Porsche Post February 2018

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February 2018

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LESS IS MORE Test-driving the lightweight 911 T

HITTING THE HIGH NOTE Singer’s 500bhp 964 DLS

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AT YOUR SERVICE Porsche On Demand put to the test

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DRIVE Route: Lynton to Dulverton Average rating: 4/5 Length of route: 49 miles GTS moments: 557 The Porsche GTS Routes app is available to download from the App Store and Google Play Store

Porsche celebrates its 70th anniversary as a sportscar manufacturer in 2018 and as you would expect, it’s shaping up to be a memorable year for enthusiasts. A stand-alone event at Brands Hatch on Sunday, 2 September will see the Club and manufacturer join together to celebrate the occasion in fine style.

Plans are still coming together, but it’s likely we’ll soon be reaching out to the membership to build a timeline of cars from the past 70 years. Further event and ticket information will be released in an upcoming issue of Porsche Post and via the Club’s website.

In May of this year the Club is staging the 43rd 356 International, which attracts owners from throughout the world. Although the event is now full, there are various ways members can engage with the activities taking place and more information is available on page 6 of this edition.

Turning to this month’s magazine, we hope it offers a varied and engaging selection of articles for you to enjoy. This ranges from a detailed road test of the hotly anticipated 911 Carrera T in the French wilderness, to a review of Porsche’s On Demand service in an ever-congested London. The latter article goes on to explain how members can request Gett codes from the Clubhouse to allow you to experience Porsche’s activity in the capital.

Thanks to all members who provided such enthusiastic support to the Club’s presence at both Bicester Heritage and Autosport International. The former really did attract a huge turnout and Hangar 113 provided a welcome break from the bitter winter weather.

Thanks, as ever, for your ongoing support of Porsche Club.

Chris Seaward General Manager

READ The limited-edition book 911R explores the only two models to carry the R name, both developed with ultimate performance as the watchword To buy, visit tag-motorbooks.com

THIS MONTH’S COVER

Originally launched back in 1968, the 911 Carrera T (for Touring) took the lightweight route to success. Now updated for 2018, the new version, seen here in the hills above Monte Carlo, again sheds the pounds to serve up a driver-focused experience.

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Weight watcher It has been billed as the lightweight Carrera for driving enthusiasts, but does the 911 T live up to the hype?

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At your service

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The new Porsche On Demand service offers chauffeur-driven travel across central London.

We put it to the test

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Back to the future Singer Vehicle Design has made quite a reputation for itself by creating desirable reimagined Porsche 911s. And now Singer has unveiled the DLS

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Whizz kid Young car fanatic Maurice Henry has a particular affinity with Porsche. He’s also a Formula Cadet kart star who loves to race, says father Cecil

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The 43rd 356 International – your chance to be involved For the first time since 2003 Porsche Club Great Britain is staging the prestigious 356 International meeting in May this year. The long-standing event will see 136 Porsche 356s from all around the world converge on the UK for three days of touring, hospitality and experiences. The 136 car capacity was reached in a matter of weeks and the Club is now working hard to deliver an event of the standard of Brighton in 2003.

It’s important to the Club that the wider membership has the opportunity to engage with the event and offers those attendees participating from overseas a typically warm British welcome. With that in mind, all members are invited to join the Hedingham Castle element of the even, which takes place on Friday, 4 May and includes a

joust. Lasting approximately one hour, the action will begin with the various skills such as quintaines, rings, spearing the ‘peasant’s head’, competitive races and tricks and stunts within that.

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There will then be the favours section where the knights will gather items from the audience to gain favour before the jousting starts. The knights will then joust, before finishing the battle on foot with some exciting sword fighting to see who will be crowned Tournament Champion.

This is an opportunity for members to meet those participating in the 356 international and enjoy a day in the beautiful grounds of Hedingham Castle.

A nominal cost of £10 per car is being set to encourage as many members as possible to attend the event and meet those enthusiasts who have travelled long distances to be part of the event. Tickets can be purchased online via the Porsche Club website.

Porsche Museum debuts its oldest 911 AFTER RARE EARLY MODEL FOUND The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart has presented the oldest 911 to be inducted, after three years of restoration. The latest edition to the museum’s collection features in a special exhibition called 911 (901 No. 57) – A Legend Takes Off, which runs until 8 April.

The red coupé was built in October 1964 as one of the first series-production models of the sports car known back then as the 901.

Almost 50 years later it was rediscovered and the Porsche Museum decided to buy it with a view to restoring it to its original state.

In 2014, while valuing a collection of items long forgotten about in a barn, a German TV crew working on an antiques and memorabilia programme stumbled across two 911 models dating back to the 1960s. After making enquiries with the Porsche Museum, it emerged that one of the two sports cars with the chassis number 300.057 was one of the rare models built before the model line was renamed. The

Porsche Museum subsequently purchased both models at the estimated price, determined by an independent expert, and in doing so closed a key gap in its collection.

One of the crucial factors in favour of the vehicle’s purchase was the fact that the old 911 had not been restored in any way, giving the specialists at the museum the opportunity to restore it as authentically and as true to the original as possible. It took a total of three years to bring the rusty sports car back to its original state using genuine body parts from the time taken from a different vehicle. The engine, transmission, electrics and interior were all repaired following the same principle. The general rule was to retain parts and fragments where possible rather than replacing them.

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1964, the coupé had to be renamed due to a trademark dispute, and from then on bore the name 911. All of the customer vehicles produced up to that point were manufactured as 901 vehicles but sold as 911 vehicles. The Porsche factory collection had lacked one of these rarities for 50 years.

Restored to glory: the rare 911 has been returned to its original pristine condition after being found in a delapidated state in a barn

PORSCHE CLUB SUPPORT It is no secret that the Club has been keen to pull together this kind of race series for some time but, for various reasons, that hasn’t been possible writes Chris Seaward.

Popular Club member James Turner has now taken the bull by the horns and his vision is one which we commend and support. The Club’s ambition is, naturally, to host a UK round of the 2.0-litre series in the near future and conversations with James and his team are currently ongoing to see what can be achieved.

In the meantime, the Club is planning its own early Porsche race at Brands Hatch as part of the high-profile Festival of Porsche meeting on Sunday, 2 September. The event is expected to attract a large attendance and will see the manufacturer celebrate its 70th anniversary in fine style. Anyone with an early Porsche race car interested in participating in the meeting is encouraged to email gm@porscheclubgb.com

France-based race promoter Peter Auto has announced a new race series for pre-1966 Porsche 911s to be held as part of its 2018 meetings at Spa, Dijon and Paul Ricard.

And the promoter already has its sights set on adding a British round of the 2.0L Cup to the race roster in 2019.

Peter Auto is aiming for 40 cars per race, with some driven by former Porsche race drivers. The promoter has worked with Lee Maxted-Page, Porsche Club member and managing director of historic Porsche specialist Maxted-Page, and James Turner, director of the 2L Racing Group, to create the 2.0L Cup. “The Porsche 911 is rightly regarded as one of the world’s greatest sports cars and, in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of

Porsche in 2018, we are delighted to launch this exciting new one-make historic race series,” says James.

“Working with Lee Maxted-Page, we have put together the largest ever database of early SWB Porsche 911s eligible to race. Key teams Historika and Tuthill Porsche have also had input into a practical and tight set of technical regulations.”

The races at Spa (18-20 May), Dijon (8-10 June) and Paul Ricard (31 August-2 September) will incorporate 30 minutes of free practice, a 30-minute qualification session and a 90-minute race.

Peter Auto founder Patrick Peter says: “We decided to create the 2.0L Cup after some of our entrants told us that they would like to

race their pre-1966 2-litre Porsches in a series exclusively reserved for them.

“Lee and James have also been involved in the birth of this project and have given us precious support in the development of this new series by ensuring the participation of British entrants. Ultimately, our aim is to organise a round in England.”

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SWB 901/911 Race Series Launched

CLUB MEMBER chosen for key fia ROLE

The hard work of Club member and racer Nathalie McGloin has been rewarded with a prestigious role with the FIA.

Porsche Club member Nathalie McGloin has been chosen to take on the prestigious role of president of the FIA’s newly created Disability and Accessibility Commission.

Nathalie, who began her motorsport career with Porsche Club and intends to race in the Porsche Club Championship in 2018, was initially invited to Paris to meet FIA Institute president Gérard Saillant and FIA motorsport general secretary Peter Bayer last October to talk about her experiences with the disabled racing licence process.

Nathalie, who had previously worked for the FIA in a public speaking capacity at international conferences, says: “I was more than happy to make the trip but was slightly puzzled as to why they had asked for a copy of my CV ahead of the meeting.

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yet told Nathalie why we asked her to come to Paris today!’”

They then explained that they wanted her to become president of the commission, which had been established the previous month at an FIA meeting led by president Jean Todt.

Nathalie says: “What followed is one of the proudest moments of my life and one that I still find slightly surreal! Of course I accepted the role and was soon greeted by Jean, who thanked me for accepting and we chatted about the work that needed to be done with the commission.”

Nathalie now plans to build the profile of motorsport and the unique inclusivity it offers to disabled drivers. “Motorsport is the only sport in the world where disabled people can compete against able-bodied people on a level playing field and this must be celebrated,” she says. “Motorsport is for everybody, so let’s start to demonstrate that anything is possible.”

March Clubhouse Open Day

Nomination form and AGM notice

The Club’s season-opening spring Open Day is set to take place on Sunday, 4 March in Moreton-in-Marsh (GL56 0JQ). With a start time of 10.30am, enjoy freshly ground coffee and meet hundreds of like-minded enthusiasts in a friendly and informal gathering. The day usually continues until around 3pm and members are free to come and go at their leisure. Register online at porscheclubgb.com

Included as a loose insert within this month’s edition of Porsche Post is a Director’s Nomination form. Details of April’s Porsche Club and Porsche Motorsport Annual General Meetings can be found on pages 48 and 49. If you have any questions relating to any of the information provided, please contact us with your query by emailing gm@porscheclubgb.com

There will be no Porsche LMP1 activity in 2018, but enthusiasts will be buoyed by news of a larger GT programme

Porsche announces huge GT programme expansion Porsche has announced a wide-ranging campaign for the forthcoming 2018/2019 race season, including plans to field four factory vehicles at the 86th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The two Porsche GT Teams from the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship each run two ca. 510 hp GT racers from Weissach. The cockpit of the No. 91 car is shared by Gianmaria Bruni, Richard Lietz and Frédéric Makowiecki. The No. 92 vehicle is manned by Kévin Estre, Michael Christensen and Laurens Vanthoor.

Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber are expected to drive the No. 93 car, with the No. 94 Porsche 911 RSR earmarked for Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Sven Müller.

With Bamber, Bernhard, Dumas and Tandy, a total of four outright Le Mans winners will

compete as part of the Porsche works squad.

For the 2018/2019 season, Porsche will again send its factory Porsche GT Team to contest the GTE-Pro class of the WEC. In the No. 91 Porsche 911 RSR, Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz fight for the world championship, with Michael Christensen and Kévin Estre manning the No. 92 vehicle. One of the most successful pairings in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship join forces again in 2018. As in their 2015 championship-winning year, Nick Tandy and Patrick Pilet share the cockpit of the 911 RSR with the starting No. 911. In the No. 912 sister car, two-time Le Mans winner Earl Bamber and Intercontinental GT Challenge and Blancpain Series champion Laurens Vanthoor form a world-class driver duo.

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campaign. The works driver trio Dirk Werner, Romain Dumas and Frédéric Makowiecki will contest all races and fight for the drivers’ championship. In the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, the three also share the cockpit of a 911 GT3 R. This will be fielded at all races by Manthey Racing. In many other international and national GT series such as the European Le Mans Series, the Pirelli World Challenge, the Japanese Super GT series, the IMSA WeatherTech Championship (GTD class) and the Nürburgring Long Distance Championship, Porsche supports customer teams with engineers and drivers.

Timo Bernhard, the reigning WEC world champion and Le Mans winner, makes his comeback into GT racing in the 2018 season.

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Book review: 911R Known in Porsche circles for their definitive title on the 1973 Carrera RS, Dr Georg Konradsheim and Dr Thomas Gruber, together with graphics designer Christoph Mäder, have applied a similar level of detail and quality to their latest stunning title 911R, writes Peter Morgan. Only two 911 models have ever carried the revered ‘R’ label. Both were developed with ultimate performance uppermost and share a common philosophy despite being separated by some 50 years. Bridging that much of a history gap seems like a difficult choice for a book, but the authors have very successfully combined the stories of the two wildly different technology cars into a fascinating and superbly illustrated read.

The story of the first 911R takes us back to 1966-67 and the relentless atmosphere of the Ferdinand Piëch development era at Porsche.

The first ‘plastic’ 911, started just two years into the 911’s production life, was a typically shrewd combination of analysis, technical risk and intuition. We learn of the efforts of a handful of gifted engineers and technicians whose only tools were slide rules, sharp pencils and seemingly magical hands that could turn raw materials into automotive gold. The names Piëch, Bott, von Hanstein, Hensler, Schröder, Mezger, Falk, Linge and

Elford trip off the early pages easily and combine with beautifully presented photos.

After development engineers Falk and Linge brought a near standard 911 home in the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally, it was Briton Vic

Race Retro and Practical Classics classic car & Restoration Show The Club will have a modest sized stand at February’s Race Retro event which takes place at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire from Friday, 23 to Sunday, 25 February. The discount code for members is RR18PCGB (book by phone on 0871 297 0743. Calls cost 13ppm plus standard network charges. All bookings are subject to a single transaction fee of £1.50. Entry to the auction requires purchase of a catalogue). In March, the Club

will be attending the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show at Birmingham’s NEC for the first time. PCGB members can get a discount by using PCRS18CS for a single ticket and PCRS18CF for a family ticket.

Complimentary coffee won’t be available at Race Retro but will be offered at the Classic Car & Restoration Show. If you have any questions about any of the 2018 events calendar, please contact the Clubhouse.

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Elford who fully demonstrated what could be done with the highly modified R on a loose special stage. But despite the R’s obvious competitiveness on both track and rally, it wasn’t produced in any great numbers (unlike the later RS). Nevertheless, the 24 cars built left a huge legacy. The 911R became the blueprint for all future competition 911s, while the experimental Type 916 4-cam engine would be a stepping stone to the later 917 sports car’s world-beating powerplant.

It seems a big step from the 210hp 800kg 1967 car to the 500hp 1370kg example of 2016. The product of Andreas Preuninger’s much-fêted street GT development group, some 991 examples were produced for sale with each showing an astonishing level of hand-made detail. The new R is a bare essentials manual gearbox 911. Here we have the full uncut story of how the new car evolved, complete with relevant engineering graphics and data, plus the production and marketing stories. The test drivers, for instance, reveal that while the official maximum speed is 323kph (194mph), that was recorded up a slight incline. The R is said to be good for more like 330kph on the flat and even 340kph with a following wind.

Combining 384 pages with 428 photos, the 911R book is an outstanding effort. At ¤387 and available only from the publisher (tag-motorbooks.com), this is a must-have title for the serious collector or historian.

OldTimer Grand Prix, Nürburgring Porsche Club has once again secured a batch of sought-after Porsche hospitality passes for the popular Oldtimer Grand Prix, which takes place at the Nürburgring from Friday, 10 to Sunday, 12 August. The passes will cost around £350 per member and offer access to the incredible Porsche hospitality suites throughout the weekend.

The huge demand for tickets means that the Club’s allocation is limited, so members interested in booking or finding out more should contact Steve Kevlin at the Clubhouse on 01608 652911, or email motorsport@porscheclubgb.com

THE GREAT DEBATE TACKLING THE HOTTEST TOPICS FROM PLANET PORSCHE. THIS MONTH WE ASK YOU...

PDK or manual?

Cutting-edge tech or old-school interaction: can seamless twin-clutch shifting win over the three-pedal purists?

FOR MANUAL

FOR PDK

Richard: Manual is a proper driver’s car,

Neil: PDK is amazing. The gear changes are

and that’s coming from someone who drives a 1973 2.4E as a weekend car. That’s what Porsches are all about. PDK is very clever and the finest of all the manual/auto changes but a real downshift of gears and engine braking via the clutch is always more rewarding.

both so smooth and super quick. Sports Plus on the paddles is superb. You would never change gear as quickly in a manual. Any manuals in F1? Nope.

James: It’s manual for me; PDK is just not

as involving and makes people less and less skilled at driving. Manual gives you that connection with your car that you just can’t get with a computer. My old 944 S2 feels fantastic every time you drive it, it’s like being at one with the car – if it was PDK it would be boring.

Gary: Manual. Although I’ve enjoyed PDK

Kevan: I’ve driven manuals all my life and

I still have one for a runabout. While I enjoy a good heel and toe session, I prefer my PDK with Sport mode, PASM etc. for a long trip.

Barry: It’s PDK, no doubt – it has come on

leaps and bounds from the 997 to the 991. It’s smooth with stunning slick gear changes under hard acceleration. There’s nothing quite like the zzz-zzz-zzz of that gear change, and just with the accelerator pedal. Kickdown will rocket you out of danger when overtaking.

cars, it’s just not the same.

Richard: It seems PDK is the preferred

majority winner here. However, like a few of the other respondents, I am old school and would wish for manual all the time.

Mark: Manual every day of the week. I have absolutely no need to change gear quicker than I already can with a gear lever.

Martin: Has everyone who insists manual is better actually spent time with PDK? I love being fully in control. I love driving manual.

I spent three years with PDK. I love PDK. It’s the best of both worlds. But in my opinion it’s essential to pair it with the Chrono Sport modes, which really bring it to life.

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split in favour of speccing PDK over manual transmission

WHAT IS PDK? PDK is essentially two gearboxes in one. This double-clutch arrangement provides an alternating, non-positive connection between the two half gearboxes and the engine by means of two separate input shafts. The flow of power from the engine is transmitted through one half gearbox and one clutch at a time, while the next gear is preselected in the second half gearbox. During a gear change, therefore, one clutch simply opens and the other closes at the same time, enabling gear changes to take place within milliseconds.

Rachel: I’m a PDK convert these days – I love

it! But I love getting in my manual too.

Steve: I have a new manual coming in March

this year. I must be mad having had two consecutive PDK GT3s. It’s an investment decision, I’m afraid.

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Stuart: I bought mine when it was 18 months old and it was the first non-manual car I have ever had in my 50-plus years. It’s fabulous.

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The Porsche month in pictures

The Club’s very own 1960 356B enjoyed some glorious winter sun on a quiet Oxfordshire road. The car was displayed at Porsche Cars Reading for many years before it arrived at the Club on a long-term loan. Following discussions with Porsche Cars, ownership was officially transferred to the Club early in 2012 at a point where the car’s increasing value justified a full restoration. Bodywork and painting were carried out in 2012 followed by a full mechanical (engine and gearbox) restoration, along with suspension and under body parts in 2013. The 356 is insured for any Club member to drive, so those wishing to experience the thrill of Porsche’s first production sports car are always welcome to do so.

Availability is usually limited to one of the Club’s scheduled open days, but weekday visits can be arranged if circumstances allow.

Email admin@porscheclubgb.com for more information.

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Photo by Angus Taylor

White Horse Hill, Oxfordshire, December

Autosport International, 13 January

Photo by Ed Pike

Photo by Porsche AG

Photo by George Woodward

Paul Howells’ Porsche Club National Hillclimb Championship-winning 911 RSR was present on the PCGB stand at Autosport International, rubbing shoulders with some other fairly mighty Porsche milestones.

Joining Paul’s car was the 2017 Le Mans-winning 919 and the 996 C2 of Mark McAleer, the car that won the hotly contested Petro-Canada Lubricants Porsche Club Championship in a nail-biting final outing at Castle Combe last October.

Stuttgart, 15 December The winner’s trophy for the 24 Hours of Le Mans has found a new home at the Porsche Museum. After three overall victories in a row in the toughest long-distance race in the world, Porsche has now earned the right to keep the challenge trophy forever. The Le Mans winners and Porsche 919 Hybrid works drivers Timo Bernhard, Neel Jani, Nick Tandy and the Vice President LMP, Fritz Enzinger, delivered the trophy – which weighs almost 50kg – to the Porsche Museum.

Bangkok, 26 December

Photo by Porsche AG

Thailand’s biggest Porsche car reunion took place in the bustling city of Bangkok. But it wasn’t just about the cars – people came and a community was fostered at the second edition of Das Treffen. A whole host of Porsche variants were on show, including early examples of 911 and 912 as shown here. More images are available via the global Porsche Facebook page.

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The Porsche month in pictures

Brighton, 7 January Nick Jeffery’s 996 Turbo leads the line-up of Porsches on Brighton’s Madeira Drive, part of this year’s Region 20 Icebreaker.

The spirited version of the iconic London to Brighton road run was blessed with superb weather from the outset and attracted a good turnout. Further details on all of Porsche Club London Region’s activity can be found at porscheclubgb.com

Bicester Heritage, 7 January

Photo by George Woodward

Bicester Heritage’s atmospheric Hangar 113 hosted a large Porsche Club presence at January’s season opening Scramble meeting. More than 350 Porsches formed part of the event at a venue which is continuing to develop in significance and profile. The Club offers sincere thanks to the Cotswold Region, which did so much to ensure the day was a success. The next Scramble meeting takes place on Sunday, 22 April and full details will be published in Porsche Post.

Guangzhou, 29 December

Photo by Porsche AG

Porsche has opened its 100th sales site in China. The new Porsche Studio in the huge metropolis of Guangzhou is an innovative sales concept similar to the Porsche on Sylt site in Germany. Porsche plans to use the new site to interact with new target groups in their everyday lives in a more direct format. A Porsche Experience Centre will also open in Shanghai in spring 2018.

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WEIGHT It has been billed as a lightweight Carrera for driving purists, but is the reality as good as the hype? âž?

Words: Sean Libbey Photos: William Turner

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the cost to buy one won’t rise considerably over MSRP. There’s much about the Carrera T’s specification that stirs excitement. Porsche says that some 20kg in weight have been saved in this rear-drive sports car, thanks to a combination of lightweight glass used in the rear (an idea taken from production of the GT2 RS), removal of some sound absorption from within the cabin, door handles swapped out in favour of pull straps from a GT3 RS, plus deletion of rear seats and PCM – though putting the latter back in is a no-cost option.

The car’s standard specification manual shifter is shorter and stubbier, in line with the shifter found in the 911 R, and is paired up with a mechanical limited slip differential.

Most interestingly though, the Carrera T gets a shorter final drive, taken from the Carrera S, which is said to offer better responsiveness despite a lower top speed.

A Sport PASM chassis, not otherwise available for the entry-level Carrera, is utilised here, with sports exhaust and Sport Chrono also supplied as standard (the latter comes without the dash-mounted clock for monitoring lap times, though). The driver, meanwhile, sits in four-way electrically adjustable Sports seats with cloth Sport-Tex centres – though full bucket seats are optional – and holds a smaller diameter GT sports steering wheel.

Incidentally, PDK and rear axle steering are optional extras too, though surely these are at odds with a car built solely with driver involvement in mind, and all for just over seven grand more than Porsche’s entry-level 911 in the Carrera.

Alas, the result is claimed by Porsche to be a 911 with increased driving dynamics, “designed to deliver lightweight construction and at the same time optimise driving enjoyment.” This driver enjoyment is to be found on mountain passes rather than motorsports venues, by the way, Porsche

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eneva, 5 March 2013: Porsche has just unveiled its new GT3 for the 991-generation platform at the 83rd running of the Geneva International Motor Show. The car is Weissach’s most technically advanced GT3 yet, boasting a seven-speed, semiautomatic twin-clutch gearbox, rear axle steering, electrically assisted steering and direct fuel injection. And yet the first question put to Andreas Preuninger by a pack of baying journalists in the immediate aftermath is a delightfully simple one: “Why no manual gearbox?”

The maverick head of Porsche’s GT department proffers a response based around lap times and the clinical aspect of track driving, citing PDK as an ally and the manual gearbox as the great adversary to Weissach’s quest for performance par excellence. The days of the manual, it seemed, were numbered.

Preuninger, of course, was right: technology is needed to intervene for cars to go faster but the caveat was driver involvement, which some viewed as too substantial to overlook.

Journalists weren’t convinced – neither, it seems, was the paying public, as despite the success of the GT3 by barometer of sales alone, customers still yearned for a driverfocused performance Porsche. We soon got it, and then some.

Five years later, we’ve been lavished with the Cayman GT4, 911 R and second-generation 991 GT3 as hardcore Porsches with a manual gearbox, and Porsche’s revelation of its new 911 Carrera T marks the latest development in a spirited crusade to appeal to customers who demand a pure driving experience.

How’s that for a U-turn?

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reviving its ‘T’ moniker – for ‘Touring’ – for this specially redrafted Carrera. But is the reality as good as the hype? A special invitation from Porsche AG to test the Carrera T on some of the south of France’s best driving roads provides us with the perfect opportunity to find out.

Resplendent in striking Miami Blue, there are several visual cues that differentiate the Carrera T from other models within the 991-generation stable. Most notable are the Agate Grey colouring in the form of door decals and Sport Design mirrors, plus the 20-inch Carrera S wheels. There has been a delicate restyling of the car’s front lip, too, the T also hunkering down to its wheels more, thanks to the Sport chassis’ 10mm reduction in ride height. However, we’re here to drive, not gawp, so we pop the trunk, load up our stuff and head for serpentine roads in the mountains above Monte Carlo.

Climbing in altitude, it doesn’t take long for the T’s turbocharged 9A2 engine to remind us of its brilliance. Though it remains untouched from that found in its entry-level Carrera cousin, delivering a maximum power output of 370hp, this is a firecracker of a flat six, providing plenty of low-down torque and a rewarding top-end pull. In many ways the engine is a metaphor for the Carrera at ➝

“Already, this is shaping up to be good fun – it feels like the Carrera T was made for these roads” TECH SPEC Porsche has created its new 911 Carrera T with driving purity in mind, so how does this thoroughbred measure up?

Model: 911 Carrera T Year: 2018 Engine capacity: 2981cc Compression ratio: 10.0:1 Max power: 370hp @ 6500rpm Max torque: 450Nm @ 1700-5000rpm Transmission: 7-speed manual (PDK optional) Wheels and tyres front: 8.5x20-inch; 245/35/ ZR 20 Wheels and tyres rear: 11.5x20-inch; 305/ 30/ZR 20 Length: 4527mm Width: 1808mm Weight: 1425kg 0-62mph: 4.5 sec Top speed: 182mph

In the detail: the Carrera T’s Agate Grey colouring of side script, mirrors and wheels sets it apart. The sport exhaust forms part of an options package that includes interior contrast colours of Racing Yellow, Guards Red and GT Silver

“The Carrera T can make for an addictive drive, particularly on mountain roads�

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large, which is already a fantastic Porsche and all the 911 you’ll arguably ever need. The T’s tact for improving on this recipe was always going to be more quiet evolution than full-on revolution, illustrated by its performance figures, shaving just a tenth of a second from the entry-level Carrera’s 0-62mph time – and we already know this saving doesn’t come courtesy of any additional power from the T’s flat six.

So how else does it deviate from the Carrera?

Inside, noise from the engine bay penetrates more resolutely into the cabin of the T, with removal of some sound deadening, meaning the car’s deep, flat six growl is slightly more pronounced. It’s not overbearing by any stretch of the imagination, the car sticking to its credentials as an able grand tourer in this respect, but the T does deliver a further dose of aural delight that will appeal to the senses of those with petrol running through their veins.

So too will the ride, for while this PASM Sport chassis is perfectly amicable for day-today use, it’s still able to deliver a greater degree of poise – particularly at the nose – during sporty driving that is perhaps lacking from

the Sport chassis-less Carrera. Don’t think the T is as stiff as a GT car either, because it’s not: pleasingly, the car is still able to move around beneath you and demonstrates a degree of body roll in the corners, exactly what you’ll want when searching for that much sought-after sensation of ‘feel’ from a car. On the Col de Turini at least, the T rides excellently over its less than perfect surfaces and, slipping PSM off, slides willingly and predictably. Already, this is shaping up to be good fun – it feels like the Carrera T was made for these roads.

However, as the switchbacks along the Col become more prevalent, so too does the Achilles heel of Porsche’s seven-speed gearbox, something that hasn’t been rectified on the T. The issue really lies with how long the 911’s gearing is, exacerbated by that low-down torque offered by the Carrera’s turbocharged engine. This means that if you really wanted to, the entirety of the Col de Turini, one of the world’s very best driving roads, can be executed using just second and third ratios. This of course is at odds with what an engaging driver’s car should stand for. But there’s more to it than 27 porscheclubgb.com

that. Gunning for the first hairpin, its narrow, steep switchback demanding a slow entry, I experiment by dropping down into first gear, a ratio that otherwise is used primarily for pulling the car away from a standing start. This is fine through the turn but on corner exit the car is quickly running out of puff, requiring a change-up that comes embarrassingly too soon.

Momentum is lost. No matter, for the nature of these roads dictates there’s another switchback coming right up, and a chance for the T to fair better from second gear. Again though, the car is found wanting, the tightness of the corner meaning engine rpms are so low that on corner exit, the car is choking as it scrambles for power. This is a shame: a usable first and shorter third gear, the likes of which have been championed on notable aftermarket builds such as Sharkwerks’ Cayman GT4, would have given the Carrera T a real dynamic edge that is clearly lacking from its 991 Carrera counterparts.

There are positives to be had, though. The throw of the lever is improved, being a little more direct through each gate now, though this is down to the feel given from that stubbier ➝

shifter, rather than any mechanical work such as a short shift. The car’s shorter final drive ratio too is notable, if not transformational, giving the Carrera T a very slightly quicker turn of pace (a case of splitting hairs at this point, but trust us, it’s there).

Caution should also be taken on the subject of the car’s weight. Though Porsche says the T shaves 20kg from a similarly specced Carrera, our Miami Blue example here saves just five.

We’d therefore recommend speccing in the no-cost PCM unit as a useful tool on grand touring expeditions, as the T’s punitive weight saving elsewhere means there’s more to be gained from having it than not.

So what’s the verdict on Porsche’s Carrera T? Well, there’s no question it’s a more polished car from a driver’s perspective than a Carrera, and arguably better value for money than an S. Its chassis is excellent and very communicative, its 370hp engine ensures the car is plenty fast enough, and even its punitive transmission adjustments are welcomed.

The Carrera T can make for an addictive drive, particularly on twisty, mountainous roads. In fact, the very thought of turning back and handing these keys over to a Porsche dignitary at the end of our Alpine run will prove difficult. This is an incredibly fun car

Above: the Carrera T is put through its paces on the spectacular switchbacks of one of France’s finest driving roads. Below: the ‘T’ revives the Touring name that was first used on the 911 T of the 1960s and 1970s

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and absolutely worth its £7,000 sticker price over a Carrera. The reality, then, is Porsche’s first bite at a 911 Carrera T is far from fruitless, though it could – and perhaps should – have been even better. Sceptics will rightly point to the car’s weight as an obvious point of contention, particularly when you consider this is a car built by a company whose genuine lightweight specials have cultivated a rich and loyal following for decades now. The car is ultimately hindered by that gearbox too. A shame, considering the current six-speed unit fitted to Porsche’s GT cars is one of the best the company has ever utilised.

However, the Carrera T will nevertheless go down as an important model in the 911’s history, more for what it represents than for what it actually is. This is because the Carrera T further shows that Porsche, despite its exponential growth as a company over the last decade, remains a concern that listens to its customers. Certainly, as we dance our way through the red H-pattern imprinted atop this T’s shifter, blipping up and down through the 911’s gears while listening to that cackle of the sports exhaust bouncing off the mountainside on overrun, 5 March 2013 and the supposed death knell of the manual seems like a very long time ago indeed. PP

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AT YOUR SERVICE We took a chauffeur-driven tour of London’s Mayfair to test-drive the exclusive new Porsche On Demand service Words: Julian Milnes Photos: Tom Lee

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aking your Porsche into the capital can be a challenge at the best of times, but Porsche On Demand is set to change that.

Launched in November last year, the service is designed to let someone else deal with the traffic while you relax on your way from A to B. Available exclusively to current Porsche customers, the Londonbased service utilises a fleet of 100 Porsches made up of Panamera 4 E-Hybrids, Cayenne S E-Hybrids and Macans via the downloadable Gett app. This is activated by a coupon code, followed by a quick registration.

Similar to Uber in concept, it allows you to order a car within the designated central London zone for a flat-rate fare of £20 (rides ending outside this zone will be charged according to time and distance).

And so to the mean streets of Mayfair. Starting off at the Porsche Centre in Berkeley Square, the app was simple and intuitive ➝

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to use when ordering a vehicle, offering clear information on time and distance. This was complemented by a map displaying your location and the current position of the driver.

I waited a paltry three minutes before the Cayenne arrived on schedule and a cheerful chap hopped out of the car to greet us and offered to take my bag. As we headed towards the Royal Automobile Club on Pall Mall, vacuum sealed from the bustle of central London, it did feel pleasant to have a premium vehicle cut through the traffic, navigated by a fully trained and vetted driver.

From there we headed towards Jermyn Street for an imaginary fitting at royal shirtmakers Turnbull & Asser, then on to The Connaught for cocktails, naturally. Once again, arrival time

for both journeys was brisk. Our final destination was The Shard at London Bridge, and this time we were in a Panamera, which suited the moment as we glided over Parliament Bridge in serene style surrounded by Toyota Priuses.

I was impressed with the efficiency and convenience of the Porsche On Demand service.

Sadly, it has yet to cast its operational net over south London, which meant my ride back to Tooting was the Tube. PP The Porsche on Demand service will run for six months. You can download the Gett app from the App Store and Google Play Store.

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FUTURE In its short life California’s Singer Vehicle Design has made quite a reputation for itself, thanks to the desirable machines it restores to celebrate the Porsche 911. Yet just when you might have grown familiar with its work, it has unveiled a new, more startling creation – the DLS ➝ Words: Simon Charlesworth Photos: Singer Vehicle Design

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ear not. It is a perfectly natural reaction. As soon as the image of this green machine is transmitted through the optical nerves and into the deep greyness of the brain, it doesn’t play fair. It cheats.

Like an immoral marathon runner, it takes a crafty shortcut; it ducks past the department tasked with rational thought, behaviour and eloquence...

Instead it shoots with arrow-like single-mindedness, past the cerebral cortex to a place more ancient, animalistic and emotional.

The result, a mere split second after catching a glimpse of the Singer DLS – which refers to a clientcommissioned ‘Dynamics and Lightweighting Study’ undertaken with Williams Advanced Engineering and other technical partners – is that you react with a primal and very telling ‘phwoaarr!’

This is perfectly normal.

Upgrading a classic is a risky business. It isn’t merely a matter of negotiating the ethics of modernising something from yesteryear – circumventing the minefield that is originality and purist ideology – it is a matter of, having made the decision, getting it right. If you don’t, then you’ll be saddled with a nightmare – a troubling and unloved Max Power magazine flashback that will appear forever maligned.

It doesn’t need something as dramatic as a bodywork change – such as the fitment of a bodykit – all it takes is a wheel size that is either slightly too large in diameter or width. Poorly chosen wheels visually reduce the size of the bodywork, overhangs and can appear to increase ride height – leaving you with a problem that can be as futile as shortening table legs one at a time. Soon enough you and your bank account will wish you’d never started.

Proportions thus thrown out of balance, you will be left beholding something akin to a Tonka toy or a Jim Bamber cartoon. Indeed, you only need peruse eBay for unfinished projects to bear witness to the tortured fate of some modified classics which have suffered at the hands of the fearlessly optimistic.

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LA-based tuning and restoration company that has been modifying 911s since 2009. In doing so, it has created something of a hubbub both in and outside of Porsche circles on both sides of the Atlantic. First though, we must break for a legal interlude.

Founded by British ex-pat Rob Dickinson, Singer is at pains to point out that it “performs restoration, tuning, modification and customisation services on motor vehicles. Through its services, Singer exhibits its dedication to the passionate study, preservation and optimisation of the world’s most respected high-performance vehicles through a blend of modern techniques motivated by unique and fresh perspectives... Singer does not design, manufacture, remanufacture, create or sell automobiles. Rather, Singer restores, tunes, modifies and customises existing Porsche automobiles for its customers.”

Or to put it another way, it restores cars which it describes as ‘Porsche 911s reimagined by Singer’ and when the company says ‘existing Porsche automobiles’ it specifically means Typ-964 911s.

In a similar resto-mod vein as Frontline Developments transforms MGBs into Abingdon Editions or Alfaholics converts Alfa 105-series into GTA-Rs, these 911s become idealised Porsches akin to a four-wheeled Übermensch: cars that look like pure pre-Nader products of the early 1970s, with perfect proportions and classic detailing, but benefiting from a rejuvenating rebuild, improved torsional rigidity, better handling parameters, performance, 2017 reliability and an approach to quality which flirts with perfectionism.

Such is the success of the company’s deft blend of performance and stylistic reimagineering of the 964, that press coverage has been immensely positive and Singer’s workshop diary is filled with eager customers waiting to have their cars transformed. The company takes a measured and personal approach to the premium transformative service it offers – of the sort where nothing is too much trouble when it comes to a client’s individual wishes and desires.

On a personal note, I remember my first glimpse of a 911 transformed by Singer. It was a vision in orange, bearing pumped bodywork that appeared as if a 2.8RSR had been putting in the ➝ 37 porscheclubgb.com

hours at the gym. It rode on enlarged wheels that paid tribute to the fabled Fuchs and came with a price tag that could be described as robust.

Inside, this effortlessly Californian approach to automotive cool continued with trim and detailing that, if they weren’t clearly original, had been painstakingly designed to complement Porsche’s original fixtures and fittings. These cars featured special xenon headlamps from Hella, Brembo brakes, Recaro seats, Öhlins dampers and Aria carbon-fibre panels. Here Singer Vehicle Design made a compelling and almost irresistible half-caged, seam-wielded, nickel-plated, Ed Pink Racing Engines-built flat-six powered, six-speeder argument for the modification of classic cars.

In Evo magazine Richard Meaden concluded his Singer encounter by saying: “I knew their take on the 911 was dangerously desirable. Whether it could possibly deliver on its abundant visual promise or live up to its 2.7RS-sized price tag were the elephants in the room. Not any longer. So convincing is the concept and so complete and cohesive the execution that this car oozes the right stuff with the same assurance as any Pagani Zonda or McLaren F1. What Singer does

results in a car that transcends what you thought you knew about 911s to deliver a quite unique experience... I’m unlikely ever to have the funds to commission one of Dickinson’s masterpieces, but if I could have one – to my precise specification – I’d never want another car.”

Given such praise, where is Singer heading next? This is where the DLS comes in, a machine which promises to turn the reimagineering wick up even higher – and all thanks to a request from one of Singer’s clients, Scott Blattner: “My journey with Singer began with the restoration of two coupes. In 2016, these were joined by my Targa, which recently ran at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. I became intrigued by the possibility of further evolution.

“The guys at Singer have always been receptive to the question ‘What if?’ So, the question became – what if Singer worked on restoring and modifying my beloved 27-year-old Porsche 964 with the assistance of an

“This is where the DLS comes in.

It promises to turn the reimagineering wick up even higher” engineering concern born from the world of F1? How would such a car look and how would it perform?”

To enable Singer to fulfil Blattner’s desired technical requirements, the company called upon the technical services of Michelin, Brembo, BBS Motorsport, Hewland, EXE-TC and, most notably, Williams Advanced Engineering which will oversee the engineering of certain DLS modifications and components. Indeed, if that were not enough, further engine and aerodynamic technical input has come from notable Porsche alumni Norbert Singer and Hans Mezger.

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reveal about the DLS, but Singer is willing to talk about the project’s power unit which has evolved from the 964’s 3600cc M64 flat-six. Originally designed by Mezger, there is something deeply fitting that this unit’s designer should oversee its Williams transformation into a howling 500bhp four-litre. Highlights of its specification include extensive use of lightweight materials such as titanium con-rods and carbon fibre trumpets for the aluminium throttle bodies; DOHC per cylinder bank; four-valve cylinder heads (as originally intended for the M64); a thermally optimised exhaust system; upper and lower

injectors for better performance, ram-air induction system; dual oil circuits; and an ability to rev beyond the dark side of 9000rpm.

Williams has also worked with Norbert Singer on optimising underbody and surface aerodynamic performance via Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Little wonder that Paul McNamara, Technical Director, Williams Advanced Engineering has said that the DLS project has provided a fantastic opportunity to showcase the core capabilities of Williams Advanced Engineering.

Suspension has also been lightened, made more adjustable, its geometry improved and EXE-TC is supplying tailored dampers. Michelin has engineered bespoke Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres.

BBS is providing lightweight 18-inch forged magnesium wheels.

Hewland is supplying a six-speed magnesium-cased gearbox.

Braking is courtesy of lightweight Brembo monobloc calipers

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pinching carbon composite discs.

It is impossible to deny that this is an arresting machine. The first of 75 964s to be transformed by Singer, it is resplendent in an eye-catching coat of Absinthe exterior paint with Blood Orange accents – echoing the leather interior trim. However, this tempting taster does leave us with a legion of who, what, when, why and how type questions. Although we can answer the where one.

Adding to the existing international flavour of a Singer restomodified 911, the offspring of the DLS will take shape in Britain.

Building on the established partnership with Williams, these machines will be restored and converted at the company’s base in Grove, Oxfordshire – a dedicated facility christened ‘Singer at Grove’.

In time we hope to be able to answer these questions first hand.

Along with whether or not the DLS represents another step up Mount Olympus for a young specialist company that sprang indirectly out of the loins of Sun Valley’s Porsche scene.

There’s one thing, however, that is safe to say: here is a modified Typ-964 which surely must break one of the classic market’s golden rules – that nothing beats the sanctity of originality. PP

WHIZZ Car fanatic Maurice Henry has a particular affinity with Porsche - he’s also a Formula Cadet kart racing driver who loves to race, says father Cecil Words and photos: Cecil Henry

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oung Maurice Henry has a simple ambition: he wants to be a racing driver. And he also has good taste, particularly when it comes to Porsches. In fact, the 911 GT3 RS is his favourite hardcore sports car, partly due to its large rear wing, six-point racing-style harness and roll cage. In other words, it’s ready to race.

His first taste of Porsche Club life came when he was five at the Region 5 annual event at Arley Hall in 2010. Our first Porsche, a 987

Cayman S, won a prize and he’s been hooked ever since. By the time he was six, I couldn’t beat him racing on PlayStation or Scalextric – he was gauging the grip levels and getting back on the throttle earlier. So when he was eight, I took him to the local indoor kart circuit to sample driving over simulation.

Maurice drove the novice circuit, pushing a bit more each lap as he got the feel for it. In that one session, his lap times became quick enough to promote him to the intermediate circuit. I wanted to get involved from the trackside, so I printed the circuit layout and 40 porscheclubgb.com

drew my best estimate of a racing line with braking points and apexes. I have no motor sport background but it didn’t matter, we were just having fun pushing the boundaries, trading feedback, going over the limits and crashing.

Graduating to the advanced circuit meant racing. Since he began driving, Maurice had been asking many questions about aspects of cars including size, weight, shape, engine location, power and price. The first I heard of a Pagani Zonda or Koenigsegg CCX was via Maurice but good taste prevailed – he settled on the Carrera GT as his favourite supercar.

KID The day before the Silverstone Classic 2013, Porsche Club’s 911 50th anniversary event, I took Maurice to an outdoor circuit in Milton Keynes. He was very small for his age but the larger flowing circuit negated the need for upper body strength compared with negotiating a tight indoor circuit. The pedals were hard to reach, even on maximum extension, and the seat was bolstered behind him, but he was one of the quickest until rain stopped play. When you’re so short and light, you have little body weight far back enough to press on the rear tyres (similar to 911 rear mass bias principles).

Due to the wet conditions, every touch of the throttle threatened to spin the kart off, so smoothness was required. Despite this, young Maurice managed to come second behind an older, taller driver and it was at this point I decided he should continue on the track, though a kart complementing his diminutive size would be required.

The following day at Silverstone we had a space booked to display our Boxster Spyder, which had replaced the Cayman. Maurice enjoyed being around these cars, and in particular being seated in a 997 GT3 RS. As 41 porscheclubgb.com

we watched the 911 50th anniversary parade on the track, he once again raised my eyebrows as he began educating me on the various models that cruised past.

When driving in the Spyder, Maurice, locked in his Isofix child seat, could sense the difference in the chassis set-up compared with our previous Cayman and how I was driving with more verve, while Porsche Club Motorsport racer Andy Fagan impressed Maurice with his driving skills in his Cayman R road car and Boxster S race car. Andy has seen Maurice race and equally liked what he saw. ➝

Practising in the new kart through the winter, eight-year-old Maurice entered the Formula Cadet class, in which drivers up to 13 years race at up to 60mph. While practising at the South Yorkshire Kart Club at the Wombwell circuit, a former kart racing driver for a factory team, who had previously spotted Maurice’s novice talent, took him on a track walk to perfect his racing lines. Then Maurice won!

We continued going back each month and taking wins and podiums, though as other drivers upgraded their chassis to the latest homologations it became harder and harder, as we couldn’t upgrade ours. Maurice knew he was doing his best with what he had and we hung on to win the 2014 South Yorkshire Kart Club Honda Cadet Championship.

There were tougher challenges in 2015. We raced further afield, where there were 30 to 40 karts on the grid, rather than 10 to 12, and the drivers included the most experienced in the country, who were also competing in the British championship with huge budgets.

It was tough and initially Maurice, as an unknown newcomer, was knocked about a lot.

Many drivers were racing every weekend and

practising mid-week, and it showed, whereas Maurice was racing twice a month with rarely any practice in between. Despite this, he progressed well, considering his limited time in the kart, finishing regularly in the top 10.

The following year started well, though those tenths of a second needed to stay at the front of large grids required more attention to detail, including tyre pressures, feedback on chassis settings and analysing engine data logs for gearing optimisation. With nine podiums, including two wins, Maurice secured the 2016 Shenington Kart Racing Club Championship, and the club’s Most Promising Cadet award.

That year we returned to Porsche Club’s National Event at the Silverstone Classic, displaying our current 2006 911 Turbo. The Club had encouraged a huge turnout of members’ cars, so there was much to admire.

Maurice had many questions about the controls and technology of the new cars on the Porsche Cars GB display, wanting to understand every innovation. He also evaluated the Porsche Works team race cars as a possible career path and we grabbed the opportunity to race. The 10-car race simulator in the JET Fuels marquee

perplexed many adults but he won his two races driving 1960s F1 cars with the narrow tyres of that era authentically simulated.

In 2017, we tackled the Northern Karting Federation national championship. Maurice had to learn a new circuit for each race and we travelled as far north as Cumbria and Scotland, practising and racing, which left little time for our usual Porsche Club involvement. It was a tough contest, as he was up against drivers with previous experience in the championship, who had the knowledge of driving the circuits and their teams of the set-up data. Maurice achieved a podium place in most rounds and it was this ability to be consistently quick at every circuit, in all conditions, that earned him the vice champion position in his rookie season.

This massively exceeded our expectations, but Maurice’s natural ability and tenacity overcame our lack of experience. In 2018, Maurice’s final cadet year, we hope for an onslaught on the British Cadet Championship so will raise funds to equip ourselves for that.

To follow Maurice’s adventure, please visit mauricehenry.com PP

Clockwise, from above: Maurice leads the field in No 49; the Formula Cadet star is a natural behind any steering wheel; at the track with proud father Cecil

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TAKE COVER Insurance policies aren’t one size fits all, especially when it comes to classic and performance cars. Taking the specialist route could save you a lot of hassle

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AGREED VALUATION Porsche Club is able to provide members with a free valuations service for their Porsche, which can then be passed to Lockton for the purpose of agreed valuation. This process can now be completed online through the Porsche Club website, and members wishing to obtain a valuation for their vehicles should log in to their membership account and follow the instructions. Each submission will be manually reviewed by a member of the Clubhouse team and we aim to produce a completed valuation letter within 72 hours. If you have any questions relating to the process, please email admin@porscheclubgb.com

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he internet has transformed the way in which we buy many things, including car insurance.

You input your details and criteria, choose the cheapest option, receive your free cuddly toy – job done. It’s quick, easy, and as long as your cover ticks the basic boxes you’re unlikely to give it much more thought.

This is fine for modern mainstream models but is not necessarily best for performance or classic cars. A standard policy’s limitations become apparent when you need to call on it and in a worst case scenario, a small saving on the annual premium turns into a false economy.

When you’ve invested time and money in your car, it makes sense to properly insure it for its role. Elements ranging from mileage and agreed value to European driving and trackdays should all be considerations and you may be better off going to a specialist, rather than using a generic comparison site. In other words, you need a company that knows a 993 from a 996.

“We deal with the very oldest Porsches to the latest models and everything in between,” says David Hamer of Lockton Performance, which has developed an insurance scheme in conjunction with PCGB for Club members. “And that includes single cars up to big collections.

“Everyone wants to buy based on price.

That’s their only criteria. Typically, these policies give minimum protection and aren’t suited to classics or highperformance cars. They’ll just pay market value, rather than agreed value, when the time comes. They’ll also nominate the repairer when it comes to damage and there won’t be breakdown cover for the UK or EU.” The way the Porsche market has gone in recent years means the issue of agreed valuations is a vital consideration for classic or high-performance car owners. An agreed value policy means the car’s individual condition and history is taken into account when it’s valued.

After all, just because most 928s are worth a certain amount, it doesn’t mean yours is.

Industry analysts have identified underinsuring, by failing to keep up with the changing market, as a genuine problem.

David advises: “We recommend that people look at values every two years.”

Specialist insurers recognise that people tend to use classic or performance cars differently from their daily drive. Over the past couple of decades, there’s been a move away from events where you park your pride and joy in a field among hundreds of other static machines to using them and, in some cases, using them hard.

David says: “Anything on the road is fine as long as it doesn’t involve racing or a speed trial.

Problems start when you go on a track or a disused airfield. Those are specifically excluded

under most policies.” With Lockton’s PCGB policy, however, owners are covered for official Club trackdays on a recognised circuit, with a 10 per cent excess for accidental damage and third party cover up to £2 million. David says: “Our underwriters are very confident about PCGB trackdays. With a general public trackday, you could be next to some youngster in a Fiesta who has a different mindset. We don’t charge extra for PCGB trackday cover as long as you tell us first. We say to get an ARDS instructor for your first trackday and then you’re signed off if you’re safe.”

Note that it does not give carte blanche in terms of track or competition use. David explains: “It excludes the Nürburgring and events such as the Gumball 3000 Rally. Those are specifically excluded from policies because you can do so much damage.” If the folk there need to recover your car (from €600), replace any Armco barriers (charged per tier and per metre), or close the circuit (from €1350 per hour), you’ll have a very expensive day.

Lockton’s PCGB policy is provided by Chubb Insurance, which really understands enthusiasts’ requirements, from agreed value to allowing you to specify where a car is repaired (a key issue with specialist cars) and driving in Europe. Such detail is crucial for Lockton, as is the streamlined nature of the claims service, designed to minimise stress after an incident. “That’s a big thing for us,” says David. I recall a Ferrari 458 that had a major accident and went back to Maranello for extensive repairs. The client had to make only two calls – one to tell us the accident had happened then, six months later, he returned the call we’d made asking him where he’d like the repaired car to be delivered.”

Salvage is another area where specialist insurance can pay dividends. David says owners often want to keep a car, even if it’s technically been written off. By law, in categories A and B the bodyshell has to be crushed but B allows for reusable parts to be removed first.

The other categories, previously known as C and D and recently renamed S and N, cover cars that could be repaired but where the cost makes this uneconomical. S indicates structural damage, N denotes non-structural damage and can particularly apply to modern cars due to their extensive use of electronics. Having an insurer that can talk you through all this, as well as issues such as insuring your car during restoration or storage, is invaluable.

David acknowledges: “Nobody wakes up with a burning desire to buy insurance!” But specialists such as Lockton make it much easier to get the right cover and it’ll pay dividends should you ever need it. PP

“Our underwriters are very confident about PCGB trackdays”

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For more details about the Lockton scheme call 020 7933 2200.

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VINTAGE VIEW Evocative images from the Ted Walker Archive

I hope that everyone appreciates this picture, as on 12 April 1970 Ted Walker got very wet taking it! The location is Brands Hatch, the race is the notoriously sodden BOAC 1000km and we see the grid just before the start writes Martin Broadribb.

The works Ferrari 512s occupy the prime starting positions but then comes the first of four 917s, the Porsche Salzburg car of Elford/Hulme. On row two are Siffert/Redman (John Wyer Automotive Engineering), row three Rodriguez/Kinnunen (John Wyer) and on row four Attwood/Herrmann (Porsche Salzburg). Other Porsches visible in the 36-car line-up are the yellow AAW Racing Team 908/2 (van Lennep/Laine), the white Ecurie Evergreen 908/2 (de Cadanet/Omar del Rio) and the yellow/white/red Martini International 908/2 (Larrousse/Koch). Further back, we see two of three 910s (L’Amie/Reid, Beuttler/Gold and Vestey/Pike) and out of sight are another 917 (Piper/Hobbs) and

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a 907 (Blatzheim/Kraus). The weather worsened from this point and Rodriguez was penalised almost immediately for overtaking under a yellow flag, which he understandably claimed not to have seen in heavy spray. Nevertheless, after a masterful drive he and Kinnunen finished five laps ahead of anyone else. The white (second) and blue (third) Salzburg cars made it a 917 1-2-3 out of 17 finishers with the AAW 908 fourth, the Martini 908 sixth and, very creditably, British privateer 910s ninth and 11th.

The race is sometimes referred to as ‘the day they forgot to tell Pedro it was raining’ but Rodriguez was always as good in the wet as in the dry, not something that applies to every racing driver.

However, all the big prototypes must have been difficult to handle in those torrential conditions, so hats off to those who finished that Sunday.

For more historic pictures, visit Porsche Pictures Past in the Club Forum’s General section. PP

2018 AGM NOTICE

GMÜND HERITAGE LIMITED ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the 36th Annual General Meeting of Gmünd Heritage Limited trading as Porsche Club Great Britain will be held at Cornbury House, Cotswold Business Village, London Road, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 0JQ at 12.30pm on Sunday, 22 April 2018.

By Order of the Board.

Sue Taberner Company Secretary Any member wishing to raise a matter at this meeting should write to Sue Taberner, Company Secretary, at Cornbury House by Wednesday, 28 March 2018.

Any member may ask questions at the AGM. However, where a member asks multiple questions, a limited number may be answered at the AGM, and the remainder of the questions

answered in writing afterwards. This prevents the AGM being dominated by one or two members. The Chairman has overall discretion to accept or defer questions.

APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS THE AGM on 22 April 2018 will include the appointment of three Directors to the Board. At the conclusion of the AGM, the following Directors will be retiring from the Board having served the maximum of two terms in accordance with the Club’s Articles of Association: Rob Kellock Richard Watling Chris James

Legal Director Commercial Director IT Director

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PORSCHE CLUB GB MOTORSPORT LIMITED ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the 15th Annual General Meeting of Porsche Club GB Motorsport Limited will be held at Cornbury House, Cotswold Business Village, London Road, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 0JQ on Sunday, 22 April 2018, commencing immediately after the conclusion of the main Club AGM. Any Porsche Club GB member wishing to raise a relevant question at this meeting should write to Sue Taberner, Company Secretary, at Cornbury House. The closing date for written questions is Wednesday, 28 March 2018.

By Order of the Board.

Sue Taberner Company Secretary

FACILITIES DIRECTOR Nominees should have had a wide-ranging career in estates/facilities management. The role takes responsibility for the project management of upgrades to the Clubhouse and will include working with contractors to include the Club’s appointed architects and making informed recommendations to fellow Directors. The Nominee should also be able to demonstrate an ability to work with the Clubhouse team and manage their working environments during periods of disruption. A passion for and understanding of the Club, its future objectives and experience of working at Club Official level are highly desirable qualities for this role.

FINANCE DIRECTOR Nominees should hold a recognised UK accounting qualification. The role has overall control and responsibility for all financial aspects of Club strategy and is expected to act impartially in the Club’s interests at all times.

Strong financial management, communication and commercial skills are essential, as is an ability to function at both strategic and operational levels. Nominees will not only need to carefully manage the Club’s finances but also provide monthly commentary to the Board of Directors in clear terms and be able to prepare detailed annual budgets.

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES DIRECTOR Nominees should have significant experience in managing IT projects and functions. The ISS Director has authority and responsibility for all of the Club’s IT functions, including business systems, web services, security, internal and external networking, and IT infrastructure support services. They will be responsible for managing the Club’s operational systems and the relationship with the key external partners, and ensuring SLAs are managed in accordance with the business needs of the Club. A recognised IT qualification combined with significant relevant commercial IT experience is essential for this role.

FACILITIES DIRECTOR Peter Thomas was co-opted on to the Board as Facilities Director during 2017 and has indicated his willingness to stand for a two-year period from the AGM on 22 April 2018. Other eligible Club members are entitled to stand for the position.

FINANCE DIRECTOR Andrew Rowley was co-opted on to the Board as Finance Director during 2017 following Ian Yeoman relinquishing his position to take up the role of Chairman. Andrew has indicated his willingness to stand for a two-year period from the AGM on 22 April 2018. Other eligible Club members are entitled to stand for the position.

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES DIRECTOR Mark Hamilton was co-opted on to the Board as Information Systems and Services Director during 2017 and has indicated his willingness to stand

for a two-year period from the AGM on 22 April 2018. Other eligible Club members are entitled to stand for the position.

STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE The Club’s Board accordingly considers Peter, Andrew and Mark to be highly suitable candidates for the needs of the Club and proposes them for your consideration at the forthcoming AGM. All three candidates possess the expertise required for the roles and have continued to demonstrate their willingness to commit the time since their co-option on to the Board.

The foregoing does not preclude nominations from members in accordance with the Club’s constitution.

The Striving For Excellence programme will continue for future Board appointments; any member can apply to be part of this process, which guides prospective directors on the implications of their joining the Board and our expectations of the skills, behaviour and performance required to succeed.

It is important that the Board is represented by a broad base of members who, as a whole, cover the range of skills and experience required.

In accordance with Article 28(a) the Board of Directors shall consist of not less than seven members.

PROCEDURE FOR NOMINATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH Article 7(ii), the following classes of member are not entitled to be nominated as a Director or act as a Proposer: Junior Associate A joint member is eligible to be a Director provided that he/she owns or co-owns (with not more than one other person) a Porsche car, and provided that the joint member shall not be appointed or hold office as a Director while the principal member (full member) is a Director.

An honorary member is eligible to be a Director provided that he/she owns or co-owns (with not more than one other person) a Porsche car.

Under Article 28(a), in order to be eligible to be a Director, a member must have been either: (i) a Regional Organiser or Register Secretary for not less than two years immediately prior to application for election, or (ii) a member of the Club for not less than three years immediately prior to application for election. Further, to be eligible to be a Director, the member must own or co-own (with not more than one other person) a Porsche car at the time of application for election as well as at the time of election, and be resident in the UK, Isle of Man or Channel Islands at the time of application for election and at the time of election.

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NOMINEES ELIGIBLE MEMBERS MUST be nominated by a fellow member for election to the Board of Directors and must have indicated in writing their willingness to serve on the Board of Directors and must have prepared a manifesto for election (not more than 250 words). The manifesto should be an indication of facts setting out a Nominee’s reasons for qualification for a Director’s position and not a set of proposals for the future.

The Membership Number of both Nominee and Proposer must be given on the Nomination Form, and each Nominee must sign his/her Nomination Form.

Proof of ownership or co-ownership of a Porsche car is also required to be provided and shall comprise (i) a UK Registration Certificate showing that the individual is the registered keeper of the car (if the applicant is the registered keeper) or (ii) a declaration (in a form prescribed by the Board of Directors) made by the applicant confirming that the applicant is the owner or co-owner (as the case may be) of a Porsche car at the time of application, and will be the owner or co-owner of the Porsche car at the time of election.

Nominations for all Directorships must be clearly marked ‘Nominations for Directorship’ and sent to Porsche Club GB, Cornbury House, Cotswold Business Village, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0JQ, to arrive no later than 12 noon on Friday, 23 February 2018. If only one nomination is received for a Director vacancy, such candidate shall stand for election at the AGM, and shall be elected on a majority show of hands. Where more than one eligible candidate nomination is received for a Director vacancy, the Director shall be elected by the eligible members of the Club by Official Postal Ballot, in which case ballot papers and the relevant manifestos shall be sent to all members eligible to vote. Every member who wishes to vote must sign and return the ballot paper to an independent Accountant nominated by the Board of Directors for verification and counting by the date specified on the ballot paper, which shall be no later than seven days before the AGM. The result counted and provided to the Board of Directors by such Accountant shall be final and binding. The results shall be declared at the AGM. In such instance where there is more than one eligible candidate nomination, the ballot paper will be mailed to members with the April 2018 edition of Porsche Post.

For the avoidance of doubt, junior members are not allowed to vote.

It is not permitted to use the Club’s media, including Porsche Post, Club Website and the Club Forum, for electioneering or canvassing in respect of elections for the Board. Such actions inevitably become personal, cause upset and can be detrimental to others’ perception of the Club.

Sue Taberner Company Secretary

The home of the famous race was R3’s destination as they headed to France for a trip to remember Words: Greg Harm

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ur common interest is cars; what we do for a living doesn’t seem important.

However, chatting over a beer after an R3 meeting, Mark Duffy piped up: “I used to be an estate agent in a village near Le Mans.” This quickly sparked a discussion and before we knew it, our 2017 WOTY was being planned.

Mark and Wendy Duffy are core members – always happy to help and keen to organise on behalf of R3. After a lot of their hard work and planning, it was time for our epic trip and to enjoy Mark and Wendy’s French experience.

Eager to start, our road trip began in true French style courtesy of Porsche Centre Teesside, with coffee, croissants and pains au chocolat. Spirits were high at our Folkestone hotel, and although tired from the drive we enjoyed private dining before turning in.

We boarded Le Shuttle early on Tuesday.

Unfortunately, one of our cars was in a carriage that had activated a fuel spill sensor and we were delayed. With staff happy it was simply a faulty sensor, the train eventually moved, much to all our relief.

Once in France we headed south to the Hotel de France in La Chartre-sur-le-Loir, our home for the next few nights. The hotel is in the main square and its Art Deco façade is covered in ivy – you feel like you’ve travelled back to a more relaxed time. The rooms are chic and luxurious and it boasts a sun-drenched terrace and gardens overlooking the Loire River – very welcome after a long drive.

From his office nearby, Mark spent hours watching vehicles coming and going from the hotel. Famous for its long association with the 24 Hours of Le Mans and host to film stars and motorsport royalty, it can now proudly add R3 to its long list of famous visitors.

After check-in, we headed for the bar. The walls proudly display great snapshots of a bygone era and the incredible history that the hotel has with the famous race, along with pictures of special guests who have stayed over the years.

As we settled in for the night, laughing off a few wrong turns and road closures, we were served up a choice of five courses of amazing food in our private dining room, selected from our very own ‘R3 in the Loire’ menu – another great touch by Mark and Wendy. We then wearily headed off to bed in anticipation of the next day’s châteaux tour.

We were like excited French exchange students as we breakfasted early. Leaving the hotel, three cars, Deb and myself included, were unfortunately held up and didn’t notice which one of the four exits the convoy had left by. We took a different route, yet all managed to arrive at the scenic town of Langeais together and met at a cafe near the foot of its imposing château.

Our next stop was at Rigny-Ussé for lunch.

Château d’Ussé inspired the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A display tells the story as you climb to the top of the main tower, which also offered

Clockwise, from below: R3 Porsches look very much at home in the French sunshine; enjoying a traditional French activity; the Hotel de France in La Chartre-sur-le-Loir, R3’s base for the trip

“The walls proudly display great snapshots of the history the hotel has with the race”

fantastic views. Our final château town was Chinon. Taking in the ambiance, we were approached by a small group and asked if we were R3. Well, you could have hit me with a French stick! In this rural spot in France, we bump into some of R6. Joining us for a drink, they somehow recognised our quiet bunch of travellers. Once met never forgotten!

Thursday, spent at Le Mans, started with a private tour of the 24 Hours of Le Mans museum, followed by a three-course lunch at the circuit’s Porsche Experience Centre. We returned to the hotel via the Mulsanne Straight and more fantastic scenic driving roads.

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Honfleur. We spent a few hours sightseeing and enjoying lunch before setting off for the tunnel and another stop in Folkestone.

On the return journey it was possible to fit in the Club Concours d’Elégance at Ragley Hall if we left early enough. R3 arrived in style with striped T-shirts, berets, onions and baguettes, much to onlookers’ bewilderment. Even a bemused Derek Bell joined in the fun on learning we had just returned from one of his favourite hotels. It was a relief to the PCGB staff that after a long night and early start, the R3 crew were as tired as them and the quietest they have seen us. After thanking Matthew O’Keefe, R3’s representative in the Concours, and judging our ‘alternative’ Concours – the car with the most French flies – we opted for an early finish. PP

Regions Regional Director’s report A belated Happy New Year with the first PP of 2018 bringing you a preview of the wonderful year ahead.

This year marks 70 years of Porsche, with the June factory tour one of many events celebrating this important milestone. My Club wall planner is a mass of stickers marking events I hope to attend - this year will certainly be my busiest yet. After 17 years of ownership, my 993 Turbo is now in the care of a fellow PCGB member, so 2018 also ends 30 years of air-cooled 911s for me. My future will hopefully follow the latest 911s for many years to come.

Scotland South

The first major event is Autosport International at the NEC - just a memory by the time this magazine arrives but hopefully providing plenty of photos for the next issue.

Once again, July’s Silverstone Classic will be our first National Event. We also have the addition of the Festival of Porsche at Brands Hatch, which includes one of the 21 PCGB trackdays.

More support is being given by the Club to improve Regional events, giving a greater professional appearance and offering better member benefits and equipment for all occasions.

In April, three Directors will be leaving the Board after serving their maximum terms in accordance with the Club’s constitution. It’s been a great pleasure to work with Chris James, Rob Kellock and Richard Watling. For these important roles, the Striving for Excellence initiative

has provided three candidates who have been co-opted onto the Board to facilitate a smooth transition and, hopefully, their election at the AGM. Andrew Rowley takes over from Ian Yeoman as Financial Director. Mark Hamilton joins as Information Systems and Services Director, which includes the work of current IT Director Chris James. Peter Thomas joins as Facilities Director and will focus on the renovation of the Clubhouse.

I am looking forward to working with Andrew, Mark and Peter to take the Club forward over the next few years.

Phil Graham Regional Director 07941 109638 regional@porscheclubgb.com

Regions Index Your Regional reports at a glance

Regional Organiser Donald Hossack 07968 724441 – r1@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser Scott Laurie 07803 260417 Over in a flash, or that’s how it seemed - another festive season been and gone. Overeating and drinking and socialising with family and friends, sounds just like a typical event of the Scotland South Region. With the severe frosts and high winds and rain, December was very much a no-drive month for the Porsches. However, the lack of car-focused events gave way to our two very well-supported Christmas dinners - East and West Coast. Scott looked after the West Coast dinner and I the East Coast one. With some good food and a few glasses

R1 Scotland South p56 R2 Scotland North p59 R3 North East p59 R4 Lincolnshire & Humberside p60 R5 North West p60 R6 North Wales p62 R7 Yorkshire p62 R8 East Midlands p65 R9 West Midlands p67 R10 Milton Keynes & Northamptonshire p68

R11 Essex p68 R12 Norfolk & Suffolk p70 R13 Herefordshire, Worcestershire & Shropshire p70 R14 South Wales p72 R15 South West p75 R16 Gloucestershire p77 R17 Southern p77 R18 Lancashire & Cumbria p77 R19 Thames Valley p80 R20 London p80

of wine on offer, I made the effort and attended both.

Many thanks go to those of you that joined us, with some having travelled a distance. Below are reports on the two December events.

Please remember to occasionally check for updates on our Events page of the website as I continue to add new events and, as always, keep a look-out for my regular emails.

RECENT EVENTS

East Coast Christmas dinner at Bar Napoli

5 December West Coast Christmas dinner Scott reports: “A late change of venue for the West Coast Christmas meal occurred due to the closure of Spice Gardens, which must have been in business for over 20 years. The venue changed to Bombay Blues, which is directly across from Glasgow Central train station, making transport and having a little drink easy. Over 20 members attended and the food and banter were excellent. Thanks to Don Hossack and R1 56 porscheclubgb.com

R21 Chiltern p81 R23 Sussex p83 R24 Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire p83 R25 Kent p84 R26 Dorset p86 R27 Ireland p87 R28G Guernsey p88 R28J Jersey p88 R29 Surrey p90 R30 Isle of Man p92 R31 Cotswold p92

funds, I think most of us managed a complimentary glass of wine. Another year is over and I would like to wish everyone a prosperous and happy new year for 2018. I am looking forward to the spring and many of the Club events that are planned for 2018.”

7 December East Coast Christmas dinner The majority of us met at the Dome in George Street, Edinburgh for pre-dinner drinks. It was beautifully decorated with what must be one of the most impressive arrangements of Christmas decorations and tallest indoor tree in Edinburgh. It was then on to Bar Napoli, the Italian restaurant in Hanover Street, a change to our usual restaurant for our annual dinner.

Around 30 of us dined from the extensive threecourse set menu and were very well looked after all evening by the attentive staff. Scotland South Region paid for the complimentary wine. At our end of the table a group of us played charades. Shona and I could not compete with Archie who seemed to solve every one with the slimmest of clues. It was nice to

see so many partners come along to a very enjoyable evening with good food and great company.

R2 at Glamis Castle

See you soon.

Donald and Scott

FIRST TUESDAY OF MONTH West Coast Club night Sherbrooke Castle Hotel, Glasgow, G41 4PG. 8pm.

FIRST THURSDAY OF MONTH East Coast Club night Dakota Hotel, South Queensferry, EH30 9QZ. 7.30pm.

10 FEBRUARY Breakfast run 18 FEBRUARY Breakfast meeting 4 MARCH Alternative cars meeting 6 MARCH Curry night **In place of the West Coast monthly meet** 18 MARCH Royal yacht visit and dinner 8 APRIL Breakfast run 21-22 APRIL Oicials’ Conference 29 APRIL Run and lunch

Scotland North Regional Organiser Steve Rose 01224 868052 – r2@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser Gillian Gardiner 01382 778923 Please excuse the short report – the copy deadline for this issue fell between Christmas and the New Year and home life got in the way a bit.

RECENT EVENTS Christmas lunch At the beginning of December R2 members attended a Christmas lunch arranged by Caitlin and George.

We met at Glamis Castle, which, as well as offering a magnificent backdrop for some pictures of our cars, hosted a Dickens-themed tour. Nick Croan volunteered to play the part of Ebenezer Scrooge (never let it be said…) while members of the castle staff and their families played out scenes from ‘A Christmas Carol’ as we moved from room to room.

It was very well done, and the visit ended with

Photo by Ian Thow

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non-alcoholic mulled wine and mince pies. It really set the Christmas mood very well and prepared us for our excellent Christmas lunch at the nearby Strathmore Arms in the village of Glamis. George and Caitlin hosted the lunch, which included quizzes with prizes. After lunch some of us visited their home for cakes and coffee – well done and many thanks to them for a very memorable day.

Christmas party Later in December, 24 members attended our Christmas party at the Maryculter House Hotel, near Aberdeen. The dinner and disco event also featured a ‘murder mystery’ enacted while we ate. I think most who attended would agree that, sadly, this didn’t add much to the evening’s enjoyment, but once the murder was over the disco went well. No pictures - to protect the ‘innocent’.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS Please check the Events pages on the website for more forthcoming events, news etc…

Steve Rose and Gill Gardiner DIARY DATES 1 FEBRUARY Club night, Lairhillock, 8pm 15 FEBRUARY Club night, Milton Inn, Monifieth, 8pm

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North East Regional Organiser Greg Harm 07932 746152 – r3@porscheclubgb.com December Club night As 2017 drew to a close, R3 met for our final Club night of the year at Beamish Hall. Not every car in the car park was a Porsche and there was very little talk of upcoming events. Instead, there was a fun, festive atmosphere with most members wearing their very best Christmas jumpers. Members voted Darren Walker as being the best turned out - he had gone to the trouble of turning his beard and eyebrows white for the occasion. Since we took over as ROs, Deb hasn’t had much chance to devise any quizzes but, as it was Christmas, she taxed our brains with questions about cars and Christmas in songs and movies. With some music and movie buffs among us we needed a tiebreaker - a representative from the two winning teams was asked to perform one of the songs from the quiz. The winning performance was Matthew O’Keefe’s ‘endearing’ comedic rendition of Away in a Manger performed in the style of a four-year-old. For once we were all witness to David Carnaffin silenced. That night, it struck me just how much our Club is about the social gatherings as much it is as the cars.

A flashback to R3’s ‘Clear Away the Cobwebs’ drive 2017. More of the same is planned for 2018

2017 Club life I hope you have enjoyed 2017 Club life and managed to participate in at least one of our many events, drives or trips. If not, then why not give it a try in 2018? I appreciate it can sometimes be difficult fitting everything in around the normal rat race, but the general consensus from our new members seems to be how much they have loved becoming more active and just how much the Club has given them a real purpose to get their car out and meet up with liked-minded friends. We have more planned for the coming year, so keep your eyes open for updates.

You’ll usually hear it first at Club nights but, if you can’t make it to a meeting, I will always email a summary of what you’ve missed in our monthly newsletter. The North East section of the Club website is a good source of dates and events and R3 are an active Region on the Club Forum and social media. Hopefully you’ll find something that appeals to you - if not, we’re always open to suggestions, just email r3@porscheclubgb.com with your ideas or feedback.

I’d like to thank you all for your help and support in 2017; from the ‘likes’ on Facebook photos to the hardy souls who pitch in setting up for events, it’s all appreciated. The role of RO isn’t always an easy one, but when you see a beaming smile behind the steering wheel of a Porsche at one of our gettogethers, it makes it all worthwhile. Thanks R3!

Best wishes from Deb and I for a great 2018.

We hope to see you soon for some Porscherelated fun.

Greg Harm

Lincolnshire & Humberside Regional Organiser Rod Stormes 07887 690716 – r4@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organisers Richard Watkinson 01472 220185 Gavin Marshall 01472 826334 I hope you all have had a good Christmas and New Year, and that the snow has not unduly affected you.

RECENT EVENTS 10 December Christmas lunch Once again, the lunch was at Branston Hall Hotel.

We were concerned on the morning as snow was forecast and, whilst there was none at ‘chez Stormes’, the nearer we got to Lincoln the more we saw. Fortunately, it was not too bad and did not unduly affect attendance - over 40 joined us.

As usual, I ran through the previous year’s events before turning to the 2018 calendar, 2019 and even 2020! This was followed by a musical quiz kindly provided by Alan Anderson – guessing the names of songs from their intros proved quite a challenge!!

The meal was up to the hotel’s usual standard, with excellent service, and seemed to be enjoyed by all.

Alan also provided the post-meal musical entertainment by singing and playing his guitar accompanied by his granddaughter, Millie, on vocals. It was very enjoyable and everyone joined in the Christmas medley at the end, which also featured Cliff and myself ‘guesting’ on tambourines and Sue on sleigh bells. Thank you Alan and Millie.

We closed with the raffle with this year’s proceeds going to the Lincolnshire Air Ambulance. They were very instrumental in helping one of our members after a particularly nasty road accident. With an extremely generous donation, £810 was raised and I would like to thank you all for your generosity.

Events for 2018 (and beyond!)

Our 2018 calendar is on the R4 Events page of the Club website. Some dates are being confirmed, but it will be a mix of favourites/regulars together with some new events. If anyone has any ideas for events, can help me by organising one of the pub drive-outs, or even has a suggestion for a suitable venue, please get in touch.

To give you a flavour; County Wheels is on again in April, and we also hope to return to the Belton House International Horse Trials. The latter is one where confirmation is needed, as is RAF Waddington’s Families Day, where a date is yet to be set. We had hoped to attend Scampton Air Show but, as some will have seen on the news, this has been cancelled. However, clay pigeon shooting is back, as is ‘Props and Pistons’, gliding, Blyton Park trackday, and, of course, the pub drive-outs. I am just finalising details of the February ‘Valentines’ lunch.

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The raffle prizes

The 2018 TOTY, which will follow the NC500, is fully booked, but in 2019 we are considering a trip to the Classic Race Aarhus in Denmark, and in 2020 one to the Monaco Historic Grand Prix. These may seem a long way off but to ensure we get hotels etc. the planning needs to start now.

All details will be placed on our R4 Events web page. The calendar there is updated regularly throughout the year, so please keeping checking back - it is dated under the heading to help you know when it was last updated. There will also be the regular MailChimp newsletters reminding you of forthcoming events, and updates on new ones. Quite a few events require booking and can be very popular, so please do not delay as you may miss out!

DIARY DATES 11 FEBRUARY Valentine’s lunch Venue TBC.

North West Regional Organiser Allan Crosby 01744 894500 – r5@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS 13 December Christmas Club night Around 50 members and guests arrived at The Deanwater Hotel for R5’s informal Christmas get-together. As usual, Allan Crosby went through the ‘parish announcements’, with information

R5 members at the Christmas Club night

about both recent and forthcoming events within the Region.

Then it was time to put thinking caps on for another of Bill Keddie’s famous quizzes, which comprised general knowledge as well as motoringoriented questions. Unsurprisingly, nobody achieved a perfect score, and only two teams exceeded 40 correct answers out of a possible 50. The winners were Graham and Hazel Marginson, closely followed by the Dave and Michelle Trafford, Matt Staines and Jon Kenwell team. Congratulations to both, and thanks to all for taking part.

The evening concluded with complimentary coffee and mince pies - an ideal way to end a very successful year for the Region.

2018 calendar By the time you receive this copy of PP, the annual R5 New Year dinner will have been held and the Region’s calendar of events for 2018 announced (see the Region’s pages of the Club’s website). The R5 committee members have worked hard to provide a varied selection of events for your enjoyment, and look forward to seeing you out and about during the year.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 15 February Visit to APM Customs, Chester This visit replaces February’s Club night at The Deanwater Hotel. It has also been moved forward a day to the Thursday to avoid clashing with Valentine’s Day. Further information has been circulated via the R5 e-newsletter.

14 March Club night at The Deanwater Hotel March will see the first regular Club night of the year (second Wednesday of each month). The North West Air Ambulance charity will be giving a talk about their important work.

18-20 May Weekend in Llandudno Stay at the St George’s Hotel on the seafront in Llandudno, a convenient base for Saturday’s trackday at the Anglesey circuit and just across the road from Sunday’s Porsches on the Prom.

To make a reservation call Lucy on 01492 877544, quoting reference 10805933 for PCGB. No deposit is necessary, but a credit or debit card number is required to guarantee the room. Do not try booking on the St George’s website, as it will show the hotel as being fully booked. All queries are to be directed to Phil Graham by email at r5porsche.pg@gmail.com Chris Clark

The Porsches outside the Slate restaurant as R6 enjoy their festive meal

DIARY DATES 15 FEBRUARY Visit to APM Customs – Chester 18 FEBRUARY Portmeirion 9 MARCH RS Trackday - Oulton Park 14 MARCH Club night - The Deanwater Hotel Talk by North West Air Ambulance service.

11 APRIL Club night - The Deanwater Hotel ‘Cars I have owned and raced’ - an illustrated talk by Robin Longdon.

18-20 MAY Weekend in Llandudno

North Wales Regional Organiser Sue Taylor 01928 735357 (01766 890844 Weekends) r6@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Christmas at Penrhyn Castle Full of the Christmas spirit, we decided to visit Penrhyn Castle, just outside Bangor, to look at the decorated rooms and come away with inspiration for our own less imposing establishments.

An impressive array of cars met at St David’s Hotel in Ewloe for a 10am start. The weather was good and we made a nice tidy convoy as we motored along the A55 towards Abergele. Heading inland, we picked up another couple of cars on the way. Welcome to new members, Greg and Joanne Narey, who had been loitering with intent and shot out from a side road to join us. We had a nice drive down to Llanwrst, into Betws-y-Coed, and then down the Ogwen Valley to Bangor. Typically, it was one of those days where we were slowed down by farm vehicles, very slow Sunday drivers, and then, worse still, a camper van. Hey ho! Better than the urban congestion some of us have to tolerate during the week.

Eventually we arrived at the castle in eager anticipation. We all stood to admire the Christmas tree that had been put up in the entrance hall before heading on into the other rooms to see how they’d been decorated. Nothing. The tree was it! We hung round for a bit and eventually a Father Christmas followed by a woman in a long dress and ringing a bell came wandering round. Not sure what that was about.

National Trust – maybe try a little bit harder next year?

Time to go. Our convoy headed out of the castle grounds for the short drive to The Slate, a new restaurant in Tan y Bont. We parked outside and got some nice photos before the 43 of us piled in to the bar,

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where Ben, John, Angharad and the rest of the team made us very welcome. The restaurant only opened in June and we were the first big party they’d had.

All enjoyed a festive meal - the noise levels seemed to indicate everyone was having a good time.

The restaurant has rooms, which we were invited to explore and all the ones we saw were very tastefully decorated and furnished. The Slate is definitely worth a revisit in the evening with a view to staying over.

Finally, it was time to say farewell and we all headed off in various directions to our homes. A big thank you goes to the whole Slate team for a lovely lunch and a great afternoon.

DIARY DATES 15 FEBRUARY Visit to Ninemeister - Warrington 11 MARCH Dawn drive and breakfast 15 MARCH Locked in at Abergele 5-8 APRIL WOTY - Isle of Man 19 APRIL Cheshire Classic Cars (TBC)

Yorkshire Regional Organisers Mark and Carol Jessop 07981 412895 – r7@porscheclubgb.com Introduction February’s report is a brief affair as, Club-wise, December has been a quiet month.

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Porsche 911 (997) “4S” 3.8 TIP (56 - 2006) Silver with ocean blue leather 51,000 miles ......................................... £33,000

Porsche 911 (997) “2S” 3.8 (07 - 2007) Basalt black with black leather 45,000 miles ......................................... £33,000

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Club nights Our Club nights are held on the first Wednesday of the month at the Woodlands Hotel, Leeds, which can be found just up the A62 from PC Leeds and just off J27 of the M62, post code LS27 7LY. We aim to kick the night off around 8pm.

RECENT EVENTS December Club night I was away on a training course so Carol ran the annual Christmas quiz, which is only fair as she usually compiles the questions. Congratulations to David and Kath Vickers, Randolph and Cath Coward, and Daniel and Amanda Holmes for winning. Thanks go to PC Leeds for donating vouchers as prizes.

Below: Steve Jory receiving the Kerry Trophy

RPM Cofee and mince pies open evening RPM Specialist Cars’ open evening was held on a very frosty night, but we were kept warm by hot coffee and very tasty mince pies. It was great to have a last catch-up with members before Christmas. Thanks go to RPM for their hospitality.

DIARY DATES The full events diary for 2018 will be ready for next month’s PP. 7 FEBRUARY Club night - The Woodlands Hotel Register Director, Albert Walsh, will be joining us to give an insight into his long career in the motor industry - Porsche, Lotus, Maserati, Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Harley Davidson.

7 MARCH Club night - The Woodlands Hotel 4 APRIL Club night - The Woodlands Hotel Our own Geoff Benson presents ‘46 Years in Advertising Photography’ - some fantastic stories and experiences.

2 MAY Club Night - PC Leeds

East Midlands Regional Organiser Tom Fisher 07768 317346 – r8@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Christmas meal at The Coopers Arms Once again, the team at The Coopers Arms was terrific - our hosts provided all 80 of us with great food in the Great Hall. We kept to a well-rehearsed

regime, with the photo competition in the foyer, a great response to the title of ‘Porsches at play’.

The three prizewinners were Daz Slater, Mike Stanley and myself (for the first time)!

Our three guests represented Nottingham and Leicester Porsche Centres, and generously donated Porsche goodies as raffle prizes. Car products etc. were kindly donated by Nielsen Chemicals, as was a deluxe valet by Chartwell (Derby) Ltd. Chocolates, fizz and other stuff from our remaining funds completed the prize list. As you can imagine this made for a fantastic array of free raffle prizes to be won.

Our annual Regional awards were presented on the night. The Regional Organiser’s trophy is awarded to the member who has made a significant contribution

to the Club at a local level. This year I was delighted to present Michael Tennyson with the silver cup. The Kerry Trophy, awarded to the local member considered to have achieved the most in motorsport, was deservedly won by Steve Jory.

Thank you to everyone taking part with such great enthusiasm making this a terrific evening.

DIARY DATES 5 FEBRUARY Club night - annual quiz Always good fun with great prizes, conducted

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West Midlands Regional Organisers Kim and Mandy Sutch 07811 114646 – r9@porscheclubgb.com David Jones 01455 220081 – 07836 374295 Davejones996@hotmail.co.uk The Targa was due to go to Zuffenhaus in the New Year to have the engine oil leaks sorted out. I know people say it’s not a 964 unless it has an oil leak, and I’ve heard all the different jokes, but I wanted a leak free engine if I could.

Paul, the boss of Zuffenhaus, got in touch at the end of November to say he could get it in early and so the date was rescheduled to 2 December. Now, this was a good thing, but I wasn’t too keen on taking the car out in miserable conditions and considered having

it trailered to the workshop. I eventually got a grip and drove it there - through rain most of the way. When I pulled up at the Zuffenhaus workshop, Paul had a bucket of warm soapy water ready for me to wash the car - he knows how to look after his customers!

Washed and dried, the car was put into the workshop and, after a chat and coffee, Mandy and I left the lads to get on with it. Mandy was happy for the Targa to be at the workshop as she could now put her Boxster in our garage! After some persuasion, I agreed and so it was washed and waxed, and carefully put into the garage (it’s a bit wider than the Targa).

In Zuffenhaus co-owner Mike Chare’s words: “The car was driven and the engine was found to pull really well and after doing a compression test, which was very good, it was decided to pull the engine out and start with a top-end re-gasket to stop the oil leaks, but basically the mentality was if it wasn’t broken then don’t fix it.

Clockwise from top left: the stripped down engine ready for new seals and gaskets and so on; the Targa engine out and awaiting its inspection; best photo winner Phil Robertson’s Speed Yellow 993 (see following page); Kim’s Targa on the ramp with the engine out at Zuffenhaus; point of departure for the R9 convoy to Cornbury House

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“A full gasket and seal set was done; including chain case and tensioner gaskets, front and rear main and camshaft seals, to name but a few. The cam timing was set after the chains and chain tensioners had been removed and inspected. The exhaust was overhauled with all new gaskets, tube nuts, lock nuts and washers. The two heater hoses from the heat exchangers to the body were replaced as they had seen better days and all 12 driveshaft bolts were replaced. Finally, the plastic clips holding the lower spark plug leads were changed as some were broken, which is also a common thing on the 964s.”

Massive thanks go to Paul, Mike and Pete for their hard work and attention to detail.

3 December Cornbury House Christmas Open Day drive Starting at our usual meeting point of Starbucks on the A46 near Warwick, Tom and Carol had, once again, come up with a different route for R9 to drive.

Mandy and Jess were both working at Cornbury House, so I was on my own to join the R9 gang of about 16 cars. Tom had sorted some route plans and also led the way while I agreed to be the lad at the back in case people got split up from the main group. All was going well until the lead man missed a turn and the group split up, with only three of us getting back on the main route as a result. It was a shame as it was a great run but everyone did make it to Cornbury house with no further problems.

The Club put on a great event - I think over 600 people attended. Porsche GB brought along a new 991 GT2 RS, which is a stunning machine with gold wheels.

Thanks go to Tom and Carol for organising the day out.

Christmas party Earlier in the year it was decided by majority vote that we return to the Manor Hotel in Meriden for our Christmas party but in our own room with a bar and music, not in one big room with other groups.

Sixty-four R9 members had a great night of lovely food with plenty of dancing and drinking. Prizes were given to Tom and Carol Downes, David and Marcia Hartley, and Baz Barnett together with Rachel Turner for their extra effort during the year organising trips for the Region. Massive thanks go to you all. Thank you to all who made it such a brilliant evening. It was a great way to end the Region’s year.

We had a fun competition and prize for the best photo of your own car. Phil Robertson and his Speed Yellow 993 won. He had a big advantage over everyone else - he was the only person to enter a picture! Well done Phil!

Dave, Mandy and I would like to thank you all for your support throughout the year and we look forward to seeing you in 2018. A happy New Year to all.

Kim, Mandy and Dave JROs

Although probably a distant memory already, many of us had a nice drive over to Cornbury House for the Christmas Open Day and met new and old friends. Our Christmas lunch was a nice day in good company, with several Porsches in evidence, prior to the next day’s forecast blanket of snow! I’m sure by the time you read this many more of you will have taken full advantage of the early January Classic at Stony Stratford and the fantastic Sunday Scramble at Bicester Heritage. There is a lot to come this year, so keep an eye on the Club website and Forums for great events for all.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 10 February R10 monthly meet I’m really hoping that our January meeting was well attended, and that those present took the opportunity to outline and move forward with some more interesting Regional events for 2018. There’s always room for more ideas - we need them all and we need you to make them work. It’s your Club and your Region, so why not get involved, suggest and help with something for us all? I’m looking forward to the exciting Porsche year ahead and our entire Region having a great time.

23-25 February Race Retro, Stoneleigh Park The Club is embracing more well-established, interesting events and has a supporting presence at Race Retro in February. Having visited this event myself a few years ago, I can confirm it has a lot to offer petrol heads with a great outdoor rally display to boot! It can still be a bit chilly outside, but it’s well worth a visit. If enough Region members would like to have a enjoyable drive up there, we could well meet up (probably on the Sunday) at our adopted breakfast location - the Super Sausage on the A5 at Potterspury.

See the Club website for more information.

For further information on any Region or Club events, contact me and I’ll do my best to help.

See you all soon - enjoy your Porsche

Milton Keynes & Northamptonshire Regional Organiser Paul Ebbs 01234 363358 (7pm–9pm) 07769 805594 (daytime) – r10@porscheclubgb.com

Greg acts as auctioneer for R11

Paul DIARY DATES 10 FEBRUARY Monthly meet 23-25 FEBRUARY Race Retro - Stoneleigh Park

Essex Regional Organiser Martyn Molyneaux 01245 222937 (7pm-9pm) r11@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser Greg Thompson 01376 573445 – r11gregt@googlemail.com RECENT EVENTS Annual dinner Fifty members enjoyed our Christmas dinner where we had a welcoming drink followed by an excellent three-course meal. We had a good selection of raffle prizes, many donated by members, and PC Colchester supplied a Porsche Driving Centre Experience, which was auctioned with Greg acting as our auctioneer.

As a result of the auction, which had some keen bidding, the winner was Chris Wickers with a sum of £300. Michael Stow also donated the same sum and PC Colchester kindly agreed to sponsor another PEC Driving Experience.

As a result of the auction and the raffle, we raised £1,015 on the night, £80 was raised throughout the year for Farleigh Hospice and so a total of £1,095 will be donated.

The Warren Car Club I have received a flyer from The Warren Golf Club concerning a car club that they are forming.

This is completely independent of PCGB and is mentioned solely for your interest. Please see warrenclassic.co.uk/car-club.

Our events diary is filling up and, during the course of the year, there will be many more events for your enjoyment.

Because of the gestation period for PP, we send out emails of events which we do not have time to include in PP. So, to ensure that you receive emails from us, it is necessary to check that your email address is logged centrally on the Club’s database.

You can do this by using your member’s log-in ID at porscheclubgb.com/login and, if you have not previously done this, you can create a username and password or, for assistance, contact support@porscheclubgb.com stating your membership number. Once logged in, you can update your profile.

We look forward to seeing you at our Club nights and events.

Sharnbrook before the snow!

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DIARY DATES 13 FEBRUARY Club night 15–18 FEBRUARY London Classic Car Show 1 APRIL RAF centenary celebrations Stow Maries 7 APRIL Technical seminar 987 Boxster and Cayman - Cornbury House 10 APRIL Club night 21–22 APRIL Oicials’ Conference and AGM 22 APRIL Charity Classic Vehicle Club Great War Rally 50-mile drive starting at Rochford and finishing at Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome.

29 APRIL Wheels at The Warren The Warren Golf Course, Woodham Walter CM9 6RW. A breakfast meeting with free entry 8am-11am.

Norfolk & Suffolk Regional Organisers Tony and Colleen Wickins 01379 676251 – r12@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS 25 November Christmas party Forty of us met up at the Hotel Wroxham on the Norfolk Broads for this year’s Christmas party.

From top: R12 members in their finery at Hotel Wroxham; Andrew presenting Tony and Colleen with a bouquet

Twenty-eight had arranged to stay the night while the remainder opted to join us just for the evening meal.

Most of us arrived during the afternoon, some going shopping while others (us included) found a cosy spot by the fire in the lounge and enjoyed a glass (or two) of mulled wine.

Wendy, the hotel proprietor, and her staff had decorated the room for our evening meal with Christmas trees, fresh roses on the table, crackers and candles. It looked beautiful, particularly as the room had a window and view overlooking the Broads.

A pre-ordered, three-course meal was served to us from 7.30pm onwards and it was excellent. We decided not to have a disco this year but had taken our own music as background for the evening. A warm welcome to Richard and Neeta, attending their first R12 gathering, who we hope enjoyed the evening as much as we did.

We drew back the bedroom curtains Sunday morning to a lovely sunny day and watched as a flock of swans flew past our window landing on the river.

We were also delighted to see an otter just outside the hotel decking area eating a fish he had caught for his breakfast. After our leisurely breakfast, we said our goodbyes and made our respective journeys home.

28 November Quidenham Children’s Hospice visit We had been invited to a tour of East Anglia’s children’s hospice at Quidenham. Situated in the grounds of a Carmelite monastery, the hospice has been caring for children for 25 years and we were amazed and humbled by the dedication and compassion of the staff that currently have to work in very cramped rooms.

Fortunately, however, land has been purchased at Poringland just outside Norwich and building began mid-November on a purpose-built hospice called ‘The Nook’. We asked if someone would be able to visit us on a Club night in 2018 to explain the importance of their work and what this new building would mean to many families who have a child with a life-threatening illness, so watch out for that one.

are no Club nights). No booking is necessary unless specifically stated below. Our events calendar is regularly updated on the R12 Club Forum at porscheclubgbforum.com including links to each event, with details on how to book.

We hope everyone enjoyed the festive season, we now look forward to 2018 and events listed for your diaries below. We still have to finalise some events but it’s looking like another busy year for R12!

DIARY DATES 18 FEBRUARY POTM - Hintlesham Hall **Fully booked** 20 FEBRUARY Club night Guest speaker James Martin from Magnitude Events.

17 MARCH Clay pigeon shooting 20 MARCH Club night Social evening with a meal and Easter-themed raffle. Menu will be available shortly.

17 APRIL Club night We hope to have a guest speaker. TBC. 28 APRIL Open Day - ASM Sports, Bressingham No need to book. Details to follow.

Herefordshire, Worcestershire & Shropshire Regional Organiser Steve Cutler 01384 370038 – r13@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser Philip Sloper 01562 885740 – philipjsloper@gmail.com RECENT EVENTS 17 December Annual Christmas lunch We returned to The Crown and Sandys in Ombersley and had a great turnout, with 60 members enjoying

12 December Christmas social at The Bird in Hand The weather didn’t help as snow decided to arrive early for Christmas. However, 33 members braved the weather to enjoy the last event of 2017, which began with Tony once more donning his auctioneer’s hat to auction off several items, many of which had been donated. A buffet followed with dessert, teas and coffees and then the raffle was drawn. Colleen had been buying all things Christmassy for several months and Brian did a sterling job of selling raffle tickets and taking photographs of the evening. All proceeds will go towards The Nook Appeal as mentioned above. We were very touched when Andrew and Gail presented us with a beautiful bouquet – our thanks to everyone.

From top: Graham, Steve and Andy; Phil flanked by Wendy and Helen with their poinsettias

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 17 March Clay pigeon shooting at Mid-Norfolk Shooting Ground, Taverham Ideal for beginners. Meet at 10am for teas and coffees prior to setting off for instruction at a cost of £65pp. ‘Pub grub’ could be offered at an additional cost. Contact Brian Glover on brianandrosemaryglover@gmail.com to register your interest and for more details of the day.

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an excellent meal in The Orangery. We were delighted to welcome Janet Srodzinski and her daughter Gail.

Janet’s husband Lawrence (Larry) was the original RO for R13 back in the mid-’90s.

As usual, there was an infamous R13 quiz - in fact there were two! Rick and Carole won the ‘Number Blind’ quiz, with Howard and Lindy as runners up following a tiebreak. The booby prize went to Chris and Jacquie. Andy and Judy won the ‘Riddle Me Out’ quiz, with two booby prizes going to Grahame and Nina, and Andy and Suzanne.

We also held an auction, the proceeds of which will be split jointly between the Air Ambulance and R13.

The signed and framed photograph of Steve McQueen and Richard Attwood went to Mervyn and Carole who bid £150, whilst the scale models of a Speedster and a Boxster both went to Yiannis for £80. A big thank you to all who placed a bid.

Finally, Patrick rounded off the lunch with a lovely short speech thanking Steve and Phil for all their efforts in 2017. Helen and Wendy, their better halves, received beautiful poinsettias.

Our Christmas lunch in 2018 will be on Sunday, 16 December, so please put it in your diaries.

5-7 October WOTY in North Devon A weekend at the Commodore Hotel in Instow (commodore-instow.co.uk). This includes a trip to the Fairground Heritage Centre (fairground-heritage.org.uk) on Saturday, and a run back across Exmoor to our lunch stop on Sunday. The cost is £360 per couple for a double/twin room, bed and breakfast, with a three-course dinner and tea/coffee included on Friday and Saturday evening. All the rooms are now sold, but please contact Philip to be added to the reserve list.

R14 members’ cars Congratulations to Club member John Owen from West Wales in collecting his new yellow GT3 from PC Cardiff.

Club nights and calendar Unless otherwise stated, Club nights are on the last Tuesday in the month, 7.30pm for an 8pm start, at The Manor House of Whittington (themanorhouseofwhittington.com) on the A449 near Kinver, DY7 6NY. The Manor House is The Whittington, where we have been meeting for the last few of years, refurbished and renamed.

As well as being shown in PP, our events calendar is regularly updated on the R13 section of the Club Forum.

PCGB Open Day It was a busy Christmas Open Day at the PCGB Clubhouse and great to see such a good turnout from our Region.

RECENT EVENTS A planning meeting was held in November at Ty Risha Bridgend, thank you to all who attended. The event calendar has been drawn up for 2018 and can be accessed on our website.

R14 Christmas dinner I was sorry to miss this event – many thanks to Ray Underhill and Brian and Anne Jones for running it. The dinner was well attended and I gather everyone enjoyed themselves with excellent food.

Some photos of the event can be found on our Region’s web page.

DIARY DATES FORTHCOMING EVENTS 27 February Skittles evening Another of our annual skittles evenings will be at the Bell Inn, Martley Road, Lower Broadheath WR2 6QG (bellinnbroadheath.co.uk). It includes a two-course meal for about £10pp. We will sit down to eat at 7.30pm and the skittles will follow.

We have to confirm numbers and menu choices in advance, so please let Steve or Phil know as soon as possible if you intend to come. Numbers are limited to a maximum of 36.

8-19 May Grand Prix de Monaco Historique For our 2018 continental trip we are teaming up with Scenic and Continental Car Tours (sceniccartours. com/monaco-historique) for a run to Monte Carlo to watch the 12th running of this biennial historic race.

We have a choice of three different hotels in Menton, which is just a short train ride from the circuit, to cater for all budgets and standards. If you are interested, please make direct contact with Kieran Line, Car Club and Group Relationship Manager, Scenic and Continental Car Tours. Telephone 01732 879 172 or email admin@sceniccartours.com Please let Steve or Philip know if you decide to book.

27 FEBRUARY Skittles night - The Bell Lower Broadheath Details above.

27 MARCH Club night - The Manor House at Whittington Guest speaker.

24 APRIL Club night A visit to a local company, details to follow.

8-19 MAY Grand Prix de Monaco Historique Details above.

29 MAY Club night - The Fox and Hounds in Shawbury

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 23 March An evening with Stuart Turner Our main events for the year will include an evening with Stuart Turner at PC Cardiff. We are hoping for a good turnout, as Stuart prefers to talk to a full house.

Please make an effort to attend if at all possible.

South Wales Regional Organiser Huw Jones 07799 532661 – r14@porscheclubgb.com

22 August Drivers’ School at Loton Park Hill Climb A new event in our calendar for 2018 - a hill climb driving day at Loton Park, Alberbury, near Shrewsbury SY5 9AG. The cost will be around £180 for the whole day inclusive of approximately eight runs, tuition, lunch and a video souvenir of your runs. We need around 25 cars to make it viable as an exclusive PCGB event.

Cars must be road legal (current MOT, not excessive exhaust noise, etc.).

Following the earlier announcement on the Forum, places are filling up fast, so please contact Steve if you are interested.

More information is on the Loton Park website: hdlcc.com/driversschool 2-8 September French tour Organised by Ian Crosskell, the aim is to meet in Bayeux and then travel via Mont Saint Michel, Saint Malo and Rennes to Caen, stopping at the car museum in Loheac en route. For more details, please contact Steve or Phil who will put you in touch with Ian. 72 porscheclubgb.com

From top: R14 Christmas party at the Plough Inn, Llandilo; John Owen picking up his new GT3 from PC Cardiff

February Offers Porsche Cayenne 29535ZR21 Pirelli Pzero N1 £227.95 Porsche Macan 26545R20 Pzero N0 £234.95 29540R20 Pzero N0 £212.95 Porsche Cayman Boxster 23535Z19 Pirelli Pzero N2 £158.95 26535Z19 Pirelli Pzero N2 £215.95 911 991 24535Z20 Pzero N0 £206.95 30530Z20 Pzero N0 £274.95 911 997 23535Z19 Pzero N2 £158.95 30530Z19 Pzero N2 £256.95 911 996 22540ZR18 Pirelli Pzero Rosso N4 £126.95 26535ZR18 Pirelli Pzero Rosso N4 £177.95

Pirelli and Porsche Club GB are delighted to offer PCGB members an exclusive pre-paid fuel card offer. Find out more at www.pirelli.co.uk/porscheclubgb

16 June Porsche in the Bay and Concours The combined R14 Porsche in the Bay and Concours all-day event. More information to follow.

22-24 June WOTY Staying at the four-star Craig Y Dderwen Hotel Betws Y Coed, this will be restricted to 15 cars. Eight rooms have already been taken and the hotel is holding the remaining rooms until the end of the year.

All that remains for now is to wish you all a happy New Year. I’m looking forward to seeing you, hopefully at some of our events in 2018.

Huw Jones

South West Joint Regional Organisers Keith Young and Alan Stoneham 07769 320379 (Keith) 07803 237610 (Alan) r15@porscheclubgb.com

Clockwise from top: Mr and Mrs A Piman and guests; my grandson enjoys his 911 Turbo S; Ms M Harbinson with Mr R Fairchild and Joint RO; Joint RO (centre) presents to Members of the Year Chris and Jane Rogers

Happy New Year to South West Region members We heartily extend our best wishes to friends and members we haven’t yet met!

Our mission this year is to reach out to more Porsche owners in the Region. If you are reading this and have never been to one of our regular gettogethers, please get in your car and come along.

Read the monthly email newsletter for details, check out the R15 website for forthcoming events or contact us directly.

Glitz and glamour at the Dinner Dance The Saunton Sands Hotel welcomed us in splendid style for the second time in recent years and hosted a very pleasant evening of dining and music.

Its iconic sand dune position allowed us to spend time walking the mile-long beach, visiting Braunton village and the North Devon coastline.

Festivities began with a Buck’s Fizz reception and our team of ladies hard-selling raffle tickets. The coveted Members of the Year trophy was this year awarded to Chris and Jane Rogers in recognition of their unfailing support of the Region and for the reportage as well as editorial and photographic help behind the scenes. We thank them for their outstanding contribution.

One of the objectives of the night was to raise funds for our charity, Children’s Hospice Southwest (Little Bridge House) and this we did, and

in some style. Alan staged an exciting auction for a Red Paddle inflatable paddleboard kit, a McLaren 720S experience (both the very generous donation of Bob Fairchild) and a big Porsche golf bag. Significant raffle prizes were contributed by our members and supporters, which combined to raise over £1,400 for charity. This is an enormous

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amount and a credit to all the participants. A particular note of thanks goes to Tina McCarthy and Andy Moss for their bold bidding! Well done all!

My new grandson is already enjoying his fabulous replica Turbo S, a raffle prize kindly donated by Ron Cornwall and kindly re-gifted by Wendy Hickling.

Apparently, dancing went on late into the night and reports of continuing cocktail-bar action into the wee small hours were received at the breakfast table the following morning - we couldn’t resist including a few pictures of the night’s revellers!

End of the year meeting There was an opportunity to discuss the events of the previous evening, the result of the fund-raising, the texture of the sprouts and the flavour of the roasts, followed by the launch of the 2018 events calendar, which is now available on the Club web page, and details of the Region’s planned activities to get in your diary.

Please rest assured that the ROs do listen to what is being said, respond to suggestions and will make plans accordingly for the future enjoyment of all.

Keith and Alan DIARY DATES 11 FEBRUARY Sunday Porsche gathering The Dolphin 24 FEBRUARY Race night, bufet supper The Dolphin With ‘live’ flat racing.

24 MARCH Britannia College, Dartmouth **Fully subscribed** 24 MARCH Pendennis Castle, Falmouth History for the rest of us!

11 APRIL Club night Including technical visit to SW Wheel Repair in Exeter.

Gloucestershire Regional Organisers Elaine Gammon 07854 868396 Stuart Ings 07942 184927 – r16@porscheclubgb.com

Southern Regional Organiser Charlie McLaughlin 02380 694081 M: 07966 126464 r17@porscheclubgb.com

From left: Peter (left) meeting Cllr Robert Taylor JP at Sebastian’s Action Trust; December Club night quiz winners

RECENT EVENTS Christmas quiz December’s Club night is always well supported, as it is also our annual Christmas quiz. Well, the room was full to the rafters, all eagerly awaiting the quizmaster’s best efforts. Despite trying to make it a little harder this year, the winning team still managed to get 95 per cent of the questions correct - next year I am going to turn to ‘Mastermind’ for the questions. It was a great night’s entertainment and congratulations to the winning team (not Jon Fisher for a change). Thank you all once again for supporting the Region throughout 2017.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS The R17 calendar of events is firming up nicely and, by the time you read this, it will be published in full. I hope you will find something in it to entice you to take part, especially if you are a new member or one that isn’t as active as you might wish to be - hopefully 2018 is the year we can change that.

Sebastian’s Action Trust One of the things missing from our events last year was a tie-up with a local charity and, thankfully, Peter Standbridge has taken this on for 2018. Peter has found a local Hampshire charity that we can contribute to financially and hopefully support in other areas as well. It’s called ‘Sebastian’s Action Trust’.

Peter and I had a very informative visit to the trust’s ‘house’ near Dummer, where we met Robert Taylor, the trust’s Community Partnerships Officer, who outlined the history and work of the trust, particularly the ‘The Bluebells’, a place where they are able to offer whole families a holiday away from home. The trust has two apartments fully furnished

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with 10 beds each, with all the necessary medical facilities to allow extended families to stay for four days a week for free while their life-limited or seriously ill children are cared for.

I hope you had a nice Christmas and New Year and I look forward to seeing you all at some of the events in 2018.

Charlie McLaughlin DIARY DATES 13 FEBRUARY Club night - Empress of Blandings 7.30pm 18 OR 25 FEBRUARY Visit to Tesla 10am-3pm Event TBC.

Lancashire & Cumbria Regional Organiser David Baker 01772 451970 – r18@porscheclubgb.com I trust you all had a good Christmas and New Year.

I hope you found my summary of the 2017 events in January’s PP of interest. 2018 will be equally as active.

To conclude 2017, we seem to have had a December full of events that involved food. On 3 December, Mike Trotter organised the first of our Christmas lunches at Armathwaite Hall overlooking Bassenthwaite Lake, where over 40 members enjoyed an excellent meal in lavish surroundings. I was delighted to present our Members of the Year award to Roy and Margaret Parker. Roy, recently retired from PC Kendal, and Margaret have been great

Clockwise from top: Elaine Saxton’s photo competition-winning image; Jo Diamond’s shot took second place in the photo competition; Laith gets a gift from Santa and his little helper; Roy and Margaret Parker receive their Members of the Year award from Mike Trotter and David Baker; Kevin Dodd’s third placed image in R18’s photo competition

supporters of R18 events over many years and have organised events for us, as well as hosting the Regional Concours at PC Kendal.

On 17 December, we held another Christmas lunch at Garstang Golf Club, where 53 members, including several children enjoyed a visit from Santa and his little helper, giving all the children a present. In addition, everyone had a gift of a mug filled with chocolates. A small team of ladies spent a Saturday afternoon packing and wrapping these mugs. Luckily, they managed to have sufficient chocolates to fill the mugs, even after they had carried out some serious tasting. Thanks to you all.

The following Wednesday was our December Club night where Judy ran one of her Christmas quizzes.

As is usual there was an activity to go with the questions. This year, each team was given an envelope containing Plasticine and the name of a film, and one team member had to make a model and the other teams had to guess the name of the film. The teams produced some excellent creations, as well as some puzzling ones. In addition, Colin Appleton brought along his keyboard and there was a music round, with some answers having to be sung. Thanks to Judy and Colin for entertaining us.

The final get-together was on 28 December when Dean Easterby organised a post-Christmas meet at San Marco’s restaurant at Much Hoole near Preston.

More than 40 members enjoyed Italian fare and excellent banter. It was unfortunate a few members had to cancel at the last minute due to illness. The food and service at San Marco were second to none, and it was probably one of the best post-Christmas lunches we have had over the last few years.

Everyone agreed we should repeat the event after Christmas 2018. It was also suggested we could have a short evening run in the spring and summer and finish at San Marco for a bite to eat.

Photo competition We again had a good number of entries for the R18 photo competition; the winners will have been announced at January’s Club night. Again, the standard was very high and our thanks go to Sean Conboy who had the difficult job of picking the best 12. Sean will be at February’s monthly meeting to give a critique of the top 12 and other notable entries.

A few copies of the calendar are still available at a cost of £8.50 each so please contact me if you would like one.

R18 events calendar You should have received the first draft of the 2018 events calendar in my newsletter. If you haven’t received this email please let me know and I can bring a hard copy along to Club night. As I mentioned, 2018 will have as many, if not more events, to suit everyone.

As well as monthly meetings at Garstang GC, where we will have several speakers, we have at least six drives and lunches (thanks to everyone who offered to organise these), attendance at five classic car shows, a presence at Silverstone Classic, Oulton Park Gold Cup, race meetings, a WOTY and joint meetings with the North West, North East, Scotland South and North Wales Regions. We are planning to hold our annual new members’ night at March’s monthly meeting, and I am just waiting for confirmation of a speaker for that night. Our Regional Concours will be held on 1 July at PC Kendal. We will be joining R5 at Portmeirion in February, and R1 at their trackday at Knockhill. Other joint Regional meetings will be with R3 at Witton Castle and probably at their Beamish event, and at some R7 events. I am just waiting for adjoining Regions to send me their events calendar and we will see if we can slot them in. I have already sent our provisional 79 porscheclubgb.com

calendar to R1, R3, R5, R6 and R7 so we should get support at some of our events from them.

If there is still not enough to fill your Porsche time in 2018 we will be attending the many breakfast meetings at The Corner House, Wrightington; The Phantom Winger, Preston; Cars and Coffee, Liverpool; and Classics at the Mill, St Catherine’s Hospice, Bamber Bridge near Preston. Some members have organised short drives and a bar snack on various evenings around the region, on another night to the normal monthly meeting. On Sunday 18 March we will visit Concorde at Manchester Airport, followed by lunch. If you would like to attend this please let me know ASAP. I am talking to TIPEC North West Region about a go-kart challenge, and TIPEC Cumbria is in discussion with Mike Trotter about a joint meet-up.

If there are any other events or activities which you would like please let me know and I will see if we can slot them in.

New members Welcome to new members Soni Kamlesh, Richard McCann, Steven and Rona Woodward. I hope you will be able to come along to some of our meetings. There should be something to interest everyone. Partners of members are welcome at all our meetings.

DIARY DATES 30 JANUARY Short evening drive over Rivington and a bar meal near Chorley. Full details in next newsletter.

6 FEBRUARY Social meeting - Castle Inn, near Bassenthwaite 18 FEBRUARY R5 lunch - Portmeirion Contact Phil Graham at regional@porscheclubgb. com or see R5 report to book.

21 FEBRUARY Monthly meeting - Garstang GC With Sean Conboy. Critique on R18 photo competition entries.

6 MARCH Social meeting - Stoney Beck Inn, Penrith 18 MARCH Drive and lunch - Concorde, Manchester Airport The cost of the tour is £15pp and the meal £11pp.

Please email Debra Worthington at deb.worthington@sky.com 21 MARCH New members’ night (provisional) - Garstang GC 15 APRIL Drive to the Kielder area and lunch

Thames Valley Regional Organiser John Barnatt 01628 471985 – 07890 181495 r19@porscheclubgb.com Happy New Year everyone and I hope you all had a good Christmas.

It was rather an understated Christmas here at R19’s HQ. Mrs B had a hip replacement on 1 December, and it is no sinecure being a fulltime carer and administering anti-coagulant

drugs by subcutaneous injection; but enough of this frivolity.

For the Region, December was, once again, a dual activity month with a good turnout at the Regional meeting. More new members turned up to enjoy good camaraderie, food and the free exchange of ideas and experiences.

Of particular interest is the report on the Region’s Forum about Tony Free’s 996 engine repair. Tony set out to singlehandedly remove the engine from his 996, examine it, identify the fault causing oil in the water and water in the oil, and then to resolve the problem. Where specialist work was needed, like repairing sheared exhaust studs for example, Tony sensibly entrusted the work to those in the trade who deal with these things and, although not the latest update, the last thing I read was that a first run of the repaired engine was imminent. Tony is a photographer by profession, and even though he has some mechanical experience, this was still a huge undertaking for him. Please send all letters of hero worship to me at r19@porscheclubgb.com and I will pass them on.

18 December R19 Christmas party For the second year running we returned to the Novello, our regular meeting place. Throughout the year, on our behalf, I have had discussions with the proprietor to make sure we avoided last year’s disappointment. Happily, the changes that were called for effected the desired improvement and everybody was satisfied with the quality of the meal.

A straw poll confirmed that, if the food stayed like that, the attending members would be happy to return in 2018. There were no table gifts this year, for reasons explained in the introduction to this month’s report but, nevertheless, everyone had a good time.

The event was not as well attended as it has been in the past and we were a bit down on our customary numbers of 20 plus, due, I suspect, to a combination of regular attendees having holidays in Australia and others being put off by the food last year. People who say they are coming and simply not turning up don’t help things. The special order food is ordered in the right numbers so the Novello is out of pocket when you don’t come.

By the time you read this I will be needing confirmation for the so-called ‘Great Steak and Kidney Pudding Run’, which is a second opportunity to take in the route we took on our late summer run.

I know some of you were sorry to miss it, so here’s your chance. I have booked the Garden Room at the Cricketers in Horsell Birch for us for a Sunday lunch and the plan is for James to lead you around. As this is our first time at this venue I would like to put on a good show in terms of numbers. The Garden Room seats 24 so I’m thinking in terms of car plus passenger when I say the first 24 names get to come.

Well, that’s it for this month.

PCGB - you know it makes sense.

London Regional Organisers Nick and Ed Pike 02089 607 111 – r20@porscheclubgb.com Twitter: @PCGB_London

From top: Before repair – Tony Free’s 996 dirty cylinder head; And after repair – the clean cylinder head

Opening words February signals the return of The London Classic Car Show at Excel London and this premier event has quickly become the London must-visit car show.

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2018 brings ‘getaway cars’ to the Grand Avenue – cars that were quick, handled well and found themselves on the wrong side of the law, like the Mini Coopers in the Italian Job. You will find us on the Club stand (E45), in the main hall right next to the action, so pop by, say “Hi” and ask us about the 2018 schedule. This is a great time to plan ahead for some of the longer events on the Club calendar. Those popular with London members include Le Mans (24 Hour and Classic), Silverstone Classic, our Concours d’Elégance at Ragley Hall and the Festival of Porsche at Brands Hatch.

The Club’s Le Mans partner, Lycian Events, have been looking after the Region for many years now.

Their location for the Le Mans 24, right on Porsche Curves, with trackside camping, is fantastic and adored by Porsche owners far and wide. Book directly with Lycian, then connect at one of our static meets to arrange the drive down or meet up when you are there. For the Le Mans Classic, accommodation is harder to come by. Glamping is still possible, infield, through Lycian, while other members have booked chateaus or hotels. We meet at Porsche Club France infield parking – their ‘parade’ laps are very popular and well worth investing in.

One of the Region’s favourite events is Silverstone Classic. To book the early bird and infield parking, special codes will have been emailed to you. If you don’t have the codes, send a quick email to the Club office with your membership number, requesting them. Not sure what day to go? The Friday is a great warm-up, with lots of on-track action. Saturday is the busiest and most crowded. Sunday is more relaxed as the racing finalises. The Clubhouse ‘on the road’ will be opening to welcome you each day.

Fancy trying your Porsche on the track? Then Porsche Club’s evening track event at Brands Hatch on 10 May is just for you. It’s a great chance in a friendly environment to test the limits of both driver and car.

A quick call to the Club office will get you booked in.

See you out on the road Ed and Nick RECENT EVENTS Ace Cafe With our regular meet scheduled for Christmas Day, we were at a loss for December until our great friend and R20 fan Magnus Walker, in London for Christmas, wondered if there was anything Porsche-related happening. A check of the Ace Cafe schedule and a call to Mark, the renowned owner, and we stole the early Saturday morning slot. With 36 hours’ notice, the invite went out on the Club website and social media. With the first Porsches arriving in a dark and empty cafe car park at 7am, a steady stream soon filled the spaces, many regulars and others making their first visit. Furthest travellers came from Somerset and Whitstable. Warmed by mugs of coffee this was one of those great Ace Cafe meets; relaxed, and chatty. Magnus spent time chatting with everyone, taking pictures, signing books and cars.

Ben’s dancing and ‘slammed’ Boxster took the prize for the most outrageous Porsche. Overall, a great, ‘old skool’ car meet. By 10.30am we were all done, and the car park started filling with the Hertfordshire Subaru meet. Until next time.

Chrismas curry The traditional London Region Christmas curry, hosted by Tayyab’s, an award-winning curry restaurant in deepest Whitechapel, gave us a chance to talk about the adventures of 2017, with

Clockwise from top: Out East graffiti; Porsches at Out East; Magnus at Ace Cafe; two shots of Ace Cafe

DIARY DATES 29 JANUARY Ace Cafe meet Regular monthly Porsche-only meet on the North Circular Road, Stonebridge, London, NW10 7UD. From 6pm (last Monday of the month).

15-18 FEBRUARY The London Classic Car Show - ExCel London We will be at the Club stand (E45).

18 FEBRUARY East London Out East Beachy Road, London, E3 2NS 8.30am onwards (third Sunday of the month). Plenty of street parking, great coffee and soul.

26 FEBRUARY Ace Cafe meet Details as above.

4 AND 25 MARCH R20 Escape: Way Out West Heading westwards on some great B-roads, a great chance to blow the cobwebs away. **Sign-up opens on 31 January**

Chiltern Regional Organiser Terry Perry 07748 555333 – r21@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Convoy run to the Cornbury House Christmas Open Day On a damp Sunday morning about 20 of us met at the 94 Coffee Shop in Waddesdon for our drive in convoy to the Christmas Open Day at Cornbury House. The proprietor and staff coped well despite our sudden invasion as they opened. We set off in convoy and managed to stay together for most of the journey - having been caught in traffic at the Bicester shopping village last year, we decided to take a detour around the town and that worked well.

We took a cross-country route that was fairly free of traffic and provided some interesting roads for more spirited motoring. On arrival, one member commented, “So, that’s how Porsches should be driven”. The Clubhouse team were out in force to help with parking arrangements and coped remarkably well with the 300 cars or more that were in attendance. This year’s format with the Christmas market worked well, freeing up space in the Clubhouse and giving members more to enjoy.

drives heading out on great roads, two weekends away and our Great Escape to Switzerland and Austria. Friendships have been made and new experiences enjoyed.

Out East Fish Island was abuzz for our last meet of 2017.

Home to the popular Forman smokehouse, their teams were in early on Sunday morning to cater for the Londoners’ Christmas smoked salmon needs.

Their ‘Loch to Larder’ in 48-hour principle puts freshness at the heart of what they do. The misty cold morning was not enough to deter the hardy London Porsche owners and a steady stream arrived to chat with their friends, enjoy breakfast overlooking

the river and take pictures with the ever-changing street art backdrops.

Conversation quickly turned to upcoming events and things that we would like to do. Many drives, weekends and longer trips away happen offschedule, simply by a couple of members chatting, realising they have a common interest and organising something between themselves. In the past, this has included a group heading to Scotland for the NC500, weekends in Wales and Yorkshire, visits to Classic events in Europe and more. These ad hoc events, organised by members, rarely make it onto the official calendar and are one of the best reasons to attend our casual static meets.

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December Club night We had a really good attendance for our Club night Christmas buffet and quiz - over 45 people came along and we filled just about every seat in the Black Horse. The buffet was excellent and, although we had only booked for 35 people, fortunately there was enough to feed everyone. Several members of the R21 committee had written questions for the fun quiz, which ensured there was an eclectic mix of subjects and varying levels of difficulty. Team five comprising of Andrew, Tanzi, Amy, Andrew, Ashley, Terry, Martin and Jeanette were the eventual winners by a small margin. No prizes were awarded, just kudos and satisfaction for the victorious team!

New cars for R21 members Two of the regular attenders at R21 meetings treated themselves to new cars just before Christmas. Stuart Endean has changed his 997 GTS for an almost new stunning GT4 in Guards Red and Craig Phipps is now the proud owner of a very smart 996 C4S in Dark

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS 6 February Club night Gary Marsh will join us at the Black Horse to give a talk about performance driving. Gary has been involved in motorsport for many years, having started in racing as a junior engineer in F1 in the late ’70s.

More recently he has lectured on motorsport at Wiltshire College, which has a new facility based at Castle Combe race circuit. Gary has helped many people, including some R21 members, to improve their driving skills. Join us for what I am sure will be an interesting evening. We meet from 7pm with Gary’s presentation starting at about 8pm.

Terry DIARY DATES Planning continues and the provisional calendar is now as follows.

4 MARCH Prodrive visit 8 APRIL Breakfast meet at Denham 14 APRIL 928 and Porsche morning at the Cock Inn, Sarratt MAY: Clay pigeon shoot (date TBC) 11-13 MAY Weekend in Wales 24 JUNE Azuri Car Care visit (TBC) JUNE Cotswold Motor Museum 3 JULY R21 Concours at PC Hatfield AUGUST Drive and lunch SEPTEMBER Breakfast meet Details and exact dates of events will be confirmed nearer to the time.

Jonathan Mannell from Porsche Cars Great Britain provided an interesting talk

Sussex Regional Organisers Chris and Martin Woolger 07720 849982 or 07802 409272 R23@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS R23 Christmas at PC Mid-Sussex Our last meeting of 2017 was our Christmas party kindly hosted by PC Mid-Sussex. I am very pleased to say that this was our bestattended meeting of the year with 110 people booked for the evening.

PC Mid-Sussex laid on some superb food and refreshments for the evening and the showroom was full of Porsches to look at, including a couple of their clients’ rarer cars on display for us.

They had also arranged for Jonathan Mannell from Porsche Cars Great Britain to come down for the evening to give us a talk, which was unexpected and very interesting.

During the evening we had a charity raffle and raised £230 for Sussex Air Ambulance – thank you to everyone for supporting this.

Our first event of 2018 was a ‘Start of the Season’ dinner at Shoreham Airport, which took place on Friday, 26 January.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS Champagne tour and Classic Le Mans For those members who have booked on the driving tour to Champagne and Classic Le Mans please ensure that you have booked your entrance tickets and car parking for Le Mans – all details have been emailed to you.

The Romantic Road Our second driving tour of 2018 is a nine-day tour driving the Romantic Road in Germany starting on Saturday, 8 September. At the time of writing, there are only spaces for three cars remaining on this tour, so if you are interested, call or email to book as soon as possible, please. The full itinerary and details can be found at europeandrivingtours.co.uk/r23-pcgbromantic-road-2018 Breakfast and drive Our regular Sunday breakfast meetings with drives afterwards will start up again in February, so watch your emails for dates and booking information.

See below for outline dates. Breakfast dates and drives are being planned at the time of writing, along with other events and these will be published when dates are confirmed.

We look forward to seeing you at our meetings during 2018.

Chris and Martin Woolger DIARY DATES 6 FEBRUARY Monthly meeting - The Bolney Stage 6 MARCH Monthly meeting - The Bolney Stage 3 APRIL Monthly meeting - The Bolney Stage

Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire Regional Organiser John Dunn 01954 789764 – r24@porscheclubgb.com

Clockwise from top: Craig’s 996 C4S; Stuart’s stunning GT4; the quiz winners – Team Five

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Benefits and advantages of Regional PCGB membership I would like to take this opportunity to outline some of the benefits we have as members of the PCGB there are many.

To name just a few: this monthly magazine; Porsche Centre discounts and service clinics; insurance discounts and other offers from our independent sponsors; various Registers you can join; and National events at great venues. The Club also has a motorsport section and holds regular trackdays. What about the factory visits or if you need some technical advice? Want to travel? We have tours abroad and even international model events. If you like to polish, why not enter your car in

On Sunday there’s dedicated parking for Porsches on the Prom (580 cars took part in 2017).

On Friday and Saturday secure multi-storey car parking is available if required.

Join in 2018 Region fun and games

Other events We are still putting together our events for the 2018 season. However, if you know of an event that you think the Regional members would enjoy, please get in touch with either myself, or one of your committee, members, Edward, Steve or Wayne. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in 2018.

Many of the other events such as Supercar Sunday, our Regional Concours, Kimbolton Castle, golf/BBQ and ‘Drive and Dines’ are yet to be confirmed. Rest assured, your committee are working on them and will bring you further details once we have them. the Concours events? You may also wish to take advantage of the Club Shop and purchase clothing, books and so on. For those that like the internet we have a good website and a no-nonsense Forum. As many of you already know, all of these add up to a great deal.

For those members yet to attend a Regional meeting or event, read on. No doubt, the biggest benefit surely has to be your Region and its members.

You have monthly meetings at which to meet fellow enthusiastic PCGB members and display your car.

Members’ cars range from the very early air-cooled versions up through the years to the range of cars currently available at your Porsche Centre. Everyone is welcome.

At our monthly meetings we have various guest speakers (not all Porsche related) and a variety of competitions. We also have ‘News at Ten’ updates.

This will bring you up to date with all National and Regional events. We meet at a lovely location in the heart of the countryside with our own dedicated Clubroom and ample parking - you can bring the family to dine by the river. Your Region’s committee aim is ‘to provide a variety of quality events that we think will appeal to all our members and families throughout the year’. A list of R24 events can be found in the PP calendar.

So, why not make full use of what I think is one of the best deals on offer in the PCGB - your Region and its members? Come along and join us - we meet on the second Wednesday of every month. We look forward to meeting members old, new, and somewhere in between, at the Old Ferryboat Inn, Holywell, near St Ives. Arrive early and park your pride and joy in a prime spot in the dedicated parking area.

Enjoy your cars, Club and 2018 events.

RECENT EVENTS December Club night Not the best of weather but, nonetheless, a good number braved the elements to enjoy the last Club night of 2017. There was much banter and the free drinks helped wash down both birthday and Christmas cake, which were enjoyed by those present. The raffle, which continues to support our Region’s events, continues to help with us adding the ‘goodies’ at Regional events. Thank you to all who have continued to bring raffle prizes and to purchase tickets throughout 2017.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 18-20 May Regional WOTY North Wales A somewhat different event this year - we will be sharing St George’s Hotel in Llandudno with the 991 Register and R5. The luxury four-star front line hotel was voted AA Hotel of Year 2015-16 and overlooks the beautiful bay. A limited number of rooms will be available for all three groups combined - two nights’ dinner, bed and breakfast costs £390 only bookable with booking codes available by emailing me (jdpef356@hotmail.co.uk) for a flyer. Any questions please contact me.

We still have a few spaces but don’t delay, book now. As ever, it’s first come first served.

We will endeavour to run a Regional convoy on the Friday to join the other groups at the Bison Grill at the Rhug Estate on the A5. The group will then take a scenic drive to Llandudno.

Saturday’s Anglesey trackday is optional and will need booking separately. There are plenty of other options for those not wishing to participate.

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Kent Regional Organisers Phil and Pearl Sharland 01797 344121 – r25@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS PC Tonbridge PC Tonbridge hosted our December Club night at their premises. This proved to be one of our busiest with 93 people joining us for the wonderful buffet and drinks supplied by our hosts. We extend our sincere thanks to Vince McGrory, Dealer Principal, and all the Sales and Service staff for their hospitality.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS February Club night We will be back in the Kentagon on 14 February. As we write this we are still waiting for confirmation of dates for 2018 but we hope to be there on the second Wednesday of most months. Any changes to the dates will be published in PP and via our update emails.

18 February Breakfast Club Our first meeting of the year, at Bangers on the northbound carriageway of the A249 Detling Hill (ME14 3HT) from 9am onwards. Please let Mick or

From top: December Club night at PC Tonbridge; PC Tonbridge

Happy and safe motoring, Wishing you smooth and empty roads.

Phil and Pearl

DIARY DATES 14 FEBRUARY Club night - Brands Hatch 18 FEBRUARY Breakfast Club 4 MARCH Curling - Tunbridge Wells 14 MARCH Club night - Brands Hatch 18 MARCH Drive and Sunday lunch 11 APRIL Club night - Brands Hatch TBC.

Dorset Joint Regional Organisers Trefor Willingham 01747 838158 Karl Wells 07980 212056 r26@porscheclubgb.com Reports compiled and provided by Chris Hak. RECENT EVENTS Sue Dennis know you’d like to attend by emailing m1ck.dennis@btinternet.com in advance, please.

4 March Curling in Tunbridge Wells Places are limited for this fun and entertaining sport and will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis.

We will have three lanes to ourselves. A coach will show us the ropes and explain the rules. Wrap up warm as this takes place on ice - you will be issued with non-slip shoes.

Cost is £20pp and we will need full payment by 2 February latest.

R25 calendar You should have received our 2018 calendar of events by now and we hope there are some events that you will find interesting. If you have not received your copy yet, please let us know and we will get one to you.

All our events can be found in the Kent Region calendar of events, as well as in PP and on the Club website.

If you have not registered your email address with the Club, please do so soon so that we can send you our regular updates on all our events.

Christmas dinner and dance After a two-year break, the George Albert Hotel hosted our social event of the year – and a fine job they did too! We were ushered to our room for the evening to be greeted with festively decorated tables

Clockwise from top left: Derek Bell, Phil Brine, Mike Gillespie, Nick Perry – not forgetting Derek’s 924 Carrera GTS; Karl presents Tref with the R26 Member of the Year award; Derek Bell’s 924 Carrera GTS, Club night centrepiece at PC Bournemouth

Club nights Our monthly meetings take place on the second Wednesday of each month at The Kentagon at Brands Hatch, near West Kingsdown (Main Gate on the A20) from 7.30pm. They are always very informal and give an opportunity to meet new people and make new friends. Whatever Porsche you drive you will always find someone with a similar interest.

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and a glass of bubbly. With greater space than the more intimate venue of the previous two years, the slide show was on a much larger screen and visible to the entire audience, a table in the corner heaved under the weight of raffle prizes and there was plenty of room for the officials to do their bit under the spotlight.

Dinner was served with the usual George Albert efficiency and the staff ensured all 45 members and guests dined at pretty much the same time.

Comments regarding the food were generally positive and, although there was a feeling it wasn’t perhaps quite up to the standard of fare served at our last few Christmas parties at the George Albert, nobody had any cause for complaint.

With dinner out of the way and coffee served, it was time for the business side of the evening, the Member of the Year award and the raffle. With Geoff and Lou officiating over the draw, the table full of prizes was soon empty. In addition to member contributions, generous prizes from the Bridge House Hotel, PC Bournemouth, Marque 21 and Rich Pearce Photography found lucky winners. Thanks to all who contributed either through donating prizes, purchasing tickets, or both. Ticket sales raised £148 for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, bringing 2017’s total to £493.

Everybody enjoyed an excellent evening and, on behalf of our members and committee, I’d like to thank the hotel and all our sponsors for making it such a success.

R26 Member of the Year “R26 committee members aren’t eligible for the Member of the Year award.” Those are the rules but,

as we all know, rules are made to be broken – especially if it’s broken by the person who wrote it.

Those at the Christmas dinner will have witnessed the final act in a story of planning, deception and clandestine discussions reminiscent of a Le Carré novel, which culminated in Karl awarding the award to Trefor Willingham who, up to the moment his name was announced, was completely in the dark. We’re a creative group on the committee - keeping the result from Tref was easy, the difficult part was Karl’s task of persuading Tref to hand over the reins for the announcement, his favourite job of the year.

Tref has been the R26 RO for 13 years - longer than many of us have been in the Club. I’m sure that most of us aren’t aware of the level of personal commitment required to make a success of the job – and successful Tref has undoubtedly been, driving R26 towards ever more ambitious heights in terms of number, magnitude, variation and quality of events and there’s no sign of him letting up anytime soon. On behalf of everyone in R26 I would like to congratulate him on receiving this well-deserved award. Now he’s got it, hopefully he’ll ease the pressure off a bit (some hope!).

Monthly meeting at PC Bournemouth Establishing itself as a bit of a Christmas tradition, PC Bournemouth again kindly opened their doors for a relaxed R26 monthly meeting. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be there as my 89-year-old mum had her hip replaced on the day, so it’s over to Tref to report: “The lead up to Christmas is a busy time for any hotel and restaurant. It was no exception for the George Albert so, for the second year, we were very grateful to PC Bournemouth for hosting the December meeting. Members brought food for the buffet (like a ‘bring a bottle’ party, but with food) and did us proud. It was also good to meet up with old friends and new faces - some found this venue easier to get to.

“Star of the evening for me (and probably anyone else with even a metaphorical drop of petrol in their veins) had to be Derek Bell’s 924 Carrera GTS. He had been in earlier to collect the car but had agreed to leave it with the Centre a little longer for us to enjoy.

The staff did try to keep him talking so he might have been present for our meeting, but six hours would have been stretching it a bit! Maybe next time…

“A belated prize from the Christmas dinner raffle was also drawn – the donor had managed to get the dates confused (rest assured, he’ll not be allowed to forget that in a hurry), but all’s well that ends well and, whilst the recipients were not able to be at the December meeting, we look forward to hearing how they enjoyed their prize.

“We kept the ‘talky bit’ to a minimum – there was much to see and enjoy, as always at PC Bournemouth, so after our thanks to the staff, it just remained to wish our members a merry Christmas and happy New Year, and a safe journey home.”

support the event with cars for display. Therefore our February Club night will now be at the George Albert Hotel on 22 February. Further details will no doubt have been presented at the monthly meeting, but keep an eye on the usual sources for updates.

DIARY DATES 15 FEBRUARY Classic Porsche evening PC Bournemouth 22 FEBRUARY Monthly meeting - George Albert Hotel **Note, this is the fourth week**

Ireland Regional Organiser Ken Mack 07860 850444 – r27@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser John Hilditch 07907 437303 RECENT EVENTS December round-up On behalf of the entire R27 committee, I begin by extending a very happy New Year to everyone in R27.

Thank you for your support and encouragement during 2017 and I look forward to seeing you at the

events planned for 2018. Dates are on the Club website and it’s not too late to make a New Year resolution that includes R27!

But first, a look back at how we rounded off 2017.

Over 40 members took time out from the manic activity ahead of Christmas to attend our last meeting of the year. It was a welcome return to Malone House in the grounds of Barnett Demesne on the outskirts of Belfast where we hosted our annual mince pies and coffee afternoon.

On the agenda was a discussion around a summer trip (in addition to our annual local weekend away, which will take place between Easter and the May bank holidays).

Previously, we had discussed attending the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July and I had promised to bring along some costings. Including travel costs, either by air or ferry in high season, was raising the cost considerably, and we agreed to dismiss the idea as an option for 2018. However, I would be open to considering attending the event in the future.

It is challenging to arrange ‘away events’ that suit everyone, dates often conflict with family holidays and work commitments but, nevertheless, we still have a couple of interesting options!

One of our long-standing members, Robin Titterington has offered R27 members the opportunity to join a trip he is organising to attend the Le Mans Classic and Robin gave an overview of the 6-8 July 2018 trip. Anyone who missed it or would like to find out more should give me a call in the first instance to discuss.

Derek Bell at PC Bournemouth As mentioned, following some remedial work carried out by Nick Perry earlier in the day, Derek Bell arrived to collect his 924 Carrera GTS from PC Bournemouth but kindly left it so it could form a centrepiece for our Club night. He didn’t hang around for our meeting, but did stay long enough for Rich Pearce to get some photographs and, I have to say, looks very pleased with the car. If you are reading this Derek, thanks for making our Club night an extra special one!

FORTHCOMING EVENTS PC Bournemouth is hosting a Classic Porsche evening on 15 February. We’re invited to attend and

Clockwise from top left: the new PC Belfast; ballot-winning table!; Tom Derrick with his new ‘other car’; just a little snow for the last meeting of 2017; Paul McAleer in his new ‘Santa Silver’ Boxster

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Another option available to us is our own PCGB National Event, being held at the annual Silverstone Classic on 20-22 July. As a Region, we attended Silverstone in 2016 and this year’s event promises to be very special, especially with Porsche celebrating its 70th anniversary.

The third option discussed was to stay local.

Following on from our 2017 driving weekend when we explored the Inishowen Peninsula as part of the Wild Atlantic Way, we considered picking up where we left off and clocking up a few hundred miles on what is considered internationally as one of the world’s outstanding drives! Spoilt for choice, we will be firming up our plans over the next couple of meetings. I would welcome comments from members at meetings or directly by phone.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS Pre-season dinner Moving on and catching up with other Region admin, I would draw your attention to the change of date of our pre-season dinner. It has now been brought forward by a week to Saturday, 10 February.

The location remains the same; Edenmore Country Club, Magheralin. Cost is £30pp (three courses, followed by tea or coffee). Pre-booking and payment of a £10 deposit is required along with menu selection. Details have been emailed to all members. Bookings close on Monday, 5 February.

As always, members are most welcome to bring along guests.

PC Belfast Now, it’s over to PC Belfast for this month’s Top Tip in the form of some very exciting news! “ We are delighted to announce that the new PC Belfast premises opened for business on Monday, 18 December.

“The new address is 90 Sydenham Road, Belfast, BT3 9DJ. Set in the heart of the Titanic Quarter, it has easy local access via M1, 2 and 3 motorways and, of course, we are now in close proximity to Belfast City Airport and Belfast Port.

“Our commitment to the Porsche brand in Northern Ireland is exemplified by the investment of this new state-of-the-art Centre, which we know will benefit all our customers and provide an excellent environment for our fantastic team to operate in.

The new Centre allows us to showcase a wider range of new Porsche models, alongside our largest ever selection of Porsche Approved pre-owned models. In addition, our service capabilities have increased, ensuring your Porsche is maintained to the highest standards.

“This improved scale and environment allow us to provide the best possible facilities for our customers because we know that what makes PC Belfast unique is the service, expertise and people.

“Please contact us on 028 9038 9999 for more information and we look forward to welcoming all of our customers to the new Centre.”

Before signing off for this month, and following that very welcome news from PCB, on behalf of R27 we extend best wishes to Centre Principal Carl Russell, Aftersales Manager Paul McConaghy, Sales Manager Conor King, Parts Manager George Straghan, Service Controller Steven Biggerstaff and the entire team at the brand spanking new PC Belfast!

Ken Mack

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DIARY DATES 7 FEBRUARY Loughshore Hotel 75 Belfast Road, Carrickfergus BT38 8PH (7.30pm - early bird menu available until 7pm).

10 FEBRUARY Pre-season dinner - Edenmore Country Club, Magheralin 7 MARCH Gowdys of Down Royal 60 Gravelhill Road, Lisburn BT27 5RW (7.30pm early bird menu available until 6.30pm).

10 MARCH Dublin Classic Show 18 MARCH First drive of the 2018 season

Channel Islands, Guernsey Regional Organisers Ian and Angela Banneville 01481 715678 – r28g@porscheclub.com Twitter: @PCGB_Guernsey RECENT EVENTS December Christmas lunch Like a compulsion to listen to Slade, eat mince pies, watch Die Hard, or (in the case of my children) to behave slightly better than usual, the Region’s Christmas lunch is a sure sign that Yuletide is on the way.

The Jerbourg Hotel has formed part of our December celebrations for a number of years and we enjoyed what has become the traditional good turnout (“table for 17 please”). We were greeted by a mystery Cayman R for sale at the entrance, which immediately started the man maths.

Before our first course, the boys handed out Angela’s Christmas quiz, which this year proved to be particularly fiendish. The degree of competitiveness brought out during this test suggests that we should incorporate a karting evening into next year’s calendar.

After the main course, which for most was a huge carvery, we went on to devour a selection of incredible cakes before proceeding to awards.

After children’s stockings and the audit of quiz results had been completed, prizes were handed out to the top three. Mike and Heather Jehan narrowly beat Peter and Janet Lainé into third on the tiebreaker, but Paul and Charlotte Sheward took the top honours.

Jean-Marc received a chocolate reindeer for correctly guessing the number of Porsches produced at Gmund before the move to Stuttgart (50). It seems that ‘anoraksia’ is hereditary.

Our final award was presented to our Member of the Year. This year the trophy went to Ian C-T, a relatively new member, who has been a consistent supporter of our events in 2017. We have very much enjoyed Ian’s company and that of his family during the year.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS We have put together the provisional calendar of events for next year. There are a few gaps remaining, which gives us room to add additional ideas or special requests if you have them. We have also included The Jersey Motoring Festival, in the hope that some of you may be interested in joining us in visiting our Jersey colleagues, and also the Club Brands Hatch Festival, which should prove to be a very entertaining away trip for those that are interested.

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February gin tasting We are looking into arranging a gin tasting at the Bella Luce Hotel, including an overnight stay. Details to follow by email.

A la Porschaine Ian, Angela, Sebastian and Jean-Marc DIARY DATES 31 MAY-3 JUNE Jersey Motoring Festival

Channel Islands, Jersey Regional Organiser Goetz Eggelhoefer 07797 892502 - r28j@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Christmas in R28 Jersey By the time members read this submission to February PP, the Christmas season will be a distant memory and the New Year’s resolution to eat less and exercise more will be well underway. Good luck with that! Nevertheless, I would like to thank the 30-plus members who turned up for the Club’s Christmas lunch at the Atlantic Hotel on 9 December.

The enthusiasm with which everyone threw themselves headlong into the Great Christmas Porsche Quiz was gratifying to behold.

Congratulations go to the ‘McCann’s Boys’ team, who narrowly walked away with the Champagne prizes. I am able to report that Goetz’s little elves are already hard at work data-mining to produce another festive quiz for next Christmas.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS Looking ahead, Fiona and I are keen to add one or two charitable events to our 2018 events calendar. For those who were not able to join us for lunch in December, we currently have two potential events in mind, but would certainly welcome other suggestions. The first is Drive for Miles, which is a charity that organises drives in sports cars – predominantly Porsches from around Europe – for children who are suffering from cancer. The next meeting and drive will take place in Luxembourg on

the weekend of 14 April. The second charity event is the Gallery Rally, which will conclude with a black tie dinner in Monaco this year. This rally raises funds to support numerous Jersey-based charities.

Several Club members have participated in this rally in the past and recommend it highly. The Gallery Rally will take place from 28 September-1 October.

David Sass and I have already signed up but we look forward to seeing a few other members at this event. As always, details of these events can be found on the PCGB website.

Our best wishes go to our members for the year ahead.

Goetz and Fiona Eggelhoefer

Surrey Committee Chairman Mike Lucas Regional Contact Keith Morgan 07833 206078 (before 9pm) r29@porscheclubgb.com Well, here we are in 2018 and there are now only 11 months to Christmas! It only seems like yesterday that we were welcoming the start of 2017, but hopefully there have been a number of events last year that you have enjoyed. Our calendar of events can be found in the Surrey Region section of the PCGB website and, whatever your particular interests may be, there should be something there of interest to you again this year. Whilst you’re there, take a look at the gallery and see what we have been getting up to at our events. The Club is all about its members and without you there is no Club. Although the car is the catalyst, the social side is also very important and we try to combine the two in the Surrey Region.

RECENT EVENTS December meeting We had a good turnout for the December meeting and we had our normal pre-Christmas coffee and mince pie extravaganza to help things along.

However, take-up was a bit slower than normal this year, probably due to the fact that we had only just got over our Christmas dinner festivities a few days earlier and our calorie counting activities had already gone into overdrive!

We had expected Kelvin from PC Reading to come along with his Porsche ‘goodies,’ but that, unfortunately, didn’t happen so there were probably a few members whose Christmas stockings were not as full as they had hoped!

The night did give us a good opportunity to catch up with the latest news, talk about things mechanical and then to wish each other the compliments of the season as we departed to begin the countdown towards the arrival of the man in the red suit.

Christmas dinner This year we had our Christmas dinner in our normal meeting room at Silvermere, the Waterside Suite. We had a good turnout and it was nice to see that we had some of our newer members also joining us for the evening. The five tables with their occupants certainly gave the room a cosy feel and there was plenty of banter flowing, along with party balloons that depleted the contents of one’s lungs during the ‘blow-up’ phase and then zig-zagged across the room to unceremoniously drop on some poor unsuspecting member getting to grips with the turkey!

We had our customary raffle with a good helping of chocolate and Porsche-related prizes, helped along by Mike Lucas in his role as chief rabble organiser. The prize that most people wanted was the set of RS 2.7 long drink glasses and David Evans was triumphant with the first ticket drawn. We should have had an auction!

Eventually, the evening came to an end and we all said our farewells. I think we all had a very enjoyable time and we are very grateful to the staff of Silvermere for all their efforts both before and during the evening.

Carol singing at the Royal Albert Hall Brenda Trotter reports: “We all met in our usual bar just above the clock at Waterloo station for a quick chat and coffee.

After working out the quickest route we all filed, crocodile style, onto two underground trains and had quite a walk before arriving at the Albert Hall. For those who have not been before, it’s an amazing piece of Victorian architecture, a huge auditorium with no apparent supporting arches or beams to spoil the view.

“We were positioned behind the choir, which is a good place to see the orchestra and choir and also get a good close-up view. The

conductor, Jonathan Cohen, was very entertaining as usual and the boys enjoyed seeing the glamorous Louise Dearman with her various costume changes.

It was a wonderful atmosphere with lots of Christmas hats, necklace lights and lusty singing. We also had great fun and exercise jumping up and down to ‘Five Gold Rings’. It’s the same every year but still brings a smile and it was a real start to the Christmas celebrations.

“We then headed off to the nearest pub we could find, ‘The Bunch of Grapes’ in Knightsbridge, for a late lunch. The food was excellent and there was a good Porsche party atmosphere. It was nice to see members’ friends joining us again and seeing Leigh and Justine after such a long time.

“We then all went our different ways, some to see the Christmas lights and Brenda Wareham who was going shopping in Harrods only a few doors away! Good job Colin was with her to carry the bags! A big thank you to Brenda Wareham for organising this most enjoyable day for us all.”

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 25 February Indian bufet lunch This is a Sunday lunch outing to Shampan at The Spinning Wheel, Westerham TN16 2HX. If you would like to join us please let me know so that we can make the necessary arrangements with the restaurant.

Events calendar To download a printable events calendar, please see the Surrey Region area of the Club’s website.

Club nights Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at the Inn on the Lake, Silvermere Golf Club, Redhill Road, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 1EF starting at 8pm.

Keith Morgan DIARY DATES 13 FEBRUARY Club night - Silvermere Golf Club 25 FEBRUARY Indian bufet lunch - The Spinning Wheel, Westerham 13 MARCH Club night - Silvermere Golf Club 24 MARCH Clay pigeon shooting **Fully booked** 10 APRIL Club night - Silvermere Golf Club

From left: Surrey Region’s carol singers pose for the publicity shot!; all smiles around the dinner table

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Isle of Man Regional Organiser Julian Chappell 01624 816563 (evenings) iom@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Steve Morrow 07624 433268 Steve_m2@manx.net

Cotswold Regional Organisers Alan and Fiona Bartlett 07785 928687 – r31@porscheclubgb.com @PCGB_R31 facebook.com/pcgb.r31 Monthly round-up With the short days and Yuletide preparations, you could be forgiven for thinking that December was a quiet month for R31. As it happened, several events took place in the run-up to Christmas.

We also had a busy time finalising the events that will be taking place in the Region throughout 2018.

You will be pleased to know that these have now been published on our Events pages and on Facebook (facebook.com/pcgb r31).

From top: R31 assembles at Oxford Peartree Services for the Cotswold Christmas Cruise; a Boxster 987 gets a clean bill of health at PC Swindon; an air-cooled engine awaits installation after a rebuild at PC Swindon

Family health issues occupied a considerable amount of our time in December, so please accept our apologies if we couldn’t always respond to your messages as quickly as you’d have wished. We hope you’ll understand. Our sincere thanks go to Graham Simons who kept the Region’s Facebook page and Forum updated when we couldn’t.

RECENT EVENTS Cotswold Christmas Cruise to Cornbury House Early on a Sunday, on a damp and overcast morning, 19 of us met up at Oxford Peartree Services to enjoy a drive up to Moreton-in-Marsh for the annual Christmas Open Day at Cornbury House. Lured by the promise of mince pies, a good natter and a chance to do some shopping in the Club Shop and Christmas market, we had a thoroughly enjoyable drive up via Burford and Stow-on-the-Wold, managing to keep in convoy the entire way. The pleasure of a brisk (but legal) cruise in a convoy of 16 Porsches, along empty Cotswold roads with other Porsche aficionados, served to remind us why members turn out on cold winter mornings.

The clear advantage of arriving early was finding parking spaces close to Cornbury House, allowing us to get a head start on the serious matters of mince pie scoffing and having a chinwag or two. By late morning, Cornbury House was packed with members.

Somehow though, the HQ team kept everyone happy with copious quantities of hot drinks and mince pies.

This was by far the busiest Cornbury House Open Day we’d attended and, pleasingly, R31 members turned out en masse to support the event. The good company, mince pies and shopping opportunity was clearly an irresistible combination.

Our sincere thanks go to all those who joined us and the Cornbury House team who looked after everyone so well.

PC Swindon open morning On a bright Saturday morning, around 30 members got up early to attend a special members-only open morning arranged for us by PC Swindon. Some of us met up in Burford and travelled to the Dick Lovett dealership in convoy. On arrival, Dealer Principal, Simon Lisemore and Customer Service Manager, Mark Scholes welcomed us. After consuming some very welcome bacon sarnies, pastries and hot drinks, Simon gave us a potted history of Dick Lovett’s long association with the Porsche marque as well as a general overview of this state-of-the-art Porsche Classic Partner centre.

Afterwards, members were able to tour the dealership and see its impressive facilities to get a ‘behind the scenes’ glimpse of the workings of one of the most well-known and longest-established Porsche franchises in the country.

After touring the facilities and wondering how they managed to hang a full-size 356 Speedster up high on the showroom wall, several members’ cars were brought into the workshop and put up on ramps for a check over. This was undoubtedly one of the highlights of the visit and proved exceptionally valuable for everyone, especially the owners, who received valuable technical advice from the workshop technicians, who also helped identify any issues requiring attention.

Afterwards, several of us went across the road to look around Dick Lovett’s Ferrari Centre. After saying our farewells to the PC Swindon team around midday, we headed for home.

We can’t let it go without saying sincere thanks to Simon and Mark, and the entire PC Swindon team for their kind hospitality and for making us all so welcome. We look forward to the next time.

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Christmas lunch Now something of a tradition, the Cotswold Christmas meal, held at the Mill House Hotel, Kingham is one of the highlights of the R31 year. This year, however, heavy snow fell across the Midlands and the Cotswolds and, as no one was able to negotiate the roads to Kingham, even in 4x4s, we had to postpone our Yuletide celebration for a week.

Although some of those who originally planned to attend were unable to make the rescheduled date, the 37 members who did make it, had a really brilliant time over a relaxed lunch with a great group of people, who we are very pleased to count as our friends.

As before, the restaurant team made us extremely welcome and accommodated our party in the large dining area, providing the perfect setting to enjoy one another’s company. With the excellent food and convivial atmosphere, time just flew by.

As one of the Club’s smaller Regions, we felt enormously pleased that such a large proportion of R31 members came along, even more so, given the awful weather that conspired to frustrate our festive gathering.

As ever, small touches make the difference between ordinary and special. To this end, we are especially grateful to PC Swindon who so kindly provided a selection of table gifts for members. We are also grateful to the Mill House Hotel for their attentiveness, hard work and hospitality. Sadly, the Mill House Hotel has now closed so our 2018 lunch will be held at a new venue.

Finally, we’d like to say a big thank you for the unexpected gifts we received. Your kindness and friendship are very much appreciated.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS The next monthly meeting will be on 14 February at The Red Lion, Long Compton and the next Coffee Cruise takes place on 25 February at the Cotswold Gateway Hotel.

Full details of events can be found in the Cotswold Region section on the Club website and on our Facebook page (facebook.com/pcgb.r31). Events sometimes need to be changed or cancelled, so please always check for last-minute updates on our Facebook page or Twitter feed (@PCGB_R31) before setting off.

Drive safely and see you soon.

Alan and Fiona

DIARY DATES 14 FEBRUARY Monthly meeting - The Red Lion, Long Compton 25 FEBRUARY Sunday Cofee Cruise meet Cotswold Gateway Hotel, Burford 14 MARCH Monthly meeting - The Plough Inn, Alvescot near Carterton 18 MARCH Sunday Cofee Cruise meet Cotswold Gateway Hotel 25 MARCH Spring Tea Bun Run drive out Moreton-in-Marsh to Aston.

11 APRIL Monthly meeting - The Red Lion, Long Compton 15 APRIL Trans-Wessex Tour Social run to Cheddar Gorge via Bath.

22 APRIL Sunday Brunch Scramble/Drive-itDay - Bicester 29 APRIL Sunday Cofee Cruise meet Cotswold Gateway Hotel

REGISTERS Register Director’s report Welcome to the Club in 2018. This year sees the 70th Anniversary of Porsche and there are plenty of events planned this year to celebrate this milestone - I hope to meet many of you at one or more venues.

Personally, I utilise the wall planner to give me a ‘heads up’ on what is coming up to allow me to plan my presence. It’s going to be a busy year!

We recently hosted a Motorsport Open Day at Cornbury House. This enabled members to meet and

356 Register Secretary Fred Hampton 01992 581580 – 356@porscheclubgb.com

912 Register Secretary Rowena Purdy 01472 399381 – 912@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Register Secretary Vacancy Another month has whizzed past – almost catching me out! Sometimes it is interesting to take the opportunity to re-read the current month’s report in a previous year to see how activities and thoughts change. This time last year I was recovering from major surgery – and this year I am recovering from slightly less major surgery, but with the same restrictions of heavy lifting and digging the garden.

The month was reasonably quiet on the 912 front. I managed to drive the car the four miles to my local garage – the one which carried out the MOT – to give the classic expert there a chance to carry out a full service with a view to letting the garage keep an eye on the car for me.

Having collected the 912, and given it a bit of a ‘road test’ to see how the car performed, I took it to Andy at Rust 2 Riches in Ludford so he could fit the passenger window riser. Andy had only recently moved into new premises and was waiting for the certification for his spray booth. I was fully aware that I would not be seeing the 912 for a week or so but I was in no hurry.

Once the work was complete, I took the car for a ‘bit of a spin’ around some rather slushy minor roads

to discuss the activities involved - starting with the Club’s ever-popular trackdays through to competing in the Club, Speed and Hillclimb Championships.

Competitors and preparers were on hand to offer advice and guidance. As always, at our events, you are most welcome to take part or to just spectate.

Many Registers and Regions are represented so please make the most of your membership.

Please continue to enjoy your Porsches and the Club. If I can be of any assistance, please feel free to contact the Clubhouse team or me.

Albert Walsh Register Director register@porscheclubgb.com 07753 441730

to make sure that the passenger window was not going to slide down again - it stayed up!

I still have to plan how to fit my navigation equipment in the front of the 912. The tripmeter needs to be fitted by early February when I shall be attending the Historic Rally Car Register’s (HRCR) Rally Training Day in Knutsford with my new navigator.

RECENT EVENTS Christmas lunch As last year, Region 4 held its annual Christmas lunch at Branston Hall in mid December – the day that our meteorologists had decided that most of Lincolnshire was going to be snowbound! I had just fitted my Kia with ‘all weather’ tyres and decided to use it to take my houseguest and me to the venue. Whilst we saw very little snow, my guest was slightly worried about getting home across the Pennines with the stated forecast and decided to return home directly from her previous week’s holiday instead.

The organisers had spilt up the tables around the room and had allocated a table to those of us who are about to drive the North Coast 500 in May. This was a good way for us to get to know each other before the actual meeting venue just north of Peebles on day one of the drive. All had a great time. We did not win the music quiz, set by another Region 4 member to keep us all amused, but I have to admit that I won a raffle prize – a book entitled ‘Original Porsche 911 1964 to 1998’!

FORTHCOMING EVENTS The next Officials’ Conference and AGM is scheduled for 21-22 April, so I shall be attending, hopefully without sudden bombshells during the Conference.

No doubt further details will be disseminated from Cornbury House.

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will be a permanent feature of the event and have already managed to amass over 20 912s for the display. I shall be taking mine and will hope to catch up with many of you. More details will be added via MailChimp and the web pages.

Region 4’s Blyton Park trackday is scheduled for 25 May - details/entry forms will be available nearer the time. I shall be unable to take part, as I shall be driving down from Scotland having completed the North Coast 500 the previous week. Places do get filled up very quickly these days so keep an eye on the Region 4 web page. There will be no second bite at the cherry, as, unlike last year, Region 4 will not be organising a follow-up trackday in September.

Looking further ahead, the Club’s National Event will again take place at Silverstone during the Silverstone Classic Weekend. Details are currently somewhat sketchy as some changes are apparently in the offing. I have volunteered for all three days again as I enjoy meeting Club members from all over the country (and overseas), especially those members who drive the 912.

Following on from that event is the Yorkshire Porsche Pageant at Lotherton Hall. Once again, I have been asked to supply a number of 912s to add to the many 911s, which seem to dominate the show area. This year we should have our own display area, depending on the number of owners that I can rustle up so, if you plan to come, please let me know.

Last year I was on my own, so please can I see more 912 owners this year? 2017 saw over 600 Porsches on show and the event was very well run, that is until the hog roast ran out (more people turned up than expected!) and before the weather turned nasty. I did enjoy talking Porsches all day long (especially to the owner/driver of the 911 rally car parked under the trees)!

Until next month…

Rowena

Early 911 (2.0,2.2 &2.4) Register Secretary Ian McLeod 07539 033377 – 911@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Robin Walker robinjowalker@aol.com Technical Assistant Alan Drayson 07446 931125 alan@canfordclassics.co.uk

911 Sportomatic Register Secretary Peter Cook 01789 400832 – sporto@porscheclubgb.com

A belated happy New Year to all Sportomatic owners and, for most of us, a ‘very’ happy New Year indeed!

From May 2018, cars over 40 years of age no longer require a MOT, a decision that applies to all but a few Sportos. As my car only tends to see a Porsche specialist garage occasionally (the annual mileage is so low these days), I, for one, will continue to ensure my car passes its MOT as it provides a useful safety check - although I may only have it done every 18 months. I have not checked but assume that if the car fails it will require a re-test or the road fund licence application (although again free for most Sportos) will be rejected.

2017 saw the 50th Anniversary of the Sportomatic system and its triumph at the Nürburgring when Elford, Neerpach and Herrmann took their Sporto powered 911 R to victory in the Marathon de la Route.

They won by an incredible 1,000km.

If you have a Sportomatic and want to register, or find out if your car has been registered, please email sporto@porscheclubgb.com Peter

911 Carrera RS Register Secretary Fred Hampton 01992 581580 – carrerars@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Mike Chadwick 01454 232232 – mvc@fly7.co.uk

911 2.7 Carrera & 3.0 Register Secretary Guy White 01493 750278 91127carrera3@porscheclubgb.com Technical Assistant Tony Ruggles 01992 892333 For this month’s report I have heard from two Register members with 911 2.7 Targas that have been undergoing restoration.

Marcus Gilbert The first was Marcus Gilbert who started the restoration of his 1974 911 2.7 in June 2015. As Marcus says: “The car drives like new - probably because most of the car has been rebuilt using genuine Porsche parts throughout. The only original outer panel is the front bonnet. The engine has been completely rebuilt and runs beautifully, all the suspension has also been rebuilt or replaced. The car drives perfectly and is finished to Concours standard, irrespective of cost. Everything has been completely restored, engine, body... the lot painted, re-chromed and replaced where needed. The goal was perfection. All the nuts and bolts were re-zinced if retrievable, otherwise they were replaced with genuine Porsche parts - I kid you not! Receipts for tens of thousands of pounds.”

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Tom Davies Secondly, about a week after being contacted by Marcus, I heard from Tom Davies who owns one of a very few 1975 911 S Targas that are believed to have survived. His car is emerging from a restoration at Canford Classics, which also started in 2015 and, following a shakedown, he hopes to have the car back and on the road in February. During the restoration, particular attention was paid to reproduce the vary rare Red Madras cloth interior, which was a special-order option only available in 1974 and 1975 model years.

Guy

911 SC Register Secretary Paul Thompson 01531 822 305 07836 261 365 911sc@porscheclubgb.com Technical Advisor David Sewell dave.autohaus@gmail.com I have mentioned before that cars over 40 years of age are now classed as historic vehicles and are road tax-free. In addition, from next year cars over 40 years old will no longer be required to have an MOT. I personally do not agree, and I will continue to have my historic vehicles tested for my own peace of mind.

At least you will now have more time to rectify any, hopefully minor, problems that would have caused your SC to fail its MOT before you must stop driving it.

Check the government website to see when your SC is officially 40. You can then apply at a post office to have her reclassified and, good news, any overpaid road tax will be returned. Yippee!

LED lighting I have also mentioned a few times the success I have had with LED bulbs in my SC and older cars. Stuart King, of the pre-war Morris register, wrote an excellent article on the law and use of LED lighting. I have summarised how this may affect us SC owners.

The law is complex and even the DVLA is unable to completely confirm everything I have surmised.

Firstly, for vehicles first registered before 1 April 1986 there is no ban on LED lighting. After 1986 all bulbs must have e/E marks on them. The regulation requires lighting should not cause dazzle or discomfort to road users. It also states a minimum wattage for various bulbs. Car headlamps must be at least 30 watts (exactly the rating of my LED headlamps). Stop lamps and direction indicator bulbs must be a minimum of 15 watts unfortunately LED equivalents, though much brighter, are much lower wattage and theoretically illegal. But, to look on the bright side, the alternator on a SC gives more than enough output unlike early dynamos.

Clockwise from top: Tom Davies’ very rare Red Madras cloth interior; Tom’s 1975 911 S Targa; Marcus Gilbert’s 1974 2.7 911

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Paul Brownlees’ early 911 SC Region 27’s Paul Brownlees dropped me a line about his early SC, which will be road tax-free next year: “I was reading your article in this month’s PP and realised that my 1978 SC was one of those manufactured in 1977 (its chassis number 9118301679 with a production completion date of 23 December 1977). It is an original ‘sport’ model, which was specified with many options, including black trim instead of chrome and coloured windows! I am amazed at the number of parts still available for it and have just

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Region 27’s Paul Brownlees standing proudly between his 911 SC and 996 TT

Carrera 3.2 maintenance Thanks to our member, Colin, there is a maintenance article in the pipeline awaiting publication in PP. What about having some of your garage/driveway jobs reproduced here? A few paragraphs (approximately 500 words), plus some high-resolution photos, and everyone could share the benefit of your experience.

purchased, from PC Belfast, a new ’78 Driver’s Manual and Maintenance Record and complete tool roll, both at much cheaper prices than eBay! I have attached a photo of me standing proudly between it and my 996 TT. The SC is, by far, my favourite of the two!”

Thanks Paul. Come on everyone, let me know about your 40-year-old SCs and if you had any problems getting them reclassified as historic, and include pictures please.

Paul

911 Carrera 3.2 Register Secretary Steve and Sue Edwards 02083 667770 911carrera32@porscheclubgb.com Technical Advisor Charles Marsland 01732 848323 It seems a while ago now, but I would say the new experiences put on at the Clubhouse Christmas Open Day were a success. The invited concessions were good to browse, and the coffee and mince pies were as good as ever. I did see a few Carrera 3.2s parked up but, sadly, despite Sue and I wearing our official Register name badges, didn’t meet the owners.

Please always say hello if you spot us.

Starter motor Looking back even further, I remember when the starter motor let us down on holiday. Having not shown any problem prior to leaving, the trouble only started once we had been away a couple of days. It was fine firing up from cold, or if the engine had a chance to cool down, but once heated through, the motor just wouldn’t turn. Fortunately, Charles was with us and suspected the motor windings. He’d seen this problem before and suggested a new, or refurbished, starter to fix the problem. I had read about lighter, higher power, faster cranking starters even before this happened - my preference would be for a lighter unit.

It is common knowledge that the 3.2 is an easy motor to start, not usually needing much to coax it into life, so faster and higher power would not be my priority. The fault had caught us out in a few choice places - once

on a one-way street on an uphill gradient. The only way to get going was to have a push backwards downhill on a slight bend, and against traffic! My initiation in reverse bump starting was complete and the car ready to go, thanks to a push by our friends.

The last re-start experience was on the Eurotunnel return trip. In preparation, I had the lid up to help cool things, but the train attendant requested that I shut the lid, advising that I could set off the fire alarm. I decided not to argue that there were no hot spots likely to trigger this because with the flat six it’s only the cool side of the engine that’s uppermost, unlike a standard engine configuration where a hot exhaust manifold would be exposed by an open bonnet.

Charles sourced a replacement, a refurbished Lucas one of his parts suppliers wanted to move on for a reasonable price. I arranged to go to Charles’ workshop to have it fitted. It turned out to be a Bosch, but for the same price - a good result! It’s not easy to fit, especially on a 1989 model, even with the engine partially dropped (off its mountings), as the top nut is obstructed by a cooling loop put into the clutch hydraulic pipe. Looking at the car’s maintenance history, I wonder if this is a 10-year/30,000-mile recurrence? I ask as the car previously had starter replacements around that period of use. The nuts are the same as used on the cylinder head studs (part number 90110438203 times two), so I’ll be buying a couple of replacements ready to swap the next time the engine is dropped.

Tyre trainers I was expecting Santa to bring me a car-based present from Club Shop in the form of tyre trainers.

The idea is to drive on to them to prevent tyre flat spots when the car isn’t used for a couple of months or so. Well, driving on/off them sounded easy, but I’m not sure about that now. From pictures on the website, it doesn’t appear to be much of a ramp to get into them, but consider all four wheels doing this at the same time, and from a standing start. In the end, I gave myself about a foot long gentle run up to make it. Can you smell the clutch? I did. The only other time I had that smell was in Austria in 2009 backing up a steep semi circular driveway to the hotel front door. Now the wheels are snugly in place, it’s the first time I’ve thought about getting back off the things! I reckon it’ll be a trolley jack job for at least two of them before I give it a go. There is a lot of weight to raise over the lip, not just at the back but also a full fuel tank at the front - that alone is almost 10 stone.

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Club Forum I recommend you use the Forum - it’s a special communication device and safe environment to ask questions, find out about Club events and express your views on how the Club is doing. I’ve seen questions ranging from polish and wax to where to have your engine rebuilt. There are also areas for non-technical threads if you just want to chat. To expand on my earlier use of ‘safe’, the Club Forum isn’t the place for people to be obnoxious, or intent on slamming you down, which you may have heard about other Forums. Check out the Forum rules (found in the first section after log-in) and report any replies you feel uncomfortable with. A number of good administrative volunteers look after us users.

Given it a try, or please think of using it when you have a question or point to raise. I don’t mean to divert you from contacting Charles or myself, but it’s another valuable benefit the Club provides to us all.

If you miss seeing the Board minutes on the Forum, they now reside under porscheclubgb.com/about/ club-business Steve and Sue

911 Carrera Club Sport Register Secretary Alan Cordery 01798 344481 – alan_cordery@yahoo.co.uk

964 Register Secretary David Bladon 07771 194507 – 964@porscheclubgb.com

964 Carrera RS Register Secretary Melvin Spear 07860 595355 – 964rs@porscheclubgb.com

993 Register Secretary Maurice Piper 993@porscheclubgb.com Register Assistant Christian Sanger 07968503385 – cjsanger@gmail.com I am writing on New Year’s Day, so best wishes to all Register members for 2018!

A quick reminder that Christian and I are booked on the annual RS Day at Oulton Park on 9 March. I would love to see loads of 993s turn up - please come to see us to introduce yourselves, or re-acquaint yourselves, as may be. There is always a lot to see there - you may remember I hitched a good few laps with Paul Howells in his 993 RSR last year... mighty!

I have a little project in hand to take a little more weight out of my car - the lovely GT3 seat option saves quite a few kilos and I now have a lightweight RS rear screen, which has consigned the rear wiper to storage, as part of the bare metal re-spray undertaken last year. I will swap the carpets for a new black set and lose the rear seats and rear shelf, again to storage. It would be nice to get it done in time for Oulton!

My 15,000 frames from my African trip are nearly sorted. There’s just a couple of days’ worth to go and then I can start on the identification and metadata. I can honestly say that I never realised before just how beautiful crocodiles are! The processing load took its toll, my big printer died, as did one of my workstations and my laptop... so plenty of distractions, not to mention more building work!

That’s it for this month; see if you can make it to Oulton!

Clockwise from top: Andy Warner’s 2003 996 C2 in Seal Grey from the rear; and from the front; Andy Willis’ 1998 C2 with full Aero-kit in Guards Red

Cheers Maurice

993 Carrera RS Register Secretary Paul Howells 01594 833238 – 993rs@porscheclubgb.com

996 Register Secretary Andy Willis 07775 138527 996@porscheclubgb.com I do hope you and your families had a great Christmas and New Year and I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at some of the numerous events the Club has arranged for us throughout this coming year.

December saw the 11th anniversary of my 996 ownership. For those of you who are not aware, it’s a late 1998 C2 with full Aero-kit in Guards Red with grey interior and sports exhaust but no traction control. I can honestly say I have just as much pleasure driving it today as I did when I first purchased the car.

996 technical issues Please keep your 996 technical questions coming through via phone or email to Gary Sorrell (gary.sorrell@porschecolchester.co.uk) or to me. You can also use the Forum to contact Richard Hamilton.

MEMBERS IN PRINT December was a very quiet month with very few calls or emails from members. Only one member contacted me with info and photos of his car for inclusion in this month’s column.

Andy Warner In his own words: “I have had the car, a 2003 996 C2, for just under two years. One of the things I love about 911s is how

different they all are. I have been to a huge number of events and never found another car just like mine - I find the number of different variations of the car keep it really interesting. Mine has a large number of options, including some Porsche exclusive options.

“The original owner clearly loved Seal Grey. The bodywork is Seal Grey, the two-tone wheels have Seal Grey spokes, the sports seats have Seal Grey backs, the transmission tunnel is Seal Grey and so are the dials. Even the stitching on the door panels is Seal Grey. Add the obsession with colour coding to the Aero package, which includes the fixed wing from a Turbo and the full leather interior with Porsche logos embossed into the leather of the seats, and it all adds up to a very special looking car.

“Having had a lot of newer cars, including a Jaguar XJ, Audi A6 and an F10 BMW 5 series, getting an older car was a refreshing change - I had got used to cars with seamless automatic gearboxes, adaptive cruise control, adaptive dampers, sat nav and every other mod con. I am now driving a car with a manual gearbox in which you feel every bump in the road and have steering that really communicates with what is happening through the wheel. Not having so many electronics in the car makes you feel like you are the one actually driving the car and are not just a passenger. It is a car that makes me feel like a race car driver every time I get behind the wheel.”

Well I’m sure most of us feel exactly the same as Andy about our own 996s - modern electronics, although they have their place, do take away some of the enjoyment of the car in my opinion.

A very warm welcome goes to all new members.

Please remember, if you would like an image of your 996 (preferably yourself with it) published in this 99 porscheclubgb.com

column, then just email me a photo, together with a few words if possible, for inclusion.

Enjoy your 996…

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997 Register Secretary Clive Wratten 997@porscheclubgb.com Register Assistant Jonathan Lennard December was a quiet month for the 997 Register as we turned our attention towards Christmas and the New Year.

Clive and I will be listing our plans and agenda in next month’s edition of PP. If any members have suggestions on visits or events then please do email us. We are also conscious of the fact that Clive and I both live in Surrey and the events that we plan are often based on our location.

In early January, but unfortunately it is rather too late to report on for this month’s copy deadline, we will have held another Surrey Hills and South Downs run.

We are happy to hear from members with regards to positive experiences that they have had with their 997 in regards to servicing and maintenance, either from Porsche Centre or independent, and also any tales of DIY fixes or enhancements.

We would also be happy to include photos of Register members’ cars, possibly accompanied by a few words – please email.

Clive and I wish you a happy New Year.

Safe motoring and enjoy your 997s.

Jonathan

991 Register Secretaries Phil Graham 01625 524596 – 991@porscheclubgb.com Kenny Robinson 07768 862280 - kenny.robinson.911@gmail.com Happy New Year 2018 is going to be a great year - my PCGB wall planner is full of Porsche-related activities. Now is the

time to start thinking about a few outings to make the most of your 991s. We still have rooms left for the Wales weekend with Anglesey trackday on the Saturday (I have my slot booked) and Porsches on the Prom on the Sunday.

I will be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Silverstone Classic, the Gold Cup at Oulton Park, the Festival of Porsche at Brands Hatch and many Regional events. This year marks 70 years of Porsche and I am sure there will be a special theme at most major events to commemorate this landmark.

My decision to move forwards with the latest Porsche models recently brought 30 years of air-cooled 911s to an end. My 993 Turbo has headed south to a new carer and fellow PCGB member.

Neil Macmillan takes over after my 17 years of ownership and it was a sad moment when the car was finally driven away. I am sure I will have a few regrets when our paths cross at one of the events in the future.

Needs must and, along with the sale of our much-loved 991 GTS Cabriolet, the men at Zuffenhausen can now be paid for putting the finishing touches to a very special Turbo S for delivery in mid February.

Mine will not be confined to the garage and will make appearances at most of the Porsche events.

Clockwise from top left: the 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series – at least three are owned by PCGB members and will be seen at Club events; they’ve earned those drinks – our thanks go to Clive White for organising the weekend and to Mike Allen for hosting his Macan Register; Greg and Sue Taylor with their new Turbo S Exclusive Series – welcome back to the 991 Register; the girls on our table, clockwise from top left – Guilia, Denise, Angela and Karen; Santa with ‘deer’ friends; an impressive line-up outside Wroxall Abbey

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Greg Taylor has already taken delivery of his and I believe there is a third ‘Exclusive Series’ model in Scotland, which is used regularly. There are only 24 cars coming into the UK, so it is reassuring that at least three are owned by members and will be seen at events. If there are any more out there please get in touch.

RECENT EVENTS 991, 997 and Macan Registers’ Christmas party Our Christmas party was once again a great success and a nice start to the festive season. Sixty-four guests enjoyed the Saturday evening dinner at Wroxall Abbey, with many making it a weekend event with a relaxing Friday night and a scenic drive to visit Upton House for a Christmas Fayre. Apologies for not joining you as official duties at Cornbury House had to take precedence.

Christmas Open Day at Cornbury House The morning following the party a leisurely drive to Cornbury House for the Christmas Open Day was a nice way of rounding off the weekend.

A record number of 680 people visited the Clubhouse to stock up on lots of Christmas, and Porsche, goodies.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS 18-20 May Weekend in Llandudno Join us for a fabulous weekend in Wales where you can enjoy all that Llandudno has to offer. It’s also a great base for Saturday’s Anglesey trackday and Porsches on the Prom on the Sunday.

Please call 01492 877544 and ask for Lucy to make your reservation quoting 10805933 for PCGB. There is no deposit necessary, but a credit or debit card number is required to guarantee your room. See PCGB website for full details. **Please do not try booking on the St George’s website. It will show the hotel as being fully booked**

Clockwise from top: 914 display at Brooklands New Year’s Day Classic Gathering; Michael Karavasili; some of the 914 Register at Brooklands on New Year’s Day; 914 Registers tucking into their Christmas lunch; Christmas lunch at the Salutation Inn at Castle Combe

4-5 August Beaulieu Supercar Weekend The 991 Register has been invited back to Beaulieu for 2018. Please contact me for booking details.

Phil and Kenny

930 (911 Turbo) Register Secretary John Ward 01844 237508 – 911turbo@porscheclubgb.com

914 Register Secretary Kevin Clarke 07946 080454 – 914@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Rob Taylor 07900 164546 – rt9146@hotmail.co.uk International Events Co-ordinator Bruce Manning 07887 380914 – porsche@brucemanning.co.uk Michael Karavasili During December I heard the sad news that 914 expert Michael Karavasili had died. For many years, from the 1990s onwards, Michael kept many of our 914s on the road from his workshop in Cheshire till his retirement from working on them.

He will be dearly missed. Ian Foster has written an obituary: “In December, my friend Michael Karavasili died aged 57 in the French mountains he loved so much and was laid to rest in the foothills of the Jura Mountains alongside his father Perry. He leaves two children, Zoe and Leo, from his marriage to Fran. Close friends and family attended his funeral in France.

“Michael was a superb mechanic with a deep understanding of cars, particularly of Porsches and of 914s in particular. Owning a number of Porsches over many years, his love of the 914 went way back to when he drove one as a daily car in the French Alps.

His other great passions were skiing and cycling, both of which he excelled at, becoming a championship winning cyclist and a ski instructor.

“Michael qualified as an ESF (Ecole du Ski Français) ski instructor after passing the tough Equivalence and became a valuable member of the instructor teams in both Valmorel and La Tania - a rare achievement for a non-French national. He had a unique talent to ski superbly whilst being able to pass on that knowledge through his inspirational instruction. I will miss following that red jacket around the slopes.

“His skill around cars and engines was well known, especially in 914 circles, where he was often the expert to consult. Michael loved driving and we

shared many fun times driving all over Europe in various Porsches. We also gained our ARDS (Association of Racing Drivers Schools) licence together at Castle Coombe. So many great memories to draw on...

“Above all Michael was a great guy and a one-off. He was compassionate, caring, talented and fun. I was privileged to know him and have him as a friend for many years - I’ll miss him greatly. Rest in peace Michael.”

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in Castle Coombe. Some of the attendees from the southeast - two 914s with Brian and Kate in a new Mini - met up at the Target roundabout, Northolt at 9.14am for a cross-country run to the venue. Kate’s orange Mini was sporting a number 36 roundel on the door to ensure that their freshly restored 914, known as ‘No. 36’, which wasn’t ready in time was there in spirit instead. We met up with two more 914s at Chieveley Services, the mid-way stop, for the final part of the run along the A4 and on to the venue where we joined up with the rest of the group.

Sixteen of us enjoyed each other’s company over a wonderful three-course meal. Many thanks go to Kate Maynard for organising the event and to the Salutation Inn for looking after us.

New Year’s Day What better way to kick-start 2018 than to attend the Brooklands Museum New Year’s Day Classic Gathering? Hundreds of classic cars made their way to the museum where they were parked up around the museum grounds. Four 914s were in attendance and, as three of us had met up before entering, we were able to park together and put on a display in front of the racing lock-ups opposite the Jackson shed.

Many other 914 owners were also there having arrived in their other cars to enjoy the day - it was nice to see you all. There was lots of enthusiasm from you all for attending the future 914 events throughout the year.

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Happy Fourteening…

Paul

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924 except GT Register Secretary Paul Hedges 07940 441452 (6-10pm) 924@porscheclubgb.com My car Shortly before submitting this report my car was covered with five inches of snow.

I have been working on sourcing parts to get the fuel system and related electrical systems back up and running. Firstly, I bought a new fuel pump relay (part number 433906059) just to be sure the old one is not at fault. I also bought some new continental fuses at £1.69 from Halfords, as I couldn’t find my spares.

I enquired about a new external fuel pump (part number 91160810202) from Porsche, which costs £338.34 including 20 per cent VAT, but I have decided to buy a Bosch pump from Bedford Battery Co. Ltd (Wellingborough, Milton Keynes and Northampton) (part number BOS0580254053) at a cost of £104.40 including 20 per cent VAT. Assuming the pump is suitable, it is remarkable that you could buy three of these for the price of one genuine Porsche item. I also bought some sealing rings (part number N0138123).

The in-tank pump on my 1983 2.0 was removed and replaced with a filter in 2014 during its recommissioning (as the original was not working) a new pump there £657.18 after 20 per cent VAT from Porsche.

Chasing history I was able to put owner David Roberts in touch with a previous owner of his new project using Register information that is well over 10 years old. I enjoy a bit of this detective work.

Remanufactured parts #18 Each month I feature a part that is featured for each model of 924 (as well as other models they apply to).

Its inclusion here is not a guarantee of availability or suitability for your car. Your local Porsche Centre will be able to guide you in these respects.

Remember that you can find the full list on the

Register Secretary Robert Day 07786 396925 (evenings) slantnose@porscheclubgb.com

924 Carrera GT Register Secretary Ricky Caesar 07796 935550 – 924carreragt@porscheclubgb.com

928 Register Secretary David Hemmings 07768 983743 – 928@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Register Secretary Andrew Brierley 01204 491573 – brierley28@virginmedia.com Leather care for your interior When looking after my own 1992 S4 I have always wanted to maintain originality. The MOT, general servicing and replacement parts cover major mechanical factors from wear and tear but, throughout this daily, weekly, monthly or annual attention, the leather in the car is in use as often as the engine! I have 6YR Light Grey leather and, after 25 years, it has to be showing its age.

Standard cleaning products can only do so much; at some point the leather needs professional attention. A few years ago I discovered that all leather is painted so I knew that to bring back the shine this had to be part of the refurbishment that I was edging towards. I am not sure why I hesitated for such a long time - perhaps I believe in holding on to originality to a point where the job cannot be delayed any longer.

I had long since researched the local, and not so local, companies that offered this type of renovation and that already specialised in this service for the motor trade. Once I had made the mental and financial decision to proceed, I acted on a recommendation given to me by Premier Auto Bodies in Burnley when I had the car re-painted in 2014 the old adage of ‘not what you know but who you know’. Looking back at their re-painting, it was well timed, so I am hoping this leatherwork is similarly well judged.

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From top: 928 front seats; 928 front seats from another angle; 928 rear seats:

Leathercare Renovations Ltd offers the following analysis of the actual process: ‘a thorough cleaning, followed by degreasing and resealing of the skin. This is followed by a refinishing with re-varnishing (painting) and conditioning.’ According to the guys in charge the process was known as the Connolly system after a London-based company from years ago!

Before handing the car over they had recommended I bring it in for a thorough examination of the existing leather, that way they could tell me the condition and the likely results. My concern, like every 928 owner, was the driver’s seat bolster and backrest bolster that take all the wear as you enter and exit.

The report was ‘average’, which I took as encouraging, as was the news that, although they had not done 928 seats, they regularly worked on 911 seating, so they knew what to expect and how to remove the seats etc. On a really rough 911 seat they will move the driver’s seat across to the passenger side, electrics permitting, to better preserve them both. I then had to be patient - it was a three-day job at a cost of £550.

Three days later and all was revealed. The leather looks like new again and the interior appearance and finish is remarkable - I should have done this a long time ago! My car does not have a leather dashboard but I did request the vinyl be cleaned so, taken all together, I have to say it was very, very worthwhile.

Now, of course, I need a new set of carpets to match. That means on the floor and in the boot and on the sides of the foot wells, bottom of the doors, transmission tunnel and the toolkit bulkhead and I will have a totally new car inside! I’ve done the research already – it’s possible to buy a 26-piece set of carpets from a southern based trimmer from just over £1,000 and fit it all myself, or pay approximately £2,000 for an all-in fully fitted job! I am thinking about both!

It’s this sort of work that is never ending I guess, but it all adds to the pleasure/interest of 928 ownership, now that we have values that are reflected in good condition cars.

Volunteer for social media Do we have any 928 owners that would like to volunteer to respond and contribute to Facebook, Twitter and any of the other social media, sites? If so please step forward and make yourself known by contacting me. I think we should make contributions to these sites but emails keep me busy enough as it is.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 15 April Lunch with ‘The Passion Group’ We have an open invitation to join fellow 928 enthusiasts ‘The Passion Group’ at The Cock Inn in Watford WD3 6HH for lunch. Details available nearer the time.

August Goodwood will host a special section for Porsche transaxle cars, such as the 928 and 968 and 944. This is a follow-up to 2017’s event organised by Ken Coad from the 968 Register. It’s a great way of seeing this interesting venue whilst avoiding huge crowds that are now a restricting factor at other times.

October All 928 owners are invited to join a short or long weekend (their own flexible choice), for the 20th Anniversary of The Merry Miller meeting of 928UK enthusiasts. It’s an event in three parts that starts with a pub lunch on Saturday, 13 October, before

moving onto Cosham in Portsmouth for an overnight stay at a Premier Inn, and then heading by ferry for the Isle of Wight on Sunday for more driving experiences!

From top: relays and fuses; wires into the alternator grommet; not going out today…

David

DIARY DATES 15 APRIL Lunch with ‘The Passion Group’ The Cock Inn, Watford WD3 6HH.

944 Register Secretary Mike Pollock 07811 944953 – 944@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Register Secretary Andy Watson 07920 589750 (6pm-9pm Mon-Fri and 9am-6pm weekends) andywatson6419@yahoo.co.uk Technical Advisor Jon Mitchell 01202 488800 (during normal working hours) technical@jmgporsche.co.uk Welcome to the start of another year. I’m writing this early in the New Year, wondering where the holidays have gone! I was considerably under the weather for most of it – and the weather was pretty miserable… I hope you all felt far better through it than I! I had so much planned for the car and other things, but did nothing unfortunately. Please let me know what you managed.

Headlights upgrade Last month I promised some details of the upgrading of the headlights on my S2.

I purchased the headlight harness off eBay (search ‘944 headlight harness’) for around £40; there are now a couple of sellers of similar products. I had already replaced the bulbs with the Osram Nightbreakers, themselves a reasonable improvement, but these are also offered as an option with the kit I bought.

Instructions are included and, for a change, I read them! The first thing I did though was to lay the wires out with the plugs and connections in roughly the correct positions.

You get two plugs to replace those on the back of the bulbs, one socket to plug the original passenger side plug into (this is the ‘trigger’ for the new harness) and one earth wire to attach to the chassis, (there is a convenient point with several brown wires easily visible near the passenger headlight).

The remaining wires then lead back along this leg and on to a plate with two relays and further to two in-line fuses. The wires from these run together to form the positive power input.

The power may be drawn from the battery (OK for left-hand-drive cars, but not practical for ours with the battery in the boot), from the main power feed to the fuse box, which is quite difficult to connect to, or direct from the alternator as I did.

Next, I bound the wires almost entirely with electrical tape, doubling or coiling excess wire within it, whilst obviously allowing sufficient length for the movement of, and to reach around, the headlight frames.

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existing passenger side one to the new socket.

I bound the old driver’s side plug with electrical tape to prevent water ingress, removed it from the frame and secured it out of the way around the washer bottle. I attached the relays to the lower coolant tank mounting point, as it seemed convenient.

Disconnect the battery… here comes the only awkward bit! Although it can be done from above, I think it is easier to raise the front of the car on stands or ramps and remove the undertray for access to the rear of the alternator.

The air feed pipe pulls gently off, then four small bolts release the rear cover of the alternator. This allows the rubber grommet to slide out. I carefully drilled a small additional hole, lubricated it with silicone grease and pushed the power wires through, crimped a suitable sized terminal to it and attached it to the large terminal.

Make sure all the wiring is in the correct places; I loosely tied it in position with tie wraps in strategic places, making sure that the fans in particular were well clear.

Reconnect the battery and test that the lights go up and down as well as on and off, without pulling or chaffing the new wires. I then put everything back, tucking the loom as tight to the metal work as possible and practical.

The result is better lights than my 2014 company car.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS We are looking to have a 944 Rutland meet at the end of February or early March. Check with the Forum or directly with me (phone, email or Facebook) for details.

Get your 944 out there, there’s only been a few days mine hasn’t been prepared!

Mike Pollock

968

contact me. Then, in summer, there’s Le Mans Classic on 5-8 July. I shall be there and crossing from Portsmouth to Caen. The following month, on 4 August, is our very own Transaxle Rendezvous at Goodwood - a must for your diaries and more on that next month. As we head into September it’s the Club’s Brands Hatch Festival over the weekend of 31 August to 2 September. That’s a definite place to be for 968s.

Sorry it’s a brief few words but more next month.

Enjoy your Porsches and remember the 968 is Porsche’s best kept secret.

Ken

Register Secretary Ken Coad 01923 262960 – 968@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Register Secretary Chris Sweeting membership@porscheclubgb.com Technical Advisor Alex Eacock 01213 282225 Hi 968 Register members and happy New Year.

There’s a lot happening this year with PCGB activities including a main event at Brands Hatch promoted by our Club. Unfortunately, due to family commitments I failed to attend the New Year’s Day event at Brooklands. However, Sunday, 7 January looked good for a visit to Bicester Brunch.

We have a Drive it Day on Sunday, 22 April for which I am event co-ordinator with the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs. For more details please

Boxster

Classic, it will include a race series that will be run

by PCGB. Organised by Porsche the competition will enable all main dealers to purchase a 986 S and completely restore it into a track car, which will then compete in three races throughout the year. The culmination will be the final race at the Brands Hatch Porsche Festival in August.

I have very kindly been invited to be involved in the project with the Jardine Group, who own PC Cambridge, PC Colchester, PC East London and, the soon to open, PC South London. Witham Coachworks, the Porsche recommended body shop, will carry out the body and paint work. I will be following the progress of the car’s restoration from purchasing to the final race and will update you each month.

Register Secretary Tracy Wilkins 01992 450740 – boxster@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Secretary Cliff Wilkins Contact details as above Technical Advisors Steve Winter steve@jazweb.co.uk Nick Pike 02089 607 111 (evenings and weekends)

Competition criteria The criteria includes that the car must be a 1999– 2004 3.2 S model and must be modified or fitted with: y a manual gearbox and either 17” or 18” OEM wheels y Porsche genuine hard top y FIA approved roll cage y FIA approved racing seat y FIA quick release fire extinguisher y engine in ‘standard’ state of tune and turning out no more than 258bhp (at the flywheel) y Porsche OEM 986 brakes y Porsche OEM 986 suspension (standard or sports) y car paint to be inspired by the historic livery.

From part exchange to race car As mentioned in previous editions, this year Porsche will be holding a competition to restore and race a 986 Boxster S. Called the Porsche Restoracing

The competition is limited to 20 cars and the judging will be split into three elements: vehicle sourcing and preparation (mechanical and bodywork); marketing and display; and, finally, the racing itself.

Clockwise from top left, the Boxster 986 S restoration (see following page) – engine out; body shell stripped; ready for painting; shell ready for painting; de-greasing

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Thanks Steve and, members, don’t forget to keep your questions coming.

Around April or May I intend to have another get-together but, as yet, the venue is to be decided, it may depend on whether interesting non-Club events are happening at the venues that I have in mind. Those venues under consideration are, Warwick Castle, Bletchley Park, Jodrell Bank, the National Motorbike Museum, the British Motor Museum at Gaydon and, for a Club-based event, maybe the summer BBQ at Cornbury House.

I have just checked and discovered that, out of a Club membership that has just passed the 19,000 mark, making PCGB the largest one-make Club in the UK, the Cayman Register has 873 members. We are a large Register when you consider the number of models covered individually, and our membership covers every Cayman from 987 Gen 1 through to the 718 as well as from base models to the GT4. Some of the other Registers cover tiny numbers - I believe that the smallest has maybe 38 cars and owners.

The chap who oversees the whole of the Club Forum informs me that we are one of the more active Registers on there. However, when I log in (which is most days), I seem to see mostly the same people on there. Most are helpful to those who ask questions, and there are very few reasons not to ask even what you may consider the simplest of questions. A lot of our new members, being new to the Club, the model and Porsche in general, may not be aware that Porsche do things a little differently to other marques, so there is nothing odd about asking about a strange squeak, noise, or the behaviour of the car etc. Many of the questions will have already been discussed on the Forum and some members who know how to search the system will post a link to show you a whole thread, which is very useful.

A lot of new members are not owners of the latest car - we get even more new members who have bought an early 987. Being the kind of people who may do some, or all, of their own maintenance and even modifications, they want to make up what they may consider ‘lost ground’ and get to know their cars. Mutual support of members by members is what the Forum is for, besides being a platform for some social chitchat - get on there and I hope you all find it helpful. You will find that our section of the Forum has added subsections and FAQs, which are usually short explanations of the questions frequently asked but not a place to post a question please post questions in the main body of the Forum. We have a technical section where members who have carried out work themselves can post the details. One such post was an excellent piece written and posted by Archie Seath regarding when he replaced his front cooling pipes. There is a new members’ section where you can introduce yourself and your Cayman too.

Happy Boxstering…

Enjoy your Caymans…

Tracy

Kevan

Sourcing and stripping the car down The chosen Boxster 986 S for the Jardine Group entry was taken as a part-exchange at PC Colchester in May 2017. It’s a 2004 model in Agate Grey with about 54,000 miles on the clock. Firstly, PC Colchester stripped the car back to its shell and, in August, this was then taken to Witham Coachworks for preparation. Meanwhile, the engine, gearbox and transmission has been shipped to PC Cambridge for a full mechanical overhaul to make it trackworthy.

Finally, the brakes suspension, steering and ancillaries have all been sent to PC East London.

The colours chosen for the team car are the Martini-inspired green, purple, black and white livery.

At the time of writing the car shell has returned from the Witham Coachworks body shop and is on display at PC Colchester.

Updates on the paint and engine rebuild will follow next month. I hope to organise a visit early this year for members to see the car and its progress. More information on race dates etc. to follow.

TECHNICAL Q&A Question: I have just put a deposit on a Boxster and had it inspected. It is a 2000 3.2 S with a huge history file, 83,000 miles and a body beautiful! I am really looking forward to joining the Register and getting involved. There were two things that came from the report and upon which I would like your opinion please. The report says that there is excessive movement felt in the off side front wheel.

The dealer seems to know a bit about Boxsters and says that he will have a look at it but I am unsure whether it is a real problem. How much would it cost me to do, if I have to at some point in the future? He also says that the rear lower suspension arm bushes are starting to perish, which may require replacement in the near future. The dealer basically says that, with the amount of miles I will be doing, they will last for ages. Again, what would it cost if I had to do them?

Steve: The movement in the front wheel is normally track rod ends. It depends on how much movement as to whether it needs doing or not. The same applies to the rear arms. All these things are typical of a car of this age/type. As a guide: front steering arms £266; labour to fit £85; wheel alignment £195; rear arms non OEM but good quality £150; labour to fit £85 (as long as the pivot bolt isn’t seized). All prices listed are plus VAT. Hope you get it and enjoy.

With the weather varying between ice/salt roads and dry/wet roads the winter has been a little uncertain, at least in my part of the world. That said, I have to confess I’ve only taken one of my cars out for a short spin since the last column. My GT3 is in complete hibernation mode and with a light cover over it to keep it clean – despite being in a garage, there always seems to be some fine dust around and, hopefully, when February/ March arrives the car will not need a wash. My 964 did need a wash since it had not been cleaned since the Officials’ Conference - and it had not been cleaned for a while before that. It too is now under cover.

The ultimate finish Whilst on the subject of cleaning, just before Christmas I had an email from Ultimate Finish promoting their latest in-car care products. I noticed a car ‘hair dryer’ called BigBoi - not to be confused with Big Boi, an American rapper who is somewhat unlikely to help with car care. After commenting to my wife how odd it was that anyone would make an air blower for a car (after all who needs that?), the idea started to stick in my mind. The more I thought of it the more I liked the idea of drying a car without resorting to cloths, wringing them out, using another and so on. I don’t really like washing cars and I particularly dislike drying them. Anyway, I suggested to my better half that an air blower might make a nice Christmas present - and so it turned out, the large box under the tree was indeed a dual blower version of the BigBoi. Just after Boxing Day we had a couple of days of almost spring warm days and so the 964 came out for a clean - and, yes, an opportunity to play with the latest toy. The BigBoi does what it says; it chases 99 per cent of water off the car and clears the nooks and crannies – especially the rear light areas and the bonnet sides. It’s also great on glass. It took five minutes to dry the car.

There is some technique to using it – it is clear that, when one chases water from one area on a 911, it jumps to another area and then back again. Nooks and crannies first and a top down approach seems to work best with hindsight. The only slight problem to note, is that on three quarter speed (and more) the hose starts to emulate those water-jet flying contraptions; there were a couple of times when the end piece I was holding slipped out of my grip and almost whacked me. All in all though, it’s a neat addition to car care and a further reduction in time doing something that is not high on my list of leisure activities.

A happy New Year to all and hopefully I will see a few out for the RS Day at Oulton Park in March.

Happy GT3ing!

Alex

Cayman Register Secretary Kevan Sutherns 07733 318671 – cayman@porscheclubgb.com As we have passed through the festive season and, hopefully, heads and bank accounts have both recovered, things are bound to be a little quiet for the time being, but the Club has plans for the year. Those of you who have looked into it will have decided already which events and meetings you hope to attend through the year.

Speedster

Panamera Register Secretary Steve McPherson 07831 346060 – panamera@porscheclubgb.com

GT3

Register Secretary James Kirk 01252 710479/715185 speedster@porscheclubgb.com

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Register Secretary Jeremy Heney cayenne@porscheclubgb.com

Porsche Tractor Register Secretary John Hearn 01206 210553 or 01206 793536 (W)

Modified Register Secretary Desmond Sturdee 07768 814264 (9am-9pm) modified@porscheclubgb.com Technical Advisor Ian Heward ian@porscheshop.co.uk Register Assistant Ralph Forster – modpor@icloud.com

Hi Modifiers. Welcome to 2018 and another year of modifying.

911 SC 3.0 sprint/hobby car Ian Heward reports on another modified project.

“About 12 months ago a long-standing friend and customer from back in the heady ‘yuppy’ days of the early ’90s explained that he had given up the Porsches in favour of sensible family cars. However, now that his children had grown up it was time he looked for something a bit sporty. It needed to be cheap and cheerful as he and his father were planning to do some bonding over a bit of sprinting and hill climbing. Given that he had 964s back when they were new, I informed him it wouldn’t be anything like he remembered and that this would be a hobby car. This set the plan forward.

“Through a mutual friend we were able to source a barn find 1979 3.0 911 SC. It had a sound chassis and having already been stripped of its interior had a full roll cage fitted with a Wevo shifter installed. It was an ideal donor/part project that had the bones of what was needed here.

“Stage one in January 2017 was to get her up and running to as near standard 3.0 SC performance and included adding SSI heat exchangers, Sparco bucket seats and harnesses along with a lowering and suspension geometry to get it on the way to the hills….

“Having spent the majority of the summer enjoying the car, the guys got familiar with the SC’s charm, performance and handling characteristics along with its limitations - so much so that they ended up buzzing the valves on one of the hills by holding her too long in second gear. The enthusiasm was clearly there and being exploited to the max.

“Time for a rethink… Now the SC had proven its worth, it was felt that it would be a good time to show it some commitment and breathe a little extra life into it. Stage two was set.

“The buzzed valves created a good time line to develop the car further. This has now included the rebuilt engine, with ARP hardware, 964 valves, and a new fan and housing, along with some engine safety modifications, including a lowered rev limiter

Clockwise from top left: camber and sticky semi-slick tyres for road and track; engine rebuild includes ARP hardware; head studs, nuts and washers, 964 inlet valves, pop-off valve, emission blanking plugs, new cooling fan and pulley and heater delete tinware; chassis/other parts – Boxster big brake conversion, performance friction brake pads, Stomski racing shift coupler, Dansk two-in-one out stainless rear silencer and associated hardware; inside of car includes Sparco fixed back bucket seats, race harnesses, roll cage and Momo steering wheel; stance and business no frills – ready to go…

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(rotor arm), emission blanking plugs and an MFI airbox backfire pop-off valve.

“To support the added performance and competitive potential of the car going forward, it was decided that a set of Boxster four-pot brakes would help transform sprint times and drivability. We complemented the Wevo shifter by swapping out the sloppy transmission fulcrum with a Stomski racing coupler and, as a final detail to the SSI heat exchangers we added a new two in-one out Dansk stainless steel (painted) rear silencer and hardware.”

From top: popular Sapphire Blue Macans (three of 12 attendees) outside the Christmas party hotel; Roger Grundy’s new Macan complements his 997 Targa 4S and Audi S1; one of the Macan group’s tables

All in all this car epitomises a fun ‘on a budget’ road legal racing classic, which has room for ongoing improvements time and time again, and which we feel cannot be beaten in terms of ‘fun for bucks’.

These sorts of hobby project classics, whether an air-cooled 911, water-cooled 924/944, or even the more modern 986 Boxster, can all be modified and enjoyed on a reasonable DIY type budget. They can evolve with your wants and needs as time and cash flow permit without losing any of their originality, DNA or charm. Each year, with more and more red tape in terms of insurance premiums and emission restrictions on MOT requirements for modern vehicles, we’re finding a sensible classic ‘weekend hobby car’ is making more and more sense these days.

Thank you Ian, it sounds like a well-sorted SC. Happy hunting for your next plaything…. Ian, Des and Ralph.

Bye for now and we look forward to catching up with some of you at an event soon.

Happy Modifying…

Des, Ralph and Ian

Macan Register Secretary Mike Allen 07976697070 – macan@porscheclubgb.com Joint Christmas party with 991 and 997 Registers It was a cold and wet December Saturday when the Macan Register, together with 991 and 997 owners, met for lunch at Upton House near Banbury, the former home of Lord Bearsted, the son of the founder of the Shell Oil Company, who donated the house, gardens and art collection to the National Trust in 1948.

Both inside and out, the house had taken on a Victorian Christmas theme, with numerous colourful stalls providing customers extra shelter from the rain.

Such was the weather that, having visited the house and the stalls, rather than a convoyed run to our weekend hotel north of Stratford-upon-Avon, it was a case of running for the cars and a quick exit to meet up in the hotel bar for afternoon tea, or perhaps something stronger.

The Wroxall Abbey Hotel staff looked after us very well as the weekend continued with our Christmas dinner, which included an exciting quiz organised by 991 Register Secretary Phil Graham, ably assisted by his wife Nette. Local 991 owners Phil and Barbara Evans won the quiz before leaving to go home to feed the dog, taking with them a very useful Club Shop voucher.

Following a leisurely breakfast the following morning, we headed off to Clubhouse for the annual Christmas Open Day where over 600 members were in attendance.

Welcome to new Macan owners At the Christmas party I was delighted to meet up with Nick Ballinger, his wife Judy and their friends Steve and Lynda Blackwell who arrived in matching Sapphire Blue Macans.

Roger Grundy hails from near Dundee and contacted me after swapping his Land Rover for a fully loaded Macan S Diesel. A Discovery Sport had also been test-driven but was dismissed after a couple of drives. Of the Macan, Roger says what an amazing car – fast, comfortable, practical and economical. This purchase complements a 997 Targa 4S and an Audi S1 – the all-black trio!

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Welcome, also, to Michael Binns from Keighley, Yorkshire who has had his Macan for a couple of years now. He wrote to me regarding the poor performance of the standard halogen headlights.

Unfortunately, whilst the rest of the car was well specified, the optional bi-xenons or LED headlights weren’t considered, and he feels his Macan S Petrol is too fast for the standard headlights - particularly around the Dales where he lives. It isn’t normal to take a test-drive of a prospective new car at night so, typically, you only find out how good the lights are when you’ve bought it! I have only personal experience of the bi-xenons with PDLS but I have

contacted my service manager who is aware of this issue. Of course, the cost of retro-fitting Porsche upgraded light units is astronomical, so changing the bulbs is an obvious alternative – Halfords has what are called white bulbs, and also LED bulbs, for a fraction of the price – but if you want to see around corners you’ll need to up-spec to PDLS next time.

From top: the 997 GT3 RS – a surprise find in Santo Domingo’s Porsche dealership; the 911 R – another surprise at the same Caribbean dealership; Paul Ward’s 968 Clubsport – it started instantly, despite having been standing for several weeks

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 16-18 March Welsh Weekend This is the first official event of the New Year and there are still a few places available. We will meet up at The Metropole Hotel at Llandrindod Wells in mid-Wales from Friday afternoon and enjoy a three-course meal that evening. We have a varied route planned for the Saturday, taking in some of the best scenic routes in the area including the Elan Valley, Devil’s Bridge, Brecon Beacons etc. There will be opportunities to stretch the legs and enjoy a coffee stop. We plan to incorporate one or two places of interest within the two-day event. It will conclude at a lunch venue convenient for homeward travel thereafter. This is a popular hotel used extensively by the various Club Registers, and even the current family owners are Porsche enthusiasts. Please contact me by email for further details and the booking code.

Having just arrived into the New Year, I will be finalising dates for further activities into the spring and summer months - such as the popular workshop visits and handling courses. I can suggest you pencil in the Register BBQ for Sunday, 8 July to be held at Macan owners Robert and Mary Lane’s farm near Olney in North Buckinghamshire.

Wishing you all happy Macan-ing in 2018…

Mike

Race Car Register Secretary Paul Ward 07894 877802 (before 9pm) racecar@porscheclubgb.com Mad dogs and Englishmen Much of my recent working life has been spent in the Caribbean and Eastern Europe managing engineering projects - not that I’ve got a sun tan for my time! In 2017 I missed much of the trackdays and shows I normally attend so, in December, I made a determined effort to get a Porsche fix.

In the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo is the island’s only Porsche dealership.

Having checked the opening times online and then taken an Uber half way across the city, I was disappointed initially to find that the place was closed.

All was not lost though as the security guard took pity on me, despite my poor attempts at Spanish, and he let me wander around inside the showroom. Well joy of joys: it was a surprise to find on this Caribbean island not only a 997 GT3 RS but a 911 R too! They did not appear to be for sale and, judging by the state of the roads and the standard of driving, the centre was certainly a safe haven for them.

No charge On returning to England for the Christmas holiday, the ‘meet and greet’ staff at the airport informed me that

the new OEM battery on the Mercedes staff car was flat but they had charged it enough to get me home.

No such issue with the 968 Clubsport, which despite being stood for several weeks, started instantly. The Yuasa Black battery I fitted last year has enough zip to turn over the engine without the typical slow chug of a 968. I’ve eschewed the dealer-supplied and Bosch Silver batteries I normally use as I’ve been 112 porscheclubgb.com

wooed by the benefit of a Yuasa lifetime warranty.

I’ve also bought a Suaoki 20000mAh jump-starter, which means I no longer need to carry jump leads very useful for my classic cars and race cars.

CheeRS RaceRS! Paul

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INSURANCE

On the way to an event a client’s 963 Porsche 356B Coupé rear-ended and went into a spin, hitting a wall. He was unhurt but the car was badly damaged. Under the PCGB Insurance Scheme, we drove him to the event then took the 356, insured with us at an agreed value of £40,000, to his chosen garage.

Repair costs agreed with the garage were just under £28,000. Most policies write off a car if repairs exceed a certain percentage of its value, with the client offered so-called market value, minus an excess. The PCGB Scheme is more flexible. We did offer the option of a £40,000 agreed value cash payment, with no deductions, but he chose the repairs. Where possible, only original Porsche parts were used, and the car was returned in perfect order. Why not ask Lockton, the scheme’s brokers, for a quote on 0845 602 9420.

FINANCE

Oracle Finance has funded thousands of prestige vehicles, including many Porsches, and can offer a broad range of tailored finance solutions, including refinance and equity release. Contact its Porsche Club Team for a fast-track service at competitive rates*.

Call 0845 094 9111, email porsche@ oraclefinance.co.uk or visit oraclefinance. co.uk/porsche-club. *Members receive one year’s free Porsche Club membership with each new finance agreement.

BREAKDOWN COVER

Save as much as 34%* off the AA’s online prices, plus 20% off at renewal every year. *Applies to Family Roadside & Relay cover in first year only. Other levels of cover are available and varying discounts apply. Offer only available to PCGB members by calling the number given, quoting the reference and paying annually by direct debit under a recurring transaction arrangement. Enrolment offer available to new members for their first 12 months of membership only. Offer not available in conjunction with any other offer/discount or on any other AA product/ service. Details correct at time of issue.

Renewal offer available to PCGB members who are existing AA members, or who join under the enrolment offer, and will be available at each renewal date until they cease to be a PCGB member or the withdrawal of this scheme. Call 0800 048 0075 and quote F0729.

Receive up to 50% discount on standard RAC prices for a single personal-based cover for the first year of membership, then a 25% discount on every renewal. Call 0800 096 6836 or visit rac.co. uk/join/benefits and quote EBS001.

CAR-CARE PRODUCTS

Vertar is pleased to offer members 10% off all its car-care products and auto accessories.

Call Freephone 0800 177 7808 or visit vertar.com and use the coupon code PCGB. Porsche Club members enjoy preferential rates on Hamilton Classic products when purchased through Porsche Club. Buy online at porscheclubgb.com or call 01608 652911.

Porsche Club members enjoy preferential rates on Classic Additions products when purchased through Porsche Club. Buy online at porscheclubgb.com or call 01608 652911 .

GENERAL MOTORING

The Institute of Advanced Motorists offers its advanced driving course to PCGB members for £135 (instead of £149). Call 0300 303 1134 or visit iam.org.uk/poc and quote POC14 when booking.

Strongman Tools offers the UK’s largest range of single phase 240v car lifts for home users and large commercial workshops. For details and an exclusive 12% PCGB member discount, call 01926 257870/77, email sales@strongmantools.co.uk or visit strongmandirect.co.uk LUBRICANTS

Lucas Oil Products UK Ltd offers a range of products for the classic market, including ethanol treatment, classic 20/50 oil, fuel stabiliser and engine oil stop leak. We offer PCGB members 10% off online prices.

Call Freephone 0808 100 3259 or visit lucasoil.co.uk and use code PCGB10.

Opie Oils provides an unrivalled choice of performance oils, fluids and servicing essentials for your Porsche, plus unmatched knowledge and experience and 10% discount to all PCGB members. Call 01209 202 949, email sales@opieoils.co.uk or visit

opieoils.co.uk and use the discount code PCGB Website.

Woodcote Automotive (Millers Oils) offers a 20% discount on products bought via the specialist motorsport distributor and a 15% discount on all Millers Oils products.

Contact Robin on 01565 653658, or robin@ woodcoteauto.co.uk or visit millersoils.co.uk PARKING

PCGB members have access to exclusive 10% discounts with airport parking experts APH on all participating UK airport car parks; on all participating airport hotel and parking packages; and on No1 Lounges at selected airports. Discounts are on standard rates published on aph.com and on participating products only. For full terms and conditions visit partners.aph.com/pcgb or call 01342 859536 and quote discount code PCGB. PORSCHE PARTS

Design 911’s team is dedicated to all your Porsche needs. We offer PCGB members exclusive discounts on parts, accessories, wheels, exhausts, servicing, body shop and more. To take advantage, call 020 8500 8811 or visit design911.co.uk/blog/index.php/ porsche-club-gb-members-benefits Porscheshop offers OEM replacement parts, body parts, repairs, performance solutions, books, gifts and clothing. A 5-10% discount is available to members on most items and services.

Visit porscheshop.co.uk or call 0121 585 6088 quoting your membership number.

Battery Pitstop is a specialist supplier of automotive batteries.

Order using code PCGB at BatteryPitStop.co.uk for an exclusive members’ 10% discount. For details of products not listed online, call 08455 211211 or email help@batterypitstop.co.uk Spax Performance has been designing and manufacturing suspension for the past 60 years, with all products manufactured in the UK under stringent German TÜV quality control procedures. We offer PCGB members a 15% discount on all products. Call 01869 244771 and quote your membership number.

K300 Ltd offers a 15% discount on Goodridge hose kits and 10%-15% discount on EBC and Pagid brake pads. Call 0161 355 1275 and quote your membership number, or visit k300performance.co.uk

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PORSCHE SERVICING & BODYWORK

Autofarm offers members a 10% discount on labour costs. For details, please call 01865 331234, email workshop@ autofarm.co.uk or visit autofarm.co.uk and quote your membership number.

Silver Wheels Ltd specialises in wheel refurbishment using the same process as manufacturers, including Porsche, plus the same paint suppliers. We offer a same-day service on standard finished wheels and a two-day service for diamond-cut wheels. For a 15% discount to Porsche Club members, call 01202 896651, quoting discount code SW9PC when booking, or visit silverwheelsltd.co.uk Canford Classics has a reputation as one of Europe’s top Porsche 911 restorers and specialises in all aspects of Porsche restoration. We manufacture many parts and offer a comprehensive range of refurbished parts, machining and minor repair services for classic Porsches. For details of discounts offered to Porsche Club members, call 01929 472221 or email info@ canfordclassics.co.uk. For our full range of services, visit canfordclassics.co.uk TYRES

Pirelli’s cashback scheme allows PCGB members to gain cashback on up to eight tyres bought per year from a Porsche Centre or Pirelli Performance Centre: £50 for two or more 17” tyres or above; £20 for two or more 15/16” tyres; £10 for two or more 14” tyres or below. For full details of the cashback offer, visit pirelli.co.uk/porscheclubgb SHOPPING

Boot-bag is a waterproof luggage bag that straps to the boot lid, designed for your Porsche Boxster, 944 Cabriolet or 914 . It sits on a soft non-slip mat to protect paintwork, attaches with soft webbing and is available in two models: Original and Vacation. For more details and online orders, visit boot-bag.com, using code BBPCGB for a 10% discount.

Parr Independent Porsche specialist Parr offers 10% off labour rates when PCGB members show their membership card.

For details, call 01293 537911 or visit parr-uk.co.uk

CALENDAR WHAT’S ON IN 2018 February

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11 14 15 15 15-18 17 18 18 23-25 25 27

Prodrive tour (R16) Breakfast run (R1) Pre-season dinner at Edenmore Country Club (R27) Sunday Porsche gathering - The Dolphin (R15) Visit to APM Customs Chester (R5) Visit to Ninemeister Warrington (R6) Classic Porsche evening PC Bournemouth (R26) London Classic Car Show Club skittles night (R13) Lunch - Portmeirion (R5) (R18) POTM at Hintlesham Hall (R12) Race Retro - Stoneleigh Park (R10) (R16) (996) Indian buffet lunch (R29) Skittles evening (R13)

4 4 9 10 10-11 15 16-18 17 18 18 18 23-25 24

R20 Escape: Way-out West (R20) Curling - Tunbridge Wells (R25) RS trackday - Oulton Park (R5) Dublin Classic Show (R27) VW Air-cooled Weekend Ninove, Belgium (914) Locked in at Abergele (R6) Welsh weekend (Macan) Clay pigeon shooting - Mid Norfolk Shooting Ground (R12) Royal yacht visit and dinner (R1) Drive and lunch - Concorde, Manchester Airport (R18) Drive and Sunday lunch (R25) Weekend away Snowdonia (R16)(996) Pendennis Castle, Falmouth (R15)

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APRIL 1 5-8 7

15 15 21-22 22 22 22

March

Clay pigeon shooting (R29) R20 Escape: Way Out West 2 (R20) Spring Tea Bun Run drive out (R31)

27-29 28 29

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RAF centenary celebrations Stow Maries (R11) WOTY - Isle of Man (R6) 987 Boxster and Cayman technical seminar - Cornbury House (R11) (Boxster) (Cayman) Drive to the Kielder area and lunch (R18) Trans-Wessex tour (R31) Officials’ Conference and AGM Charity Classic Vehicle Club and Great War Rally (R11) Sunday Brunch Scramble Bicester (R10) (R31) Preston Sports & Supercar meeting – Phantom Winger (R18) R20 Spring Break: Chops and Robbers (R20) Open Day - ASM Sports, Bressingham (R12) Wheels at The Warren (R11)

MAY 3-6 5 6 7 8-19 11-13 13 13 18-20 18-20 18-20

356 International Azuri Car Care visit (R21) Stanford Hall VW Show (914) R20 Escape: Windy Wastelands (R20) Grand Prix de Monaco Historique trip (R13) Weekend in Wales (R21) Cotswold Rally Dales drive (R18) Weekend in Wales – Llandudno (R5) (991) Spa Classic weekend (R16) WOTY North Wales – Llandudno (R24)

Manx Tour (R11) R20 Escape: Windy Wastelands 2 (R20) Stow Maries Wings and Wheels (R11) Cumbria International Motor Show (R18) Llandudno Porsches on the Prom (Boxster) Blyton Park trackday (R4) Wheels at The Warren (R11)

25 27 31 MAY -3 JUNE Jersey Motoring Festival

6-8 12-15 13-15 15 15 20-21 22 29

Le Mans Classic (R7) (R28J) (991) Goodwood Festival of Speed RIAT Fairford Wheels at The Warren (R11) Fish Banquet (R12) Silverstone Classic Preston Sports & Supercar meeting – Phantom Winger (R18) R20 Escape: Cambs Curves 2 (R20)

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JUNE 3 6 7 10 12 13-17 15-17 16 17 17 22-24 24

Drive and lunch to north Pennines and Yorkshire Dales (R18) R20 On Tour: Drive to Nowhere (R20) R13 at Curborough Sprint Course (R13) Secret Hills Tour (R13) Concours (R11) R20 at 24 Hours of Le Mans (R20) 24 Hours of Le Mans Porsche in the Bay and Concours (R14) Wheels at The Warren (R11) Preston Sports & Supercar meeting – Phantom Winger (R18) WOTY (R14) Day out at Gressenhall Museum (R12)

JULY 1 1 1 3 4-10 5

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Maldon Motor Show (R11) Concours (R18) R20 Escape: Cambs Curves (R20) Concours (R21) Driving tour to Champagne and Classic Le Mans (R23) Witney Motor Show (R31)

AUGUST 4 4-5 5 5 8 11 19 19 22 25-27 31 Aug - 2 Sep

Transaxle Rendezvous (928) (944) (968) Beaulieu Super Car Showdown Helmingham Car Show (R12) Porsches on Display at Borde Hill Garden (R23) R20 On Tour: Summer Cruise (R20) Classic Car Show Miller Park (R18) Preston Sports & Supercar meeting – Phantom Winger (R18) Porsches in the Park (R31) Drivers’ School at Loton Park Hill Climb (R13) Oulton Park Gold Cup (R18) Brands Hatch Festival of Porsche

SEPTEMBER 2-8 7-9 8-16 9 16

French tour (R13) WOTY (R18) September Driving Tour Germany (R23) R20 Escape: London Landmarks XII (R20) R20 Escape: London Landmarks XIII (R20) REGIONS

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Tel: Allan 07400 008868 E-mail: brownridge@btinternet.com L911 BAD ready for immediate transfer. £3,595 Tel: Keith 07415 252911 911 XU £5,500 8 UR £22,000 Both are my own cherished numbers on retention certificates with the £80 DVLA assignment fee paid. PCGB Member Tel: 07944 551470 0005 CAY cherished number plate, on retention. £1,950 ono Tel: 07792 555572 A1 8OXT on retention, ready for immediate transfer, reads A1 BOXT £2,995.

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Conveniently located in Central Milton Keynes and provides an exceptional offering to Air Cooled Porsche clients for all aspects of servicing, repair and maintenance.

Our experience and enthusiasm gives us a sound understanding of what is required to provide the highest levels of service to you our existing customers and hopefully to you our prospective customers too.

Cheshire Ninemeister 12 Chesford Grange, Woolston, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 4RE T: 01925 242342 E: ask@ninemeister.com www.ninemeister.com The new 19,000sqft Ninemeister Customer service centre is perfectly located near M6 Jn21 offering ease of access via M6, M62 & M56 for customers across Manchester, Liverpool, Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire & the Wirral and just 20 minutes from Manchester & Liverpool airports. Our services include OPC quality fixed price servicing & repairs, Hunter 4 wheel chassis alignment & performance tyre service with Hunter Road Force wheel balancing; extensive engine rebuild facility for all 911, 964, 993, 996, 997, Boxster & Cayman; insurance approved repair facility, full body restoration, repair & paint. Performance upgrades include: Klein Innovation UK dealer; KW Suspension fitting centre; Motec engine management dealer; 9m Racing air-cooled fast road & race engines & parts. Please call or refer to website for more details.

Unit Eleven Porsche Specialists 10/11 Aston Court, Kingsland Grange, Warrington, WA1 4SG T: 01925 852 000 www.unitelevenporsche.com Specialising in Air Cooled and Water cooled cars, experts at geometry setup, offering regular maintenance services to full restoration services.

Tech9 Motorsport Ltd Hale Garage, Hale Road, Liverpool L24 5RB. T: 0151 4255 911 E: sales@tech9.ms www.tech9.ms Engineering dealer since 1993, Tech9 has been providing a high-quality service for the repair, restoration and servicing of all Porsche models. Equipped with the official Porsche PIWIS diagnostic system, our services extend to cover engine and gearbox rebuilding, performance tyre supply and fitting, and we have an on-vehicle brake disc lathe. Highly experienced with R/RS/RSR, GT2 and GT3 variants. Specialising in geometry setting for road/track day or full motorsport use, using our Beissbarth alignment system. Sole UK distributor for TECHART tuning products for all the latest Porsche models. Discount available to Porsche Club members.

Cornwall Location close to Liverpool Airport.

PIE Performance Independent Porsche Specialist

Williams Crawford Ltd (Plymouth)

Unit 9, Hill Farm, Lavenham Road Brent Eleigh, CO10 9PB T: 01473 760911, 01787 247911, 01787 249924 E: info@pieperformance.co.uk www.pieperformance.co.uk

911 Forge Lane, Moorlands Trading Estate, Saltash, Cornwall, PL12 6LX T: 01752 840307 E: info@williamscrawford.co.uk www.williamscrawford.co.uk Williams Crawford Ltd has been in business for almost 25 years, representing Cornwall dealing in classic and modern Porsche. We service and repair all Porsche models in our modern well-equipped workshops backed up by our highly skilled, dedicated and friendly team. Also on offer is our popular prestige brokerage service designed to take all of the hardship out of selling your valuable Porsche. Call Adrian or Richard to learn how our personal approach is different and can benefit you.

Devon Braunton Engineering Braunton Garage, Exeter Road, Braunton, Devon, EX33 2JP T: 01271 814144 E: info@brauntonengineering.co.uk www.brauntonengineering.co.uk South West specialist dedicated to Porsche owners. MOT testing station.

All Porsches welcome. Diagnostics, service/repair, AC, geometry, restoration, bodywork.

Oak Tree Garage Newton Popplefield, Sidmouth, Devon, EX10 0ER. T: 01395 568498 Mobile: 07973 550911 Specialising in Porsche since 1974. Full Porsche diagnostics. Mechanical repairs and servicing. Four-wheel alignment.

In-house MOT. Air conditioning. Free loan cars. Contact Crispin.

SCSPORSCHE Honiton, Devon, EX14 3AW T: 01404 549921 Mobile: 07762 244477/ 07770 933054 E: scsporsche@hotmail.co.uk Independent purely Porsche specialists, factory-trained technicians from 1987 to present. Porsche diagnostic equipment for all your Porsche needs, from fixedprice servicing to full rebuilds, with free loan cars. Collection and delivery service available.

Dorset JMG Porsche 98 Cobham Road, Ferndown Industrial Estate, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 7RE T: 01202 488800 E: service@jmgporsche.co.uk www.jmgporsche.co.uk At JMG we are dedicated to helping you get the best experience from your Porsche. We service, diagnose, repair and improve Porsche vehicles in our south of England workshops.

Marque 21 Unit 20 Dreadnought Trading Estate, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 5BU T: 01308 459106 E: infomarque21@aol.com www.marque21.co.uk We are an experienced, enthusiastic team offering servicing, repairs, restoration, engine rebuilds, Porsche diagnostics and computerised full wheel alignment for all Porsche models from 1950 to 2010.

Essex Lancaster Volkswagen Loughton / Porsche-Audi-Seat Specialists Unit 5 Lenthall road, Langston road IG10 3TU T: 020 8532 5555. Contact Chris Toumazos or Andrew Lester E: chris.toumazos@jardinemotors.co.uk andrew.lester@jardinemotors.co.uk Covering Essex and London postcodes.

We provide the highest levels of quality and expertise with Porsche trained technicians. Using the very latest technology when repairing, restoring or enhancing your Porsche. For full details on the services we offer as a Porsche Specialist Body repairers please give us a call.

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. Gloucester Peter Chambers Automotive Ltd Unit 5, 4,200 Oakfield Close, Tewkesbury Business Park, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 8PF T. 01684 274168 E. peter@pcaltd.co.uk www.pcaltd.co.uk We are a well-established specialist workshop offering a full servicing, repairs and preparation on any Porsche, be it everyday road car or track day car, right up to full race peparation. Competitive rates and efficient, friendly service. . Greater

Manchester

Hartech Firwood Industrial Estate off Thicketford Road, Bolton, BL2 3TR T: 01204 302809 E: auto@hartech.org www.hartech.org Ninemeister 12 Chesford Grange, Woolston, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 4RE T: 01925 242342 E: ask@ninemeister.com www.ninemeister.com The new 19,000sqft Ninemeister Customer service centre is perfectly located near M6 Jn21 offering ease of access via M6, M62 & M56 for customers across Manchester, Liverpool, Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire & the Wirral and just 20 minutes from Manchester & Liverpool airports.

Unique Porsche Unit 4a, James Street Industrial Estate Westhoughton, Bolton BL5 3QR T: 07711 806911 E: unique.porsche@gmail.com

Hampshire

Brookspeed 14 Parham Drive, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 4NU T: 02380 641672 E: info@brookspeed.com www.brookspeed.com Brookspeed is an independent Porsche specialist based near the M3 between Southampton and Winchester. With 20 years’ experience of racing and servicing Porsche models, Brookspeed are able to offer a ‘one stop shop’ for maintenance, servicing, Tyres, MOT and diagnostics.

Whatever your Porsche problem contact our friendly team at Brookspeed and we will do everything we can to help.

Hertfordshire RPM Technik Units 6 & 7, Old Airfield Industrial Estate, Cheddington Lane, Long Marston, Hertfordshire, HP23 4QR T: 01296 663824 E: info@rpmtechnik.co.uk www.rpmtechnik.co.uk Located on the border of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire RPM has been maintaining both modern and classic Porsches since 2001. In addition to our specialist Porsche servicing, RPM also undertakes warranted car sales, project builds and restorations, engine and transmission rebuilds and track day / race support.

JZM Porsche Ltd Unit 1, Langley Wharf, Railway Terrace, Kings Langley, WD4 8JE T. 01923 269 788 E: service@jzmporsche.com With excellent transport links from London and the M25 JZM is well positioned to service customers throughout London and the Home Counties. We boost over 30 years’ experience in Porsche servicing and have recently expanded with a huge 40 car showroom. Our factory trained technicians coupled with the latest Porsche technologies and diagnostic equipment can meet all your Porsche needs in servicing , tuning and on or off the track.

15. Hertfordshire Kent

David Newton: Keylink SAS Ltd

La Rose Porsche

Units 15/16 The Calvert Centre, Woodmancott, Winchester, SO21 3BN T: 01256 397150 E: info@keylinksas.com www.keylinksas.com Sharing one man’s passion. Specialising in precision servicing of Porsche at highly competitive pricing. Collection, courtesy cars and delivery service available.

Unit F3, Chaucer Business Park, Watery Lane, Kemsing, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 6PL T: 01732 763333 E: dee@larose.co.uk www.laroseporsche.co.uk We are a well-established Porsche specialist with more than 30 years’ experience. Our fully equipped workshop, factory-trained technicians and the latest Porsche diagnostic equipment enable us to service and repair your early Carrera or current generation of Porsche.

David Newton: Sandydown Bodyworks Ltd Heath House Estate, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 6BY T: 01264 810757 E: info@sandydown.com www.sandydown.com Share one man’s passion. Independent Porsche specialists in paint restoration, bodywork repairs. Fully VBRA and insurance company approved. Modern low-bake ovens. Paint mixing scheme.

Full valeting.

Independent Garage Services Unit 5, Stanstead Road, Boyatt Wood Industrial Estate, Eastleigh, Southampton, SO50 4RZ T: 023 8062 9606 E: enquiries@independent garageservices.co.uk www.independentgarageservices.co.uk Independent Porsche specialists.

Factory-trained technicians. Laserline geometry equipment service available.

M.R Performance Cars A36 Warminster Road, South Newton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 0QW T: 01722 741247 Established for 33 years Mike and Richard have a real passion for Porsches.

We offer sales, servicing, repairs, engine and gearbox rebuilds for all models of Porsches from 1960s to current models.

With 45 years’ relevant experience and a customer service of the highest standard, we are an ideal choice for all Porsche owners.

Lancashire Cavendish Porsche Units 6 & 7, Gainsborough Close Long Eaton, Nottingham, NG10 1PX T: 0115 972 2001 E: enquires@cavendishporsche.co.uk Hartech Firwood Industrial Estate off Thicketford Road, Bolton, BL2 3TR T: 01204 302809 E: auto@hartech.org www.hartech.org Unique Porsche Unit 4a, James Street Industrial Estate Westhoughton, Bolton BL5 3QR T: 07711 806911 E: unique.porsche@gmail.com

London 911 SBD Unit 5, Wellington Park Est, Waterloo Road, London, NW2 7JW T: 020 8208 0464 E: servicing@911sbd.com www.911sbd.com With more than 35 years Porsche service and motorsport experience, 911 SBD is the premier Porsche specialist in London.

Full electrical diagnostics including the PIWIS tester. Can service all models all years. Brake Disc service. Air-con service. Bodywork / insurance work.

Alloy re-furbs. Full engine re-builds.

Give us a ring or call on for a chat.

Charles Ivey 160 Hurlingham Road, London, SW6 3NG. T: 020 7731 3612 E: alvaro@charlesivey.com www.charlesivey.com London’s premier Porsche specialist since 1970. Charles Ivey (Specialist Cars) Limited has been selling and servicing Porsches in London since 1970 and we have been at our present site for the past 35 years. We have a team of dedicated people who are committed to maintaining the very high standards that have, over the years, made us London’s leading Porsche specialist.

Chelsea Carrera Ltd 203 Seagrave Road, London, SW6 1ST. T: 020 7610 2326 E: zoom@chelseacarrera.com www.chelseacarrera.com High-class Porsche service and mechanical work in Central London.

Full engine diagnostic service available.

Four-wheel alignment equipment for perfectresults. Competitively priced.

Collection and delivery service available.

Premises outside the congestion charge area.

Parr 5 Faraday Centre, Faraday Road, Crawley, RH10 9PX T: 01293 537911 E: service@parr-uk.co.uk www.parr-uk.co.uk With 30 years’ experience Parr is the leading Porsche specialist in the UK, covering all areas of Porsche maintenance, preparation, tuning (Cargraphic UK importer), motorsport and sales. Whether it is a routine service or part through to a full restoration or engine build, Parr has the skills, experience and facilities to deliver the highest levels of customer care and service. To find out the full range of services, and to explore what Parr can offer you, please visit our website.

Porsche Torque Unit C2, Arun Buildings, Arundel Road, Uxbridge, UB8 2RP T: 01895 814446 E: sid@porsche-torque.com www.porschespecialistheathrow.co.uk Service and repair on all Porsches, any year. 30 years’ Porsche experience.

Discount given to PCGB members, please mention Porsche Post. Ex AFN & OPC technicians.

Xavier Auto Clinic 166-167 Stamford Brook Arches, Hammersmith, London, W6 0TQ T: 020 8741 2251 E: reception@xavierauto.com www.xavierautoclinic.com Xavier Auto Clinic is an independent Porsche specialist based in West London that can offer a full range of service on all Porsche models. Established in 2002, 5-star Good Garage Scheme member.

Air-conditioning service and repair.

Manufacturer-scheduled service keeping manufacturer warranty intact under block exemption. Customised servicing for three-plus years. Vehicle diagnostics and engine rebuilds.

Manchester Hartech Firwood Industrial Estate off Thicketford Road, Bolton, BL2 3TR T: 01204 302809 E: auto@hartech.org www.hartech.org 986/996/997 and Cayman engine repair/rebuild specialist addressing failed IMS bearings, scored bores, “D” chunk failures, etc. We carry out engine work for many of the UK’s leading specialists and worldwide. Porsche servicing, repairs and maintenance, sales, re-manufactured spares, monthly paid “Lifetime Maintenance Plan” (free labour and services).

Merseyside Tech9 Motorsport Ltd Hale Garage, Hale Road, Liverpool L24 5RB. T: 0151 4255 911 E: sales@tech9.ms www.tech9.ms

Norfolk STR Porsche Specialists 10 Garden St, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 1QU T: 01603 626 668 E: workshop@strgb.co.uk www.porsche-servicing-norfolk.co.uk STR provide Porsche servicing, diagnostics, engine and gearbox rebuilds, 3 D four wheel alignment, corner weighting & suspension, camera & radar calibration, auto gearbox flush and IMS bearings. We also buy and sell Porsches.

We cater for everyday road cars, track day and race cars. We pride ourselves on ensuring you - and your car - receive the very highest level of care and service from our Porsche trained technicians.

Nottinghamshire Cavendish Porsche Units 6 & 7, Gainsborough Close, Long Eaton, Nottingham, NG10 1PX T: 0115 972 2001 E: enquires@cavendishporsche.co.uk We are a Porsche Specialist based in Long Eaton, Nottingham. Our technicians have more than 21 years of Porsche main dealer experience and seven years’ indepewre more than confident that our work is of the highest standard. From servicing to full engine rebuilds, your beloved Porsche is in very safe hands.

We use the very latest PIWIS official Porsche diagnostic systems and can offer you the same workshop facilities that you would find at any official Porsche Centre, but at independent prices. We hope to see you in the near future.

Northamptonshire Export 56 LTD Unit 9, Blundells Drive, Bradville Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK13 7HA T: 01908 216661 E: enquiries@export56.com www.

North Wales export56.com Tech9 Motorsport Ltd Hale Garage, Hale Road, Liverpool L24 5RB. T: 0151 4255 911 E: sales@tech9.ms www.tech9.ms

Oxfordshire Autofarm Oddington Grange, Weston on the Green, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 3QW T: 01865 331234 www.autofarm.co.uk Autofarm has more than 40 years’ experience of maintaining, preparing, racing, restoring and selling Porsches of all ages. The Oxfordshire-based workshop offers servicing using accredited diagnostics equipment, sales, parts, race preparation, restoration and engine build capability. Its extensive road and race engine experience led the company to develop Silsleeve, an innovative and cost-effective method of repairing modern Porsche cylinder blocks. It also offers bespoke builds through its Autofarm 911 programme.

Hillcrest Specialist Cars Whitehouse Garage, High Street, Nettlebed, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, RG9 5DB. T: 01491 642911 E: hillcrestcars@tiscali.co.uk www.hillcrestspecialistcars.com Hillcrest Specialist Cars is a leading independent Porsche specialist based in Henley-on-Thames. We offer a highly professional service at competitive prices. We pride ourselves on our high quality and standard of service.

Suffolk PIE Performance Independent Porsche Specialist Unit 9, Hill Farm, Lavenham Road Brent Eleigh, CO10 9PB T: 01473 760911, 01787 247911, 01787 249924 E: info@pieperformance.co.uk www.pieperformance.co.uk PIE Performance is a family-run independent Porsche specialist in East Anglia. We offer all workshop facilities for servicing and repair, supply new and used parts, vehicle restoration to include

back dating, Porsche car sales and many other services needed to support running a Porsche.

Surrey Cridfords Porsche The Street. Ewhurst. Surrey. GU67QY T. 01483 273302 E. porsche@cridfords.co.uk W. www.cridfords.co.uk Established for over 30 years, we are one of the country’s longest established Porsche specialists.

Our service department are equipped with the very latest official Porsche PIWIS III diagnostics and Porsche spec Hunter 4 wheel alignment system. We offer a full engine repair and rebuild service, classic restoration, as well as all service work for current through to classics models.

Collection and loan cars available.

Parr 5 Faraday Centre, Faraday Road, Crawley, RH10 9PX. T: 01293 537911 E: service@parr-uk.co.uk www.parr-uk.co.uk With 30 years’ experience Parr is the leading Porsche specialist in the UK, covering all areas of Porsche maintenance, preparation, tuning (Cargraphic UK importer), motorsport and sales. Whether it is a routine service or part through to a full restoration or engine build Parr has the skills, experience and facilities to deliver the highest levels of customer care and service. To find out the full range of services, and to explore what Parr can offer you, please visit our website.

Charles Ivey Specialist Cars Hollyfield Road, Surbiton Surrey, KT5 9AL T: 020 7731 3612 E: info@charlesivey.com www.charlesivey.com

Sussex (East) Paragon Five Ashes, East Sussex, TN20 6HY T: 01825 830424 (open 7 days) E: info@paragon.gb.com www.paragongb.com Located in the heart of East Sussex, we offer an outstanding selection of high-quality and expertly prepared used Porsches for sale. Our in-house workshops and parts department are fully equipped and offer a vast depth of knowledge and enthusiasm that enables us to provide complete long-term care for your modern or classic Porsche.

Precision Porsche Unit B1/B2, Bluebell Industrial Estate, Sheffied Park, Uckfield, Sussex TN22 3HQ. T: 01825 721205 E: info@precisionporsche.co.uk www.precisionporsche.co.uk We specialise in Porsche maintenance and bodywork repairs – from regular care through to full restorations. We have new dedicated workshops all on one site including the latest Porsche diagnostic equipment and body shop services. Our premises are light, spacious and customer friendly located in Mid Sussex.

Sussex (West) Carrera Performance Unit A, Monks Gate Garage, Brighton Road, Monks Gate, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 6JD. T: 01403 891911 E: info@carreraperformance.com www.carreraperformance.com We offer a complete range of services or all Porsches including engine and gearbox rebuilds and upgrades. Servicing, race and rally prep including four-wheel alignment and corner weighting, suspension upgrades, rolling road service.

We also have an in-house machine shop to make those hard-to-get parts.

Parr 5 Faraday Centre, Faraday Road, Crawley, RH10 9PX. T: 01293 537911 E: service@parr-uk.co.uk www.parr-uk.co.uk With 30 years’ experience Parr is the leading Porsche specialist in the UK, covering all areas of Porsche maintenance, preparation, tuning (Cargraphic UK importer), motorsport and sales. Whether it is a routine service or part through to a full restoration or engine build, Parr has the skills, experience and facilities to deliver the highest levels of customer care and service. To find out the full range of services, and to explore what Parr can offer you, please visit our website.

Philip Raby Porsche Porsche sales and service Clovelly Road, Southbourne, West Sussex PO10 8PF. T: 01243 780389 Contact Philip Raby, Andrew Windsor E: mail@philipraby.co.uk www.philipraby.co.uk Friendly and affordable help on buying, selling and running Porsches. We sell top-quality Porsches at sensible prices with great aftersales service. We also offer full service, repair and restoration services for all Porsches, classic and modern. Visit our website for more details or please ring for an appointment.

We’ll be happy to chat with you.

Tyne & Wear D&G Porsche Specialists www.dg-porsche.co.uk Workshop/service: 0191 340 6454 E: enquiries@dg-porsche.co.uk Sales: 07710 243716 E: sales@dg-porsche.co.uk Friendly dedicated Porsche specialists serving the north east of England In both car sales and service. Everything from tyre fitting to engine rebuilds we have it covered here at D&G.

Vale of Glamorgan

Parr 5 Faraday Centre, Faraday Road, Crawley, RH10 9PX T: 01293 537911 E: service@parr-uk.co.uk www.parr-uk.co.uk With 30 years’ experience Parr is the leading Porsche specialist in the UK, covering all areas of Porsche maintenance, preparation, tuning (Cargraphic UK importer), motorsport and sales. Whether it is a routine service or part through to a full restoration or engine build, Parr has the skills, experience and facilities to deliver the highest levels of customer care and service. To find out the full range of services, and to explore what Parr can offer you, please visit our website.

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D9 Autotech South Wales Porsche Specialists Unit 22 & 23 South Cornelly Trading Estate, Bridgend,Vale of Glamorgan CF33 4RE. Junction 37 M4 T: 01656 740991 Mobile 07966 166763 E: discount9auto@aol.com www.d9autotechporsche.co.uk Perfectly located on M4 half way between Cardiff & Swansea, serving South, East, & West! Wales leading specialists in 996/997/Boxster/Cayman & Cayenne engine rebuilds & rebores at the best rates in the country. Ceramic Ims bearing upgrades. In house recovery at cost price only any where Wales/UK, free with any engine rebuild 200 mile radius! Full state of the art Porsche diagnostics by Autologic, covering ecu & key programming etc. Air cooled engine/gearbox rebuilds with 30 years experience! Vast stock of new & used spares at unbeatable prices! Full restoration pre 90’s 911 & panel repairs & specialist paint to highest standards!

Servicing all models with free special offer add ons always available! In house MOT station, lazer suspension alignment, air conditioning. Vast knowledge & experience second to none in the area. Please contact Neil Cooper or Anthony Nicholas to discuss your Porsche requirements with confidence anytime! Fast friendly Service!

Wiltshire M.R Performance Cars A36 Warminster Road, South Newton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 0QW T: 01722 741247 Established for 33 years Mike and Richard have a real passion for Porsches.

We offer sales, servicing, repairs, engine and gearbox rebuilds for all models of Porsches from 1960s to current models.

With 45 years’ relevant experience and a customer service of the highest standard, we are an ideal choice for all Porsche owners.

Worcestershire Peter Chambers Automotive Ltd Unit 5, 4,200 Oakfield Close, Tewkesbury Business Park, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 8PF T: 01684 274168 E. peter@pcaltd.co.uk www.pcaltd.co.uk

Yorkshire Car-Tech & Care Unit 10, Station Road, Industrial Park, Station Road, Brompton on Swale, North Yorkshire, DL10 7SN T: 01748 810788 E: car-techandcare@live.com www.car-techandcare.co.uk Car-Tech & Care is a Porsche specialist situated south of Scotch Corner just off the A1. Proprietor David Raper has more than 17 years’ Porsche experience.

Offering friendly, value-for-money service.

Scotland

Welsh Porsche Specialists

Border Reivers

The Old Stables, Railway Terrace, Penarth, CF64 2TT. T: 02920 706944 www.welshporsche.co.uk Welsh Porsche are the oldest established independent Porsche specialists in Cardiff and south Wales, ideally located in Penarth. We specialise in: 996 / 997 / Boxster / Cayman and Cayenne engines. Tiptronic and Manual gearbox’s. Service and MOT. Diagnostics.

Accident damage. Renovations. Fuel injection / mechanical / K and L jetronic all Bosch types. Our highly trained staff will resolve any problem presented from a Porsche tractor through to 991.

Our dealer level diagnostic equipment and vast experience can overcome any situation. Please contact Paul Welsh for an informal chat regarding your requirements.

T: 01360 870103 M: 07951 112581 www.borderreivers.co Scotland’s Largest independent Porsche Dealer Specialising in the Sale, Restoration & Preservation of Porsche cars Based in the beautiful Loch Lomond and Trossachs national park on the shores of Loch Lomond Conveniently based between Glasgow & Edinburgh Free insurance valuations to Porsche Club Members.

To advertise please contact Fiona Wright Telephone 01603 772553

PP: How would you describe Porsche enthusiasts?

GH: They range massively. Some are very knowledgeable, some loud and proud, some quite introvert, some hugely competitive and I guess for some it even shows success, but two things that always shines through are their passion and camaraderie. That’s what makes this club fantastic – it’s OK to be different.

Q A Greg Harm, R3 North East Regional Organiser, talks to PP about why he loves the Club, the challenges of running a Region and his Porsche ambitions

PP: What excites you about PCGB? GH: It’s no secret that I love our Club, it brings together so many people through its diverse programmes of events and experiences alongside the great opportunities it has to offer.

Maybe I am just a bit sad, but I personally think it’s great seeing so many new friendships formed through this incredible passion we all have for the brand.

PP: What’s your favourite PCGB event?

GH: I visit the Silverstone Classic year after year and have witnessed the Club’s presence grow into the magnificent display and hub it has become for us all as members to use and enjoy throughout the whole weekend. Thanks must go to the tireless hard work and efforts of our Club staff, it definitely makes you proud to rock up and be part of it. Surely we must now be the envy of all the other motor clubs attending each year.

PP: What would be your ultimate road trip?

GH: I guess like most, this has to be the iconic Route 66 or maybe some exciting Swiss passes.

My 944 lived in Tuscany for a few years as a holiday car, so it may be nice to take it back sometime. Whichever I would prefer to do, it would be in a Porsche.

THE REGION BIGGEST CHALLENGE? “Time management.

Fortunately my wife Deb and I own our own tyre business, which affords us a little more time, I guess, than if we were working for someone else. We do, however, work around 60 hours a week, then try to fit in our Club stuff around that.”

FAVOURITE MEMORY? “I have so many fantastic Regional memories from previous events and places, it really is hard to choose.

However, if I had to pick one it would be our WOTY to Stirling in 2016. I had secured the exclusive use of a small castle in Menstrie, Scotland, and we had a great few days there with 35 other members, especially the fun-filled evenings after our meals.”

FAVOURITE EVENT? “My favourite Regional event is our first planned run of the year. Deb and I implemented this when we were fairly new members, years before becoming ROs, and have enjoyed organising it every year since. We like to call it our Clear Away the Cobwebs drive – it always kick-starts the new season. Last year’s event was epic, with so many new members joining in. I hope this year it will be even better.”

PP: What’s your earliest Porsche memory?

GH: I grew up in an old Northumbrian pit village and most of the cars in it were dated.

Waiting for the school bus with my mates, one guy used to pass us each morning in an early white 924. We used to speculate what he did; maybe a spy, a footballer, someone special. It turned out he worked at a builder’s yard in the stores, proving that even then most Porsche drivers were everyday people.

PP: When did your relationship with Porsche start?

GH: Around 2008, a friend turned up at my house in a Guards Red 944 Turbo and took me for a spin. I was hooked straight away. I have always been a petrolhead and owned some great cars, but through the late ’90s and early 2000s, when I became ‘dad taxi’, I owned some fairly horrible mundane models. I even owned a Fiat Croma at one point! I guess this just reignited my real passion for cars again.

PP: What about Porsche ambitions?

GH: I am lucky enough to own several Porsche models, including a lovely old 1980 911 SC. It’s my intention to get round to having this restored in the near future. Hopefully this will be my next project.

While Greg owns various Porsches, there will only be one ‘baby’ – his white convertible 944 Turbo

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LOE BANK MOTORS Ltd. North West Independent Porsche Specialist

ABOUT Loe Bank Motors was founded in 1991

by Chris Sanderson MIMI CAE AE NT ENGTECH. Chris started working on Porsches at Ian Anthony, the Porsche Dealer in Bury & Wilmslow in 1985. He was Porsche Apprentice of the Year in 1986 and runner up in the Porsche Technician of the Year 1991. As Chris spent a great deal of his working time on 928’s he found that he had a knack of problem solving and rebuilding engines at Porsche Centres as well as air cooled 911s and 924/944 models.

Word spread rapidly about his capabilities and in 2000 the opportunity to purchase the Edenfield MOT Testing Station and large workshop enabled him to provide a professional environment with the added benefit of in-house MOT testing facilities.

Facilities now include full servicing facilities especially for ‘older’ Porsches, the latest John Bean 4 wheel alignment system utilising XD cameras to ensure greater accuracy, air conditioning service, tyre changing and balancing, the latest in state of the art diagnostic equipment and MOT testing with qualified testers/ technicians, Reece, Andrew and of course Chris who is also Quality Controller.

After several years working at Porsche Centres, Chris decided to strike out on his own, initially working from his Fathers’ double garage at the side of his house. His reputation with 928’s has grown steadily over the years with a steady stream of owners from all over the UK and abroad making the journey to sunny Lancashire to have their cars fettled by someone who REALLY knows about 928s.

Other services include Pre Purchase Inspections to reduce the risk of buying a car with potentially large repair bills waiting to catch out the unwary. In the office you’ll find an experienced team who have significant experience of the marque with many having previously worked at Porsche Centres.

WWW.LOEBANKMOTORS.CO.UK

Please contact us to discuss your parts needs.

Tel: 01706 826 060 or 01706 825572 // Unit 6, Bridge Mills, Rochdale Road, Edenfield, Bury, BL0 0RE Loe Bank Motors are Members of the Retail Motor Industry Federation and Good Garages Scheme.