iPad Dash Install: Porsche Cayenne

December 30, 2011

I’ve been searching for a sensibly-priced double-din head unit with nav to stick in the workwagen Subaru for a while. As an Alpine head, the obvious choice is the Alpine INA-W910R for tip top nav and iPhone integration, but at £962 (down from £1800 retail!!) you can forget that. Chatting with Alastair Caldwell the other [...]

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Porsche Origin: 935 Moby Dick video

December 29, 2011

Porsche Origin shared a link to nice little video today. It’s a discussion between Klaus Bischof and Jim Richards at the Two Days of Thunder race meeting, held at Queensland Raceway on June 25th and 26th, 2011. The boys are talking about 935/78 “Moby Dick”: the longtail 935 that won the 1978 Silverstone 6 Hours [...]

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Steve McQueen Le Mans Race Suit sells for $1M

December 29, 2011

MSN Cars UK reports that “a set of overalls worn by Steve McQueen during the filming of the 1971 film Le Mans has just sold at auction for $984,000. The staggering sum is more than three times the original reserve price set for the Nomex overalls, and equates to £628,000 in British money. Embroidered with [...]

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Happy Christmas Fellow Porsche Fans!

December 24, 2011

Happy Christmas to all of you, wherever you may be. In the absence of Christmas pics I took myself, here’s some by other folks I tripped over during 2011: It’s been a great year for me and Mighty Motor Media: thanks to all of you for your support! We’ll do a year round-up before the [...]

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Porsche Design Watch for Christmas: Fake 6600.41

December 23, 2011

Got all excited tonight when, idly surfing on eBay, I tripped over a Porsche Design watch with a Buy It Now of £300. I wasn’t absolutely smitten by the look of it, but a PD watch for £300 is not to be sniffed at. Alarm bells began to ting (quiet ring) when the seller had [...]

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Porsche on the Hit List: What’s the Value?

December 16, 2011

I’ve been increasingly busy through 2011 doing insurance valuations for classic Porsches in the UK. My ten-year history as a car valuation editor for Glass’s Guide, immersion in the classic Porsche scene and working as a used car journalist with over twenty-five years in and around the motor trade, gives me a lot of credibility [...]

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