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Here comes the Summer: 1974 Porsche 911S Targa
Not too long ago, a 2.7 911S Targa from the mid ’70s was amongst the lowest of the low: a 911 that often sold for less than a 944 in good condition.
Thanks to the ungalvanised chassis, many of the cars well used from an early age have caught the rust bug and – due to [...]
Updated WEVO Porsche Shifter
With over 2500 WEVO Shifters for the Porsche 915 and G50 transmissions in circulation across the early 911 community, this excellent product has proven itself to be a genuine improvement over the original. I have a Classic 915 shifter in my Orange car (bought and paid for by the previous owner) and I really do [...]
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 [...]
Porsche: Roots in Racing
Tuthill Porsche have just uploaded a link to some full-fat Youtube goodness. It’s a montage uploaded by Porsche, under the title: “Racing, not posing.”
If this video is any kind of signpost about the new Porsche under Doctor Piëch, I have to say I like it.
There’s some great archive footage in here including the Carrera [...]
Porsche Design: Timeless?
I dropped in to Tuthills today, to get some advice on a tiny knocking sound from the steering on my SC. There’s no play and it was not an MOT fail, but I thought a second opinion from number one mechanic Chris Dale would be good. While I was there, I noticed this very nice [...]