Tag: Porsche Video

I swapped some emails with fellow R Grupper Jack Olsen this week, catching up on news of Black Beauty II. Jack and I have not yet met, but he was the inspiration behind pics for my last set of t-shirts. His popular 911 has inspired much, much more.

The t-shirt stuff came from Pelican Scott’s idea for a forum thread to share self-portraits of owners and Porsches in a Jack Olsen style. That selfie was groundbreaking back in the day! The thread has been running for eight or more years, and has some top notch laughs; those in the know snapped up the shirts when we shot them like Jack.

Jack’s car is a legend. His first car – Black Beauty I: a ’73 911 [...]

Today was a tough day… We managed to climb 8 positions since yesterday, but there is no rest for the rally driver!

We ran our regularity in the morning and came out feeling invincible. As we headed South to the next stage we missed a turn to the Time Check. I still remember looking at Kenneth Tjon in his 1976 924 Porsche taking a right and wondering why he went the other way, as he looked at me, wondering where the heck I was going… The short end of it was : we weren’t paying enough attention to the road numbers!

Each year we have a “driver, follow that road-moment”. The co-driver decides there is a large stretch on a single road coming up and tells the driver to keep going straight. As Joost was doing his mapping work for [...]