Tag: Porsche

I’ve just finished a feature for Total 911 magazine on a good friend of mine in the USA who has a very nice three-car 911 collection. Needless to say, he’s an R Gruppe member, so one of his cars is an early 911, tuned for an exciting drive, but with standard looks up top. It’s the Sports Purpose way.

One of the points my friend made in the interview for this feature is that most people are now building homage cars, following factory looks from the good old days: RS, RSR, ST, 911R and all the variations in between. What he feels is missing is the next big thing in modified classic Porsche, in a similar way to the US hot rodders who customise cars like the Ford Model As, and the evolution of their styles from year to year. [...]

As I write this post, a fantastic event is taking place to raise funds for a fellow R Gruppe member in California. The benefit is in aid of long-serving Gruppe member Roger Grago, who is currently recovering from brain surgery.

At the time he was diagnosed, Roger was in the middle of switching from one job to another, and one health insurer to another, so when he suddenly needed emergency surgery to take a tennis ball-sized tumour out of his head, he was uninsured. Though the surgeon donated his services, there were still hospital bills and follow up treatments to pay for, running into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Roger’s R Gruppe and Der Kleiner Panzer networks swung into action, quickly organising hospital [...]

Above: Woodstock in demo-laps at Zandvoort’s Oldtimer Festival 2010, driving beween GT/TC Championship participants.

Yesterday the Dutch Post-Historic Championship Overall Results were announced. TwinSpark Racing’s Leonard Stolk and Lex Proper finished the 6 race championship in 2nd and 4th overall out of 33 cars in the 1965-1981 period class. Overall champion is Marcel Frijlink in his ZakSpeed Ford Escort, having won every one of the 6 races with a clear lead. We had the satisfaction of finishing ahead of everybody else who we could beat at the level of car speed.

We had certainty about the class win already, but obviously it was very exciting to find out we had done so well overall. The secret has been consistent results and finishing every race. We have a lot of work to do over the winter to finish the preparation of the Hulk and the 2,5 liter S/T “Bloody Mary”.

Bloody Mary has returned [...]