Tag: Porsche

I spend a lot of time with fellow R Gruppe buddies in the USA over the course of a year, travelling with my friend and car photographer Jamie Lipman. Jamie and I catch up with the latest must-see Porsche 911 hot rods, and shoot and write stories about them.

Through my Stateside trips, I’ve met some great people. Fuchs expert Harvey Weidman is one, Arizona desert resident and Martini RSR/Kremer ST builder Gib Bosworth another. This year I met yet another 911 addict: Sam Gassel, from Virginia Beach. These three guys have all played a part in building one of the coolest 911s to come out of the USA for some time.

Bosworth is fast becoming a legend in race replica circles. His much-admired Martini RSR homage now lives in the UK, with R Grupper Mike Moore. Mike’s been [...]

WEVO director Hayden Burvill at WEVO in San Carlos, California has just finished building the classic Porche 356 he and TwinSpark’s good friend Steven Harris will race in the Peking to Paris trans-Mongolia rally, which starts in China on September 10.

The Peking-Paris Rally lasts 37 days and takes the cars from China into the Khangai Mountains and Gobi Altai (as in Gobi desert) to Russia. Next comes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France: an expected total of 14,600kms.

It will come as no surprise to find that the 356 has been modified for P to P, though perhaps not as radically as one might have expected. Hayden’s WEVO blog features pictures and further details of the modifications, including the custom-made additional fuel tanks, and crack tested wheels and other components. Hayden’s piece also [...]

We were very privileged at Classic Le Mans to be invited to take part in the Porsche Parade lap, celebrating 40 years since the 917 first won here, in the capable hands of Richard Attwood.

TwinSpark Racing’s cheeky little 3.0 RSR renegade (Woodstock) was lined up with a bundle of other road and race cars, to do a pair of laps of the full 24-hour circuit. It was terrific to be in the company of so much cracking historic machinery, as well as many of Porsche’s latest track tools.

The video opens with us pulling out of the assembly area onto the main start/finish straight. Around us you can see quite a few 911s: 2.7 RS and 964 RS to the rear, ST up in front. Lots of 356s, and the 904 and 906 ahead.

Porsche were filming the start of the lap from a company Cayenne, with a GT1 and a gaggle Group [...]