick Kraaijeveld’s original artwork of a few months ago. On that occasion I told you he would be portraiting the Hulk for exhibition purposes. When I was away on Winter Trial 2011 “duty”, him and fellow TwinSpark owner Lex Proper rolled the Hulk into the daylight and Diederick cast his eye on the Hulk. He made a series of photo’s after shooting the breeze with Lex and disappeared!

Two weeks ago I started receiving messages that his Artful Highness had nearly completed the Opus Magnus and that we should set a date for viewing the work. Diederick had moved to a new location in Hilversum and having gone around the City Ring twice (…) despite clear route descriptions, I found my old high school mate’s new Lair. This place is even larger than the last one and my jaw dropped when I saw a series of portraits he [...]

The cars of TwinSpark Racing were recently featured in Esses magazine, the publication of the US-based Early 911S Registry.

Written by our friend Alex Assink, the piece details the specification of two TwinSpark Racing Porsche 911s: the yellow RSR we know as Woodstock, and the Silver T rally car we call Silverado.

Alex has clearly done his research, as the article makes two important points:

• The author correctly assumes that Leonard has R Gruppe embroidered into his pyjamas.
• Their meet at Zandvoort is for coffee first, cars second. This is agreed company protocol.

Actually I am kidding, but that is the spirit of Alex’s article: humorous and easy-going, much like our company. A few things have changed since this was written, however.

The biggest change is that Leonard’s son Daan has returned to full-time education, so [...]

Most Porsche fans actively participating in organised drives, tours and track days have their favourite specialists. One thing all of these garages have in common is that they entered existence via love of Porsche, and are now delivering first class products and a quality experience to their customers. TwinSpark Racing is exactly the same.

After an exciting 2010, TwinSpark Racing is poised to make a big step forward in 2011. We are already in negotiation with manufacturers and distributors to bring a wide range of new product to the retail market. This includes new products from our friends at WEVO and Zuffenhaus in the USA, and products from other American vendors, currently not available from European-held stock.

We are also in [...]