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Peking to Paris in a Porsche
WEVO engineering smartypants Hayden Burvill, and his Porsche-road-trips-for-the-soul cohort Steven Harris, have been given the thumbs up to take part in the 2010 Peking to Paris Motor Challenge.
Carrying the same DNA that spawned the Paris-Dakar, Peking to Paris is perhaps the ultimate test of ingenuity and endurance, communicated through the medium of classic cars. A [...]
My Early 911 Project
I’ve had a longhood for a while now and have been to and fro on selling it or keeping it. My business plans for the next two years leave almost no project time, so I’m getting close to selling and letting someone else have the fun of building it up.
A friend of mine is [...]
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 [...]
Brawn GP meets Tuthill Porsche
Dropped in to Tuthills the other day to find Brawn GP’s graphics guys on site striping up the Frederic Dor Safari car, which is off to Norway tomorrow. This is the car I am talking about – a real favourite of mine:
John and Neil from Brawn (now Mercedes Formula 1) were interesting to watch. The [...]
Old meets new – with a twist
I was talking to my remarkable friend Leonard Stolk at classic Porsche racing parts suppliers Twin Spark Racing in Amsterdam on Tuesday, just before he left to take his Winter Trial rally car out for a good blast to blow out some cobwebs, and get the 2.7 RS engine in the back of [...]