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EB Motorsport joins Mighty Motor Media

May 8, 2012

I’m excited by the latest arrival to the fans of Ferdinand Magazine and the Mighty Motor Media digital Porsche promotions stable: Yorkshire-based EB Motorsport. Parent company EB Engineering is a rare beast nowadays: a family firm with a fifty-year history of UK manufacturing and no plans to send production overseas. EB makes high quality composite [...]

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Classic Porsche News & Ferdinand Mag Preview

April 30, 2012

Got a few quick updates for you, and a heads up on some forthcoming content in Ferdinand Porsche Magazine. The Tuthill Porsche 3.4-litre dog ‘box rally 911 won its first event at the weekend. Recently featured in a Chris Harris ‘Drive’ video, the silver and yellow Almeras Porsche-style car will be featured in Ferdinand, along [...]

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Porsche honours Girls’ Day with Seventy Schoolkids

April 25, 2012

April 26 is Girls’ Day in Germany: a joint initiative set up in 2001 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, the Federal Education Ministry, the European Social Fund and the European Union. As the father of three girls, I love the idea. Porsche is continuing its long-standing support of the occasion with a series [...]

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Essen Techno Classica Road Trip Tomorrow

March 20, 2012

Off to Essen tomorrow morning with Dominic Delaney from Specialist Vehicle Preparations. Essen Techno Classica is one show on the European calendar that you do not want to miss: 17 halls and all packed with classics brought by enthusiasts, dealers and manufacturers. Always an interesting selection of Porsche machinery on show and sometimes some rarities [...]

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Drendel Porsche Collection Sale scales new heights

March 9, 2012

Just tweeted the Drendel Porsche Collection sale at Amelia Island and it was terrific fun. Here’s a list of my tweets, with the prices fetched in the hall – add the premium to get the buyers’ actual bill. Quite a few world records, as expected. Gooding will no doubt have a huge press release on [...]

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Drendel Porsche Collection Sells Tomorrow

March 8, 2012

The legendary Drendel Family Collection of important Porsche road and racing cars goes to auction tomorrow at Gooding’s Amelia Island event. Likely the finest private collection of its kind, Matthew Drendel’s incredible assemblage includes some of my favourite machinery. Covering almost 25 years of Stuttgart’s heritage between 1973 and 1997, ten of the eighteen cars [...]

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