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Porsche in Le Mans: the 1970s

December 13, 2011

Tripped over this video of Porsche at Le Mans last night. It’s pretty good! Porsche is coming back to Le Mans in 2014 and I intend to be there. Would be great to get a gang of worldwide blog fans together to support this: I’m sure there’ll be lots of Porsche-group road trips coming in [...]

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The four-seat Speedster: Porsche 356

December 4, 2011

You know that thing you always wanted, but could never quite put your finger on? Is this it? What about now – still the thing you always wanted? I bet it is… It’s a four-seat Porsche 356 Speedster: kit car, obviously. Was recently up on eBay UK and I couldn’t resist grabbing the pics. The [...]

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Safari Rally Completely Bloody Mental

November 27, 2011

No chance to blog lately as Safari Rally has been totally off its head: certainly the toughest running I’ve ever seen. Don’t let the ‘Classic’ in the title fool you into thinking this is some retirement jaunt for old rally fogies. Former Kenyan Champ and 4th place ‘proper’ Safari man says this event is “Old [...]

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Safari Rally Day 3: Top Three hit Trouble

November 22, 2011

Day 3 of the 2011 Safari Rally and it’s a cat and mouse game at the front. First stage of the day was a 154km charge through Tanzania. Waldegård was first on the road, encountering problems when he came to a locked checkpoint gate. The Porsche’s horn roused the guard, and Björn was through after [...]

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Safari Rally Stages 1-3 update from Tuthill Porsche

November 20, 2011

Just got off the phone to Richard Tuthill, running nine 911s on the East African Safari Classic. Richard is at the end of stage three, waiting for the cars to come out. He spoke to me about their day so far – bear in mind the stage is not yet finished… “The first two stages [...]

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The Eve of Destruction: What’s up in Kenya?

November 18, 2011

Wifi coverage in Kenya is surprisingly spotty, so am currently struggling to get pics & video back from Team Tuthill Porsche. Richard has just sent me this one which is worth sharing: the Tuthill Porsche fleet outside their Mombasa hotel tonight. It’s 1.30 AM in Kenya. Tomorrow (today their time) sees the start of the [...]

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