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My Early 911 Project

March 13, 2010

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 [...]

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Remembering Jean-Luc Thérier

March 2, 2010

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 prospect and process of [...]

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Brawn GP meets Tuthill Porsche

January 10, 2010

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. [...]

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Old meets new – with a twist

December 17, 2009

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 the spritely [...]

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Safari sorts the Men from the Boys

November 27, 2009

It’s the end of day 5 in Kenya: half-way stage of the 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally. Tuthill Porsche’s efforts have not gone entirely according to plan but then, this is a marathon – not a sprint. Despite some major interventions thus far (one of which took the team from third to fifteenth place), [...]

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Tuthill Safari off to a flying start

November 23, 2009

Following months of preparation, Francis Tuthill’s attack on the 2009 East African Safari Classic is finally under way. Despite the very different desert terrain, day 1 saw the team get off to a great start, with Gerard Marcy and Stephane Prevot finishing first in their Tuthill Porsche, seventeen seconds ahead of second place. “There were [...]

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