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Travels and Trips

Hotel California: Howard Dranow and Porsche Friendship

September 4, 2010

I’ve spent the last few days thinking about my great California Porsche feature trips. The times I’ve spent out there have been absolutely magic: great weather, great drives, great cars and, above all, great friends. Friends are key to what classic Porsche, and the Classic Porsche Blog is all about. Sharing proper Porsches with friends [...]

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Interactive Porsche Racing Driver Events: Feb 2011

August 22, 2010

James Redman recently whizzed me a mail about the Gathering of Legends Racers Symposium being organised by Brian Redman’s Targa Sixty Six, the team behind Rennsport Reunion. The idea is to gather a bunch of old racing drivers and race fans for five days in the sun with golf, surfing, sunbathing and whatever else you [...]

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Total 911 Magazine in France

July 31, 2010

That little trip I took to France earlier in the month yielded some great results. I got to take a lot of pictures I liked, lots I didn’t like but that taught me a few things, and also made a pair of great articles out of it. One of them is a piece for Total [...]

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Singer Porsche Official Launch: Tonight

July 30, 2010

Rob Dickinson’s Singer road car is being officially launched tonight at Singer HQ in Sun Valley, CA. Here’s a blistering pic of the prototype shot by my Porsche creative partner, the erstwhile Mister Lipman. This was taken on California Highway 1, at sunset. In an ideal world, I’d be able to zip in, cover the [...]

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Classic Porsche Experience at Silverstone

July 20, 2010

I got an email from Mr Total 911 magazine editor Raby the other day, telling me he’d be near the house this week. Did I want to meet up for lunch? “Sure thing,” says I, “let me know where and when.” The ‘when’ was today. The ‘where’ was the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone. At [...]

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Close Encounters of the Alpine Kind

July 18, 2010

Just sorting through the pics of the recent R Gruppe Bergmeister Tour for a Porsche World magazine feature. Here’s one that brings back happy memories: the time the front runners came around a corner at a rate of knots, to find one collapsed mountain and a road full of Volvo earthmovers shifting the debris. Everywhere [...]

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