John Glynn's Blog | 911 Porsche tales & other stories
Remembering Jean-Luc Thérier
I’ll never forget my 13th birthday. I had an appointment with an orthodontist in Cork to have a brace fitted, so my dad drove me down from Limerick in his new E21 BMW 320. Zero present presence on my first day as a teenager had left me suitably depressed, with the [...]
924 Turbo Time Warp
Took a trip to see my buddy Dom Delaney at Worcester Independent Porsche today. Dom is a great guy with a lot of history on all sorts of Porsches, and always great to chat with. He has decided to take on my 1986 944 Turbo project, so I had a truckload of bits to drop [...]
Real Racers: 924s in 911 & Porsche World
The Porsche 924 Championship has been transforming Joe Public into Porsche racing drivers for over eighteen years. John Glynn went to meet some of the newest recruits.
We probably all know the story of the 924. The brief version is that it was a product Porsche were employed to design for Volkswagen. VW then decided against [...]
I think we’re done here
The dream is over.
Well, I say ‘dream’, but I mean unholy nightmare of having cars and bits strewn everywhere. And OK, I say over not in the sense of any sort of finality, more of a page-turning en route to The End. But it’s getting closer!
I have a pair of back lights and the rear bumper [...]
The Luck of the Irish
A few weeks back, I won a 944 Turbo engine on eBay for my 1986 951. The motor was from a crashed Porsche (destroyed in the rear corner) and the car still had the wheels on it. My car has Fuchs which I want to keep when I sell the rest on, so I was on the [...]