Tag: Twinspark Racing

The above poster is the creative product of Pavel, our Czech photographer friend and the editing performed by our creative friend Vasco Ricardo from Portugal. Vasco is a graphics designer, heavily infected with the early 911 bug. The poster even has the pixel structure of large surface posters from the 70’s, the way the Factory issued them…

I met Vasco for the first time at R Gruppe Treffen three years ago, in San Luis Obispo. He had just completed a cross continental ride from New York, in the shotgun seat with his Irish friend Karl O’Donoghue. To say that Vasco was mesmerized by the sight and presence of so many gorgeous early 911s and their mad community of enthusiast-owners would be the understatement of the year!

We stayed in touch as Vasco joined R Gruppe and now was also part of our European Chapter. He has been flying the R Gruppe flag on the Iberian [...]

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 [...]