Porsche Post October 2018

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October 2018

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ABSOLUTE POWER Driving the RSR 2.1 Turbo

MARQUE TIME Festival of Porsche returns

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ELECTRIC DREAMS The lowdown on the Taycan

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The dust has barely settled over Brands Hatch as this issue heads to the printers.

A huge thank you goes to everyone who helped to organise last month’s spectacular Festival of Porsche, and to all the members who attended and took part. It was a truly magical way to wrap up a very special summer for the Club and we hope that it will become a more permanent fixture in the future.

In these pages you’ll find a full round-up of the Festival for anyone who couldn’t make it, alongside a retrospective of Pedro Rodriguez, a man who entered British Porsche folklore with his fearless drives at Brands.

There’s also a first-hand account of what it’s like to take the wheel of the glorious RSR Turbo, courtesy of Nick Trott, and a detailed update on Porsche’s progress with the all-electric Taycan.

Back in the Clubhouse, I’d like to extend a warm welcome to Sally Wilcox, who is taking over from Chris Tooley as our new Finance Manager. You’ll have the chance to meet her at various upcoming events, so please do come and say hello.

In our news pages, you’ll find discount codes for the Bicester Heritage Sunday Brunch Scramble on 7 October and the eagerly awaited NEC Classic Motor Show, from 9 to 11 November. You’ll also find details of our Christmas Open Day on 9 December, which is moving to Bicester Heritage for the first time. We’re delighted to be working alongside Porsche Classic on this event, which we hope will be a fitting way to conclude a memorable 70th year.

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Another spectacular weekend in the Club’s hectic 2018 summer schedule saw the Festival of Porsche return to Brands, with static displays, Championship races and demo laps from the 919 Hybrid all taking place under cloudless September skies.

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Oh happy day The return of the Festival of Porsche to Brands Hatch meant another incredible weekend of motoring memories

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Drive of a lifetime

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Nick Trott almost got more than he bargained for when he signed up to drive the RSR 2.1 Turbo at Goodwood

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Future proofing The all-electric Taycan is redeďŹ ning sports cars for the 21st century.

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Laps of the gods With fate as his counsel, Pedro Rodriguez achieved immortality in a short but brilliant career

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Classic 911 celebrates 70 golden years orsche Classic has finally taken the wraps off its secretive new venture, codenamed Project Gold.

Conceived to celebrate the work of the Classic department as part of Porsche’s 70th anniversary celebrations, Project Gold is a one-of-a-kind 993 generation 911 Turbo S, combining the best of Porsche’s past with some thoroughly modern touches.

With access to more than 6500 parts that Porsche Classic offers for 993 generation models, the Classic team created an entirely new car, based on an existing type-993 Turbo S bodyshell.

The manual transmission and all-wheel drive were also sourced from Porsche

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Classic, while the hand-stamped chassis number follows the last series production model of the 993 Turbo from 1998.

The car, unveiled 24 August, took 18 months to build at the Porsche restoration workshop in Stuttgart. It features a new 3.6-litre twin-turbo flat-six engine delivering 444bhp, matching the performance level of the original production car.

Painted in Golden Yellow Metallic, a nod to the 2018 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series, its black wheels are also highlighted by Golden Yellow design accents. Inside, the seats and interior trim have been finished in black with Golden Yellow details by the expert team of upholsterers in the Exclusive department.

Detlev von Platen, Member of the Executive Board responsible for Sales and Marketing at Porsche AG, said: “Although

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we are starting a new chapter in our sports car history with the Porsche Taycan, the story of how the company evolved is no less significant. On the contrary. This Golden Yellow 993 demonstrates how incredibly passionate we are about the tradition of our brand.”

The car, which is limited to use on private tracks, will make its world premiere at the Porsche Rennsport Reunion in Laguna Seca, California, on 27 September, before being auctioned by RM Sotheby’s at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta on 27 October, as part of its 70th Anniversary Sale.

Proceeds will go to the non-profit Ferry Porsche Foundation, established this year as part of the anniversary celebrations to support projects in education, social issues and youth development.

£5m 956 headlines at anniversary auction Auction house RM Sotheby’s has announced the latest headlining lot from its auction of the world’s most collectible Porsches – the 1983 956 Group C that was the only 956 to win on American soil.

Around 70 classic models will go under the hammer in the US on 27 October at the Porsche 70th Anniversary Sale, held in collaboration with the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta at Porsche Cars North America.

The 956 Group C, chassis number 110, made its debut at the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans and achieved an overall win at the Can-Am Road America in July that year, driven by John Fitzpatrick. With only three owners since it joined a private collection after Le Mans in 1984, it is presented in its 1983 Le Mans livery and is estimated to sell for up to £5.24 million.

Other star lots include a 1968 911 L Coupe, one of 499 built for the US market and a rare matching numbers example. With just three owners from new it remains lovingly maintained and largely original, undergoing sympathetic restoration around eight years ago.

A Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar rally car, one of three examples built for the gruelling off-road endurance race in 1985, is also going under the hammer. It was driven by then two-time Paris-Dakar winner René Metge and Dominique Lemoyne, and while it didn’t finish the race it helped pave the way for the 1986 event, in which 959s finished first, second and sixth. The auctioneers estimate its pre-sale value at £1.24 million.

A 1956 Super Speedster, owned by Pennsylvania butcher Robert P Howry since

1967, is another highlight. Meticulously cared for, the Glacier White 356 A 1600 S Speedster clocked up just 3000 miles in its 51 years with its current owner and remains in exceptional original condition, thanks in part to being housed in a specially built garage.

Alexander Weaver, car specialist at RM Sotheby’s, said: “Today, the Porsche Super Speedster is a much sought-after automotive icon from an early era in the 70-year heritage of Porsche, and this car is a true time-capsule example, offering a rare opportunity to experience a classic Porsche essentially just as it was when it left the factory 62 years ago. It has never been restored because it was never needed.”

For more information on the auction and lots, visit rmsothebys.com

Parking, but not as we know it The headache of tight parking spaces looks set to become a thing of the past for owners of the new Porsche Cayenne.

Thanks to the new high-tech Remote Park Assist feature, drivers can now get out of their car altogether before watching it park itself.

Once the driver activates Remote Park Assist via an app on their smartphone, all they have to do is hold the app’s OK button until their Cayenne finishes parking automatically, regardless of whether the space is on the right or left, involves parallel parking, negotiating a right angle or is in a narrow garage.

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The highly complicated system involves four high-tech processors in the central driver assistance control unit that co-ordinate 20 additional control units, which in turn evaluate data from 12 ultrasonic sensors in real time. Remote Park Assist with Surround View uses four cameras to deliver 360-degree visibility to help with manoeuvring.

Remote Park Assist will make adjustments or interrupt parking if it detects a pedestrian, high kerb or a bollard near the vehicle, and the driver can pause the process by remote control at any time.

COOL RULES! If you’re a Porsche fan, there’s only one word you need to know in German, and that’s Luftgekühlt. It means ‘air-cooled’ and essentially takes in all Porsches built up until the 993, which ceased production in 1998, putting an end to the air-cooled lineage that began in 1948 with the first 356.

Luftgekühlt is also the name for the series of experiential car culture gatherings born in California and centred around historically significant or interesting Porsches for the road and track. It is neither stuffy nor traditional: one look at Luftgekühlt regular, Porsche guru Magnus Walker, tells you that.

While Luftgekühlt is a distinctly US event, it recently headed to Britain, to the central Motor Transport Yard at Bicester Heritage, Oxfordshire. Porsche specialist Sports Purpose is located there and worked closely with Luftgekühlt founders Patrick Long, a two-time Le Mans class winner, and creative director Howie Idelson, to bring the show to the UK. Porsche was one of the first companies to ask Pirelli to create bespoke tyres – for the 911 – in the late 1970s. At the heart of their long relationship is passion.

That’s one of the reasons why Pirelli is so closely associated with Luftgekühlt, with bespoke Pirelli Collezione tyres available for nearly all of the air-cooled cars. Collezione tyres combine classic looks with modern technology, catering for some of the world’s most desirable cars made from 1950, to help them maintain perfect originality. Using the latest compounds, tyres from the range offer better grip and improved road holding on wet surfaces, guaranteeing high levels of safety and reliability without compromising on period style.

And style is what Luftgekühlt is all about. With so many eclectic Porsches to see and marvel at, no wonder Luftgekühlt is so cool. Air cool, in fact.

911 in spotlight at Oldtimer Grand Prix Porsche’s 70th anniversary celebrations continued at the Nürburgring at the annual AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix, which attracts around 60,000 vintage car racing fans each year.

The marque’s presence at the event, which took place from 10 to 12 August, also highlighted a second milestone – the 30th anniversary of the 964 generation of the 911.

In a 16,000sq m showcase area, a drivetrain from the 964 generation 911 took visitors back to 1988, when the newly designed 3.6-litre twin-ignition engine became the most powerful naturally aspirated engine in the 911’s history.

It was also the first passenger car engine in the world to have a controlled metal catalyst, while its fully panelled underbody and automatically extending rear spoiler delivered

record aerodynamic values for the time. As part of the Porsche anniversary exhibition, around 50 private type-964 models featured alongside a 964 Turbo S and a 964 RS from the Porsche Museum.

Back in 1990, a type-964 911 launched the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, and the races for this year’s series also took place during the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix. Porsche Junior Thomas Preining clocked up his fifth win of the season to lead the championship, receiving his trophy from five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell.

Bell also took the wheel of a 1965 911, restored by four British Porsche Classic Partners, to compete in the Gentlemen Drivers category for GTs up to 1965.

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Pirelli fuel gift card offer PCGB members can benefit from an exclusive offer of a Pirelli fuel gift card.

Available only when purchasing Pirelli tyres from a Pirelli Performance Centre or official Porsche dealer, the card’s value depends on the size and quantity of tyres purchased as follows: 16” and below 2 tyres = £10 | 4 tyres = £30 17” 2 tyres = £30 | 4 tyres = £70 18” and above 2 tyres = £50 | 4 tyres = £100 Where can you get your tyres fitted?

Visit pirelli.co.uk/porscheclubgb for the promotional details and to find your nearest participating dealer.

Terms and conditions apply.

Charity event will be hot stuff The Club will be staging a barbecue at PC Portsmouth to raise funds for Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice in West Sussex.

The event takes place on 12 October, on the eve of the Goodwood Charity track and paddock day, and organisers are hoping for a large turnout.

Tickets cost £15 per person, which includes a £10 donation to Chestnut Tree House. Booking can be made securely online at porscheclubgb.com. Early booking is recommended.

Thruxton trackday in 2019?

The Club is assessing the viability of a trackday at Thruxton in 2019 and is keen to hear members’ views on whether the event would be supported. The day would be unlimited noise, which we hope would appeal to a wide-range of Porsches, and early indications suggest a price of around £470. Much like the Silverstone Grand Prix day earlier this year, the demand from members will be a key factor in the Club’s inal decision. If you would like to register your interest, please email gm@porscheclubgb.com

BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW FOR THE Bicester Heritage Sunday brunch Scramble

TIME TICKS AWAY ON porsche design watch As 12 months of celebrations marking 70 years of Porsche draw to a close, time is running out to secure a very special memento.

Earlier this year, Porsche Club GB and Porsche Cars Great Britain were delighted to unveil the Porsche Club Brands Hatch limited-edition Swiss watch.

Just 20 examples of this exclusive timepiece were produced, in conjunction with Porsche Design, to celebrate both the landmark anniversary and September’s Festival of Porsche at Brands Hatch.

Demand has been high for the watch and we now have just one example remaining at our special PCGB members’ price of £3695, representing a reduction of around £1200 on the recommended retail price.

The Club is not taking a margin on the timepiece, and instead is interested in ensuring the watch is purchased by enthusiasts of the Club and the marque.

If you are interested, please call the Clubhouse team on 01608 652911, or email clubofice@porscheclubgb.com

The Club’s R31 Cotswold Region will be taking part in another Bicester Heritage Sunday Brunch Scramble meet on 7 October.

This event is also open to all Porsche Club members to display their vehicles in the Club’s allocated display area within the larger Porsche display zone.

The display area and discounted entry tickets will be exclusively for current Porsche Club members driving a Porsche. However, the display area will not be the same as on previous occasions and will be allocated by

the organisers according to the number of pre-booked cars. You are therefore strongly encouraged to book online, otherwise you may not be able to park in the Club’s display area.

If you’d like to attend, you can purchase special discounted tickets online from bicesterheritage.co.uk.

Bicester Heritage’s booking service accepts Visa, Mastercard and Amex, and to qualify for the special PCGB rate you will need to enter discount code PORSCHEX18 and your membership number.

new venue for christmas open day This year the Club’s Christmas Open Day will take place on 9 December at the Hangar at Bicester Heritage. The sheer popularity of the event, and the Club’s focus on ensuring that as many members as possible have a chance to attend, has led to the change of venue, which 10 porscheclubgb.com

will increase the capacity of the Open Day. The event will be a joint venture with Porsche Classic, so members can expect a range of display cars and various other attractions.

More details will be released in due course, so keep a close eye on the PCGB website.

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SECOND CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE FOR SUMPTER Two second place finishes in the dramatic final rounds of the Petro-Canada Lubricants Porsche Club Championship with Pirelli secured a second overall championship title for Mark Sumpter.

Sumpter claimed victories in seven out of the 14 races of the 2018 series, but a competitive

Class 1 field meant he headed into Brands Hatch with a one point lead.

Second overall went to Class 2 winner Jonathan Evans, who enjoyed a fine season in his Boxster. Simon Clark finished third overall in his first season in the championship.

SAVE ON CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW TICKETS The Classic Motor Show at the NEC is always a key date in our calendar, and this year’s event looks set to be bigger and better than ever.

The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery, takes place from 9 to 11 November and will be showcasing more than 2500 classic cars and motorbikes across more than one million square feet of display space.

The theme of this year’s show is Built to Last, inspired by the centenary of the First World War, which falls on the final day of the event.

The theme also celebrates marques that have reached significant milestones, including Porsche’s 70th anniversary, and the enthusiasm of the classic car community.

Another highlight will be a gathering of 300 classic vehicle clubs, including PCGB. We will

be at the heart of the event, with our stand displaying a selection of members’ cars, and also featuring a wide selection of items from our Members’ Collection to purchase. We’ll be providing complimentary refreshments throughout the event, which is a perfect excuse to call in at stand 1-100 for a coffee and a chat.

PCGB members will benefit from big savings with our special discount offer. The discount applies to tickets for 10 and 11 November and reduces the cost of a single ticket to £24.50 and the price of a family ticket for two adults and three children aged five to 15 to £68.

Please visit necclassicmotorshow.com, click ‘Book tickets’ and enter the code CSCMS18 for a single ticket or CFCMS18 for the family ticket.

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Porsche remains a highly desirable marque in an uncertain classic car market Words: Nick Whale here’s no question there has been an ongoing debate over the stability of the classic Porsche market for some time now. Talk of the market bottoming out and prices in decline is always serious food for thought as a Porsche owner or potential investor but, despite the doom and gloom, the results of 2018 so far make for a less worrying outlook.

A quick look at the HAGI Top Index, which is an overall market measure for exceptional historic automobiles, shows a decline in prices of 0.7 per cent year to date. As for the Porsche specific HAGI P Index, it has been revealed that there has been a decline of just 0.1 per cent year to date. Although this comes on the back of the great boom between 2013 and 2016, and the

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subsequent levelling out of the market, it would suggest that the Porsche market is not facing a steep downturn of any kind.

Speaking from a Silverstone Auctions perspective, so far this year we have sold 25 best of breed Porsches at our sales, with a total value of £1.7 million. As these figures demonstrate, Porsche continues to be a strong marque at our auctions. This is also reflected in the high quality of the Porsches that we have just consigned to our annual Porsche Sale in association with Porsche GB, which will take place in just a few days’ time on Friday, 28 September at Dallas Burston Polo Club.

Looking ahead, the current plateau of prices could simply be a blip on the market scale, and for as long as the classic car market remains robust, Porsches will continue to rank among the most desirable and collectible classics you can own.

We hope to welcome as many PCGB members to the Porsche Sale as possible, for what will be a fabulous and memorable event.

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Porsche Sale highlights, from top: a 2002 RUF R Turbo; a 1998 RUF BTR2 993 Turbo; a 1972 911 2.4 T

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IN HIS OWN WORDS...

Over the course of his long and hugely successful career, Derek Bell’s name became inextricably linked to Porsche. Among countless other victories, the British ace won the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times for the legendary German marque, the Daytona 24 Hours three times, and twice claimed the World Sportscar Championship.

In this latest publication, produced

by Porter Press International, Derek and renowned motorsport author Richard Heseltine document every race that he drove for Porsche, offering a fascinating and very personal insight into a golden era for the marque and for sportscar racing in general.

Porsche Club members can enjoy a limited-edition copy of the book, each of which has been individually signed by Derek Bell, MBE and Honorary Porsche Club Member.

Members’ price: £45 Online: porscheclubgb.com Phone: 01608 652911

HOW TO ORDER Purchase securely on porscheclubgb.com or call 01608 652911

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PORSCHE PEOPLE

COLIN DAVIS The understated Englishman who swept Porsche to victory on the Targa Florio

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nly seven British racing drivers ever won the infamous Targa Florio, one of the big three in 20th century European racing alongside Le Mans and the Mille Miglia. Most of these – Sir Stirling Moss, Graham Hill and Brian Redman among them – are household names. But one remains far more enigmatic. That man is Colin Davis.

Davis was born in London in 1933. The son of Sammy Davis, one of the celebrated Bentley Boys, his passage into motorsport was nigh on inevitable. As a relative youngster, he demonstrated impressive calm and car control in British Formula 3 before deciding to move to Italy in 1957 to better position himself in the epicentre of contemporary motor racing.

The quiet but confident Davis was soon a fixture of Italy’s single-seater and sports car racing scene, performing well at national level in Formula Junior and endurance events. In 1958 he won the coveted Index of Performance at Le Mans in a 750cc OSCA, revealing a talent that perhaps superseded the cars available to him.

Davis’s focus would continue to be Italy, however, and largely its single-seater series, a dedication that ultimately culminated in victory in the Italian national championship in 1960. He continued to race at this level for a number of years, but the

moustachioed pipe smoker was now a familiar face on both the international sports car and GP scenes. And with a proven track record on his expat soil, he was a shrewd choice when Porsche began looking for drivers for the newly built 904’s maiden outing on the Targa Florio.

This was 1964, and with Ferrari absent from the event altogether, Porsche’s hopes were high. The weight of expectation, however, was heaped on established factory driver Edgar Barth, whose 904 had been adapted to suit Porsche’s latest flat-eight. Davis and his co-driver, Antonio Pucci, were to make do with the four-cam flat-four carried over from the 718. With little certainty as to how the new car would fare, with its cost-effective ladder frame and newly developed GRP body, Porsche had even entered a 718 RS Spyder as a banker, and put no less a pairing than Jo Bonnier and Graham Hill

at the helm for good measure.

This was typical Porsche, of course, as the Targa was always famously unpredictable and the rate of attrition enormous. The 1964 staging was no exception, and by the second lap the 718 had broken its driveshaft, leaving Hill stranded, and by the fifth the eight-cylinder 904 was in with suspension failure.

Davis, meanwhile, was driving like a man possessed and had pulled out an enormous lead on Dan Gurney’s next-best 289 Shelby Cobra by the midway point.

Demonstrating his trademark calm and accuracy around the Targa’s tortuous mountain roads, he was on a charge that would see him not only earn the smaller capacity 904 the fastest lap but also create a buffer that allowed teammate Pucci to finish the race with a massive 12-minute margin.

The car behind was another works Porsche entrant, the other 904/4, piloted by Herbert Linge.

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Now firmly on Porsche’s radar, Davis would drive the works 904s for the remainder of the year, with a best result of third overall at the Paris 1000km. His campaign with Porsche continued through 1965 and 1966, the highlight of the latter year being his hugely impressive fourth overall at Le Mans alongside Jo Siffert in the newly homologated 906.

Davis would race twice more for Porsche, failing to finish at Spa or the Targa Florio in 1967.

He retired from motorsport not long after, one of a number of racers from that golden era who grew weary of seeing so many friends die in the name of sport.

After his retirement from racing Davis moved to Cape Town, where he worked as a radio broadcaster.

Unassuming and uninterested in the trappings of his occasionally glamorous past, he remained in South Africa for the rest of his life. He died on 19 December 2012 at the age of 79.

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The Porsche month in pictures

The return of the Festival of Porsche to Brands Hatch was a fitting tribute to the marque in its 70th anniversary year.

And what better way could there be to mark the occasion than for a pride of Porsches to form the figure 70. The story behind marshalling the cars into shape will no doubt be one for the lucky owners involved to retell for years to come.

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Photo by Flyby Photography

Brands Hatch, 2 September

Switzerland, 19 August

Photo by Jeremy Court

Photo by Markus Leser

Porsche AMAG Retail, long-time concessionaires for Porsche in Switzerland, marked 70 years of Porsche with a unique display of 70 Porsches – one from each year from 1948 to 2018.

The remarkable gathering at AMAG’s Porsche Service Centre Schinznach-Bad was co-ordinated

by Marco Marinello and friends.

UK, August The Porsche ‘356 Up North’ meeting, organised by Tim Court and Region 8, saw 20 356s retrace the rural roads that would have formed the 12-mile Parsley Hay Peak District Road Race back in 1955. The event never took place, but the unchanged roads revealed a hugely demanding circuit – Derbyshire’s Le Mans that never was.

Germany, August A 1989 911 Carrera 4 with a very special history turned heads on roads near the small town of Wickede, North Rhine-Westphalia.

The last car driven by Louise Piëch, daughter of Ferdinand Porsche and sister of Ferry, hadn’t left Austria until Wickede resident Clemens Frigge bought it.

Unsure of the exact number of Porsches he owns, he says: “I don’t buy vehicles based on their value – the story behind them is what matters to me.”

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The Porsche month in pictures

Ireland, August Porsche sent a Racing Yellow 718 Boxster S to the Emerald Isle to cruise the spectacular 111-mile Ring of Kerry. The area is one of just a handful worldwide to hold International Dark Sky Reserve status, recognising the exceptional quality of its starry nights – a perfect excuse for putting down the roof of your Boxster and heading into the night.

Germany, August Urban Outlaw Magnus Walker was among guests at the Petro-Surf Festival, celebrating both air-cooled Porsches and surf culture on Sylt, Germany’s northernmost island. Alongside a gathering of air-cooled cars dating from 1964 to 1998 and photo and surfing exhibitions, a cinema screened films including Urban Outlaw, a profile of Magnus. A drive around the island concluded proceedings.

Silverstone, 28 August

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As the US Open was getting under way in New York, tennis legend Rod Laver, two-time winner of the tournament, was on the other side of the pond at Silverstone. Porsche Brand Ambassador and fellow Australian Mark Webber took the 80-year-old serve and volley supremo for a spin at the Porsche Experience Centre in the 911 GT3 RS, and Laver, a true sporting gent, took it all in his stride.

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Carrera Cup, Knockhill Porsche Junior Daniel Harper produced an astonishing performance in dire conditions at Knockhill during the latest rounds of the Carrera Cup GB. The 17-year-old Northern Irishman took pole position, the fastest lap and overall victory in Race 1. Meanwhile, rookie George Gamble delivered an equally assured drive in Race 2, finishing well ahead of the field despite a deluge that saw the round start under a safety car.

Photo by Capture Your Car Photography

Tom Fisher gets under way on his final lap and a half of the tight and twisty 1.2-mile Indy circuit. The warm, dry weather contributed to some fast times for the 18 drivers and Porsches in this popular sprint. The competition included an invitation class at Brands that saw Brian Winstone repeating the class win he enjoyed at the first Festival of Porsche back in 2004.

Photos by Gary Hawkins

Photo by Gary Hawkins

Speed Championship, Brands Hatch

Restoracing Boxsters, Brands Hatch After previously sharing grids with the Club Championship, the Restoracing Boxsters enjoyed their own two races at Brands in a thrilling season finale. The races included 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Richard Attwood as guest driver for PC Leicester. Ollie Coles of PC Swindon took first in both races while Josh Morris of PC Bolton was the overall winner.

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The MOTORSPORT month in pictures

Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb Paul Howells powers his ’73 RSR on to the final bend at Shelsley Walsh. Returning to the 1000-yard course for the eighth round of the Porsche Club National Hillclimb Championship, competitors made the most of intermittently good weather on the world’s oldest motorsport venue still using its original course.

Race Championship, Brands Hatch

Photo by Gary Hawkins

The final race of the 2018 Petro-Canada Lubricants Porsche Club Championship with Pirelli proved a dramatic one, with the race red-flagged on the first lap of the original start. When the race restarted, Simon Clark applied immediate pressure on race leader Mark Sumpter and four laps later found his way past him at Druids to claim both his first victory of the season and a first victory for a Cayman S in the series.

Trackday, Croft A flurry of last-minute bookings saw more than 40 Porsche Club members head to Croft on 23 August for our annual trackday at the North Yorkshire circuit.

Just a handful of places are available for our remaining trackdays, with spaces expected to fill up shortly.

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

Charging ahead?

Would hybrid drive in the new Porsche 911 be a new beginning... or the beginning of the end?

NEW BEGINNING

BEGINNING OF THE END

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Stuart: I have recently replaced my daily

Alexander: If Porsche does this – and it is

driver with a hybrid and am very impressed.

For pottering about in towns or cities, it’s great.

I wouldn’t want to replace my 981S Boxster with one, but it’s horses for courses.

still an ‘if’, right? – I think that it will definitely spell the beginning of the end of the flat-six.

Galli: I hear you about air-cooled cars, but if

Mark: When they removed air cooling,

hardliners screamed, tore their hair out and swore to never return. But some of Porsche’s best cars have come from change, and no doubt they will again.

George: Ferry Porsche said: “We simply built

the car that we felt was right.” In my eyes, this 911 is no different.

the world is going all-electric, I am glad to be checking out in the next 40 years.

Chris: It’s the end. I will be keeping my 997.

Lawrence: Call me old-fashioned, but there must come a point where the 911 is so far removed from the original model that it ceases to be a 911. For me, hybrid drive is that point.

Barry: It’s evolution. Porsche needs to move

with the times. I am not a purist, so will always like the 911, with or without modern stuff.

Barrie: Hybrid is essential today to meet the

growing concerns of emissions and all-electric is the quickly approaching world of tomorrow.

Graham: I will stick with my 356.

Brett: The future of the sports car is already looking pretty shaky, however you want to dress it up. In my opinion, the beginning of the end came when the 991 went turbocharged.

Jason: I think most of us with 911s would

prefer naturally aspirated with hybrid rather than turbo.

Gavin: You cannot beat the sound of

the flat-six.

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split between backing the hybrid and staying with the status quo

WHAT’S THE VERDICT? This is clearly another divisive issue on Planet Porsche, with the prospect of hybrid drive arriving in the 911 model range a cause for real consternation among a fairly hefty minority.

Nevertheless, most contributors do acknowledge, whether reluctantly or otherwise, the inevitable path of progress.

Next month: Do it yourself or call in the experts? Will you pay for a specialist or are you ready to get greasy?

Visit the Club’s Facebook page for your chance to contribute

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The British Porsche community gathered at Brands Hatch for the defining event of an unforgettable anniversary year Words: Matt Master Photos: Richard Pearce

FESTIVAL

FEVER A fter months of build-up and an exponential frenzy of activity at Club HQ, the Festival of Porsche finally arrived at Brands Hatch at the beginning of September.

The event, back after a four-year break, was made all the more special thanks to Porsche’s ongoing 70th anniversary celebrations. With the combined efforts of Porsche Club GB,

Porsche GB and MotorSport Vision, this was certain to be a weekend without equal on the 2018 Porsche calendar.

Brands is the perfect venue for this sort of event, with easy and intimate access to the static displays alongside old-school proximity to the circuit itself.

The Sunday schedule for the festival included demonstration drives and rounds of both the Club Championship and Speed Championship, encapsulating the whole spectrum of Porsche racing

from grassroots to LMP1 on a single day and a single circuit.

Not for the first time when reviewing events for Porsche Post this year, favourable weather played a decisive hand. The return of summer bathed the Kent countryside in unbroken sunshine from the off, and under cloudless skies on the Sunday morning cars poured into Brands Hatch’s infield and outer paddocks, parking up in long lines of old and new, air- and water-cooled, front, mid and rear engine. A Gmünd cabriolet took

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pride of place in the Club marquee, while outside Phil Graham’s Golden Yellow 911 Turbo S Exclusive radiated in the sunlight, bookends of Porsche’s 70-year road-going programme.

The event attracted thousands of spectators from all over the United Kingdom and Europe, but also an incredible array of road and race cars from every era of Porsche’s varied and still vibrant past.

Porsche itself was an active participant, exhibiting a number of cars from the Porsche Museum

RS60, the car that Hans Herrmann drove to victory at the 1960 12 Hours of Sebring.

Next in line were the elegant little 910, successor to the 906 and Philip Basil’s beautiful 904 Carrera GTS, running its original Fuhrmann four-cam engine and sporting the striking orange paintwork of Team Holland. This, Philip informed us on the day, was the very car that launched Gijs van Lennep’s career with Zuffenhausen – the first Porsche he raced, and naturally, he raced to it victory. ➝

collection, and bringing the 919 Hybrid Evo for its final official outing on European soil.

Among the Club’s many remits for the weekend was to organise a parade of notable cars, all of which would be on display in the pit lane before undertaking a series of demonstration laps around the Indy Circuit. And the short walk behind the garages duly became a chronological dreamscape, teed off with Simon Bowrey’s immaculately restored pre-A 356, alongside Andy Prill’s similarly perfect 718 27 porscheclubgb.com

A pair of early 911s were next, looking tiny and understated alongside the extravagantly bewinged bi-turbo 935s that arrived a little over a decade later.

Further evolutions of the racing 911 could be seen in an original 911 SC RS, lent by Prodrive themselves and sharing the off-road limelight with another of its creations, the Jacky Ickx 959 that competed on, and would eventually win, the Paris-Dakar.

Cars of incredible rarity and historic significance were everywhere, many with a strong British connection, such as the 924 GTP that raced under the union flag at Le Mans in 1980, or the recently restored 928 that Richard Attwood campaigned in the 1970s Roadsport Championship. The 956 that Derek Bell shared with Stefan Bellof, famous for its stunning Nordschleife lap time, was a major draw, as was the museum’s 911 GT1, the car that took outright victory at Le Mans in 1998 with Allan McNish among its drivers.

As always with Porsche, the spirit of Le Mans was everywhere,

and in the shade of a secure pit garage, the legendary Salzburg 917K that gave Porsche its first overall win drew a steady stream of admirers.

And from Porsche’s first to its most recent, in the final stall, surrounded by a three-deep crowd of all ages, was the 919 Evo. On the penultimate stop of the Tribute Tour, Weissach’s LMP1 hybrid swansong was being carefully prepped for its demonstration lap, surrounded by the vast team of technicians required to operate this technological totem.

Beyond the pit lane, a very different part of Porsche’s eclectic race scene was unfolding in the form of the Club’s own championship. The final two rounds of the Petro-Canada Lubricants Porsche Club Championship with Pirelli took place on Sunday, and another fiercely contested demonstration of Club motorsport at its very best saw Mark Sumpter secure the title ahead of closest rival Mark McAleer.

Porsche Classic’s hugely popular and successful Restoracing

Championship also came to a close at Brands, with the colourful Boxster S restorations fighting it out bravely and fairly to the last with the Wally’s Jeans car from Porsche Centre Bolton claiming a hard-earned title.

The Festival’s headline act, however, remained the 919 Evo, and all eyes were on honorary Club member Nick Tandy as he prepared to drive it for the first time. This ultimate evolution of Porsche’s dominant hybrid race programme would see well over 1000bhp unleashed on the narrow corners and short straights once raced by the likes of Bell, Redman, Rodriguez and Siffert in the 917.

Nick seemed at once excited to be driving the Evo and sorry that this would almost certainly be his last outing in the 919. He was determined it would go out in style, however, and unleashed as much of the Evo’s incredible potential as the confines of Brands Hatch and the limitations of demonstration tyres would allow, passing 192mph before the Paddock Hill Bend, a record speed for the short circuit with

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a lap time just one-tenth of a second off the all-time record.

This without getting anywhere close to the car’s full potential.

The 919 was a spectacular focal point for the 2018 Festival of Porsche, but what made the weekend so special was, as always, the shared passion, knowledge and enthusiasm of the Club members and trackside spectators. It was everywhere to see at Brands, from the fastidiously maintained road cars that had brought so many here to the priceless racers that were still readily driven as Stuttgart had intended all those years ago.

As another sun-drenched day in this historic Porsche year drew to a close, induction bark and straight-through exhausts still ringing in everyone’s ears, the track was taken over by a parade lap of members’ cars, some 172 in total, weaving gently around the tight turns of the Indy Circuit, taking it all in one last time.

Another seemingly perfect day in this unforgettable year for the Club and for the Porsche community everywhere. PP

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Driving one of the most significant Porsche race cars of all time proves to be an intoxicating experience for Club member Nick Trott â&#x17E;?

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t’s 11.30am. The announcer has just called for the drivers and cars in ‘Batch 5, Porsche’ to prepare for their demonstration run on the Duke of Richmond’s famous driveway. The sun is beating down, the sky is at its bluest and the cars gathering in the collection area at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed are barely believable.

There’s a sense that this is not real but a fabulous Porsche-shaped dream. The 52-metre tall central feature towering over us – a spine exploding into seven pointed spindles, six with a Porsche at the end and the seventh pointing to the heavens – heightens the hallucinatory sensation. As engines burst into life, mostly flat-sixes of every type and configuration ever seen or heard, I stand and savour each moment.

Then I spot members of Porsche’s friendly UK PR team and some technicians from the Porsche Museum waving at me. Really waving at me. They want me to drive a glorious 911 Carrera RSR 2.1 Turbo, right here, right now. Hurley Haywood, three-time Le Mans winner and Porsche works driver, is due to drive but is nowhere to be seen. With seconds to go, this hugely significant car – one of just four RSR 2.1 Turbos and fresh from an 18-month restoration by the Porsche Museum – is without a driver.

I was due to drive the car later in the day, but right here? Right now? I’d have liked to have watched a professional drive it first but it’s an offer I can’t refuse.

Seconds later I’m sitting in the car. There’s no time for a briefing other than: “Here’s the

LE MANS 1974 On Sunday morning, drivers Gijs van Lennep and Herbert Müller were second behind the leading Matra prototype in their 911 Carrera RSR 2.1 Turbo when the French car developed a gearbox issue. Porsche sent two mechanics to fix the Porsche-engineered ’box, which they duly did. The French team went on to win.

The Martini 911 finished second, despite a gearbox issue that left the drivers coping with just fourth gear from Sunday morning to the end, a driving feat Gijs rates as greater than some of his overall wins.

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ignition key. Here’s the temperature gauge.

Don’t let it go above 80. Enjoy.” Then the impossibly thin door is slammed shut and I’m alone in a car packing around 480bhp and lots of lag in front of a combined live and streaming audience of… Oh Lord, best not think about that.

It starts on the button. The clutch is easy.

The steering lock is limited but sufficient. We growl slowly to the collection area through a canyon of faces and cameraphones. I’m sweating and highly strung but the 911’s temperature never rises above 70.

I park in the collection area, switch off and gather my thoughts by repeatedly telling myself: “Don’t crash.” Then the dream factor intensifies as a smiling face peers through the side window. It’s Nick Tandy, 2015 Le Mans winner and all-round good egg.

“Aren’t I supposed to be driving this?’” he asks. “I honestly have no idea,” I reply, and grudgingly surrender the seat. “Sorry mate!” he says.

Then I spy the passenger seat. The RSR was built to Group 5 specifications which meant technically it had to be a two-seater. Nick gives me a look that says “Climb in” but I notice the lack of belts. Maybe not. As I shut the door, I notice a large box behind the passenger seat, something I’ve never seen in a 911. I ask someone later: it’s the 120-litre fuel tank, relocated from under the bonnet to improve weight distribution as the fuel level reduced.

Then this glorious convoy of the most significant Porsches disappears to the start line, and I’m left breathing fumes. ➝

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Now it’s my turn...

It’s 1.45pm. My turn, and I’m sitting in arguably the most significant turbocharged Porsche race car of all time. At the Goodwood Festival of Speed. In Porsche’s 70th anniversary year. With nearly 500bhp under my right foot.

Don’t think of the value. But it’s at least £5 million. Damn.

The marshal waves me forward. I spy the TV camera moving into position and raise the revs to 6000rpm. Time to drop the clutch – and not stall.

I don’t, but even with 6000rpm the RSR Turbo bogs down. I depress the clutch, give it a few more revs and feel that wonderful dip at the rear/slam in the back that accompanies all turbocharged 911s as they accelerate. But the gearing is long – I’m barely into second gear by the time I reach the first corner. I hesitate to get a feel for the grip available, and the flat-six engine bogs down again. Deep breath, lots of throttle, then… nothing. And more nothing.

At the second corner, the turbo is just starting to kick in but I can’t back off or I’ll lose the boost. Fortunately, the power finally arrives on the exit and I’m simply thrown past Goodwood House in a giant wave of torque.

It’s a dizzying experience and I whoop out loud.

Then it’s Molecomb, the corner that has claimed far more talented drivers than me.

Steady, then up to third and full throttle. The boost strikes hard and I whoop some more.

For the first time I feel the slight crown on the road as the RSR’s giant tyres and 80 per cent locking diff try to pull the car to the grass. If you were watching an onboard video, I would look as if I’m wrestling some heroic oversteer. In truth, I’m just trying to prevent the car from diving off the edges of the crown.

As the flint wall flashes past, I imagine it introducing new stripes on the RSR’s flanks.

Don’t run wide. I back off and drop back into second, feeling a little scared. Later, Gijs van Lennep will tell me he took the Flint Wall corner in first, such was the lofty gearing.

Now a long right and a long left, the only two corners on the hillclimb that can claim to be Le Mans-like. I have the tiniest glimpse of aerodynamics coming into play as the car begins to clamp into the road. I try a fast second-to-third shift, with only the smallest lift on the throttle. The RSR is alive. Its huge KKK turbo maintains its boost and third gear does nothing to slow the pace of acceleration.

I have no idea how fast I’m going, no real sense of being in control, but I’m hanging on, laughing, as this extraordinary machine explodes past the finish line.

A day to savour

At the top of the hill, sweaty balaclavas are removed, jokes told and imaginary wheels twirled. I don’t feel worthy of being in this company, but the lump in my throat tells me I should savour it. Later, Gijs tells me over a beer that he won’t forget the experience of driving the Goodwood hillclimb course either – some admission from the man who scored that superhuman podium at la Sarthe in 1974. PP

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME The 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1 of 1974 was the first turbocharged 911 and the first turbocharged car to race at Le Mans. With the three-litre 911 RSR competition cars reaching the limit of their naturally aspirated engines in the early 1970s, Porsche used the knowledge gained from the 917/30 Can-Am car to apply forced induction to the 911.

There was a catch. Racing a turbocharged car in the prototype class meant adhering to an equivalency factor of 1.4:1 to align them with the three-litre displacement limit for naturally aspirated engines.

The result? The RSR Turbo had a 2142cc flat-six engine producing around 490bhp at 8000rpm. Remarkably, it used the same forged crankshaft as the original 128bhp 911.

Other features included an exhaust-driven Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch turbo used in Porsche’s Can-Am cars, twin spark plugs per cylinder, magnesium crankcases, Bosch mechanical fuel injection and an intercooler placed above the turbocharger, which partly explains the voluminous rear bodywork.

The spoiler created a marketing concern for Porsche by giving the impression the Turbo was a bespoke competition car rather than the amplified road car it was. In a bid to render the wing invisible it was painted black.

A five-speed gearbox from the 3.0 RSR was fitted, albeit with its own oil cooler, as was an 80 per cent locking differential and heavy-duty 917 half-shafts.

The roll cage was aluminium and doors and bodywork plastic or fibreglass composite. The roof, wheels (also from the 917) and suspension components are aluminium or magnesium, or both. As a result, the car weighed just 750kg.

Arguably the most dramatic Porsche 911 ever built, the four 1974 RSR Turbos competed under the Martini Racing banner and took second at Le Mans and the Watkins Glen Six Hours. The 1974 campaign primed Porsche for the new classes of sports car racing being considered for 1975 and 1976. When the rules for Groups 4, 5 and 6 were applied, Porsche was ready with the 934, 935 and 936, which can trace their lineage back to the RSR Turbo: every Porsche that has won at Le Mans outright since the RSR 2.1 has been turbocharged.

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From top: Goodwood celebrates 70 glorious years of Porsche; the rear-mounted engine of the RSR Turbo 2.1; Gulf Oil-liveried Porsche 917K; Nick Trott at the wheel of the RSR

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PP keeps tabs on the rapid development of Porsche’s first all-electric sports car Words: Matt Master Photos: Porsche AG

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t says a lot about the importance of the Mission E project that Porsche waited until 8 June 2018 to hold a naming ceremony. This was the very day, some 70 years ago, that the first 356 was given its operating licence; the day, in effect, when Porsche as we know it officially entered service.

The covers came off the first Mission E concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2015 and for some time we had little more than a handful of stylised product shots and some impressive, if unsubstantiated, claims about performance, range and charging capabilities.

But all the while, Porsche has, in relative secrecy, been monumentally focused on the Mission E programme, earmarking vast investment for future development while dramatically redesigning and extending its site in Zuffenhausen to accommodate an all-new production line.

And on that momentous day in June, ushering in the next vital chapter, Porsche christened phase one of the project with the name Taycan. Which is an odd one, admittedly, but who are we to argue?

Four months on, the Taycan is still a very secretive project, but its fast and scaled-up development has revealed significant progress.

Prototypes are now regularly visible on public roads, sometimes in number, as the increasingly large team behind the car begins its intensive testing process. This demands many miles and the extremes of heat and cold, with fleets of Taycans and support vehicles undertaking arduous driving routes all over the world for days at a time, exploring the minutiae of this radical powertrain, seeking out and stamping out its weaknesses.

In one part of western South Africa, more than 60 Porsche developers were recently on hand with 21 camouflaged prototypes, putting them through their paces in temperatures as high as 40C. Something like 25,000 miles were covered on that trip alone, and it is expected that by the time the Taycan comes to market in the latter half of 2019, the total will run comfortably into the millions.

These first Taycan mules have been assembled by a small and highly skilled team in the prototype construction department at Zuffenhausen. It’s a monumental feat of design and engineering, both conceiving and ➝

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“It was a major challenge to achieve such enormous battery capacity both for charging and discharging over the entire temperature range” creating a completely new architecture that enables an 800 volt all-electric powertrain to deliver the sort of performance Porsche demands of any of its cars, while still providing a viable range and recharge time. And the sort of early uptake sympathies the likes of Tesla enjoys will simply not be afforded to Porsche by its customers. When the Taycan hits the market proper in 2020, it has to be every bit as good as an ICE or hybrid product wearing the same badge. To really make a case for itself, it needs to be better.

But the early noises are very promising ones.

The engineers in Weissach have developed a drivetrain for the Taycan that borrows extensively from the 919 Hybrid. “We opted for a permanently excited synchronous motor in the Taycan,” reports Heiko Mayer, drive unit project leader. “They combine a high energy density with strong, sustained performance and maximum efficiency.”

Permanently excited synchronous motors,

or PSM, generate a constant rotary motion that can be applied at any time without needing to be started. With high and sustained performance and efficiency, they are, in effect, the turbos of the electric motor world. One motor powers the Taycan’s rear axle, the other the front wheels. Together they generate around 600bhp, enough to see off 62mph in less than 3.5 seconds and 124mph in less than 12.

But while Porsche learnt a huge amount about electric motors from LMP1, a full electric system and the battery power and attendant cooling it demands, was still largely uncharted territory when Mission E got the go-ahead.

Existing battery systems are hampered by poor range, long recharge times and, from a sporting perspective, the dread spectre of extra weight. Lots of it. Lithium-ion technology is improving all the time, at a rate of around five per cent per year, but there are three major factors constantly in play that impact on this progress.

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The first is the availability of raw materials – the mined and chemically extracted elements that go into lithium-ion production must be both sufficiently available in the long term and extracted sustainably.

The second factor is heat. These batteries only work to an optimum standard within a relatively limited temperature bracket – one that Porsche suggests is between 20C and 40C. This applies to both charging and driving, creating headaches for cold and hot climates in all operating arenas.

Number three is the aforementioned weight.

It’s quite possible to engineer an EV that has a range in excess of more than 300 miles, but the inherent weight penalty within such a battery system is counter-productive not just to range but to performance, handling and packaging.

A natural evolution of Porsche’s long-standing weight-saving philosophy, the Mission E programme has eschewed heavy batteries in favour of fast charging. A tangible benefit of

network across its European Porsche Centres. Clearly there is some way to go before fast charging becomes the norm then, but a joint venture between Ford, Daimler, BMW and the VW Group known as Ionity is already aiming to establish 400 fast-charging stations across Europe’s major arteries by 2020. And it needs to be there, for the Taycan’s projected production rate is a bold one, standing at about 20,000 units a year, or roughly two thirds of the current sales figures of the 911.

At the present rate of growth, the number of annual registrations for electric vehicles worldwide, including hybrids, is forecast to exceed 25 million by 2025. While this proves EV scepticism is diminishing, Porsche has an extra hurdle of its own to leap as the first established sports car manufacturer proposing an all-electric product. Not only must it win over those unconvinced by the technology and infrastructure but also the performance purists, who maintain that an electric car cannot offer them what conventional combustion already does.

But Porsche’s vision is clear. It wants to shift to electromobility before all other German car manufacturers, and by 2025 its stated aim is for every second Porsche sold to have an electric drive unit. The firm is insistent that the Taycan will be in every way worthy of the badge – a bona fide sports car. Roll on 2020. PP

the 800 volt architecture is thinner cabling – a significant weight saver. The entire floor of the Taycan is made up of battery cells, 400 in total, connected serially and in parallel and controlled by a management system. Each individual cell has an approximate current of four volts, equating to an 800 volt system.

“It was a major challenge to achieve such enormous battery capacity both for charging and discharging over the entire temperature range,” says Nora Lobenstein, head of all energy storage systems at Porsche.

The answers came in the shape of what Porsche refers to as intelligent charging protocol and a highly efficient heat exchanger that whisks the batteries up to operating temperature while being able to cool them under heavy loads. This could equally be during a period of fast driving or rapid charging; the demands on the batteries are fairly constant.

The target that Porsche has set for the Taycan’s fast-charging system is a seriously compelling one: 250 miles from around 15 minutes on the socket. This would indeed be game-changing, as the principal downside of roadside charging remains the sheer length of time a driver must wait to top up, a factor worsened by a shortage of chargers.

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f the innumerable drivers who risked life and limb cementing Porsche’s reputation in international motorsport, few did it with more vim and vigour than Pedro Rodriguez.

One of the fastest drivers of the late 1960s and early 1970s, he juggled a midfield seat in F1 with top-flight endurance racing, but it was in the latter, with the legendary 917, that Pedro made history.

Born into an affluent family in Mexico City in 1940, Pedro was the second child and the eldest of three boys. He and Ricardo, his closest brother, had an early fondness for speed and, supported by their father, cut their teeth racing small capacity motorbikes at a remarkably young age. Pedro would win the Mexican national championship twice in his early teens before turning his attention to sports cars.

Their father’s conspicuous wealth and determination that his sons’ talent be recognised meant that in 1957, aged just 17 and 15 respectively, Pedro and Ricardo would make their debuts on the international sports car scene, driving privateer Ferrari and Porsche entrants in Nassau.

Shortly afterwards, a deal was struck with US Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti that would allow Pedro and Ricardo to race a 500 TR together at the 1958 24 Hours of Le Mans. On arrival, the ACO flatly refused to allow the then 16-year-old Ricardo to enter the toughest and most prestigious sports car race in the world, but 18-year-old Pedro was in. Acutely short of experience, he nevertheless revealed skill and commitment, driving cleanly and fearlessly through the night until the Ferrari overheated in the early hours of Sunday morning, some 119 laps to the good.

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business in Mexico City. He would return to Le Mans many times for Chinetti, but during this period he regarded his racing as little more than a hobby.

Chinetti, for his part, saw immense talent in both boys, and in 1961 played intermediary between their father and Enzo Ferrari. The latter was only too happy to invite the Rodriguez wealth into the Scuderia, and while Ricardo jumped at the chance, a still circumspect Pedro actually declined what was, by the standards of the day, the dream job.

Ferrari endured a disastrous 1962 season, and by its ignominious end a dispirited Enzo had decided not to send any cars to the non-championship Mexican GP, a race that Ricardo was desperate to perform in. Seizing a drive in Rob Walker’s Lotus 24, Ricardo would crash out in qualifying at the infamous Peraltada, losing his life. He was only 20.

His brother Pedro was in the stands that day.

Devastated by his loss, a considerable period of time would elapse before he would entertain the idea of racing again. Through the mid-1960s he

Clockwise, from below: Pedro and Jackie Oliver were a winning partnership; Pedro (right) with brother Ricardo; on the way to victory at Spa in 1971, ahead of Jo Siffert’s and Derek Bell’s No. 20. Overleaf, Pedro at Le Mans in 1970

competed intermittently, before being offered the chance to race a highly competitive Cooper at the South African Grand Prix in 1967. Pedro took the opportunity and, against the odds he won on only his ninth outing in Formula 1.

His performance was good enough to see him offered a seat for the rest of the season, and suddenly he was a professional driver.

Racers and reporters who knew Pedro in period often remarked on his unlikely sangfroid. Perhaps his brother’s tragic death had instilled in him a form of fatalism, but he was deeply devout and expounded the view that only God could decide when he was going to die, so there was little point in him worrying about it. Whatever the cause of his preternatural fearlessness, the result was an astonishing turn of speed.

Pedro continued to race with moderate success for Cooper and BRM but in 1968 he achieved what he regarded as his crowning glory – winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Lucien Bianchi in a John Wyer GT40. It was this relationship with Wyer that would align the ➝

“Pedro was in the stands the day his brother Ricardo died and was devastated by the loss”

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planets for Pedro and Porsche, who by this time had a new car waiting in the wings: the 917.

Pedro and the 917 were a match made in heaven. Despite the remarkable litany of legendary drivers who raced this most famous of Porsche’s sports cars, none quite had the measure of it like Pedro. He signed with John Wyer in 1970 and immediately began to demonstrate both his skill and the car’s potential like none before him.

Teamed up with Leo Kinnunen, himself no slouch, Pedro set about upsetting the applecart by consistently outgunning Wyer’s first driver pairing of Jo Siffert and Brian Redman. Widely regarded as the best wet weather driver of his era, Pedro combined this enviable skill with his less desirable fatalism to ruthless effect.

Among many memorable efforts aboard the 917, the one that first marked Pedro out came relatively early on at Spa Francorchamps in 1970. The year before, Formula 1 had abandoned Spa on safety grounds, its 8.7-mile route through the usually wet Ardennes forest considered too dangerous to host a Grand Prix.

But the 1000km would go ahead.

The old Spa circuit was fabulously fast, with great swathes of it, including sweeping bends, driveable flat out at speeds in excess of 180mph. But this was still a track of the pre-safety era, where a smattering of straw bales might be the only thing between you and a line of trees or a stone farmhouse.

That day was an exemplar for sports car racing, with the 917s and Ferrari 512S

“Charming, gracious and eccentric, Rodriguez drove to circuits in a Bentley and even sported a deerstalker” driven by Jacky Ickx and John Surtees trading positions lap after lap; the very best drivers in the world pushing the defining cars of the era to their limits on the fastest track in Europe.

Pedro would retire with a gearbox failure late in the race, but his drive had already made the history books. In qualifying the previous day, in wet conditions on tyres that were failing on the 917s in high-speed corners, Pedro posted a 3.19.8. He was supposedly bedding in his brakes on a lap that put him over four seconds clear of Siffert for pole. During the race itself the following day, he found a further three seconds per lap and clocked an almost incomprehensible average speed of more than 160mph.

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races, making up for the lack of attack in his teammates. He would win four of 10 races in the World Sportscar Championship, securing the title for Porsche in his first year. He would repeat the feat in 1971, winning at Daytona, Monza and Spa, and at the Österreichring he closed down a six-minute gap on the lead Ferrari in what John Wyer called “as great a drive as I have ever seen.”

That year, at Le Mans, he posted a 3.13.9 in qualifying. This was believed to be the first time a homologated car had lapped the Circuit de la Sarthe at an average speed exceeding 155mph, or more than 250km/h. The record went unchallenged until the installation of the chicanes on the Mulsanne straight in 1989, effectively preserving it for all time.

Pedro was in his pomp. Charming, gracious and eccentric, he had set up with an English girlfriend, drove to the circuits in a Bentley and even sported a deerstalker. He was one of the highest paid and most respected racing drivers in the world, doing what he loved with a daring disregard for himself.

Almost inevitably, it was not to last. On a non-championship weekend in July 1971, while still contracted to Wyer and BRM, Pedro agreed to drive a privateer Ferrari in a minor race at Nuremberg’s Norisring street circuit. He collided with a backmarker and his 512M left the track before bursting into flames. He died later that day in hospital, aged just 31. Not for the first time, a light was extinguished just as its true intensity was becoming apparent. PP

Regions Regional Director’s report Regional events, such as the recent Gold Cup at Oulton Park, have benefited hugely from Club support over recent years and resulted in PCGB having the top club presence at most events.

Where we can include the Porsche Mobile Display Unit, the combined professionalism is the envy of the other car clubs whose members openly admit to higher subscriptions but few benefits.

Jonathan Palmer usually flies in for the MSV events. At Oulton Park he strolled into the Club marquee and the PMDU for a chat. It was evident that he really appreciates what PCGB and Porsche add to his race meetings.

Unfavourable weather always reduces numbers but, for the hardy ones, the PCGB marquee provided a comfortable place to relax, enjoy coffee and socialise with their Porsche friends.

Beaulieu, Lotherton Hall and Witton Castle all

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received Club support and it is greatly appreciated.

Region 2 Scotland North A warm welcome to Caitlin Adams and George Mayson. They have taken over from Steve and Pauline Rose, who have run Scotland North for six years. A nicely written Regional entry for PP and a well presented MailChimp have started the wheels rolling. There are no prizes for being the youngest ROs but we are pleased to have you in the driving seat.

Many thanks to Steve and Pauline for their hard work and enthusiasm over the years - I hope you can enjoy PCGB in a more leisurely way.

Region 18 Lancashire David and Judy Baker have Kevin Dodd as their new Assistant RO taking over from Mike Trotter. Kevin’s

role will be to keep the Facebook page and website up to date and to assist David and Judy wherever he can.

Region 22 Cumbria and SW Scotland Martin Mackay and Mike Trotter got off to a good start at the beginning of August and are quickly building up interest in the new Region, as you will see from their first Regional report.

By now the Porsche season will have quietened down after a hectic few months. Hopefully the NEC Classic Motor Show on 9-11 November will be a good opportunity for a get-together.

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 August was ‘back to normal’ with a wet month in Scotland; however, this did not dampen the enthusiasm of Club members attending our varied events. We held some good runs, a dealership visit and a supercar display with track action. I was particularly pleased that, after some considerable planning by John Dymond, the visit to Harmeny School finally took place. New venues have been identified for the East and West Club nights. We should have had visited both at least once by now - see venue details and dates below. Big thanks to all that attended our recent outings and I look forward to welcoming you along to an event soon.

RECENT EVENTS 2 August Annual fish and chip run Leaving Dakota, South Queensferry we initially got caught in the evening traffic approaching the Queensferry Crossing heading north into Fife but this began to clear as we turned off the motorway towards Kirkcaldy. Following a good run down the coast to Anstruther we met with R2 members and enjoyed fish suppers in the award-winning Anstruther Fish Bar. After some tyre kicking and a good natter on the pier we all headed off in different directions with Ian and myself enjoying near empty roads and a spirited run back to Edinburgh.

R1 Scotland South p47 R2 Scotland North p49 R3 North East p51 R4 Lincolnshire & Humberside p53 R5 North West p54 R6 North Wales p54 R7 Yorkshire p56 R8 East Midlands p56 R9 West Midlands p58 R10 Milton Keynes & Northamptonshire p60

R11 Essex p62 R12 Norfolk & Suffolk p62 R13 Herefordshire, Worcestershire & Shropshire p65 R14 South Wales p66 R15 South West p68 R16 Gloucestershire p70 R17 Southern p70 R18 Lancashire p73 R19 Thames Valley p75 R20 London p75 R21 Chiltern p77

R22 Cumbria & SW Scotland p79 R23 Sussex p81 R24 Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire p82 R25 Kent p82 R26 Dorset p84 R27 Ireland p86 R28G Guernsey p88 R28J Jersey p90 R29 Surrey p90 R30 Isle of Man p92 R31 Cotswold p95

CLUB DIRECTORS Chairman Ian Yeoman chairman@porscheclubgb.com

Facilities Peter Thomas ptdirector@porscheclubgb.com

Vice Chairman, Communications & Strategy Nick Pike communications@porscheclubgb.com

Finance Director Andrew Rowley finance@porscheclubgb.com

IT Services and Systems Mark Hamilton ITdirector@porscheclubgb.com

Registers Albert Walsh register@porscheclubgb.com

Regional Phil Graham regional@porscheclubgb.com

Company Secretary Sue Taberner secretary@porscheclubgb.com

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Clockwise from top left: McLaren 600 LT; Porsches at World of Supercars, Knockhill; Porsche display on track at Knockhill; Fresh Car Valeting get to work on the cars at Harmeny School

“Towards the end of the morning, we all returned to the car park with many of the children, who were then given the opportunity to sit in the cars of their choice for photographs to be taken (many thanks Jamie Taylor) and, in a few instances, to rev up the engines. I can report that only one car, with a super sounding sports exhaust, requires a new engine – only joking!

“It was a great morning for the benefit of a great cause. Thanks again to everyone involved in making it all happen.”

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an invite from General Sales Manager Lee Martis saw around 25 attending this Saturday morning (exclusive to PCGB members) unveiling of the new 600 LT. After welcoming breakfast rolls with tea and coffee we had the chance to get up close to the car and other stunning models in their showroom. Only the fourth McLaren in two decades to receive the LT (Long Tail) name and billed as a track car for the road, it’s the fastest, most powerful and most extreme Sports Series ever. Fancy one? Prices start at £185,500. Towards the end of the morning, test drives were taken in less extreme models.

Thanks to Lee and his team for looking after us.

12 August World of Supercars ‘Washout’ is the only word to describe this Sunday event at Knockhill. For three years in a row the weather hasn’t been kind to us and, on this occasion, the rain and high winds made it virtually impossible to walk round the supercars on display without getting soaked - brollies were ineffective against the horizontal, all-day deluge. Nevertheless 300 supercars had signed up for the day and the Porsche stand (celebrating 70 years of Porsche) was very well attended - I went along with both cars to support the event. Surprisingly, there was a good turnout from the public who enjoyed the on-track displays, track action and stunning displays of rare supercars from the likes of McLaren, Ferrari, Porsche and many more. Being Knockhill, with its own microclimate, I’m not sure changing the date for next year would guarantee good weather. We shall see…

19 August Run with Cars and Cofee at Harmeny School, Balerno John Dymond reports: “Despite the early morning forecast not looking great, a good number of R1 members gathered at the Robertson Arms, Carnwath for early morning refreshments before setting off in convoy along the A70 ‘Lang Whang’ to Balerno and Harmeny School, which provides specialist residential and day education services for children who have experienced severe trauma through abuse or neglect. We had agreed to participate in an informal fundraising event, in support of their current major Fundraising Appeal.

“Eleven Porsches with eight passengers arrived at the school car park, which had been reserved for our event, and we were then taken to the school to enjoy copious amounts of delicious refreshments provided and served by staff and volunteers. We watched and listened to an often quite moving presentation on the school’s work, and the purpose of the appeal, by Neil Squires, the Chief Executive of Harmeny.

“Sam and Tomasz, our good friends at ‘Fresh Car Valeting’, had very generously agreed to give up their time and were on hand to safe clean members’ cars, in return for a donation towards the appeal. With the generous support of PCGB, PC Edinburgh and PC Perth (all of whom had offered an excellent variety of promotional items) we ran a raffle, which generated £230 towards a grand total of £468 donated on the day.

FIRST TUESDAY OF MONTH West Coast Club night Westerwood Hotel, 1 St Andrews Drive, Glasgow G68 0EW. 7.30pm.

FIRST TUESDAY OF MONTH East Coast Club night Charwood, 47 Buckstone Terrace, Edinburgh EH10 6QJ. 7.30pm.

6 OCTOBER Alternative cars meeting 13 OCTOBER Detailing workshop visit 20 OCTOBER Perthshire run with overnight stay 27 OCTOBER Autumn run with lunch

Scotland North Joint Regional Organisers Caitlin Adams and George Mayson 07877017583 and 07756414610 r2@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser Gillian Gardiner 01382 778923 It’s now a whole month since we became ROs. Despite very helpful advice from many people that we hold in high regard, it was natural that we weren’t entirely sure what to expect, and whether we would be able to manage being ROs while both working full time!

We are delighted to report that, so far, RO-ship is going smoothly, not least because of the fantastic unanimous support we have had from all R2 members we have interacted with. Thank you all for this support – R2 wouldn’t be the same without it.

Looking to the future, we are excited to be bringing several events to the calendar – from short morning breakfast meetings and drives out to social nights, hopefully there will be something to suit everyone.

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George, Caitlin and Gill Gardiner

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Photo by George Mayson

Clockwise from top: R2 pull up to RNLI Arbroath; R2 meets ‘Splash’ the 911; Porsches on the hairpin; Wheel of Porsches

4 OCTOBER Club night - Lairhillock, 8pm 6 OCTOBER Club Clinic - PC Aberdeen 18 OCTOBER Club night - Milton Inn, Monifieth, 8pm 20 OCTOBER Trio of Curry Nights - Indian Ocean, Inverness 26-28 OCTOBER Gain-an-Hour Weekend 1 NOVEMBER Club night - Lairhillock, 8pm 4 NOVEMBER The Breakfast Club 9.30am - details TBC. 10 NOVEMBER Trio of Curry Nights - Taza Buffet, Dundee 18 NOVEMBER Sunday run Details TBC.

North East Regional Organiser Greg Harm 07932 746152 – r3@porscheclubgb.com

We are particularly looking forward to the Curry Night Trio (and not just because we get to have curry three times). We plan to repeat this three times in each of the big R2 areas – Inverness, Dundee and Aberdeen. We hope that members towards our northern reaches will be able to join us in Inverness – please keep your eyes peeled for future dates as we plan to take some more events to the far north.

We are very much looking forward to catching up with you all very soon.

RECENT EVENTS 5 August Ballater Victoria Week R2 once again set up a varied array of Porsches in Ballater for the Victoria Week celebrations. Thanks to Malcom Lovie pulling some strings with the organisers PCGB took centre stage on the green with a display of 23 cars. Members plied with refreshments, courtesy of Pauline Dow (our saviour), enjoyed a relaxed morning before the parade. Most embarked on a gentle drive to Balmoral with the other parade vehicles – an eclectic mix of Ferraris, Subarus, Jaguars and Chevrolets.

Thanks to all that supported the event and a special thanks to Steve Rose and Malcolm Lovie for organising the Club stand.

World of Supercars, Knockhill Several members descended on Knockhill for their annual World of Supercars event. Whilst not a PCGB organised event, it has traditionally been well supported by Porsche owners, and this year was no different. The large paddock was filled exclusively with a vast selection of Porsches old and new.

Interesting demonstrations of some exciting machinery were on offer – including two retired Formula One cars and a 1400hp drag car!

Some familiar Porsches made it out on track despite deceptively soaking drizzle, including Kerr from R1 in his 911 R and R2’s own Neil Murray in the 991 GT3 RS. RNLI-911 Challenge On 28 August, Belinda and James from London entered R2 on their RNLI 911 Challenge. Their aim is to visit all 238 lifeboat stations in 911 hours, in a Porsche 911. It began in London at 9.11am with 911 miles on the odometer!

Their challenge is a massive feat of careful organisation. We were also amazed by the support given to them by R2 members who, in rotation, followed their 911 challenge car (called ‘Splash’) all the way from Anstruther to Aberdeen and beyond. Belinda and James were very grateful for this support, and we were proud to see them off with Splash sporting an honorary R2 sticker as a memento of their time in R2.

We in R2 can lay claim to some of the worst coastal weather in the UK at times and, for sure, we have the most coastline of any of the Regions. Thus we are pleased to have had a role in supporting this worthy cause and look forward to visiting the RNLI in future.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 6 October Club Clinic at PC Aberdeen We look forward to seeing you all for the biannual complimentary check-ups. Check the website for details on how to book your spot.

13 October Spotless Detailing breakfast meet with R1 R1’s Donald Hossack has kindly invited R2 to join him for this breakfast meet in Perth. Check your emails for updates.

20 October Trio of Curry Nights - Inverness Join us at Indian Ocean, Inverness at 7pm for the first in our trio of curry nights. A multi-storey car park is a three-minute walk from the restaurant. More details on the website. Please email r2@porscheclubgb.com to confirm your place.

26-28 October Gain-An-Hour Weekend Details are all in place. We look forward to spending the weekend with you all!

10 November Trio of Curry Nights - Dundee The second instalment of our curry nights will be at Taza, Indian Buffet in Dundee. We aim to be seated for 7pm to make sure there is plenty of time to go for seconds (or even thirds). There’s ample parking outside the venue in a public carpark. Please email r2@porscheclubgb.com to confirm your place.

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RECENT EVENTS Yorkshire Porsche Festival Another report already! Does summer go faster when the sun makes an appearance? The heat wave was still in full force when we joined R7 at Lotherton Hall. For years R3 has gathered at Washington Services and Scotch Corner Services for the drive south. Our numbers certainly excelled this year. I have never seen such a sight on a motorway - over 50 Porsches all heading for the same destination!

Judging by the smiles and thumbs up, other motorists enjoyed the spectacle too.

Steve Richardson, our only R3 entrant in the Concours, sadly didn’t place - there was some tough competition. Hats off to all the entrants - the heat was relentless. Congratulations to R7 ROs Mark and Carol and team for pulling off such a successful event, working hard while we all enjoyed the cars, the company and the sunshine. PCGB must have boosted sales in After Sun that weekend.

Witton Castle Show We weren’t so lucky with the weather for our own Regional show. Heavy rain and wind was forecast, and driving to the show field at 7.30am the mist and low cloud didn’t look promising. With an army of helpers we got set up and, lo and behold, as the first cars began to arrive, the sun came out. Sadly, many potential visitors had seen the forecast and made other plans, nevertheless, numbers were only slightly down on last year - 251 our final count. As the last gazebo was dismantled the rain started again but it didn’t deter us from our usual end of day group reflection over a bowl of chilli.

Feedback has been very positive regarding the new layout of the field, and the new trade stands seemed to go down well. It makes the months of preparation worthwhile. Huge thanks go to our team of volunteers without whom we couldn’t put on this show every year. A special mention goes to Dave Carnaffin and Phillip Sayers, who didn’t stop all day, and to Amy Carnaffin and David and Karen Bradford for coordinating the Concours. Our raffle raised £700 for the Great North Air Ambulance Service, which was very kindly doubled by John Hawkins of Specialist Cars of Malton. Thanks to all who donated.

Clockwise from top left: Simulator Challenge podium winners and ROs, back row, from left, David Chapman, Deb and Greg Harm, Scott Poole and Colin Dey, front row Martin Mackay and Mike Trotter R22, Joint ROs; Club Membership and Marketing Manager, Chris Sweeting, presents David Staines with his first place Concours trophy; Alistair Satchell taking to the track at Croft; colourful R3 and R22 cars at Lotherton Hall

John also sponsored our Visitors Concours.

Congratulations to R7’s Roger Goode, Matthew Booker and Phil Ward who came first, second and third respectively. David Staines won our Concours with his 930, Stephen Richardson came second with his 986 and Paul Taylor was third with his modified 964, a long awaited trophy for a beautiful car.

Croft Circuit trackday A few days after Witton was our local PCGB trackday at Croft. Deb and I had been looking forward to the day a chance to meet members, and a pleasure to see the thrill that they get from testing the limits of their car and their own abilities on track. Even chatting to those there just spectating makes for an enjoyable day.

Unfortunately, I had a less enjoyable day in Hexham General Hospital and only got the all clear at the end of the day - apologies to those I’d promised to catch up with. It’s unfair to report on a day that I couldn’t attend so I asked Alistair Satchell to sum up his day: “My first Porsche-dedicated trackday and fantastic fun. On track in my 997 Carrera 4S with around 30 other Porsches was a sight to behold.

Croft is a fantastic track, which allowed me to get the most out of my car - something I’ve not been able to do on UK roads. There were drivers of varying experience and, as I didn’t have much experience, I made use of a racing instructor, who explained lots about my driving and how to tackle the track, which made the experience even more incredible. I would strongly recommend this event to anybody with a passion for driving.”

David Coulthard Museum visit August bank holiday weekend saw R3 on the move again, heading west to meet up with the newly formed R22 (Cumbria and SW Scotland). After coffee in Gretna Gateway we headed to Twynholm and the museum.

Martin Mackay had arranged a challenge on Scotland’s only full scale, full motion F1 simulator.

While competitiveness flowed on a wet lap of Spa-Francorchamps, the children headed next door to the Cocoabean Company for a chocolate workshop.

After lunch, in our private marquee, the winners were announced. Our own David Chapman had the fastest lap time of 2:01.533, not quite on a par with the fastest lap at the real Spa - Valtteri Bottas with 1:46.286 - but good enough for us. Second was R1’s Colin Dey with 2:06.215 and third place was R3’s Scott Poole with 2:07.738. Such good fun - and well worth the drive for John from Lytham and our members from Teesside

(hopefully R22 will want a rematch). Us northerners love a drive; have Porsche, will travel!

In true British bank holiday tradition it was a bit wet but it made the scenery on the drive more dramatic, especially on our detour onto the Galloway Tourist Route (courtesy of Dumfries and Galloway Council, not poor navigation skills). We rounded off the day with a celebratory tea and cake stop at Sally’s.

Check our social media pages and R3’s section of the Club website for photos from recent events and news of upcoming events.

Greg Harm

Lincolnshire & Humberside Regional Organiser Rod Stormes 07887 690716 – r4@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organisers Richard Watkinson 01472 562993 Gavin Marshall 01472 826334 Well, the very hot weather seems to have ended, and we have now had some much-needed rain. Sadly the change in the weather meant our gliding event had to be cancelled. I am hoping to rearrange so watch for an email or check the website.

instructions, the route was programmed into ‘Mrs Tom Tom’, and I had ‘virtually’ driven bits using Google street view – I do like to be prepared! Fortunately, all went smoothly. There were plenty of small villages we would probably never normally see, plus plenty of cyclists. All were safely negotiated and I believe the group enjoyed the route. As hoped, we arrived at around 10.30am and intentionally, having heard the show was well attended, from the direction to give us a left turn into the site queues were building for those coming the opposite way. Quickly into the show we parked up and set off for a good look around.

It was nice to bump into various Club members we knew, plus Chris Sweeting and the Cornbury House team, who were manning the PCGB stand, and Register Director Albert Walsh. It was also a pleasant surprise to find good friend and supporter PC Nottingham’s Dave Ashford plying his wares.

The weather was very hot, and the parking area was soon packed with Porsches, with the marshals trying to find spaces for everyone. We looked around the grounds spending nearly an hour in the wildlife and bird enclosures. As well as looking around the Concours cars and those for sale from Malton and Strasse, time was spent wandering around the car park looking at the different models. An excellent drive and a show - I would recommend it!

Country park pub drive out Our August pub drive out was on the north bank of the Humber and, traditionally, R7 members were invited. Some of us from the south bank met up and drove over together. Altogether around 24 members were present, with a good mix from both Regions. It was great to have a good chat with people, including new members and a prospective member. The car mix was good and included two 993 Targas. I achieved one of my RO goals – a member came in a Panamera to an event! So I think that just leaves me to secure a Carrera GT, a 959 and a tractor and I have had all model ranges represented at an event. In case you are wondering, yes, we have had a 918 at an event!

Props and Pistons This regular event on our calendar is held at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum at East Kirkby, home to ‘Just Jane’ the taxiing Lancaster bomber, which they hope eventually to return to the skies. It is organised by Bush Tyres in aid of Bloodwise, the leukaemia charity. We had 30 cars booked in and, with a little bit more space than last year, were able to park everyone up in two nice semicircles making a great display, which attracted plenty of people. Again, we had a good range of models, including a very nice 914. I find it interesting that when we’re in the Cayenne people spend time having a good look at it. Perhaps they

RECENT EVENTS Lotherton Hall Our neighbours in R7 have been running the Lotherton Hall event for a number of years but, I must confess, I had never been to it for one reason or another. This year I decided we would go and it was suggested, as others were going from R4, to arrive via a scenic drive. So with a little knowledge of the area a route was planned, which although shorter would take about 15 minutes longer than the quicker blast along the M62 and A1. Around 10 cars set off from Doncaster North Services in glorious weather, passports stamped, into deepest darkest Yorkshire. Everyone had a set of directions and I had tried to ensure there were few junctions etc. so we wouldn’t get split up. I was concerned I would take a wrong turn so, belt and braces, Sylvia had the 53 porscheclubgb.com

From top: a packed parking area at Lotherton Hall; Props and Pistons was well attended

would love a 911/Cayman/Boxster but feel that a SUV, such as a Cayenne or Macan, would be more practical.

There are always a lot of different cars to see as well as the aviation memorabilia, not forgetting ‘Just Jane’ when her engines are fired up and she does her taxi runs. There was a Mosquito (another plane the centre is working on) as a static exhibit. There are also the flying displays of course. I did wonder if it might be a little windy for some, but the Mustang and the Thunderbolt gave very good displays, the Beechair flew in and out, and the last display was from a Hurricane and Spitfire flying in formation - well worth waiting for.

Another excellent event, very well attended by the public and, whilst a bit overcast and breezy, not a drop of rain! Thank you to PC Nottingham for supporting us in the form of Dave Ashford, and thank you to Bush Tyres and team for inviting us, and for the excellent hospitality.

Christmas lunch, Branston Hall Please do book for our annual festive get together, which includes a quick look back at 2018, a look forward at our plans for 2019, an excellent lunch, entertainment and a raffle. Details are on the website.

If anyone would like to provide some entertainment (sing, dance, play an instrument or whatever) do get in touch – you do not have to be a professional!

DIARY DATES 10 OR 11 OCTOBER Pub drive out Check website for details.

OCTOBER Look out for a slightly diferent event!

9 DECEMBER Christmas lunch Branston Hall, Lincoln.

North West Regional Organiser Allan Crosby 01744 894500 – r5@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS 8 August New members meeting and hot pot supper August Club night at The Deanwater was blessed with warm weather, and 60-or-so members gathered for the usual tasty and plentiful hot pot supper. It was an opportunity for Allan Crosby to update the new (and

not so new) members regarding the Club’s organisation, its strategy and future direction. After the hot pots were consumed a great atmosphere ensued, making for a most enjoyable social evening.

25-27 August Oulton Park Gold Cup Allan Crosby reports: “The highlight event of R5’s year was again hosted

by MSV at their Oulton Park HSCC Gold Cup event held over the August bank holiday weekend. It’s a great mixture of Historic Grand Prix racing, plus numerous Formula Ford, Touring Cars, Super Touring Cars, and Classic Car races.

“This year, the Club had a parade lap consisting of 49 cars to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Porsche, and, over the three days, a total of 240 Porsches were in attendance. The Club’s marquee proved a welcome shelter from the rain on the Sunday, with seats and a warming cup of coffee allowing members to chat in relative comfort.

“Again, this year, R5 had great support from Club Head Office. Chris, Mandy and the team took on the bulk of the workload for the administration of tickets, and of course the provision of the main marquee, which contained the Club Shop, the membership counter, and the much-welcomed coffee and drinks service. So thanks to all concerned - it made the Porsche presence both impressive and very professional.

“The Club’s ‘management’ was represented by both the Regional and the Register Directors. There was also substantial sponsorship from PC Wilmslow, which provided the imposing Porsche Display Unit as a centrepiece.

“A big thank you must go to that band of unpaid helpers (including some from R6 and R18) who turned up on the Friday to set up the pitch, assisted with marshalling the cars over the weekend, and dismantled everything on the Monday afternoon.

“It has been good to receive feedback and notes of appreciation from members, which makes all the hard work planning and organising the event worthwhile.

Last, but by no means least, thanks go to all the members who turned up with their great variety of cars over the several days, some of whom were from the far-flung Regions in the north and south - it is with your support that events are turned into successes. Thank you all once again.

North Wales Regional Organiser Sue Taylor 01928 735357 (01766 890844 weekends) r6@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Ramsport, Denbighshire Rob Atkinson very kindly invited us to visit his business in Denbighshire. What an absolutely fantastic location. We had an incredible turnout with Porsches and lesser vehicles arriving from all directions. You would never just come across the place, so we were thankful that the team had put out little flags to direct us once the sat navs had got us in the general vicinity.

Rob established Ramsport in 1985 and, since its inception, the company has become noted for its quality, service and attention to detail. Ramsport prepares and maintains classic, historic and modern cars for a wide variety of customers, both in the UK and around the world. Rob would be delighted to show people around if you want to call in.

We had plenty of time to look at the cars and meet Rob and Carol, his better half. Also on hand were the team - Workshop Manager Dave, Office Manager Dom, Senior Technician Glyn, Technician Ben and Junior Technician Mike. Last but not least, top car park managers - Molly and Millie - were there to get us all parked up.

Everyone had a great time and managed to chat with at least one of the team. Thanks once again to Rob and Carol for inviting us.

PC Chester BBQ Another great turn out met at Ruthin Craft Centre for coffee and excellent, as always, bacon butties on Sunday morning. We met Bambi, a tiny little thing (Pekingese) who had to suffer the shame of driving round with us in a non-Porsche. What were mum and dad (Helen and Chris) thinking?

Dawn and Dylan planned a brilliant route with plenty of variety. Thank you! We had fast, open and sweeping

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 14 October Peak District drive and Sunday lunch As last year, the group will meet at The Deanwater Hotel for coffee, before heading out over the hills, followed by lunch at The Swettenham Arms afterwards.

To register, email Michael Williams at msw2742@gmail.com and pay £30pp for the lunch (including gratuity) by bank transfer to Anthony Shuker (sort code 09-01-29 and account number 15386991, identifying who the payment is from).

Chris Clark

DIARY DATES

From top: R5 at the Gold Cup; members’ cars at the Gold Cup

10 OCTOBER Club night - The Deanwater Hotel Members’ previous cars night. Bring photographs for others to guess who the cars belonged to.

14 OCTOBER Peak District drive and Sunday lunch See Forthcoming Events.

14 NOVEMBER Club night - PC Wilmslow R5’s annual open evening at the local Centre.

More information next month.

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From top: Rob Atkinson, owner of Ramsport, invited R6 to his premises; the interior of Ramsport, which prepares and maintains classic, historic and modern cars

roads, tiny narrow lanes with passing places and everything in between. We are so lucky to live where we do and have access to such great driving roads. Inevitably, as we criss-crossed North Wales with so many cars, we did get split up by general traffic, junctions, tractors and lights. However, with a few slow down catch-ups, we all arrived at PC Chester together.

Kat and the team had arranged a BBQ. As soon as we streamed in, the chefs started cooking burgers, sausages and chicken kebabs - all very much appreciated. We wandered round lusting after dream vehicles and yellow brakes, catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. It was all very sociable and very big thanks go to PC Chester for having us.

DIARY DATES 14 OCTOBER Breakfast run to Hawarden Farm Shop 18 OCTOBER A55 Traic Control Centre 11 NOVEMBER Anglesey drive and lunch 15 NOVEMBER Quiz Northop Hall Hotel.

2 DECEMBER Christmas lunch

Yorkshire Regional Organisers Mark and Carol Jessop 07981 412895 – r7@porscheclubgb.com

Introduction The heatwave was kind enough to hang around until the Yorkshire Porsche Festival was complete and gave us glorious sunshine all day. This, our biggest event of the year, takes our full attention for the weeks leading up to the big day. It exceeded all expectations so we were glad to be on holiday shortly afterwards. We will have returned to a busy September, after which we start to focus our attention on 2019.

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.

Running your Region Earlier in the year we announced that we would be standing down as ROs for Yorkshire. However, no one has come forward to take on the role. As much as we enjoy being ROs, we no longer feel that we can give the role the time it needs - Yorkshire is a big Region, both geographically and in the number of members.

Therefore, a better option for our Region may be to have a group of enthusiastic members involved in the organisation of events so that the responsibility can be shared and we can do more as a Region.

We are, therefore, now seeking members to join us as Organisers. We propose to set up a Yorkshire Co-ordinators Group - ‘the Yorkshire Cog’ (a cog in the engine that is PCGB). The criteria for joining are that you are someone who delivers what you promise, are able to attend planning meetings every other month, are willing to organise some events each year and/or able to help with the administration.

Please get in touch if you are interested or wish to discuss it further. We hope to have a first meeting in November to discuss plans for 2019.

RECENT EVENTS

From top: Club Shop and hospitality; 850 cars at Lotherton

Yorkshire Porsche Festival We expect to have a full write-up elsewhere in PP but would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended this year’s event. We had 850 cars come through the gates, which is a phenomenal total and which gave the event a real buzz all day long.

Together with our main sponsors, Strasse from Leeds and Specialist Cars of Malton, and with ‘Club Office on the Road’, we collectively upped our game this year and put together a fantastic event.

This year we supported the Child Brain Injury Trust through the Strasse Bar and Hog Roast along with the Scalextric racing competition, which was sponsored

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by Irwin Mitchell. Donations raised £2,956, which Strasse’s Dave Forrest and Specialist Cars of Malton’s John Hawkins made up to £5,000. The trade stands each also added 15 per cent of their takings. This is an incredible total for a very deserving charity, so thank you to everyone who donated.

We also need to thank all the members that gave up their time to help put the show together, to help manage the cars and then to stay at the end of the day to help take the show down again. This year’s show was the biggest yet and so everyone was kept busy all day long. So a massive thank you to Chris Sweeting, Maxine and Rhiannon Rhodes from the Club office, Geoff Benson, Peter Brook, Chris and Linda Chappell, Bill Duke, Steven Gash, Matt Helks, Charles Hutchinson, Michael and Lisa Jackson, Wayne Mathews, Ian Parkin, Mike Roberts, and Doug and Marlies Sudron. We would like to particularly mention Geoff and Peter who were helping first thing and still going strong at the end of the day. We couldn’t have done it without you.

East Midlands Regional Organiser Tom Fisher 07768 317346 – r8@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Club night at The Coopers Arms Another pleasant evening attracted a huge number of members and their Porsches. Landlord James Cooper now reserves half the car park for us making a terrific display.

We welcomed David and Carol Nash, Patric Phelan, Nick Gray-Cowley, Les and Marie Wood, Jill and John Like and Chris Baker. Thank you for joining us and we hope to see you again.

Centre Gravity I took the race Boxster to Chris Franklin at Centre Gravity near Tamworth for a full suspension set-up.

He spent a very intensive day on it. There was nothing majorly wrong with the car’s mechanics and set-up but lots of minor adjustments on toe, castor, camber and ride height allowed an increased potential.

Sprint and Speed Championship As you are aware we have a good number of competitors in our Region. This month, at the Goodwood circuit, we enjoyed warm sunshine and perfect conditions. I was still coming to terms with the new set-up on the car and, partly because of this, and

support received from Mandy Sutch and the Club Office.

DIARY DATES 1 OCTOBER Club night - The Coopers Arms County Air Ambulance presentation.

5 NOVEMBER Club night - The Coopers Arms

Clockwise from top left: the Sharps with new addition to the family at Chatsworth; the new set-up getting a work-out at the festival; paying full attention to Adrian at PC Leicester; en route

West Midlands Regional Organisers Kim Sutch 07855 269113 – kimsutch@gmail.com David Jones 01455 220081 – 07836 374295 r9@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser Tom Downes 07972 303286 - tphd74@aol.com

partly due to lack of skill, I experienced a 360-degree spin at about 100mph at a kink known as Fordwater.

The car had felt very planted during practice but, probably being over confident, I was unable to recover from sudden over-steer. Luckily I ended up the correct way round and was able to carry on but I was not able to make a competitive time on my second run. Very well done to our local drivers Graham Rose and Wayne Eason for Class wins.

At Curborough, our local sprint circuit, I joined a trackday group the day before the event and had real time to set the car up to help prevent the previous over-steer. With a softer rear and harder front set-up the car felt much better. The next day I was able to achieve easily my best time ever and a third place. So, the suspension work at Centre Gravity was definitely beneficial once I had discovered its new capabilities.

Our Regional guys also had a great day, especially Steve Jory with a Class win. A special thanks to all our local members who made the effort to come along in support and to see what was going on - it was great to see you all. We might well have attracted a couple of new local entrants for the future.

TOTEM sponsored by PC Leicester Adrian Ancliffe and his team organised yet another excellent event. Starting with breakfast at the Leicester showroom, 55 Porsches set off across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland guided by the tulip route directions. We all experienced wonderful roads, chocolate box villages and places

of interest. Lunch was taken at Sywell Aerodrome where we were entertained with live classic aircraft and museum displays. The final part of the route took us to our destination at Kilworth Springs Golf Club where all enjoyed an exceptional Sunday roast. I know our very generous entrants enjoyed themselves because we had a bulging collection bucket, which helped to raise over £1,000 for The County Air Ambulance appeal. This will be presented to them at our October Club night.

356 gathering at Crich National Tramway Museum Derbyshire Tim Court had the original idea and took this all the way through to a hugely successful event. Around 20 356s assembled at The Black Horse in Hulland Ward for the run over a proposed but never used road race circuit near Buxton and later across Derbyshire to Crich. It was a very exciting moment when they all arrived outside the museum - many with very sporty exhausts. This naturally attracted a lot of public interest. The convoy then moved into the period setting of the museum where trams travelled up and down the hill. Everyone enjoyed an excellent group lunch upstairs in the Red Lion. We also had a dozen or so later Porsches in our parking area outside taking part in the day’s event inside. The afternoon was spent partly with the car display and partly travelling on the trams along the street and countryside of its rail route. It was all great fun with terrific organisation. Thank you to Tim and the

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RECENT EVENTS Cars in the Park, Lichfield An eventful July saw our first weekend at Cars in the Park, Lichfield where, as is the norm, Paul Keeling had organised the two-day event along with our friends from TIPEC. Dave Jones was originally going on holiday but that had been cancelled so was able to come along, which later turned out to be a very good thing.

Mandy took her Boxster whilst I went in the Targa.

When we arrived Dave and Paul where already parking up cars and we had to erect the awning Dave

From top: R9 at Cars in the Park, Lichfield; August Club night

PORSCHE 911 997 TURBO 3.6 TIP (58 - 2008) GT Silver with black leather 51,000 miles ............................................................... ...........................................£56,000

PORSCHE 911 997 TURBO 3.6 (06 - 2006) Cobalt blue with grey leather 64,000 miles ........................................................................................................... £54,000

PORSCHE 911 997 TURBO 3.6 TIP (56 - 2006) Basalt black with black leather 52,000 miles..........................................................................................................£52,000

PORSCHE 911 997 TURBO 3.6 TIP Silver with black leather 63,000 miles .................................................£49,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 GEN2 PDK (59 - 2009) Basalt black with black leather 41,000 miles .................................................£47,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 GEN2 PDK (59 - 2009) Basalt black with black leather 37,000 miles .................................................£47,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 GEN2 PDK (59 - 2009) Basalt black with red leather 33,000 miles .................................................£46,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 GEN2 PDK (09 - 2009) Meteor grey with black leather 50,000 miles ................................................£44,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 GEN2 PDK (10 - 2010) Basalt black with black leather 65,000 miles ..................................................£40,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “C2” 3.6 GEN2 PDK (60 - 2010) Silver with black leather 44,000 miles .................................................£38,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 GEN2 PDK (58 - 2008) Basalt black with black leather 75,000 miles ..................................................£37,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 (08 - 2008) Meteor grey with black leather 49,000 miles .................................................£36,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “4S” 3.8 TIP (58 - 2008) Silver with black leather 46,000 miles ..................................................£36,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “4S” 3.8 “X51” (06 - 2006) Basalt black with black leather 48,000 miles ..................................................£35,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 (08 - 2008) Cobalt blue with black leather 63,000 miles ..................................................£34,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “4S” 3.8 (06 - 2006) Basalt black with black leather 56,000 miles ..................................................£34,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 (07 - 2007) GT Silver with stone grey leather 56,000 miles ..................................................£33,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 (07 - 2007) Basalt black with stone grey leather 53,000 miles ..................................................£33,000

PORSCHE 911 (997) “2S” 3.8 TIP (57 - 2007) Meteor grey with black leather 65,000 miles...................................................£33,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” TIP (07 - 2007) Meteor grey with black leather 60,000 miles ..................................................£33,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 (07 - 2007) GT Silver with black leather 62,000 miles ..................................................£33,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 (07 - 2007) Basalt black with black leather 48,000 miles ..................................................£33,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 (57 - 2008) Silver with black leather 59,000 miles..................................................£33,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 TIP (57 - 2007) Silver with black leather 53,000 miles ..................................................£33,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “4S” CAB TIP (56 - 2006) Silver with black leather 66,000 miles ..................................................£32,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “4S” 3.8 TIP (56 - 2006) Silver with ocean blue leather 51,000 miles ..................................................£31,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “4S” 3.8 (56 - 2006) Basalt black with black leather 63,000 miles ..................................................£31,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 TIP CAB (07 - 2007) Basalt black with black leather 62,000 miles ..................................................£30,000

PORSCHE 911 (997) “2S” 3.8 (06 - 2006) Silver with black leather 67,000 miles ..................................................£30,000

PORSCHE 911 997 “2S” 3.8 TIP (56 - 2006) Silver with ocean blue leather 57,000 miles ..................................................£28,000

PORSCHE 911 996 TURBO 3.6 TIP (53 - 2003) Silver with black leather 51,000 miles ..................................................£40,000

PORSCHE CAYENNE “GTS” 4.8 TIP (63 - 2013) Basalt black with black alcantara 31,000 miles ..................................................£42,000

PORSCHE CAYENNE “GTS” 4.8 TIP (58 - 2008) Basalt black with black leather 61,000 miles ..................................................£19,000

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had brought with him. This turned out to be invaluable over the two days, as the sun was out and it made for good shade.

The Saturday was a bit more relaxed, as more car clubs came for just the Sunday. After lunch Paul got 10 or 11 cars to go into the arena and he gave a talk on each individual car and where it came in the history of Porsche. Now, as Paul was doing the talking on the microphone, who would drive his car? If you know Paul you will know that he owns a not too shabby 993 Turbo S, which only three other people have driven.

In steps Dave, “I’ll drive it” and we all watched as the engine was started and the rear wiper proudly swept the dust across the window. Not once but several times. The driver’s window button on a 993 is not in the same place as in a 996 apparently. We bought Paul round by throwing a bucket of cold water on him and the rest of the day went very smoothly indeed.

Sunday was very busy, very hot and everyone had a good time. Thanks again to Paul for organising this event and to the members who supported him in displaying their cars.

Clockwise from above: ‘Manuel Boulevard’ (for the evening); Lancia reimagining in progress; much interest in Gordon Murray Escort’s blasted shell; preparing to be amazed…; style, aesthetics and engineering considered

August Club night Another lovely sunny Tuesday evening saw yet another great turn-out of R9 members, with 70 cars in attendance. It was Dave’s birthday so we all signed a card and sang happy birthday. He was overwhelmed by our generosity. Welcome to all the new members – we hope you enjoyed your evening and also thanks to everyone else for your continued support.

Dave and Kim Joint ROs

Milton Keynes & Northamptonshire Regional Organiser Paul Ebbs 01234 363358 (7pm–9pm) 07769 805594 (daytime) – r10@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS This month, I’ve taken the opportunity to include a few past months’ events, which have missed previous reports, due (mainly) to the dates they fell on and the rather long deadlines for PP. They were widely enjoyed by most of our regulars and quite a few from further afield. Apologies if I’ve missed anything, but I send a big thanks to all the very active R10 members who have helped to rejuvenate our enthusiasm for interesting places and events we can all enjoy together - after all, it’s your Club and Region!

July Manuel’s POTM Mark G reports: “Morrisons MK shoppers looked on in amazement as seven Porsches, plus a very swift BMW M2 camera car, appeared in the car park. For our July ‘pub of the month’, Manuel had prepared a rota for us to experience being a passenger in each other’s cars. We truly enjoyed drives up and down a section of dual carriageway, pursuing or pursued by the M2 with its two cameras - edited results are on the R10 Facebook page. At the Inn on the Lake afterwards four further members joined us and enjoyed good food, drink and company until closing time!”

July Retropower Many of us really enjoyed the visit Drew had arranged for us. He reports: “A sunny Saturday at the end of July saw 30 Club members invited to Retropower (retropower.net) in

Hinckley for an eye-opening showcase of their craftsmanship restoring and reimagining customers’ cars - from Opel Mantas to Mercedes W111 Coupes.

YouTube viewers may know them for being commissioned by Gordon Murray to build him a bespoke Mk1 Escort. Members had an in-depth guided tour of all current projects, including the Escort, and were teased with an upcoming Porsche 964 build - we eagerly await pictures. Thanks to Cal, Nat and their team of automotive artists.”

August Transaxle Rendezvous The month began early for me by way of travelling (in steaming hot weather) to Goodwood for another ‘Transaxles at Goodwood’ meeting, arranged this year

by Ken Coad with all the cars parked by myself. It was great to see and chat about the often-overlooked transaxle cars - 924s, 944s, 968s and 928s were all there in one version or another. If you have an interest in the older cars and have not sampled the delights of one of these models, I believe you are missing out.

August Cotswold drive out Just over a week later, Mark’s drive was appreciated by a band of stalwart R10 members - I wish I could have made this one. Mark reports: “After all that good weather, it had to rain on our drive to the Cotswolds. However, a bit of drizzle here and there didn’t dampen the spirits of the happy crowd that followed a delightful 75-mile route to the National Trust’s famous Hidcote Manor Gardens - truly spectacular, even in the gloom. Over undulating countryside and passing through many pretty villages we made a coffee stop at Toddington station on the heritage Gloucester and Warwickshire steam railway, where the anoraks amongst us enthused over the steam trains passing through. Earlier, after several text messages and struggling to rendezvous with the nine-car convoy due to his late start, potential new member Andy and wife Lisa’s shiny white 991 4S was spotted ahead of us, dangerously parked at the roadside; mum was clearing 60 porscheclubgb.com

up toddler Arthur’s projectile accident all over the back of his dad’s car! We flew past with a rueful wave, and regrettably we didn’t see them again!”

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 6 October 996/Boxster/R10 Dove House Motors visit 996 Register Secretary, Andy Willis, has organised this visit, including not only R10, but also 996 and Boxster owners. It’ll be marvellous to see you there.

Check out his post on the Forum and register your intention to come, if you so wish.

7 October Bicester Scramble Ever the growing attraction, this has much to offer Porsche lovers. We have by far the largest marque turnout and have done at all the ‘Scrambles’ since its inception. There must be something about meeting on an open airfield perimeter, which sees so many varied Porsches in one place - get your ticket through their website soon!

R10 Monthly meeting **Please note: this month, the inaugural R10 ‘Road Run’ replaces the normal monthly meeting at Sharnbrook** 14 October R10 ‘Road Run’ The (long awaited) inaugural R10 Road Run. Gary McCarthy had the initial idea for us to enjoy our Porsches together on an organised day with a run, a visit to Stoke Bruerne on the canal for a pleasant short journey, before returning to the Sharnbrook Hotel later. Please see the R10 website for more information and tickets. Initially, R10 members will take precedence, but I imagine by the time you read this, unless you have kept abreast of our current events, the attendance will have been opened to all members and, indeed, may be sold out.

You needn’t worry, though - Gary informs me that plans for another Road Run next year, and the year

after, are already in the pipeline! Many thanks to all who have helped make this happen - especially Mike Calvert, whose efforts to sort out all the legal and authority matters should be much appreciated.

Remember, this is not a race; it is a pleasant drive along good roads in our Porsches. Have a good day!

Please see the R10 Forum or website for more information or contact me and I’ll do my best to help.

See you all soon - enjoy your Porsche!

Paul DIARY DATES 6 OCTOBER 996/Boxster/R10 Dove House Motors visit 7 OCTOBER Bicester Scramble 14 OCTOBER R10 ‘Road Run’ number one

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At mid-afternoon, in quintessential British fashion, many members went to the Barn Restaurant to have a cream tea in celebration of Marie’s birthday.

From top: Mike Orriss receiving his award from Gary Sorrell; Concours, air-cooled cars; members’ cars at Hyde Hall

PC servicing Following a discussion with PC Colchester, I am pleased to offer some clarification with regard to the pricing structure and what is available when the Centre performs a car service. For most cars, especially those from 1996 onwards, members have menu-priced work, which covers servicing and some repairs. This is a nationally recommended discounted retail price and, as with most special offers, cannot be used in conjunction with other offers. For repairs that fall outside of the menu, the Centre offers a 10 per cent discount on parts to PCGB members. It also offers either a collection and delivery service or a courtesy car, both free of charge, but not both.

It is probable that PC Colchester will be organising a Service Clinic for 3 November and members should mark this date in their diary, but await further information/confirmation.

Happy motoring...

Martyn

Regional Organiser Martyn Molyneaux 01245 222937 (7pm-9pm) – r11@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser Greg Thompson 01376 573445 – r11gregt@googlemail.com RECENT EVENTS Concours On a fine Club night, 29 cars entered our Concours. It was evident that members had paid a lot of attention to ensuring their cars were in tip-top shape, with several still cleaning after their journey. It was good to see members wishing to present their cars in the best possible condition. Twenty entered in the post-1997 water-cooled class and, with 21 points each, David Burroughs and Glyn Morgan took joint first place.

Dean Clarke and Frazier Cohen followed them. There were no transaxle cars, which was a great shame, since a few years back we could have counted on at least half a dozen being present. Graham Shepherd, who normally comes in his 928, is currently having some mechanical work done on his car at PC Colchester, so came along in a courtesy Cayman.

We were well represented with air-cooled cars, with Mike Orriss’ just restored 914 running out as the winner from Lawrence Maudsley’s lovely 356 in second, and Bernie Tester’s fine early 911 in third.

Prizes were kindly donated by PC Colchester with the prize winners receiving their awards from Gary Sorrell. It was a pleasure to be introduced to Hayley Bunn, their new Service Manager.

Hyde Hall Sixteen cars attended a dry day, which turned out warm later, at RHS Gardens Hyde Hall. There were about 250 cars at the event, with the majority being Jaguars from two different Jaguar clubs. Also represented were Morgan, Austin 7 and MG clubs. It was pleasant to have both Aston Martin and Bentley car clubs present for the first time. Although we erected our gazebo, this was not used with members preferring to sit in the open and a circle was formed for a picnic lunch.

In the afternoon, with the sun coming out and temperatures rising, members took the opportunity to look round the gardens, which increase in size and variety each year - the Global Growth Vegetable Garden being a particular attraction.

DIARY DATES 24 SEPTEMBER - 1 OCTOBER PCGB visit to Stuttgart and Salzburg 9 OCTOBER Club night We are delighted to have a talk by Andy Prill.

17 OCTOBER JD Classics visit Ninety-minute tour of their showrooms and workshops starting at 2.30pm. **Event fully booked** 3 NOVEMBER Service Clinic at PC Colchester - TBC 13 NOVEMBER Club night 11 DECEMBER Club night Christmas dinner.

Norfolk & Suffolk Regional Organisers Tony and Colleen Wickins 01379 676251 – r12@porscheclubgb.com As we move into autumn we can reflect on a busy and enjoyable summer with many events well attended. By now we will have returned from our tour to Honfleur and the Loire Valley - a full report next month. We now begin to look forward to 2019 and planning events for the early part of the year – ideas and suggestions always welcome from members.

PC Cambridge contacted us to see if we were able to offer support to James and Belinda, two R23 members, on 24 August. They were undertaking the ‘RNLI-911 Challenge 2018’ - a fundraising challenge to drive anti-clockwise around the whole of the British Isles visiting all 238 RNLI lifeboat stations in a Porsche 911 within 911 hours - and would be passing through Norfolk and Suffolk that day. Starting from Teddington RNLI Lifeboat Station at 9.11 on 23 August it’s scheduled to finish at Tower RNLI Lifeboat Station, London at 8.11am on 30 September. They hope to raise £56,644 (£238 per station). We met up with them at Happisburgh Lifeboat Station at 11am and followed them to Cromer and Sheringham picking up two more Porsches on the Cromer to Sheringham coast road. You can follow their progress on website (rnli-911challenge.co.uk) and can donate 62 porscheclubgb.com

on their ‘Justgiving’ page ‘RNLI-911 Challenge’.

We hope everything went smoothly and they reach their target.

RECENT EVENTS 5 August Helmingham Car Show Thirty-eight cars were on parade at Helmingham - one of our favourite events. As usual, many of us met up in the layby by Mendlesham Mast to go in convoy.

Despite leaving earlier we still found ourselves in a queue to enter the grounds. However, once parked up and with the gazebo erected by Tony and willing volunteers, we relaxed ready to enjoy the day. The organisers closed our booking early this year as more car clubs wanted to partake in the event so, sadly, we had to turn some people away. Book early for 2019!

Temperatures were very high, and many of us just enjoyed sitting in the gazebo keeping out of the sun and fighting off wasps, while others braved the heat and went walkabout. The usual trade stands, offering refreshments, were on site although many of us took a picnic. The grand ring had the ‘Lindyhoppers’ showing off their dancing skills, plus birds of prey displays. Once again, new members joined us although, unfortunately, we didn’t get a chance to speak to everyone. We hope all had a really good day out.

From top: Colleen meeting James and Belinda during their visit to Sheringham Lifeboat Station; R12 flying the Club flag at Helmingham Charity Car Show; Jean and Graham brought both their cars. Sadly Graham is trading his Turbo for an Audi – touch of sun, we think!

of British Sporting Art) and the Rothschild Yard (live horses and Retraining of Racehorses Galleries).

Club nights Club nights are from 8pm at The Bird in Hand, Wreningham NR16 1BJ on the third Tuesday of the month (except for January and August when there are no club nights and December, when it is the second Tuesday). No booking is necessary unless specifically stated. Our events calendar is regularly updated on the R12 Forum on the Club website and includes links to full details of each event.

DIARY DATES 7 OCTOBER Sandringham Car Show **Still time to book** 16 OCTOBER Club night Quiz night with a prize for the winner.

28 OCTOBER POTM - Bedford Lodge Bury Road, Newmarket CB8 7BX. 1pm.

20 NOVEMBER Club night Andy Cotton from BG Products will be our guest speaker.

11 DECEMBER Christmas social - The Bird in Hand With food, charity raffle and auction. Details to follow.

27 JANUARY POTM - venue TBC

had cones at all the strategic points. Following each run, on our return to the paddock we were all given a driver briefing on how we had done which again helped and was much appreciated.

Lunch was superb, far better than we had anticipated. During the lunch break we were shown videos of our drives up the hill including the good, the bad and the indifferent, all very informative and helpful.

Our thanks go to Dave West for giving the briefing and all the other marshals for feeding him the information.

We had eight runs up the hill on our own, the last two without the cones. This made you think a lot more but was very enjoyable.

The final parts of the day saw another set of video clips with at least one from every driver, showing where we had done well or where improvement was needed. The last clip was of Andy Rodgett’s drive in Car 8, showing virtually perfect lines through Fallow and Museum corners.

Herefordshire, Worcestershire & Shropshire

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 7 October Sandringham Car Show **Still time to book** We have been invited to this informal car show once again. This year is a German theme combining with the Mercedes and BMW clubs. The organisers don’t anticipate charging for entry, but a small donation or a raffle prize would be much appreciated – all the proceeds will go to charity (possibly Prostate Cancer Research). Around 100–200 cars are expected to attend. There will be a ‘Car of the Show’ where people can vote for their favourite car. Mercedes owners vote for BMW, Porsche owners vote for Mercedes and BMW owners vote for Porsche, to make it more interesting. No entry forms to complete this year, but please let us know if you wish to attend, with the model/registration number of your Porsche so we can give the organisers an idea of numbers nearer the day.

28 October POTM Andrew and Gail have arranged for us to have Sunday lunch at Bedford Lodge, Bury Road, Newmarket CB8 7BX, starting promptly at 1pm. It’s £28.50pp for three courses (£10pp deposit is required to secure your place). Cheques should be made payable to Mrs CE Wickins and sent to Colleen at 2 Chapel Close, Pulham Market, Norfolk IP21 4SS. Places are limited to 30 so if interested, please email andrewdrowley@gmail.com to request a menu.

To make a day of it there’s the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art, a five-acre site in the heart of Newmarket, comprising three complementary attractions; the National Horseracing Museum (Trainer’s House and King’s Yard Galleries), Palace House (the Fred Packard Museum and Galleries

Regional Organiser Steve Cutler 01384 370038 – r13@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser Philip Sloper 01562 885740 – philipjsloper@gmail.com RECENT EVENTS 19 August Coffee morning meet Our coffee morning meet was held at the British Ironworks Centre (BIC), on the A5 between Shrewsbury and Oswestry, and saw 28 Porsches lined up in our reserved parking area. After a convivial breakfast in the cafe, we explored the eclectic display of metalwork, including the outdoor ‘Safari Park’ that featured animals that you might see on an African plain. The famous Knife Angel was also on display, an impressive piece made from knives confiscated by the police, and many of us signed a petition to have this amazing sculpture displayed in London.

Also featured was a giant dragon sitting on top of a Jaguar, and a gorilla made entirely from spoons! A big thank you to all the members who joined us, and to the staff of the BIC who made us so welcome.

22 August Loton Park driver training day Thirty of our members enjoyed our R13 organised Loton Park driver training day, 20 of them as drivers and 10 as spectators.

The day started at 8am with signing on and ample supplies of tea or coffee with toast. We then had a driver briefing including tips and tricks, and a car mounted video showing the best lines to use up the hill.

Next was individual passenger rides up the hill in an experienced competitor’s car again with tips on lines, braking points, clipping points and apexes - all extremely useful and informative.

Then it was our turn to show how much we had taken in, although, to help us for the first six runs we 65 porscheclubgb.com

From top: the awesome and rather terrifying Knife Angel at the British Ironworks Centre; drivers line up in the paddock at Loton Park; Boxster and its driver get underway at the Loton start line; drivers line up at the top of Loton Park after completing their hillclimb

The awards followed. Best improvers: Car 2 - Rob Croxford in a 3.2 Club Sport and Car 3 Derek Skinner in a 356 Coupe.

Best drivers of the day: Andy Rodgett took first place in a 997 GT3 (it was a real pleasure to watch Andy drive through the last corners). Second place was given to Mike Gallery in a 3.2 Carrera.

Our thanks go to Hadley District and Light Car Club, and all who helped for their total professionalism in organising the event - even the weather held for us.

Look out for next year’s return to Loton Park!

28 August monthly meeting We returned to the Malvern Hills Hotel, at Wynds Point on the A449 just south west of Malvern, for a south of our Region get-together. There was a great turnout of over 30 cars, with many members choosing to eat before the meeting and, although not as warm as it had been, a large group gathered in the car park to inspect the cars and swap stories! Our thanks to the staff of the Malvern Hills Hotel for their hospitality.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 16 December Christmas lunch This year, our Christmas lunch will be at The Buckatree Hall Hotel, The Wrekin, Telford, Shropshire, TF6 5AL (buckatreehallhotel.com). The three-course meal includes coffee and mints for £20pp.

Please contact Steve or Philip and we will email you a menu. Menu choices and payment are required by 31 October, with a £10pp deposit at the time of booking.

May 2019 French Tour Ian Crosskell is again organising a trip to France. We will 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. Club nights Unless otherwise stated, Club nights are on the last Tuesday in the month, 7.30 for an 8pm start, at The Manor House of Whittington, on the A449 near Kinver (DY7 6NY). themanorhouseofwhittington.com As well as being shown in PP, our events calendar is regularly updated on the R13 section of the Club Forum.

DIARY DATES 5-7 OCTOBER WOTY in North Devon **Fully booked** 30 OCTOBER Club night - The Manor House of Whittington Guest speaker.

27 NOVEMBER Club night - The Manor House of Whittington 16 DECEMBER Christmas lunch - The Buckatree Hall Hotel

South Wales Regional Organiser Huw Jones 07799 532661 – r14@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS R14 BBQ Twenty turned up for our evening BBQ at Ogmoreby-Sea in the Vale of Glamorgan. Apart from the

initially strong wind from the sea that eventually subsided the evening remained dry and calm. A good, fun night and the award for best BBQ setup must go to Brian and Anne Jones.

From top: Jenny getting stuck in with the cooking at R14’s BBQ; Neil Thomas, taking over as R14’s RO

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 6 October PC Cardif car clinic Again, this year Martin Wright from PC Cardiff has kindly agreed for our members to have their cars health-checked free of charge at the Centre. If you plan on attending, please directly book your slot with Tina at PC Cardiff on 0292035 0911.

14 October Autumn drive Prepared by Paul Bowyer and Brian Jones. The lunch after the drive will be held at Llangoed Hall (llangoedhall.co.uk). **Deadline for payment has now passed** 25 November Gower Tour Due to operational reasons, the date for this Ken Davies organised tour has been changed from 18 to 25 November. Lunch will be at Parc-le-Breos House, Penmaen SA3 2HA (telephone: 01792 371636).

A downloadable menu is available on the R14 Events page. The price is £20pp. Please confirm attendance and menu choice with me.

27 November 2019 Region planning meeting and introducing your new RO Our planning meeting will be held at 8pm at Ty Risha Inn, Bridgend (CF32 9SN).

Those wishing to have a meal prior to the meeting, please arrive from 6pm onwards. I am hoping to send out their new menu before this event to hopefully get orders in beforehand to cut waiting times.

From 1 November I will be handing over the RO role to Neil Thomas. Neil’s first action as RO will be as chairperson of the planning meeting. Please do come along to welcome and support Neil with your ideas for the 2019 calendar. Neil has huge experience to offer, both professionally and as a motor club official, and he offers an introduction below: “Following Huw Jones’s retirement as your RO, I am picking up the reins of R14. First off, I must express thanks to Huw for all the work he has done over the past three years ensuring that the R14 has enjoyed a full and varied calendar of events. Thank you, Huw. “I live in Tenby and have done so for the past 25 years with my wife, Sharon. We have two grown children who have flown the coup, and a Scottie called Dylan, along with a family of MGs and a Frogeye.

“I am still a relative newbie to the Porsche world, having bought my first Porsche, an Agate Grey 981 S, 16 months ago following my retirement. I absolutely love the car. My involvement with car club activity does, however, go back 40 years and revolves around my love of Midgets and Sprites. I have been area secretary for the MG Owners Club, run local MG clubs, been the scribe for the Midget Register of the MG Car Club in their monthly publication Safety Fast and am currently the editor of the Midget and Sprite Club monthly magazine, MASCOT. Sharon and I are also members of the Midland Automobile Club.

“During these years I organised countless road runs, weekends away, Irish tours and have toured with my own cars around Europe. Since retiring, I have taken up competing in hill climbs and sprints in the MG Car Club Speed Championship, which takes me all over the country to iconic venues such as Shelsley Walsh, Prescott and Silverstone, amongst others. I compete in a heavily modified 1964 MG Midget. My interest in these little cars will continue but, nevertheless, the principles of club involvement are the same regardless 66 porscheclubgb.com

of the model of car. The advantage of Porsches, however, is that they are very capable of long runs in comfort. I learned that some years ago, having somehow joined R17 on a tour to Lake Garda. Driving a 1964 Midget over the Stelvio, Furka and Grimsel passes, surrounded by comfortable long-legged performance cars, led to a moment of envy and requests from my wife ‘let’s get one of those’.

“And here we are. I am looking forward to next year and entreat you to join me at the planning meeting for next year’s events. I look forward to your support.”

15 December Christmas dinner at Coed Y Mwstwr in Bridgend According to Ray Underhill, there are only a few rooms left. Please send a £50 deposit cheque to Ray at The Firs, Heol Laethog, Bridgend CF32 9JB (07831 174021) to guarantee your room. Total cost is £190 per room including dinner and breakfast. Bookings are on a first come, first served basis.

Facebook For those who have not signed up for our Region Facebook group, you can apply online I will then grant you permission if you are a PCGB member.

DIARY DATES 6 OCTOBER PC Cardif car clinic 14 OCTOBER Drive and lunch prepared by Mr Paul Bowyer and Brian Jones 4 NOVEMBER Abbey Cwm Hir Christmas decorations visit 25 NOVEMBER Ken Davies Gower Tour 27 NOVEMBER 2019 planning meeting 15 DECEMBER Christmas dinner

South West Joint Regional Organisers Keith Young and Alan Stoneham 07769 320379 (Keith) 07803 237610 (Alan) r15@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS 15 July Wadebridge Wheels Day Roger Cole reports on this year’s successful event: “What a difference to last year. ‘Wheels 18’, at the Royal Cornwall Show Ground and run by Wadebridge Rotary Club, basked in wall-to-wall sunshine. The shelter was definitely needed to keep everyone cool.

“Roger, plus trusted helper and gear, arrived just before 8am to set up, only to find they weren’t the first members to arrive. With a few more members arriving shortly after, it didn’t take long to erect the shelter, set the Club flags and banner and hoist the Porsche flag ready to welcome everyone. We were fortunate to be allocated the same corner plot as before thus giving us two fronts to show the cars. Quite a bonus!

“Despite clashing with the World Cup, a record number of visitors enjoyed the vast selection of cars, bikes and other exhibits. £24,000 was raised for the Chestnut Appeal for prostate cancer and other Cornish charities. Well done everyone.

“The Club stand showed off 22 Porsches plus Cornish members Greg and Sue’s very special

McLaren 570 GT. This attracted a lot of admiration! Not to miss out on the ‘in stand’ to be seen on, another McLaren 570 S and BMW CSL (PCGB member) joined us later.

“A stream of visitors all wanted to get close to their favourite model on the stand - Porsche owners interested in joining the Club or after information/help, others interested in which model to consider as their first experience of Porsche. Most went away with valuable information and help in the direction to go.

“For the first time, we were invited to provide six different cars to parade in the main ring.

The request, at short notice, was met and the parade, a light-hearted affair, with witty, entertaining commentary from the generally well-briefed compere fell a little short when he came to the Porsches. It was quite a sight studying the faces of PCGB members watching from the side of the ring.

“A big thank you goes out to all those who helped set up so very early and strip down the stand after the show. Bring it on next year… we are ready.”

R15 Drive and Dine to the Dartmoor Halfway Inn Nearly 40 enjoyed one of Alan Stoneham’s fine driving routes skirting around Dartmoor in the mist and rain and the following spirited dinner at this hearty pub/restaurant. We parked in designated lines - some on a wasp’s nest, sorry Richard! Seated in the conservatory, the general chatter was so intense at one stage that earplugs were needed. The steaks were good, the fish looked nice and the macaroni cheese, well… what a good night!

Mount Edgcumbe and Boconnoc Shows David Teer, who attended both events, reports: “The Mount Edgcumbe Show, despite the heat, was a success and the Porsche stand again was especially so, thanks to Roger Cole. His gazebo was a godsend in the heat. Only three Club Porsches attended, although we had eight on the stand plus others around other clubs. There were around 2000 cars and it was packed with visitors. Conservative MP for SE Cornwall, Sheryll Murrray, opened the show with the eighth Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. We managed to persuade Sheryll (we know her brother) to visit the Club stand. She and Roger had a nice photo opportunity in front of the cars. Although a small start for PCGB attendance, this has the potential to grow and become a fully supported Club event given full Region support.

“There was also a very good event at Boconnoc, again helped by the weather. A full complement of 25 cars ranged from vintage Rolls-Royce, E-type, Lotus and MG RV8 to brand new Astons and two Porsches (ours and a Club member’s Boxster) from Bodmin. The gardens and house are superb and well worth a visit, as is the permanent model OO gauge railway in one of the old stables. Lots of visitors came so the Marie Curie Fund should have done well.” Thank you David.

Gliding and BBQ with the Devon and Somerset Gliding Club Our last summer event was at the North Hill airfield.

Doyen of the Club, Stuart Proctor, kindly booked in 20 or so intrepid passengers for an experience not to be forgotten. The weather held until a moist front dampened the air and promptly grounded flights so the BBQ became the more favoured venue.

It was an interesting evening for those who managed to fly. Special thanks go to the Gliding Club for their warm hospitality, to Nigel Davis for his sage advice on the art of BBQ cooking and to Andy Moss for attending to members’ needs at the bar.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS Christmas Dinner Dance at the very grand Osbourne Hotel, Torquay Book now to avoid disappointment. Join us for the weekend, with one or two nights’ accommodation, or the Dinner Dance only - reasonable rates for both.

Details on the website.

Forum Don’t forget the Forum is the place to go for late changes to events.

Clockwise from top left: Wadebridge Wheels Day; R15 Drive and Dine to the Dartmoor Halfway Inn; R15 gliding and BBQ with the Devon and Somerset Gliding Club

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Photographic competition The end of October closing date is rapidly approaching. Get your photos in to us for judging and

inclusion (if suitable!) in the R15 2019 wall calendar.

Landscape is better with a good margin around your car so it can be cropped as necessary.

Keith and Alan DIARY DATES 30 SEPTEMBER Autumn drive **Note new date** 7 OCTOBER Sheppy’s Cider Tour – Taunton Contact us for availability.

10 OCTOBER Club night Get your photos in!

13 OCTOBER Pirelli Performance Day Steve Andrews Tyres, St Austell.

4 NOVEMBER Club Night - The Dolphin Guest speaker. **Note date change**

Gloucestershire Regional Organisers Elaine Gammon 07854 868396 Stuart Ings 07942 184927 – r16@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Club night Thanks to all of you who attended the August Club night and lovely to see so many of you there. When we started going to the Huntsman one of the things that we liked was the large car park and it is just as well with the attendance we have had at the last few meetings. The Huntsman also look after us well with good food and excellent service.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 9-11 November Two moors and more weekend away Full details of the drive are available. Organisers Charles and Sarah Fox report on the highlights: “The aim of the drive is for like-minded owners to drive some of the best roads and most beautiful areas of the West Country. We believe the route explores some of the nicest areas in Somerset and Devon, but it is very much up to you how to make the most of the weekend. As we discovered on last year’s drive, there is far too much in the West Country to see in one day, so we have spread it out a little with an overnight stop on Saturday. We hope you will be able to tailor the weekend to suit you. We have also built in plenty of extra time for photo opportunities and rest stops.

“We will start the weekend by staying at the Holiday Inn Express, (Taunton, Junction 25 on the M5, TA1 2PX) on the Friday night and eating in the Harvester next door at 6.45pm for 7pm. We would welcome the company if you want to join us and we will try to organise a group table. Please contact Sarah on 0797 5943786 but make your own accommodation arrangements directly with Holiday Inn Express (telephone: 08719 021632).

“After lunch on Saturday, we will continue south towards Tavistock and arrive for a social evening and overnight stay at the Moorland Gardens Hotel, Yelverton. From here we can set out on Sunday morning across Dartmoor, past Postbridge to Moretonhampstead, then back to Exeter and head home. The hotel is offering a ‘Jingle Bells’ dinner and B&B rate from £99 based on their ‘Garden Rooms’.”

There is a good-sized group already booked in for this weekend but anyone else can join in even if it’s just for the Saturday drive, as some did last year.

Please make your own accommodation arrangements mentioning ‘PCGB’ and let us know so we can expect you and keep you updated. Thank you.

19 December Christmas evening meal at The Huntsman Inn It’s that time of year when we must start talking about Christmas and arranging our hugely popular and exceptional value Christmas evening sit-down meal.

The usual monthly social evening at the Huntsman will be a full, three-course meal and the staff there will be working as hard as ever to make the evening a special one for us. This year we will be looking to have the Huntsman exclusively to ourselves, we were close last year so places will sure to be limited this time. A full menu and price should now be available.

8-12 May 2019 Isle of Man tour We now have the booking forms and already we are looking at extending our reserved quantity of rooms from 20 to 30 as we have had an impressive response for this event.

There were a few immediate questions that came back with the forms regarding the ferry crossing as on Wednesdays (our departure day) there is only one sailing from each port in the afternoon. Our preferred port was Liverpool, but this meant we would probably get to the hotel around midnight so, after some discussion with a few members, we decided to change the departure port to Heysham that is some 35 minutes further up the M6. It appears that the Manx National Rally, a two-day event in May, could be held over the weekend that we are there. Although this will lead to minor road closures on the Saturday (some of them at night) it will also mean an added attraction to many members. We are seeking confirmation of the rally, as, at present, the date is hard to find.

With the above event moving our annual North Wales weekend from May to later in the year and a few other planned events we already have a good events list for 2019. To give everyone good notice we will dedicate the November social meeting to sort out the event list for next year with any other ‘drive ‘n’ dines’ or places to visit that you have in mind.

We stress that your continued help and support is not only welcome but extremely important in helping our Region to maintain the momentum it has over the last few years. We are truly thankful for the help, especially this year as we have had a lot of weekends away with our wedding arrangements (and my racing). Please get in touch if you require any information or if you have an idea for a drive or event.

admiring the collection of nice clean Porsches. There was a very nice Blood Orange 2.7 RS recreation it was still there when we left, so I don’t know whom it belongs to or if he or she is a member. Please come and find me next time, as I would like to know more about your car. It’s not often you can hold the meeting outside, but the weather was so good, we all gathered round outside for my monthly briefing. Let’s hope September stays the same.

12 August Treasure Hunt and BBQ We had over 25 cars take part in the Treasure Hunt.

All cars made it to Alresford Golf Club for the BBQ - Dave and Becky’s instructions were obviously too thorough. The hunt was about 80 miles long and I definitely had not driven some of the route before, especially the very narrow lane with a bus coming in the opposite direction. It was meant to take about 90 minutes to complete, but we hadn’t planned for some ‘canny locals’, who were first to leave the coffee stop and finish the hunt. They went home, put out the washing and still beat the organisers to the golf club.

Nobody got all the clues correct, but the ‘canny locals’ came first. Congratulations to Phil and Cheryl Harbottle on being our Treasure Hunt winners. Many thanks go to Dave and Becky Pentelow for all the hard work in devising the route.

15 August Clay pigeon shoot Another first for R17. After talking about organising such an event for years, many thanks to Stephen Parkes and Paul Frampton for organising this inaugural event for the Region. Twenty intrepid ‘shooters’ arrived at the Acorn Shoot, just north of Romsey - seven of us novices and the rest looking like extras from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I was looking for a Guy Richie lookalike, but none was found. The experts were taken away, deep into the forest, to shoot at more difficult targets (clays) and the seven beginners were taken to a number of ‘stands’ under instruction and allowed to attempt to hit the clays. After a close competition, the Champion Shot for the beginners was Peter Boxall. Next time you get your car done at his garage, make sure you pay, he is deadly from 10 yards and, if he misses, Lorraine can clean up. Be careful though, she shoots left handed.

The big boys were split into two teams and captained by Stephen and Paul. After a couple of hundred clays the results were in - I even saw a calculator at one point. Eventually a winner was decided on and Phil Harbottle was declared the winner for the second time in three days.

We retired to the local pub for some lunch and ‘tall stories’ about the ones that got away. It was an excellent day out, thanks to Stephen and Paul -

We look forward to meeting up with you at some point and wish you well driving around in your Porsche.

Elaine and Stuart

Southern Regional Organiser Charlie McLaughlin 02380 694081 M: 07966 126464 r17@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Club night August’s Club night for once was a very sunny evening so some of us stayed in the car park 70 porscheclubgb.com

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the bruises have gone away now. Let’s look forward to a return visit when three of our known shooters are fit and well to add to our numbers.

9 October Club night Don’t forget, this meeting is being held at PC Portsmouth. It will start from 7pm onwards.

21 October Mercedes World Drive I am taking names for the drive and visit to Mercedes World on this Sunday. We are planning to meet at Sainsbury’s Hedge End Superstore at 9am. Please let me know if you would like to take part.

Clockwise from top left: 250 GTO Ferrari, valued at more than £13m, at a very wet Cars and Coffee; GT2 RS at The Corner House breakfast meet; KLMC Concours winners at Wray Classic Car Show; a variety of classics at Miller Park Show

12 January 2019 Dinner and Dance Lastly, I know it’s a bit early, but I am starting to take names and deposits (£35pp) for our Dinner and Dance that’s back at the Elvetham Hotel. I don’t want you to be disappointed, but our overall numbers are limited to 80 people. So please email me soonest.

Charlie McLaughlin DIARY DATES 9 OCTOBER Club night – PC Portsmouth 7pm onwards.

21 OCTOBER Mercedes World Drive Meet at Sainsbury’s Hedge End Superstore at 9am.

12 JANUARY Annual Dinner Dance – The Elvetham, Hartley Wintney

Lancashire Regional Organiser David Baker 01772 451970 – r18@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS M-Sport August has been another active month for events.

We started the month with a trip to M-Sport in Cockermouth where Ford works rally cars and Bentley race cars are prepared. M-Sport is owned by Malcolm Wilson, renowned ex-rally driver winning many international events. We were shown the museum of Ford rally cars before viewing the large preparation area where several Ford rally cars for international events were being prepared alongside two works Bentley Continental GT race cars. Thanks to Roy Parker for organising this tour.

The Corner House breakfast meet The monthly breakfast meet was, as usual, very full with a large selection of Porsches attending. We are considering moving the Christmas lunch to here.

More info once all the votes have been counted, following my recent MailChimp request. Please email me your preference of The Corner House on 2 December or Garstang GC on 16 December.

Banny’s On 10 August Alan Ridehalgh organised an evening drive and ‘Chippy Tea’ at Banny’s at Colne. Thirty-five members (good for a Friday evening event) met at Starbucks at Longridge and drove an interesting route, using ‘tulip diagrams’ - interesting for some navigators. We headed towards the Ribble Valley, before reaching Banny’s, where we had an excellent supper. Thanks to Alan for organising yet another great drive.

Classics in the Park The following day it was the Classics in the Park at Miller Park in Preston, a classic car show for pre-2000 cars. Restrictions had been placed on numbers of cars attending as a new administration were organising it, and they had difficulties with Preston City Council and the insurers. Unless you had got your entry in very early, once the agreed number

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of entrants was reached, no further entries were accepted. R18 had a small presence, but there were other Porsches who had entered privately.

St Catherine’s Hospice and Stonyhurst College To finish off a weekend of car shows we visited St Catherine’s Hospice show on Sunday morning. The turnout was lower than usual as many of the regulars were attending the show at Stonyhurst College, Hurst Green. Being a pleasant day we moved onto the Stonyhurst show too. There was a large turnout of sports and classic cars, including several Porsches, some known to us, others not. We discussed with the college about holding an event there in 2019 and we will be revisiting to arrange something.

Wray Classic Car Show The Thursday evening following our Club night was the monthly Classic Car Show at Wray, near Kirkby Lonsdale. At the last minute, at their club night, I found out that Kirkby Lonsdale MC was also attending and running a car park concours. I posted the news on the Forum and on Facebook, as there was not enough time for a MailChimp. Kevin Dodd with his 991 GTS won the prize for best Porsche.

There were a range of classes and I won ‘best exterior’, with my 993 and Carol Butterfield won ‘best sports car’ with her Carrera 2.7.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

From left: hurry up, John, the BBQ is going out; members’ cars at The Novello

We will be discussing 2019 events at our monthly meeting on 17 October. We will be reviewing the events we have held in 2018 and looking for ideas and volunteers to organise events for 2019. Several suggestions have already been made, and we will be talking about these on the night.

New Assistant RO Congratulations to Kevin Dodd for volunteering.

Kevin will be handling the social media side of the Region, as more and more reliance will be made on the website, Forum and Facebook. Possibly, we should be considering having webinars or group Skype meetings instead of the monthly meeting.

Your comments would be appreciated.

R18 photographic competition Entries have now closed for our photographic competition - results to be announced. Winning entries will be made into the 2019 calendar.

For any new members that have joined recently, welcome to Lancashire Region. We hope to see you at some of our events. If you want a copy of the latest events calendar, please email me at r18@porscheclubgb.com and I will send you one.

David, Judy and the R18 Organising Team DIARY DATES 7 OCTOBER Classic Car Breakfast The Corner House, Wrightington. Arrive before 8.30am to get on the car park.

14 OCTOBER Drive and lunch - The Oil Can Cafe, Hepworth Organised by Philip Shaw. Meet at Boundary Mill, Colne, to leave at 10am. Lunch at Hebden Bridge.

17 OCTOBER Monthly meeting – Garstang GC 2019 events planning and the future of R18.

21 OCTOBER Preston Supercar Meet The Phantom Winger, Fulwood (next to the IBIS Hotel at the junction of M6/M55). Get there by 8.30am to get on the car park.

29 NOVEMBER Go-kart night Organised by Assistant RO Kevin Dodd at a new circuit at Bamber Bridge. Cost £50pp. Please contact me for full details or go to the PCGB R18 Facebook page.

DECEMBER Christmas lunch (date TBC) Email your preference of The Corner House on 2 December or Garstang GC on 16 December to r18@porscheclubgb.com

Thames Valley Regional Organiser John Barnatt 01628 471985 – 07890 181495 r19@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Novello name change Hi everybody, the month of August has been good for the Region. With the constraints that normally surround the holiday months it was good to see so many members attend the monthly meeting at the Novello. A bit of news for you, The Novello is to be

subject to a name change. The owners have decided to revert to the old name it had before it became the Novello. Very soon it will be known as the Bell and Bottle. There is a Bell and Bottle in Shinfield and the swift application of Murphy’s Law predicts that some new members will navigate to the wrong place, at least according to the ‘bbc’s’ head chef.

but they are thoroughly authentic French baguettes but don’t take my word for it. Our previous RO, Fabien Latailleur, used to drive some 18 miles from Britwell Salome near Watlington to Burgers for his supply of baguettes. Anyway, everybody took the funny names in good spirit, enjoyed the baguettes and we had a thoroughly good time, in brilliant sunshine.

R19’s annual BBQ Who is the bbc’s head chef I hear you ask? Well, it’s me. I happen to live in Buckinghamshire, and those of you who already know me know that I am a keen ‘barbecueist’. It is a small step from there to the creation of the ‘Buckinghamshire BBQ Centre’, but to avoid confusion with the BBC on Facebook, R19’s ‘bbc’ uses lower case. With that cleared up it brings us nicely to the R19 annual BBQ. I set the Region’s drum BBQ up and lit it at about 11.30am so I could keep my promise that the BBQ would be ready to cook by midday and, at the time, the weather was looking dubious to say the least. I had complete faith in the weather forecast of cloudy/ sunny, but as it turned out that was under-optimistic because after nipping home to shower, when I came back in the 911 the sun came with me.

This annual BBQ is maturing into a really good event; I’m not sure if it was a good idea to make the BBQ the mid-month activity, numbers were a bit down on last year but still a worthy 20 members, guests and grandchildren, managed to come to the party.

The very best bit of the day for me is seeing the satisfaction on the faces of our members, and it is probably quite a surprise for first timers that the Regional BBQ is not the usual ‘burnt on the outside raw in the middle’ butt of many a joke and anecdote.

No, far from it, over the last 10 years, possibly 11, that I have been doing this for the members I have built up a good reputation which I intend to maintain as long as I draw breath.

Last year or possibly in 2016, I had come in for a certain amount of stick because of my choice of spray bottle to extinguish flare ups from cooking burgers. The only thing I had to hand back then was a thoroughly flushed out Wonder Wheels wheel cleaning acid bottle and I was hounded by requests from the more vociferous for “more acid on my burger please”, so this year I decided to repay the compliment. Two days before our BBQ I spent some time in the kitchen making some special sauces and dressings and giving them funny names based on a motoring theme.

Continuing with the mischief making, Heinz tomato ketchup became ‘screen wash concentrate’ and I had to give one member a personal assurance that it was genuine Heinz. If you are reading this, KB, trust me it was. Next up were two chilli sauces, ‘anti-freeze’, (mild) and fiery ‘petrol’ containing a 50 per cent blend of Scotch Bonnets and Carolina Reaper chillies. Plain mayonnaise became ‘valve-train mayonnaise’ and Jack Daniels BBQ sauce was re-christened ‘old sump oil’. Finally, the oil used to brush the griddle with, rice bran oil, I nicknamed ‘Castrol GTX’.

A special mention has to go to Burgers (pronounced ber-jers) who supplied the baguettes. No special deal

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London Regional Organisers Nick and Ed Pike 02089 607 111 – r20@porscheclubgb.com Facebook: pcgb.r20 Instagram: @porscheclubgblondon Twitter: @PCGB_London As the leaves start to turn and the nights draw in we have our last drive of the season coming up in early November. We will be heading to one of our favourite playgrounds, the South Downs. With its sweeping, twisty and undulating roads, it’s just what your Porsche loves.

A hardy group will be heading to Luxembourg at the end of the month to tour the region known as ‘Little Switzerland’ for the R20 Autumn Break, more about this in a future PP. These longer breaks away are a great way to travel further afield with your Porsche.

It seems odd to think that the Region’s Christmas Curry at our ‘off Brick Lane’ location is coming up fast and will be in its 12th year – how things have changed in that time. Please put the evening of 4 December in your diary for this not quite end of the year social.

Porsche night at Ace Cafe Ace Cafe has been celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, which is a great excuse to pop along to the regular Porsche night at this iconic location to experience this friendly and welcoming meet. Join us on the last Monday of the month; the car park is dedicated to Porsches from 6pm onwards.

Out East Out East is our Sunday morning breakfast meet at Fish Island; with a street art urban backdrop it’s a photographer’s paradise. Join us on the third Sunday of the month from 8.30am.

See you out on the road…

Ed and Nick RECENT EVENTS A jam-packed month with the WEC at Silverstone, drives, a visit to the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix and

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From top: Martini girl on the grid; Out East street art; WEC in the pits

Out East The classics and GT cars were out in force at our August ‘Out East’ meet. Porsches ranged from Karl’s immaculate 996 GT2, to Chris M’s 991 Gen 2 GT3 RS. A black GT3 Touring stealthily snuck into the line with two immaculate 914s, one a 914/6 in race car style.

There were plenty of early 911s to see, including Beaky’s 3.2 with its recently rebuilt ungraded engine.

The rarest of all though, a stunning 993 Turbo S in Ocean Jade metallic with just 12,000 miles on the clock, looking like it had just left the showroom.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 26-28 October R20 Autumn Break Castles and Curves We head to Luxembourg and the area known as ‘Little Switzerland’. ** Fully booked, check the website for late availability ** 4 and 17 November R20 ‘Escape’ – Ups and Downs A return to an R20 favourite playground, the South Downs. With this scenic route along twisty, undulating roads, your Porsche is guaranteed a great workout.

Sign up from 2 October.

DIARY DATES 24 SEPTEMBER Ace Cafe meet Europe’s largest free monthly Porsche-only meet at Ace Cafe on the North Circular Road, Stonebridge, London, NW10 7UD, from 6pm.

(Last Monday of the month.)

21 OCTOBER Out East Beachy Road, London, E3 2NS from 8.30am onwards. (Third Sunday of the month.) Plenty of street parking with an urban backdrop.

26-28 OCTOBER R20 Autumn Break Castles and Curves **Fully booked ** 29 OCTOBER Ace Cafe Meet

Chiltern Regional Organiser Terry Perry 07748 555333 – r21@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS

more. For the full write-up of all our events and galleries, see our Regional website page at porscheclubgb.com/london/news AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix Recommended by so many people, an R20 advance party made its way to the Nürburgring for three days at the ‘Oldtimer GP’, one of the premier classic racing events of the season, in the company of R20

friend and urban outlaw Magnus Walker.

Smaller and more manageable than the Silverstone Classic, less heritage than the Le Mans Classic, less busy than Goodwood events, with many different marques, and full of enthusiasts this is a very accessible event. You feel close to the action, the spills and thrills plus the racing is full on. It is well worth the blast down the Autobahn to get there. We will be back.

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29 July R21 Concours Organiser Ashley Miller reports: “PC Hatfield generously hosted our annual Concours.

Unfortunately the weather did not co-operate - it was the only wet day for weeks. This reduced the number of entrants with many of the ‘garage queens’ staying away.

“Following on from feedback in previous years regarding the same cars winning each year, we introduced a ‘Meister category’ for any car or owner who had won an award in the previous six years. As a result we had four categories: Meister, Pre 2000 cars, Post 2000 cars and a separate Visitors category.

“M&A Coachworks kindly sponsored us again, incorporating their traditional ‘Best Bodywork’ competition into the main Concours. They judged all the bodywork elements in the Concours and the judges from PC Hatfield the remaining elements.

“Only 40 cars were judged and, whilst the standard was high, given the conditions the low numbers in some categories did show some stark variances.

“Congratulations to the awards winners as follows:

From top: Robin Walker’s 356 at the Cotswold Motoring Museum; R21 gathers for the drive to the Cotswold Motoring Museum; overall Concours winner Paul Herbert and son collects his prize from Mark Goody from PC Hatfield; Concours winners with Mark

Wycombe Air Park by 1964 Monte Carlo winner Paddy Hopkirk. Cars were divided into static displays and ‘Run the Runway’ groups. R21 members Chris and Ann James (981 Boxster GTS), Cliff and Tracy Wilkins (Cayman R), and Christina Thomas and I (911 997.2 GT3 Clubsport) participated in the high-speed runs.

Graham Hill displayed his 911 996 Mk II GT3. Other cars of interest were Colin McRae’s rally-prepared Subaru Impreza, Aston Martin’s No 97 Le Mans GTE Pro Car and a Tesla X available for high speed passenger runs, which was very quick off the line.

This, with the Porsche Taycan available later next year, is a sign of the future. Much to look forward to!”

7 August Club night The first to be held at our new venue - The Little Hay Golf Complex (Box Lane, Bovingdon, HP3 0DT) - a great evening and the new venue worked well. Racing driver and driving coach, Calum Lockie, was guest speaker. Over 80 attended, the highest number at our regular Club night. Little Hay’s catering and facilities proved ideal. Calum gave an interesting talk, covering the huge diversity of cars he has raced, backed up with excellent photographs. Thanks to Calum and to everyone who attended for making this a successful evening. We need good attendances to make this venue financially viable, so please continue to support the Club night programme.

Category PC Hatfield Best Porsche Pre 2000 First Second Third Post 2000 First Second Third Visitor First Second Meister First Second Third

Owner

Model

Paul Herbert

Blue 997.2 C4S

Robin Walker Blue 356 Carlo Fossaluzza Blue 964 Robin Spring White 911 Targa Chris James Terry Perry Stuart Ridge

Silver Boxster GTS White 991 C2S Silver 718 Cayman

Neil Claydon Gold 911 Targa Brian Whinstone Red GT2 RS (R24) Peter Rhodes Steve Edwards Ashley Miller

Black 993 Targa Blue Carrera 3.2 Grey 997.1 GT3

Full results are on the R21 Forum.”

4 August Sound of Speed R21 committee member, Richard York, reports on this event that we will support as a Region in future years: “This was the maiden ‘Sound of Speed’ event at

12 August Cotswold Motoring Museum visit R21’s latest adventure - a very interesting visit to Bourton-on-the-Water - was preceded by an approximately two-hour route either north or south through the Cotswolds.

A slightly below par turnout of 14 crews gathered at the start point of the excellent Flight Deck Cafe at Turweston Aerodrome in overcast but thankfully dry weather. First task - select cake to go with the coffee.

Second task - pick a suggested route. Both routes hinted at the organisers’ extensive road rally experience from the distant past.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the drive and arrived in good time for some lunch prior to the museum visit.

The northerly route had become mucky in places due to previous rain and quite how Robin and Jo Walker’s immaculate 356 remained so clean will remain a mystery! The museum selected their 356 to take pride of place on their forecourt and attracted a lot of interest.

Well done to Martin for the routes and Ken for the arrangements at Bourton-on-the-Water.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2 October Club night - photo competition judging Please come and give your input to help select the winners. Little Hay will be arranging a special menu with the usual bar facilities. I look forward to seeing you there from 7pm onwards.

5 January 2019 R21 New Year Dinner Following the success of previous years’ dinners we are pleased to announce that we’ll be returning to the Mercure Noke Hotel, St Albans.

The evening will include a three-course meal, a half bottle of wine per person, a disco in the adjoining room and plenty of festive novelties - all for the very reasonable price of £30pp.

Please book as soon as possible by sending cheques, made payable to PCGB, to the organiser Mrs Jo Walker, 16 Ridgeway, Wing, Leighton Buzzard LU7 0TH (telephone: 01296 688760).

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accommodation and quote Porsche050119 to benefit from the special price.

Terry DIARY DATES 2 OCTOBER Club night - Little Hay Photo competition judging.

6 NOVEMBER Club night Guest speaker Stuart Turner.

4 DECEMBER Club night Christmas buffet and quiz.

5 JANUARY 2019 New Year Dinner - The Mercure Noke Hotel, St Albans

Cumbria & SW Scotland Joint Regional Organisers Martin Mackay 07979 966 633 Michael Trotter 07841 215 962 cumbria@porscheclubgb.com Hello and welcome from the newest Region in PCGB. This is our first PP report and we look forward to welcoming many of our local members in the coming months and years. It’s a very exciting time for the PCGB members of Cumbria & SW Scotland.

RECENT EVENTS 5 August Lotherton Hall Yorkshire Porsche Festival A few members headed over to meet up with the R3 at Scotch Corner before heading down the A1 in convoy to support R7’s Regional show. The sight of nearly 50 Porsches on the A1 was amazing and the fantastic weather and hospitality of R7 made it a great social drive out.

Congratulations to Tim Roelich on winning the Concours Visitors Class - the first trophy for R22.

7 August First Regional meeting A great turnout for our first Regional meeting, at the Stoneybeck Inn, near Penrith, CA11 8RP, saw 45 members plus Regional Director Phil Graham, Register Director Albert Walsh and ex-Chairman of PCGB Rob Kellock in attendance. It was great to see so many present and to get ideas about what members would like to see us achieve and organise in the coming year.

The Stoneybeck Inn will be our regular venue (excluding December and January when no meeting will be held). It’s central to the Region with easy access from the M6 and plenty of parking.

Start time is 7.30pm but we hope you will come earlier to join us for food in the excellent restaurant.

19 August Witton Castle An event we have attended regularly as part of R18, and this year was no exception, as a group of us headed over to see our good friends in R3 at their Regional show. Leaving Cumbria, the weather wasn’t the best but, by the time we reached Hexham, things had brightened up and we didn’t see any more rain. R3 put on a great event with plenty of stalls with support from PC Teesside. It was a good chance to catch up with friends old and new.

Mike Trotter, Joint RO, entered his Macan GTS in the Concours and, although not winning, got plenty of complimentary comments about the condition of his daily driver.

Clockwise from top left: Tim Roelich, winner of the visitors class at the Concours at Lotherton Hall with his 987 Boxster S; R22 cars at Lotherton Hall; a selection of David Coulthard’s race cars; first R22 meeting with members present; the F1 Simulator Podium (in line-up order: Colin, David, Scott); Mike and Martin, R22 ROs

FORTHCOMING EVENTS Breakfast meetings Our next Breakfast meeting is Sunday, 30 September at Shoreham Airport, which is followed by a drive through the South Downs National Park and Sussex countryside.

Breakfast meetings and drives are also scheduled for October and November, so please watch your emails for information.

Other events Do you want us to organise a driving tour in 2019? If so, please email us to let us know. If we have enough interest, then we will plan something.

Going forward we do have a tour planned in 2020 - yes, I do know it’s nearly two years away! We are going to Monaco Historique and, at the time of writing, there is one place still available. If you are interested, please email r23@porscheclubgb.com There are lots of other events and meetings coming up – please watch your emails for notifications and any booking details. We look forward to seeing you all at them.

Club nights Our regular monthly meetings are at The Bolney Stage (London Road, Bolney Village, RH17 5RL) from 7pm in the main restaurant behind the bar. No booking is required. Please come straight into the room where orders will be taken at your tables so you don’t have to queue at the bar.

Chris and Martin Woolger DIARY DATES

26 August David Coulthard Museum Tour The weather gods were unkind as we met up at the Gretna Gateway Shopping Outlet on the Sunday morning. However, this didn’t dampen the spirits of 40-plus members from R22, R3 and further afield (John from Lytham in Lancashire and Colin from Ayr) enjoying a great drive up to the museum in Twynholm, Dumfriesshire. There was plenty to see and do - a lot took part in the very competitive simulator event - racing on the Spa Circuit - on Scotland’s only full size F1 simulator.

The youngsters also had a great day as the museum is attached to the Cocoabean factory where they made chocolate bars before we all enjoyed superb food in the marquee made available to us for a bit of privacy.

Thanks to the David Coulthard Museum for providing the prizes to the F1 simulator winners.

First: David ‘Ayrton Senna’ Chapman (R3) 2.01.533 Second: Colin ‘Jim Clark’ Dey (R22 for the day) 2.06.215 Third: Scott ‘Lewis Hamilton’ Poole (R3) 2.07.738 Booby prize: Kenny ‘Pastor Maldonado’ Robinson (this time is a secret) DIARY DATES FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH Monthly meeting Stoneybeck Inn, Bowscar, Penrith CA11.

9 DECEMBER Christmas lunch - Armathwaite Hall near Keswick The price is being held at £27.50pp - menu available soon. Event starts at 12 noon. Contact Mike Trotter at cumbria@porscheclubgb.com for details and to book.

Sussex Regional Organisers Chris and Martin Woolger 07720 849982 or 07802 409272 R23@porscheclubgb.com

30 SEPTEMBER Breakfast and drive – Shoreham Airport 2 OCTOBER Monthly meeting - The Bolney Stage 28 OCTOBER Breakfast and drive – The Beach Deck, Eastbourne 6 NOVEMBER Monthly meeting The Bolney Stage 18 NOVEMBER Breakfast at Shoreham Airport 4 DECEMBER Monthly meeting The Bolney Stage

RECENT EVENTS 5 August Porsches on the Lawns Hi everyone. The highlight of August was our Porsches on the Lawns at Borde Hill Gardens.

Unfortunately this clashed with Goodwood Breakfast Club and the Beaulieu Supercar Weekend, but we did not know this when we booked with Borde Hill last year.

We had 50 cars on display, the weather was superb and members enjoyed chatting with the public about their cars. It was also a great social event for the Region with most members bringing a picnic, chatting with each other and catching up with those not seen for a while. It was also great that several new members attended and got talking to the other members.

Borde Hill Gardens was so pleased with the display of cars that the venue has invited us back again next year.

8-16 September The Romantic Road, Germany We were off again on Saturday, 8 September with another 12 R23 cars to drive the Romantic Road in Germany. Several in the group are first-time tourers – we were anticipating having a lot of fun. Let’s just hope the weather was kind to us.

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A trio of photos from Porsches on the Lawns at Borde Hill Gardens

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“The Magpas Air Ambulance medical team receives enhanced training, which allows them to offer procedures and treatments at the scene, such as general anaesthetic, which are usually only available in hospital. This means that the frontline care the team delivers doesn’t just save lives, it helps seriously ill and injured people return to a good quality of life. The oldest emergency medical charity in the UK, Magpas Air Ambulance started life as a voluntary service in 1971 when two GPs, Dr Neville Silverston MBE and Dr Derek Cracknell MBE, took action to help victims of road accidents.

“Being founded by two doctors, the charity has a strong clinical heritage. Today, it offers pioneering training to doctors and paramedics wishing to specialise in pre-hospital emergency medicine, for which it is renowned in the medical world.”

We were suprised to hear that the government, lottery or any other body, does not fund Magpas.

The whole operation is run on donations and the current running cost is £5 million per annum. A new helicopter is also on order. With that in mind, you may wish to, or recommend a friend to, make a one-off donation or a regular monthly donation. If so, please see magpas.org.uk/support-us/donate On departure we thanked our hosts for a most informative visit to this most deserving of charities. I would also like to thank Edward Parry for arranging the event and all who attended. Thanks must also go to all members who continue to support the raffle by bringing prizes and buying raffle tickets. Without your support these donations are not possible.

Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire Regional Organiser John Dunn 01954 789764 – r24@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Magpas - donation Thirty members gathered for a country pub lunch and then made the scenic drive to the Magpas HQ at RAF Wyton where members of the helicopter and medical team welcomed us. When choosing Magpas as our charity the committee were unaware that Club stalwart Alan Chambers’ son Steve is a paramedic for Magpas. Alan can be seen with his son, holding the Region’s sizeable cheque donation, in the photo. We were given an insight into the working of both the helicopter and of the medical team and this was followed by a Q&A session. In Magpas own words: “Magpas Air Ambulance is a charity, which brings essential lifesaving care by land and air to patients in life-threatening emergencies in the east of England and beyond. Some of the UK’s expert doctors and paramedics volunteer their own time to work with us. Magpas Air Ambulance is not a state-funded service and relies on generous public donations to continue saving lives. Since 1971 we’ve treated over 60,000 patients.

“Our medics support the ambulance service by bringing additional skills and treatments to the scene of an incident.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS I can confirm that we have in hand guest speakers and events for both 2018/19. In short we have been contacting speakers for winter Club nights and hope to bring you confirmed dates in the near future.

Speakers include the editor of a motoring magazine, a solicitor specialising in motoring offences and a broadcaster from Le Mans.

We also hope to run another Drive and Dine event before the year-end. Next year’s WOTY is being worked on, as are other events, including the post Christmas lunch. If you have an event, which you think members would enjoy please inform one of your committee.

From top: R24 members present a cheque to Magpas Air Ambulance; R24 at RAF Wyton, Magpas HQ

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Keep up to date If you wish to be added to my email list please drop me an email to r24@porscheclubgb.com and I will add your name to my mailing list. Also, should you change your address, be it the one you live at or email, don’t forget to inform the Club Office by mailing membership@porscheclubgb.com Enjoy your cars and Club…

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Kent Regional Organisers Phil and Pearl Sharland 01797 344121 – r25@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS August Club night This was very busy and included lots of new members to whom we apologise if we did not get a chance to say hello. The large parking area at Brands Hatch was full of splendid Porsches to admire.

Fox Archers This month saw us back at Fox Archery where members could try their hands at archery.

The archers were split into teams with six expert tutors on hand to help, and we soon got to grips with the finer points of the sport. After several practice shots we had a break for tea before returning to the targets and having a competition between the teams. During the afternoon we were delighted to have a Red Arrows fly past, a distant glimpse of a Lancaster bomber and various other aircraft displaying at the nearby Biggin Hill Air Show.

Well done to all who took part and congratulations to our winners - Reg and Max Wright, and Tony and Maureen Beszant. The afternoon finished with a BBQ laid on by Pearl Sharland and Sue Dennis, helped

by Helen Elgood. Many thanks to Fox Archers for the use of their facilities - we have agreed to return next year.

De Havilland Aircraft Museum tour Of all the days to have a closure of the M25 it had to be this one. A tortuous journey to the museum at London Colney ensued. Sue Wallace reports: “Those that made it met at the Colney Fox for lunch before a short drive to the museum. After being directed to our Porsche parking in front of their

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Club nights then look out for the yellow T-shirts and sweatshirts worn by committee members. We are there to introduce you to other members and generally make you feel at home.

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Clockwise from left: Porsche parking at De Havilland; archery winners; enjoying the De Havilland tour; archery group

Phil and Pearl

Trident fuselage we were greeted by Museum Curator Alistair Hodgson who started the tour with a short talk on the history of Geoffrey De Havilland, the aircraft company and Salisbury Hall, the moated country house next to the museum.

“We visited two hangars, the first dedicated to the early years of aviation pioneer Geoffrey De Havilland who, together with his colleague Frank Hearle, designed and built their first plane in 1909 without ever having seen an aircraft. Although it crashed, the engine was salvaged and a second plane was built. This was successful and went on to be sold to the Royal Aircraft Factory, which, in turn, employed both Geoffrey and Frank to design planes for the growing recreational market of the 1920s and 1930s.

“The second hangar tells the story of the Mosquito combat aircraft, built from composite wood.

Initially dismissed by the government, it was eventually accepted as war broke out and Geoffrey was asked how he would find enough aircraft engineers to build the planes required. The genius of his concept was to use furniture manufacturers such as Waring & Gillow and Parker Knoll to build them.

“The final part of the tour was outside to see the later planes in the collection when De Havilland was a pioneer in jet aviation. These included the Comet and later the DH121, eventually known as the Trident.

Following the tour we were invited into the cafe for tea and biscuits before heading home.

“Our thanks go to Alistair and the museum volunteers for making us so welcome and giving us such a fantastic afternoon. I highly recommend visiting this fascinating museum run by dedicated enthusiasts, who I know would very much appreciate your support.”

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

DIARY DATES

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 30 September Breakfast Club The 7 Hotel Diner, London Road, Polhill, Halstead TN14 7AA (7hoteldiner.co.uk), from 8.30am onwards.

Please note the earlier time. Please let Sue and Mick know if you will be joining us at m1ck.dennis@btinternet.com 28 October Drive and Sunday lunch at Dale Hill Hotel and Golf Club We will meet for coffee at the Mercure Hotel, Maidstone at 10.30am before a drive to the venue at Ticehurst. We can enjoy a three-course Sunday lunch followed by tea/coffee costing £26pp.

Payment and menu choices will be required by 20 October latest.

30 SEPTEMBER Breakfast Club - The 7 Hotel Diner, Halstead 3 OCTOBER Club night - Brands Hatch **Please note earlier date than usual.** 13 OCTOBER Winter health check - Tonbridge 14 OCTOBER Visit to Chislehurst Caves followed by lunch Please contact Sue and Mick Dennis for details or to book on m1ck.dennis@btinternet.com 28 OCTOBER Drive and Sunday lunch Dale Hill Hotel and Golf Club, Ticehurst.

14 NOVEMBER Club night - West Malling Golf Club **Brands Hatch is closed.** 25 NOVEMBER Breakfast Club 12 DECEMBER Club night - PC Tonbridge

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All our events can be found in the Kent Region calendar of events, as well as in PP and on the R25 section of the PCGB 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.

Joint Regional Organisers Trefor Willingham 01747 838158 Karl Wells 07980 212056 r26@porscheclubgb.com

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.

If you are a new member attending one of our

Reports provided by Chris Hak R26 Monthly meeting A good turnout included new faces to whom we extended a warm welcome. The meeting was a standard affair until Tref tabled his master plan of investing in a Regional Cayenne to be used as a storage unit, goods transporter and member benefit. Quickly dismissed by just about everybody (except Robin for obvious reasons), true to the theory that there is no such thing as a bad idea

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Clockwise from top left: a varied mix at Luftgekühlt; Poole Accident Repair; the 550 ‘wing car’; Alastair’s 3.2, photographed by Rich Pearce

could do a lot worse than to get in touch with Rich.

Please speak to a member of the committee for his contact details or to see more photos from the day.

DIARY DATES 18 OCTOBER Monthly meet - Mike Wilds’ talk 15 NOVEMBER Monthly meet 7 DECEMBER R26 Christmas dinner - George Albert Hotel 20 DECEMBER Monthly meet - PC Bournemouth

Ireland Regional Organiser Ken Mack 07860 850444 – r27@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Regional Organiser John Hilditch 07907 437303 it led to some very healthy discussion about storage and transport of the Regional goods and chattels, a discussion which I’m sure will continue…

Not attended a monthly meeting before?

Several hundred PCGB members are in the Dorset Region but only a small percentage attends monthly meetings. If you’ve considered coming along but are reluctant because you think you won’t know anybody and might feel out of place (we’ve all been there, I promise) we thought we’d extend a special invite. You are, of course, most welcome to join us at any time but if you’d rather come along when there are other newcomers expected, join us in November and you will be made most welcome and will experience the unrivalled friendliness that is R26.

RECENT EVENTS Luftgekühlt The brainchild of ex-works Porsche driver and two times Le Mans class winner, Patrick Long, and creative director Howie Idelson, Luftgekühlt is an annual event held in California that has always sounded like air-cooled Porsche heaven. With the venue changing annually and the location announced at short notice, it’s a ‘pop-up’ event for Porsche enthusiasts with museum cars, invited cars and cars arriving on the day, ensuring an eclectic mix. A relaxed atmosphere and the California sunshine make it one of those events that I’d love to attend but assumed I’d never get the opportunity. Then, in June, social media started buzzing with news that Luftgekühlt was coming to Britain and, true to form, we had a month’s notice that it would be held at Bicester Heritage in July. It would be a true reflection of the American event and, as we were basking in the middle of the best summer for decades, it even looked like we’d be able to supply our own Californiastyle sunshine. Unfortunately, the day of the event I was disappointed to wake up to something unseen for many weeks - rain, and lots of it. To my shame, I decided to take the Wassergekühlt Boxster rather than the Luftgekühlt 911 and conditions on the way to Bicester were so bad that I knew it was the right decision, right up to the point that I started mixing it with air-cooled Porsches, only to be split from them as they entered the main site while I parked outside.

A former WW2 bomber base, Bicester Heritage and airfield is a business campus housing over 30 specialist companies dedicated to the

preservation and upkeep of historic motor vehicles.

Being used to displays where cars are parked by the dozen in regimented rows, my initial thought on entering the site was ‘where are all the cars?’ They were scattered around the 350-acre site, some in groups some individually, but all displayed with a view to maximising the effect of seeing them in all their glory. There were surprises around every corner, be it a 356 Speedster, an ‘outlaw’ 911 or even a tractor.

Some of the highlights? A Jagermeister 934, a 911 that looked like an unfinished backdate but turned out to be the prototype Singer DLS, two 904s, Michael May’s 550 Spyder ‘wing car’, the Paul Smith 911, at least one 911 T/R, and GVB 911D, the first 911 to race in the UK. All in all, it was everything I’d hoped it would be, a truly memorable event that even the rain couldn’t spoil. And what did the Californian contingent (including Patrick Long) think of it? They were impressed with the location, the turnout, the cars and the enthusiasm, and were even heard to comment that the rain added a certain ‘British-ness’ to the event. Here’s hoping they choose to return to Blighty soon, but leave the rain at home next time!

Poole Accident Repair Porsche-approved repairer and Restoracing Boxster collaborator, Poole Accident Repair, held an open morning on the same day as Luftgekühlt. Unable to be in two places at once, it’s over to Nick Snook for a brief report: “Several Porsche owners enjoyed a warm welcome on a damp day hosted by Poole Accident Repair. They certainly made us very welcome and were happy to discuss all aspects of the complex business of vehicle repair. We were handed goody bags as we tucked into perfect bacon rolls and coffee.

So thank you Leon, Louise and the team.”

Photographic session with Rich Pearce Rich Pearce, whom many of you will know from PC Bournemouth, generously offered a photographic shoot as a prize in last year’s Christmas raffle, the lucky winner being Alastair Durham. One sunny day in July they set off along the Jurassic coast road, Alastair at the wheel of his Guards Red Carrera 3.2 and Rich with his camera. The results speak for themselves and serve to illustrate Rich’s talent behind the lens. If you are interested in having your car photographed by someone who is regularly published in mainstream Porsche magazines, you 86 porscheclubgb.com

Month eight in R27 and we are well on the way to surpassing our annual target of at least 27 events hopefully with something for everyone!

Ulster Grand Prix (UGP) Bike Week To open this month, we took part in this internationally renowned event.

First promoted in 1922 by the Ulster Motor Cycle Club, the UGP originally ran on the 20.5-mile Clady circuit, a few miles from the modern Dundrod circuit.

The 1960s, 1970s and 1980s saw legendary names, such as Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini, Ray McCullough, Joey Dunlop and others do battle on track and, despite the event losing its official Grand Prix status in 1973, the ‘Ulster’ has gone from strength to strength to become a key feature on the road racing calendar. Today, fans come in the thousands to sample the atmosphere and famous Dundrod welcome. R27 helped swell the numbers when, after completing an exclusive parade lap of the course, we put on a display of 32 cars. Thanks go to the UGP organisers and the 40 or so members who supported the event.

Club night A week later we welcomed Pauline Nelms, the Northern Ireland representative for TRACKER UK, to our monthly meeting. DFC TRACKER offers the full tracker range of products, which deliver unrivalled vehicle tracking technology. The VHF tracking technology ensures full visibility to the right people; it cannot be jammed like traditional GPS/GSM only trackers and is visible even if a vehicle is concealed in shipping containers or hidden in an underground car park.

Pauline shared with us her insight, gained over 20 years in the business, about vehicle crime and how criminals are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to steal vehicles. They can clone keys and remotely start vehicles without having to have a key in their possession!

With many vehicles fitted with a tracker from new, with the passage of time as vehicles change hands, often the subscription lapses. Pauline delivered the welcome news that there is a strong chance that the subscription can be simply renewed and the existing device reactivated at a very keen price compared to the cost for first-time installation.

Currently, DFC TRACKER is offering R27 members some great incentives with special prices. Of particular interest to those who store their car away from home over the winter months is the TRACKER

Clockwise from top left: Sam Wilson chatting with DCF TRACKER’s Pauline Nelms; a confident-looking Ron Hogg at the head of the UGP parade lap; Ulster Grand Prix Bike Week, from left Ken and Doreen Welby, Geoff Wilson (CEO UGP), RO Ken Mack, Assistant RO John Hilditch, R27 committee member Geoff Masten-Moore; Ken Mack and ‘soon to be bride’ Ruth Boyd (centre) accepting a wedding gift from R27, presented by John and Audrey Hilditch; Geoff and Alison Masten-Moore, very able captains of the August drive

21 OCTOBER Last drive of the season Something special to round off the season.

Breakfast meeting at 9.30am at Malone House, Belfast before a ‘R27 back-to-front’ drive. All will be revealed!

Channel Islands, Guernsey Regional Organisers Ian and Angela Banneville 01481 715678 – r28g@porscheclub.com Twitter: @PCGB_Guernsey

Retrieve, a self contained device that uses its own battery to help keep the car secure. For more details contact me directly.

Monthly drive Late August saw Geoff Masten-Moore, ably assisted by his wife, co-driver, planner and navigator Alison, captain our monthly drive.

Heavy rain didn’t deter members from gathering on a very drab Sunday morning to explore the roads around Down and Armagh. Around 35 members in 20 cars set off on a route that took us to Hillsborough, Ballynahinch, Dromara and Rathfriland to Gosford Forest Park for a coffee. A late lunch at the Halfway House just outside Banbridge rounded off the day.

Thanks to Geoff and Alison for an excellent day out and, while the weather was not entirely on our side on this occasion, we may just revisit this particular drive again.

In closing this month…

On a personal note, on behalf of my (long-suffering!) partner Ruth Boyd, who by the time you are reading this will hopefully be ‘Mrs Mack’, and myself, we would like to say a big thank you to everyone in R27 for their best wishes and very generous gift ahead of our wedding! At the time of writing we are booked in for the ‘service’ in just a few days’ time! Genuinely, a big thank you goes to all our friends in R27.

PC Belfast Now, over to Paul McConaghy: “With a great summer coming to a close, the months are sure to get colder. Whilst all Porsches have been designed to operate in the full spectrum of weather

we experience, there are several accessories, which will help see you safely through the winter months.

“The interior cover is suited to those people who store their cars over the cold period and want to ensure it is protected from dust and other airborne contaminants. The trickle charger is ideal for people who may use their cars only sporadically, ensuring that the battery is in peak condition whenever needed.

“We also offer a winter check performed by one of our Porsche-trained technicians, to identify issues that may arise between your scheduled services.

You can be assured that your Porsche will deliver peak performance during the winter months. The winter check is available for £159 including VAT. To find out more about the indoor cover, battery conditioner, or to book a winter check, give PC Belfast a call on 028 9038 9999.”

That’s it for this month - safe driving and see you next time...

Beaucette Marina was historically a blue granite quarry, which sits on the north east tip of the Guernsey coast. In 1968 the Royal Engineers were tasked with blowing a hole between the quarry and the sea to turn it into a private marina and were granted a budget of £725. Many complications and much high explosive later the cost of the project escalated to £27,000. It is the only place in Guernsey where you are permitted to live on a boat.

Steak Rossini features a fillet of matured Red Hereford beef cooked in Madeira and truffle sauce, topped with foie gras.

The link between the two is that this was one of the excellent dishes on offer at The Restaurant at Beaucette Marina (accessed through one of Guernsey’s only remaining cobbled roads outside of our pedestrianised main High Street). This was the venue for our August meeting, or as it became known, Mel and Steve’s New Car Eve. The great turn out proved to be an excellent chance to catch up with old friends, and even some former members. Sebastian made a guest appearance too, as we reasoned that, as his brother was away at Scout Camp, it would be cheaper to bring him along than pay a babysitter. It was, until he decided to go for the steak...

A la Porschaine…

Ian, Angela, Sebastian and Jean-Marc DIARY DATES OCTOBER TENNERFEST Details to follow by email.

25 NOVEMBER Abu Dhabi Do We are hoping it will be a thrilling F1 season finale. Details to follow.

23 DECEMBER Christmas lunch – Jerbourg Hotel ** Note change of date** We have changed the date to just before Christmas, which should make it even more festive.

Ken DIARY DATES 29 SEPTEMBER Monthly drive - North West and Cross Border Please note that our afternoon meal will be slightly later than usual at approximately 4.30pm.

10 OCTOBER Monthly meeting Loughshore Hotel 75 Belfast Road, Carrickfergus BT38 8PH 7pm for 8pm. Guest speaker from the Belfast office of PCGB insurance partners Lockton.

Dinner at Beaucette Marina

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Channel Islands, Jersey Regional Organiser Goetz Eggelhoefer 07797 892502 – r28j@porscheclubgb.com

Photo by Mike Ward

Trackday on the Bugatti Circuit at Le Mans Exactly a year ago to the day of my inaugural trackday experience, it was back to the Bugatti Circuit for another crack at this famous racetrack.

Remembering the valuable nuggets of advice offered to me last year by David Sass and Ian Banneville, I felt a little more at ease as we all gathered in the drivers’ briefing room to run through the dos and don’ts of a trackday. DO have respect for those less experienced than you on a track and also for those who are more experienced than you. DON’T overtake on a bend... ever. And, above all, be aware of your surroundings and concentrate.

Although, strictly speaking I was no longer a total novice, I nevertheless happily accepted the novice stickers for the car and enquired whether they also had a sticker for my forehead.

With tow bar attached to the front bumper, crash helmet on my head and fully hydrated – it was 37 degrees in the shade that day – I was ready for my initial site laps. Unsurprisingly, things happen a lot quicker at over 200km/h, so taking a few slow laps to re-learn the sequence of bends and the lie of the track on the approach into each bend is essential the less time spent figuring out what bend comes next, the more time you have to concentrate on your line and approach into the bend. I was surprised by how quickly and easily the sequence of bends came back to me; after three site laps I felt ready to tackle the track at speed.

The first five-10 laps were OK, but something was not quite right. I was braking in a straight line and my

line into the bend was correct but I was still losing too much time. I had booked a 30-minute session on the track with John, a racing instructor. It did not take him long to sort out my problem. My line into the bend was a good one, I was clipping the apex perfectly, but I was braking too gradually and, consequently, too late into the bend, leaving me too much to do before turning. Somewhat counter intuitively, John told me to stomp on the brakes hard and early – and by ‘hard’ he meant to the point where the ABS almost engages. Really? The effect of braking hard is to drive the momentum and centre of gravity from the middle/back of the car onto the front wheels. As the momentum shifts forwards it places maximum grip on to the front wheels, allowing the driver to turn into the bend efficiently and without drama. I practised this technique on my own for a couple more laps and was amazed at the difference to my overall performance into and out of the bends. It turned out to be a very valuable lesson.

Later in the afternoon Martyn Konig, himself a former racing driver, very kindly offered to take me out in his recently delivered GT2 RS. While the acceleration in the GT2 RS is very impressive, it was the braking power that was for me the most memorable element of our laps around the circuit.

Martyn demonstrated what John, my instructor, had told me about braking hard and early into a bend. One moment I was pinned to the back of the bucket seat, the next moment I was lurching forward, my shoulders straining at the seat belt straps. What a car! What an experience! Thank you Martyn.

As the day was drawing to a close I received my last lesson of the day…quit while you are ahead.

After seven hours of driving on the circuit, in 37-degree heat, concentrating hard to remember everything that one has learned, one inevitably becomes tired. What was to that point an incidentfree day of driving ended with two red flags in short succession. The first was to allow the crew to clear

Clockwise from top left: nose to tail; Martyn’s gorgeous GT2 RS; yours truly, ending the day on a high; a GT3 RS at the finish line at Le Mans; setting up before heading out on to the circuit

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some debris that had fallen off a BMW. The second flag was because one of the drivers had spun out into the gravel pit – or the ‘cat litter’ as it is affectionately known – and needed towing out.

Another driver also spun but stayed on the track.

It was clear that everyone was tiring.

Exhilarated but also physically and mentally exhausted, I decided that discretion was the better part of valour and ended the day on a tremendous high. A big thank you to Delta Racing for organising another amazing trackday at an amazing circuit.

Goetz and Fiona Eggelhoefer DIARY DATES 26 SEPTEMBER – 1 OCTOBER The Gallery Rally to Monaco See Club website for more details.

Surrey Committee Chairman Mike Lucas Regional Contact Keith Morgan 07833 206078 (before 9pm) r29@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS Retrofestival Marian and David Blackmore report: “On a slightly overcast Sunday morning, six R29 members set off at an unsociable early hour from M4 Reading Services and travelled together to the Newbury Showground to display their cars at this new event for PCGB Surrey members.

“This annual festival, with a vintage and classic 1930s-onwards theme, is held over three days at two locations, Peterborough and Newbury, and focuses on wings, wheels, speed, steam, music, dance and bands.

“Three Porsches - Brenda and Colin’s 1988 Carrera Sport 3.2, John and Lorraine’s 1991 964 Carrera 2 Targa and Marian and David’s 1991 964 Carrera 2 were soon deployed and on display by 9am.

Assembling the gazebo was a bit of a challenge, but enthusiasm prevailed and the protection from the inclement weather was much appreciated.

“The festival offered plenty of interest, including a ‘vintage village’ with 300-plus traders offering new and used 1930s to 1960s clothing, wares and antiquities. There was plenty of variety for food and refreshment needs.

“Exhibits for general viewing and demonstrations included steam-driven vehicles, automobiles, trucks, military vehicles, scooters, motorcycles and Airstream caravans. An auto-jumble area contained cherished hardware items awaiting reuse. Two well-supported festival stages, both under cover, were the ‘Ricky Tick’ stage providing rhythm and blues music and entertainment, and the rock and roll-themed ‘Black Hangar’. Chris Farlowe and Cliff Bennett had played live the previous evening. Many of the public and stallholders dressed in 1930s clothing. Dancing lessons in rock, jive and country were provided in the ‘Spitfire’ marquee.

“Numbers of attendees started to reduce towards late afternoon. After dismantling the wet gazebo, the remaining group members enjoyed the evening spectacle of music and dancing in the Ricky Tick

Clockwise from top left: a selection of our Porsches at Capel; a Surrey member’s 911 RSR; all smiles at Retrofestival; it wasn’t only cars at Retrofestival

Events calendar To download a printable events calendar, or view our galleries of past events, 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

marquee. This continued until closedown at around 10.30pm. After the pleasure of several hours of wide ranging ‘non-mainstream’ interest and entertainment, we look forward to supporting next year’s Retrofestival.”

Clacket Lane services on the M25 eastbound for a 9.45am departure and then visit Scotney Castle NT after eating at Bloomsburys. This is a prebookable event.

Capel Classic Car and Bike Show This year was Capel Classic Car and Bike Show’s 20th year and it always lives up to our expectations of a good day out. The organisers were expecting around 700 entrants - it was certainly very busy.

Getting into the showground to join in the display was a real test of patience.

However, we finally managed to get to our pitch and parked up ready to erect the gazebo - always a challenge when confronted with bunches of poles, which are supposed to be linked with spring attachments, but not in every case!

Luckily, it wasn’t breezy and, having finally figured out the framework amidst much encouragement from the bystanders, the gazebo was up and running.

We also gave our new PCGB banner its first airing fortunately that was a very simple task to erect.

As usual, picnic tables and chairs appeared from nowhere as members staked their claims within the gazebo (in case there was any of the wet stuff around) and flasks came out or, for those not so organised, visits made to one of the many refreshment stalls before we got down to the business of seeing what the show had to offer.

The show combines a great car show with a very British village fete atmosphere - all sorts of items for sale and the obligatory brass band playing in the background. There are cars and motorcycles from every motoring era to satisfy both young and old alike and there were also several auto-jumble vendors just itching to sell that fog light or throttle dangler for your pride and joy!

All in all, we had a good day out and when the time came to dismantle the gazebo, a quick walk to one of the auto-jumble stalls for several rolls of different coloured insulating tape allowed us to colour code the gazebo poles in order to make the next assembly process so much easier. Why didn’t we think of that before!

14 October Brunch at The Crew Room, Denham Airfield This is an opportunity to have a bite to eat whilst watching the comings and goings of light aircraft on the airfield. We will meet at The Fairmile, Portsmouth Road KT11 1BW for departure at 11am.

18 November Tea and scones at the Old Railway Station, Petworth We will meet at The Devils Punchbowl Cafe on the A3 for a 12.30pm departure or at the Old Railway Station (GU28 0JF) itself at 1pm. This is a pre-bookable event.

7 December Christmas dinner at Silvermere I know Christmas is a long way off, but we need to have some idea of numbers for organising purposes.

If you are interested in joining us, please let me know.

The cost is £46pp to include pre-dinner drinks and a three-course carvery.

Clockwise from above: now to find somewhere to park!; a lot of nice new stock!; members getting a tour of the workshop; nice panorama shot from Rob

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 30 September Breakfast at Bloomsburys Biddenden (TN27 8DQ) A glamping site between Sissinghurst Castle and the historic village of Biddenden. We will meet at 92 porscheclubgb.com

30 SEPTEMBER Breakfast at Bloomsburys, Biddenden 9 OCTOBER Club night - Silvermere Golf Club 14 OCTOBER Brunch - The Crew Room, Denham Airfield 13 NOVEMBER Club night - Silvermere Golf Club 18 NOVEMBER Tea and scones - the Old Railway Station, Petworth 7 DECEMBER Christmas dinner - Silvermere Golf Club 11 DECEMBER Club night - Silvermere Golf Club With coffee and mince pies.

Isle of Man Regional Organiser Julian Chappell 01624 816563 (evenings) iom@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Steve Morrow 07624 433268 Steve_m2@manx.net RECENT EVENTS Milntown Show Derek Flint reports: “The regular ‘First Sunday’ meet of R30 over the last couple of months has been a little different. Our July gathering saw 10 cars represent PCGB at the Milntown

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PC Isle of Man Derek Flint reports: “The August meet was particularly special in that we were able to celebrate the return of an official Porsche Centre to the island after an absence of some 15 years. The Jacksons Group has invested over £100m in a massive, multi-marque site just outside of Douglas. As well as Hyundai, Fiat, Toyota, Mini, BMW, Volvo, Volkswagen and Lexus, the super-premium segment is represented by Bentley, Aston Martin and, of course, Porsche.

“Seventeen local cars descended on the new showroom, with around 30 PCGB members enjoying breakfast baps and excellent coffee as guests of the Centre. Simon, the Centre’s brand specialist, was on hand to chat about plans for the group and show us round the very impressive workshops. The size of the investment by Jacksons, and the return of Porsche to the Island is a real vote of confidence in the future of the island. It is also good for locals and visitors alike to know that the support of a Porsche Centre is now available.”

DIARY DATES 7 OCTOBER Breakfast run Meet at the Grandstand at 8.30am for run or meet at the Guard House for breakfast at 10am.

4 NOVEMBER Visit to PC Isle of Man 10am meet and drive to the Centre (meeting location TBA).

Cotswold Regional Organisers Alan and Fiona Bartlett 07785 928687 – r31@porscheclubgb.com @PCGB_R31 facebook.com/pcgb.r31 With the summer in full swing, and so much going on, Cotswold Region members were spoilt for choice when it came to choosing what events to attend in August. Attendance at the R31 events was really good, no doubt helped by the mostly decent weather.

As well as our scheduled events, we also organised an impromptu visit to the motor auctions in Witney where, amongst the 100-plus lots, we saw a shiny looking 47,482-mile 2002 996 Carerra 4, complete with a hard top and a cherished registration, go for £15,850. Superficially, it was a cracking car sold at a bargain price. However, all that glitters is not gold.

Closer inspection revealed that it had a slight engine misfire, a recent full respray and was an imported vehicle with no documented service history. We passed on it.

RECENT EVENTS Monthly meeting August’s meeting was at The Red Lion, Long Compton. Pleasingly, we managed to fill the long table

in the back dining room and much of the car park with our Porsches. A warm summer evening helped swell the numbers and made for a pleasant drive to and from the venue too. As with all good things, this came at a price, namely the front of the car plastered with huge number of dead flying insects.

We discussed ideas for future Regional events as part of our master plan to continue to attract and retain Club members. The outcome is a fairly complete event programme running through to the end of 2019. Hopefully, there’s something for everyone. We also reviewed the various destinations for next year’s Cotswold Rally and have now selected a venue that meets our criteria. We will be following this up with the Club Office event team.

From top: going once, going twice, sold to the gentleman at the back with the smug grin; some of the Porsches in the Park; Wayne Singleton (L) congratulates Ian Duffy (R) on winning the Big Raffle prize

Photo by Alan Bartlett

Classic Car Show. This eclectic gathering now attracts over 120 cars of all ages. Notable attendees included many Rolls-Royce, and even some fully operational steam cars, which are a regular sight on Manx roads.

The weather was exceptional, and the wide range of Porsches on show generated a lot of interest, including several people who were looking to purchase their own car in the next few months. Club members were on hand to give advice and share experiences.”

Porsches in the Park Organised for the third year running by Cotswold member Wayne Singleton, this family event centred around a display of 55 Porsches in the parkland of Garth House near Bicester. The event almost didn’t happen as the access road had been closed for new electric supply cables to be laid. Fortunately though, the venue could still be accessed albeit via a diversion.

Starting at 10am, the day included trade exhibits, a BBQ, live music, an extensive play area and cafe, and raffles. Although a bit overcast, we were blessed with dry and warm weather and the setting provided the perfect backdrop. We were really pleased that people stayed for the whole of the event with very few leaving before mid-afternoon when the raffle was drawn. The lucky winners were: 1. Ian Duffy – A driving experience session with lunch for two at PEC Silverstone kindly donated by Moose and Sarah Oxlade/ACH Special Vehicles 2. Brian Ahern – A driving experience at a Land Rover Experience Centre kindly donated by Moose and Sarah Oxlade/ACH Special Vehicles 3. Tim Hill – Two tickets for the BTTC Silverstone meeting kindly donated by Brian Ahern 4. R O’Brien – £125 voucher kindly donated by Specsavers, Bicester branch 5. Simon Morgan – Detailing products kindly donated

by Pyramid Car Care The aim of the event was to raise money for Friends of the Garth Daytime Support and we’re delighted to report that £1,200 was raised, which will help fund the charity’s valuable work with adults with learning disabilities. Thank you all for your amazing generosity.

Our sincere thanks too to everyone who came along to display their cars, those who entertained, sponsored and directed us, Bicester Town Council for the use of their facilities, and the heroes who helped to set up, pack up and tidy up. A special mention must be made of Kathy, Martin and George for doing such an amazing job in keeping everyone fed. Last, but certainly not least, we’d like to express our grateful thanks to Wayne for organising another really successful day.

Cofee Cruise In spite of all the good weather we’ve had recently, for the second month in a row we drove through pouring rain to our monthly Sunday morning gathering at the Cotswold Gateway Hotel in Burford.

As much as we seek opportunities to get our Boxster’s hood down, this wasn’t one of them.

Being a bank holiday weekend, with many people away on holiday and others attending alternative events, we weren’t expecting huge numbers.

However, as it happened, we had a really excellent turnout. We were especially pleased to welcome several first-timers including Mark and Sue, Alistair, his son William, and John.

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Input welcome We’re currently planning events for the second half of 2019, so if you’ve any ideas for events or are aware of any events happening in the Region that you feel we should support, please drop us a line with full details.

The criteria is simple; they must be enjoyable and have general appeal to others but be cheap, and legal to run and/or attend.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS Future Cotswold events are listed below, on the Club website and our Facebook page (facebook.com/ pcgb.r31). Please always check for last-minute updates on our Facebook page or Twitter feed (@PCGB_R31) before setting off.

Drive safely. See you soon...

Alan and Fiona

DIARY DATES 10 OCTOBER Mid-week meet-up - The Red Lion, Long Compton 28 OCTOBER Sunday Cofee Cruise meet Cotswold Gateway Hotel, Burford 14 NOVEMBER Mid-week meet-up - The Plough Inn, Alvescot near Carterton 25 NOVEMBER Sunday Cofee Cruise meet Cotswold Gateway Hotel, Burford 2 DECEMBER Christmas Cruise to Cornbury House Starting at the North Oxford Services.

9 DECEMBER Christmas lunch - Wroxton House Hotel near Banbury 27 JANUARY Sunday Cofee Cruise meet Cotswold Gateway Hotel, Burford

REGISTERS Register Director’s report I am writing this in the week leading up to the Brands Hatch Festival of Porsche, having been attending various events such as Witton Castle with Region 3 and Tatton Park in Cheshire. Last weekend I spent three days supporting Region 5 at Oulton Park for the Gold Cup weekend, as this is probably their largest Regional event.

Unfortunately, the weather was not as kind as it has been - it was a little damp shall we say! It didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the team from the Clubhouse who spent all three days selling merchandise, signing up new members and dispensing tea and coffee. It was a great pleasure

spending time with you all, thank you. Hopefully, Brands was a bit drier.

Also, later in September was the National Event at Ragley Hall where the Concours d’Elégance and Pride of Ownership was held. I hope you came and supported the event.

This time of year becomes a little easier (I hope!), and I imagine that events will be aimed more at indoor themes - the largest being the Classic Car Show at the NEC in November. As always, the Club will have an impressive presence, and I hope to be in attendance dispensing technical advice if and when it’s required. Come along

and enjoy a great event with fellow enthusiasts.

Finally, I wish the best of luck to the new Region 22 (Cumbria & SW Scotland). They have the enthusiasm and will be a credit to the Region. If you are in this area, please pop along and get involved.

Enjoy your Porsches and your Club!

Albert Walsh, Register Director register@porscheclubgb.com 07753 441730

356 Register Secretary Fred Hampton 01992 581580 – 356@porscheclubgb.com RECENT EVENTS 356 Up North Although I was unable to attend on 19 August, incoming reports of the ‘356 Up North’ meeting organised by Tim Court were encouraging.

Twenty 356s managed to appear for a drive around the Peak District before ending up at the Crich National Tramway Museum for lunch. The participants’ enthusiasm was not dampened by the rain but it was ironic that, after the long summer heatwave, we have had a sequence of rain visiting three car events on three consecutive wet Sundays.

Tim’s brother, Jeremy, nevertheless managed to photograph the event and two of his images appear here.

AMAG - 70 Years of Porsche Elsewhere on the same Sunday as ‘356 Up North’, Porsche AMAG Retail (the long-time concessionaires for Porsche in Switzerland) marked 70 years of Porsche with a display of 70 Porsche model types delivered to AMAG customers – one for each year from 1948 to 2018. (An overview shot of the presentation can be found in the ‘Month in Pictures’ section of the magazine.)

It was all impressively co ordinated by Marco Marinello and friends.

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Top: Robin Longdon taking part in the ‘356 Up North’; the ‘356 Up North’ participants

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Three to Gmund On a more intrepid tack, John Liles, Simon Bowrey and myself are taking our Pre A Coupes to Gmund to participate in the 356 Pre A International, which is centred there from the 4-6 October to mark the first

chapter in the history of the 356. These annual events, which have been running for a good few years are, like the full blown 356 Internationals, hosted in a different country each year but usually with no more than 30 cars inscribed.

Gmund’s distance from Calais means a halfway stop in Schorndorf for secure parking at Karl Hloch’s workshop and then the second leg into Austria.

Hope to have seen some of you at Goodwood Revival.

Fred

her hotel just north of Ripon where we signed on as marshals. So, on the Sunday, we joined a fellow marshal near Helmsley and checked all the cars through our timing point before moving on to our second point where we saw them all over again. We had a great time navigating our way through Thirsk and up Sutton Bank to arrive at the first checkpoint in Wass Forest and then back down to find our second point north of Felixkirk.

Back home, I contacted the Classic specialists at PC Leeds for a replacement distributor cap (the recovery truck mechanic had diagnosed a loose cap as the cause of my breakdown). However, after fitting it and running the engine for around 10 minutes, it stopped, and when I tried to restart there was much

banging and popping. A quick chat with the Leeds specialists to arrange for the car to be taken in and checked followed by another chat with the motor insurance lady to arrange for a further recovery of the car from home to Leeds, and all was arranged for the following day. The truck duly arrived – big enough for two 912s, which gave the driver a bit of a headache as my garage is down a slight slope and the truck was too big to fit! However, with the help of my next-door neighbour, we pushed the car up the incline and winched it onto the platform for its journey to Leeds.

I subsequently received a phone call to let me have an update – very helpful, but a little worrying.

Apparently the right-hand-side carburettor was without an oxygen blanking plate (don’t ask – I don’t

912 Register Secretary Rowena Purdy 01472 399381 – 912@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Register Secretary Vacancy The month in retrospect My final thoughts last month were: ‘I just hope that August turned out better.’ I have to admit it was not fully so…

RECENT EVENTS 5 August Lotherton Hall What a superb show, with around 800 Porsches parked around the large, grassy area. Mark and Carol, and all their helpers from Region 7, put on an excellent show – including the weather. Bright blue sunny skies, and not a drop of rain in sight.

There were three 912s present, one of which was pointed to the main park instead of the 912 display area by an over zealous marshal. Not to worry, at least he was at Lotherton. In fact, each of the 912s was different from the others: the one in the main area was a 912 E; the Slate Grey one next to me had a very nice uprated engine and mine was still in its rallying livery. It just shows how different we 912 owners are.

Due to the great weather, I decided to camp in a local campsite. I also wanted to try out my (nearly) new pop-up tent and have a shot at lightweight camping. All went well until I tried to fold the tent up and squeeze it into its bag – not at all successful.

Once I returned home, I pitched the tent in the garden and then read the instructions… Yes, I’d got it all wrong, but once I’d understood what I should have done, it all worked fine. Moral of the story – read the instructions first.

After all the recent trials and tribulations, all seemed well in the engine department – my 912 ran faultlessly all the way to Lotherton and back.

12 August St Wilfrid’s Classic Rally: Ripon After the successful run up to Lotherton, all was looking very positive for my weekend’s jaunt around the North Yorkshire Moors with a new navigator, Clare Nedin. That was until I reached Junction 34 on the M62 and the engine suddenly lost power. Fortunately, I managed to get onto the A19 where I pulled up with a very sick engine.

My Lockton Insurance came in extremely useful – a phone call brought a recovery truck, which took me back along roads I’d just driven along an hour or so earlier.

The weekend was not entirely wasted as I put all my equipment in my Kia and met up with Clare at

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know either and nor can I find any reference to such a device in the carburettor, possibly because the item has a more formal name), which would cause my .303 sounding explosions. Also the distributor body (not the cap) was unserviceable, as it should have had a lug to prevent the cap turning around. Fortunately I had a spare, which I sent up to Leeds. I now await another call to find out if this replacement distributor is useable…

of the 75. Further updates to follow as the restoration progresses. Talking colours; if you are interested in the colours Porsche used on the early cars, then Porsche have made scans of the colour cards used at the time available on the Porsche Classic website.

911 Sportomatic

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Register Secretary Vale of Clwyd and Tour of Cheshire rallies Peter Cook Vicki and I decided not to enter the Vale of Clwyd, as the 01789 400832 – sporto@porscheclubgb.com car would not have been ready, and to withdraw from the Tour of Cheshire just in case the car was not ready in 911 Carrera RS time. Withdrawing from the Tour of Cheshire as early as we did would allow a reserve crew to get a start.

Rally Day at Castle Combe More details next month about this gathering of international rally personalities and me!

2019 HERO Summer Trial I have put in an entry for next year’s ‘Summer Trial’ with Clare. It is also very likely that we will be doing some of next year’s Historic Rally Car Register Clubman’s Championship rounds together.

Epilogue During the month I have been contacted by a number of potential owners of 912s and have, hopefully, steered them in either the right direction, or away from a potentially dodgy purchase. I’ve also been keeping an eye on values, which I feel are still rising, but not as steeply as heretofore – however, I’m not a valuation expert so I could be wrong! But it is an interesting arena at the moment.

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 Engine search Very short and sweet this month. One of our Register members owns a 1971 2.2S that is missing its original engine. If anybody owns, or knows the whereabouts of, engine 6311194 type 911/02, could they please get in touch and I will put you in contact with the owner of the car.

Register Secretary Fred Hampton 01992 581580 – carrerars@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Mike Chadwick 01454 232232 – mvc@fly7.co.uk Following on from Nigel Mitchell’s report (August PP), another long-term Porsche devotee, Trevor Cartner, kindly dropped us a note to reiterate that there are indeed enthusiastic owners using their cars as Dr P intended. Trevor reports: “I too am an RS owner who also uses his car regularly. It sits in a small collection, including a ’60s 356 (with a 2.1-litre twin spark engine), a ’75 911 3.0-litre Turbo, a PS Automobile ST (built by Dirk Sadlowski in Germany) and an ’82 928 S. All of the cars are ‘special’ but if I had to keep just one, it would be the RS. “I bought it through a dealer, not knowing that it was in fact owned by a business associate, and since then I’ve used it fairly regularly. This included a memorable trip to Baden Baden in Germany where we stayed at the marvellous Brenners Park Hotel, which is managed by a fellow Porsche enthusiast and RS owner! When I bought the car, I had it inspected by Autofarm, who have looked after it ever since (and indeed prior to my ownership).

“Josh Sadler described driving it as like slipping into a comfortable pair of shoes - and he’s bang on. The car fits me perfectly, and driving it is almost a telepathic experience - it seemingly anticipates every driver input and responds instantly. The performance always surprises me - it must have seemed phenomenal back in 1973. Although it’s only two years younger than my next favourite – the 1975 Turbo – it is very different. The Turbo feels more robust and almost like an exercise in Porsche engineering from a time when they really were pioneering. Details right down to the solid metal indicator stalks really do make it feel as if it was hewn from a single piece of metal. However, the RS has more soul, is easier going and really could (and perhaps should) be driven as an everyday car. The RS is going back to Autofarm very soon to have some preventative maintenance attended to, and then we will be making the trip to the South of France via the Route Napoleon early next year. I can’t wait!

“Nigel is absolutely right – the cars respond to, and improve with, regular exercise - just like we all do.

They shouldn’t be tucked up in a garage all day - just as we shouldn’t lie in bed all day. Life’s too short.”

Any other news It is always interesting to hear of members undertaking restorations, and a new project has just come to my attention. It’s a complete nut and bolt restoration of a 1972 model year 911 2.4S in Viper Grün, known commonly these days as Viper Green in the English translation but at the time known as Emerald Green in the UK plus other English speaking markets, and as Many thanks Trevor, and any other contributions Kelly Green in the USA. As one of only 75 RHD 911 Ss always gratefully received. imported to the UK in 1972, it is a rare car to start with, and being Emerald Green makes it one of only four out Fred and Mike 99 porscheclubgb.com

911 2.7 Carrera & 3.0 Register Secretary Guy White 01493 750278 91127carrera3@porscheclubgb.com Technical Assistant Tony Ruggles 01992 892333 MOTs for historic vehicles From 20 May this year historic vehicles over 40 years old became exempt from the MOT test, as long as they had not been ‘substantially modified’ within the last 30 years. I had an enquiry from Joanna Jeans as to how she should apply for MOT exemption as she could find no link to follow when applying to renew the historic vehicle tax on her 1975 911 S Targa.

Originally I believed that the MOT exemption needed to be applied for and a declaration made that the car had not been substantially modified, but reading the DVLA information it states that, ‘You do not have to apply to stop getting an MOT for your vehicle each year’. It does however remind owners that the vehicle must be kept in a roadworthy condition and, of course, for peace of mind you can always submit your car voluntarily for an MOT test.

Latest market information Over the past few years there has been a considerable rise in the value of the air-cooled 911s, but from recent observations, a lot of cars appear to have been for sale for a while with some prices reduced. As always, however, there are exceptions to the rule and the 1977 911 S that featured in the cult TV series The Bridge sold recently for £125,000 at auction at Goodwood Festival of Speed. Of course, rising values can also be a double-edged sword, as insurance premiums will increase. One Register member who sold his MFI Carrera Targa told me it was getting too valuable for him to drive without worrying about it. However, for those who have been looking to buy a 911, it might be the ideal time to take the plunge.

2018 events Due to work and other commitments I was unable to attend any of the main Club events this summer. If you were able yourself to get out in the great weather that we have had this year I would be very pleased to receive some photos of your car at an event that I could feature in PP and on the website.

Guy

911 SC Register Secretary Paul Thompson 01531 822 305 07836 261 365 911sc@porscheclubgb.com Technical Advisor David Sewell dave.autohaus@gmail.com Turn flasher unit On the way back from Silverstone Classic my indicator suddenly stopped working. When pushed to turn it flashed once on the dashboard but not outside the car. This seemed to be a dud flasher unit, but

The SC flasher relay

the back of the front luggage compartment and reaching in to the driver’s side rear corner by the strut. No need to remove instruments! I wish I could have read my article before I started!

Lifesaver in a can I had a problem with my 1960s four-seater that took me straight back to that decade. I was driving it when we had a violent thunderstorm with floods everywhere and she cut out just like my Mini Cooper did in the 1960s. A product arrived from America at that time that was the saviour of every Mini owner - I fortunately had a can in the back. A squirt of WD40 over the plug leads and distributor and she started and ran immediately. I still keep a small can in the back or front of all my cars and, in this case, it came in very useful. I wonder if it was 60 years old!

911 Carrera 3.2 Register Secretary Steve and Sue Edwards 02083 667770 – 911carrera32@porscheclubgb.com Technical Advisor Charles Marsland 01732 848323

where was it? None of my manuals even mentioned it. Research on the internet informed me it was behind the instruments and could be accessed by removing them. This I did but there was no sign of the unit through the holes. Another thread said it could be reached by removing the cover at the back of the boot. Even better, I found a picture showing a large square relay, which it stated was the rev limiter, with a smaller square relay in front of it, which was the flasher unit. Easy? When I removed the cover my car only had one relay - a large square one - very strange. A new relay was collected from my local Centre, PC Tewkesbury, where a mechanic (sorry technician!) confirmed it was located in the drivers’s side rear corner of the boot. I then opened the boot and discovered the flasher unit looked like the rev limiter in my picture, but the graphics confirmed it to be the correct relay.

Following a bit more research I discovered that early 911s had a sliding centrifuge in the distributor, which shorted out the distributor when the engine over-revved. This version was followed by a more accurate system with the spark box on the side of the engine bay taking its info from the feed to the rev counter. The snag of these two systems was that petrol was still flowing and merely the spark stopped causing back firing. The next system was a relay taking its feed from the rev counter and switching off the petrol pump causing a smooth rev drop.

This was the system, with two relays, that I was originally looking for. However, when I hit the rev limiter in my 1978 SC all hell lets loose with backfiring and popping. Clearly, mine is a system that merely stops the plugs firing.

The problem is now solved but I am unable to find any dates for the changeover. Having connected the new relay up it works but seems louder than the old one, however, that’s to be expected without the instruments in and the engine not running. As mentioned earlier, a 1978 SC only has one large relay, which can easily be reached by removing the cover at

Keeping cool There’s no doubt this summer’s weather has been hot, perhaps too hot at times, especially when driving our 3.2, which doesn’t have air con. We got used to driving with the windows down and the roof open, or various combinations at various speeds. On fast

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journeys, having the roof open a few inches with the windows shut increases the throughput of air from the vents, and makes quite a useful difference to cabin cooling. Our car was recently on display in the hot sun all day at Beaulieu. On our journey home the cabin temperature eventually came down to approximately 37 degrees Celsius after picking up speed and, as evening fell, it was 34 degrees by the time we got to the M25.

Beaulieu Super Car Weekend Sue writes: “Last year I was talking to 991 Register Secretary, Phil Graham, about the annual Beaulieu Super Car Weekend. I asked why only the 997 and 991 Registers were invited to take part because, in my opinion, all the earlier 911 models were ‘super cars’ in their day.

Phil later contacted me to say that we were invited to take the 3.2 to the event this year because it could be part of a PCGB 70th Anniversary Evolution Display.

The bad news was I had to arrange all the other cars for the display!

“With the help of a local Regional Organiser, a couple of Register Secretaries, and the invaluable Forum, I managed to source 10 models for each day, ranging from a 356 through to a 991. These were lined up in chronological order flanked by 997s on one side and 991s on the other. I am probably biased, but I think the PCGB stand looked amazing. It attracted a lot of people very interested in seeing how the models had evolved over the years. Steve and I really enjoyed meeting and chatting with the other PCGB members present, especially the owners of models that we may not necessarily have had much contact with previously. All the display volunteers did their

Registers proud, and I am truly grateful for everyone’s support that made the Evolution Display possible.”

Register member features For the last couple of months, this column has featured pieces written by owners on the 3.2 Register, thanks Mac and Alan. It’s good to have these to share as it shows what owners can accomplish when fixing something, or what may be encountered during ownership. Could you offer help with this kind of report? We have limited column space each month, so the word maximum for your piece is 800, and please include some accompanying photos, if possible. Give it a go!

Registering your car We are surely temporary custodians of our cars, however, some ownership terms will be longer than others. I have heard how some of you bought your cars from new, or had the opportunity to purchase them from your company in their early years to continue the relationship. As a Register Secretary, I appreciate keeping up a record of all these important vehicles. The most important element of this is to have the Vehicle Identification Number (chassis number) on record. It isn’t giving anything secret away as all modern cars have it displayed in their windscreen! Please take a look at your V5C document and check those details are recorded on the Club website (porscheclubgb.com/my-account) or email me the car V5C details.

If you are fortunate enough to own more than one Porsche, please remember to register them with the respective Register Secretary, not just the one you joined the Club with. You join each model Register by using the same ‘my-account’ link shown above. An example of this is Alan (who wrote about his car last month) who owns several different models. He has recently purchased another Carrera 3.2, and I now have the details of both cars on the Register. He also sent me a few details and a photo of each car: “After a few years of searching for a 3.2 Supersport SSE (in Guards Red of course), one has been purchased to add to my collection. This was found on the PCGB car sales and, following a little trip to Taunton, the purchase was agreed. The SSE, which was in quite good condition already, is to be restored with the seats and wheels already starting the process. This new addition joins my collection of a 3.2 Sport, 944 Turbo S and 924 Carrera GT on the Classics side, as well a Macan GTS and a 718 Boxster.”

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

Love your 993!

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

Maurice

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

993 Register Secretary Maurice Piper 993@porscheclubgb.com Register Assistant Christian Sanger 07968503385 – cjsanger@gmail.com Just a reminder this month, and that is to ensure your car does not need the recall on the engine wiring harness!

I was surprised to hear from Ralph, the Modified Register’s Assistant RS, that there was a discussion on another Forum where cars were turning up without this recall being performed... still!

I have written about this more than once in Club circles (993 Forum, PP), and the Tech Service Bulletin for the recall was issued in 2001 (not long after I bought my car). It affects a variety of engine looms in US market cars but, as far as I know, the only engine loom affected on our RoW cars is part number: 993 607 016 04, listed in PET for model year ’95 on the M64.05/06 engine (non VRam).

As the recall was for insulation hardening and disintegrating, it is imperative the recall has been performed, and the loom should be a part number ending in 1x. The part number label is on the loom where it goes into the relay box near the aux air intake on the left-hand side of the engine compartment.

Common symptoms include Christmas trees of warning lights, fuel spewing out of exhausts,

Ragley Hall Disappointingly, only half the expected number of our members volunteered for the Register Display parking in response to the MailChimp email. I was wondering why this is? We currently have over 700 members on the Register, and that doesn’t include those 3.2 owners who have not yet joined the Register, so there are plenty of cars out there. I would appreciate your feedback because I see this kind of event as something that brings the Registers together, unlike your monthly Regional meetings and many other events. Please email me your thoughts.

Steve and Sue

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

catastrophic fires, that sort of thing. I did register on said Forum and post to ensure owners were aware how serious it was.

My interior is still gutted, but progress is slowly being made despite unreasonable pressures on my time!

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996 Register Secretary Andy Willis 07775 138527 996@porscheclubgb.com 996 technical issues For the second month in a row there has been very little in respect of technical queries received, which in one way is good and shows just how reliable our cars are. However, if you do have any concerns, please don’t hesitate to call or email us.

If you have come across any issues that you think would be of benefit to members or have any technical questions, then do please let me know via phone or email. Another useful contact is Gary Sorrell (gary.sorrell@porschecolchester.co.uk). You can also use the Forum to contact Richard Hamilton.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 6 October Porsche Clinic at Dove House Motors All those interested in joining us at Dove House Motors’ premises in Rushden, Northamptonshire for a Porsche clinic and pre-winter open day will have the opportunity to put their car on one of the five ramps for a free check. They will perform a diagnostic interrogation for you and there will also be a Q&A session with Tony their Workshop Manager. Dove

Grant and Trine Newport

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House Motor Company has been in existence since 2001 and they offer the full range of Porsche service, repair and detailing facilities as well as selling prestige cars. Refreshments will be provided on the day, which will start at 10am and continue until 2pm. Please contact me if you would like to join us. More information is on the Club Forum.

MEMBERS IN PRINT Yours truly 29 July was a very proud day for me as it was my daughter Emma’s wedding. She got married to Jamie Sharpe at Barton Hall in Northamptonshire. She had always said how nice it would be if we could use the 996 for her wedding and I could hardly say no. Excuse the self-indulgence but I hope you like the photo, which was taken by mgphotographic.com who I cannot recommend highly enough.

Grant Newport Yet another wedding! Grant got married to Trine, who is Danish, at Sonning in Berkshire. The 1998 C2 also has Danish roots - it was originally owned

by Grant’s new father-in-law until he turned up and took it off his hands, along with his daughter!

Two great models for the price of one, both requiring expensive upkeep! Note she’s a left hooker; that’s the car, not the better half. I wish them all the best for the future.

A very warm welcome to all new members and, please remember, to have an image of your 996 (preferably with yourself) published in this column, then just email me a photo together with a few words if possible, for inclusion.

Enjoy your 996…

Andy

Register Secretary Clive Wratten 997@porscheclubgb.com Register Assistant Phil Blackman

991 Register Secretaries Phil Graham 01625 524596 – 991@porscheclubgb.com Kenny Robinson 07768 862280 – kenny.robinson.911@gmail.com The heat wave had to come to an end at some point but at least the grass is greener on the other side.

RECENT EVENTS 4-5 August Beaulieu Supercar Extravaganza The continental weather continued for this event and we travelled down in complete luxury in the Turbo S Exclusive with the air conditioning and cooled seats providing a comfortable experience. For the 70 Years of Porsche display my car was to feature with the Club’s 356 in a special display of iconic sports cars in front of Palace House.

We called in at Cornbury House on the way to collect the 356, which I drove with my friend Martin.

Martin’s wife, Angela, accompanied Nette in the Exclusive. The 356 is a sweet car to drive on twisty country roads, copes well at motorway speeds and is a stark contrast to the modern Porsches. With outside temperatures in the low 30s this meant an extra 10 degrees inside the cockpit with the only relief coming from the inward turned front quarter-lights.

The 356 received equal, if not more, attention during the journey and on display at Beaulieu.

Another fond memory to bank that has been added

to the many opportunities that come from being a member of PCGB. The 991/997 display was well supported and complemented by a 10-car evolution from a 1960 356 through to a current 991 GTS. Many thanks to Sue and Steve Edwards and Terry and Kathy Perry for organising the line-up and directing the parking.

Situated alongside PC Bournemouth with the mobile display unit we provided a great show within a show.

25-27 August Oulton Park Gold Cup Again the Porsche presence overshadowed the other marques. The Club and PC Wilmslow provided a fantastic selection of classics through to the latest models.

Calling on Martin Davis to assist with the logistics of getting my cars to and from the show gave another opportunity to share the dream. Martin drove the Anniversary to and from Oulton on the Sunday and the Exclusive and RS on the Monday. It was an enjoyable and interesting comparison of three very different models of the 991 and, having owned a 987 Boxster Sport Edition and a 991.1 Carrera S, his sights are now set on an Anniversary model in the very near future.

When I asked what his thoughts about the cars were, his reply was too long to print but is on the website for all to see.

991 Register It has not been an easy decision to make but I will be stepping down as Joint 991 Register Secretary to take on the role of 992 Register Secretary in 2019. I have really enjoyed my adventures with the 991 and, more importantly, the lovely people I have met over the last three years sharing these wonderful experiences.

Kenny Robinson will continue his good work but, ideally, we need someone in the south of England to organise more activities to cater for this expanding Register. If you have any thoughts on becoming involved please contact me to discuss.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 1 December Christmas Party Wroxall Abbey Hotel and Estate near Stratford-uponAvon, Warwickshire is once again the venue for the party of the year involving the combined 991, 997 and Macan Registers.

We now have extra rooms available at the special concessionary rate of £170, which includes our festive dinner and party, Saturday night accommodation and Sunday morning breakfast, based on two sharing

From left: a special display of iconic sports cars in front of Palace House; cars at Oulton Park Gold Cup

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(singles £112.95). Many extend their stay to make a weekend of it by booking Friday evening too. You can extend your stay for Friday or Sunday (or both) at the special rate of £100 B&B (singles £80) per night.

Please email Clive White lancerlot@hotmail.co.uk for the booking code and to secure your place.

Phil and Kenny DIARY DATES 9-11 NOVEMBER NEC Classic Motor Show Hope to meet you there.

1 DECEMBER Christmas Party Joint event with 997 and Macan Registers.

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 Sorry there is only a short 914 Register report this month as I’m writing the report in between

getting the 914 and myself ready for the 914 Yorkshire Weekend.

Tatton Park VWNW Show At the beginning of August a few 914s attended the VWNW Show at Tatton Park. This year the 914s were all part of the large Porsche 70 display celebrating Porsche’s 70th Anniversary. The weather was great and the colourful 914s amongst the varied selection of Porsche models in the display had many admirers.

Happy Fourteening…

Kevin

924 except GT Register Secretary Paul Hedges 07940 441452 (6-10pm) – 924@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 928 TTE and 928 JRR and THE 928S (part 2) At the time of writing I have not exactly been overwhelmed with responses, since last month,

My car My exhaust pipe is now, once again, firmly secured to my car and it is booked into Auto Service and Tuning Limited in Hitchin (01462 459459) to get the Bosch CIS injection system checked out. This will hopefully turn the car into a well-behaved example.

Your car I want to hear about your car. According to DVLA data, there are only around 754 of our cars licensed for the road and 1941 off the road on SORN (Quarter 1 - 2018). I’d like to hear about any owners who are having trouble getting their cars on the road – let us know what is holding you back.

Together maybe with our help progress can be made on your car.

Remanufactured Parts #26 I now have the third Porsche Originale book and will extract the relevant 924 information from it.

Each month I will 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 you can find the full list on the PCGB 924 Forum. Don’t forget to have your membership card handy and ask for PCGB discount!

Spring seat: 251609289 - 356 (1950–1965), 924 (1976–1985) Tooth lock washer: 90011401401 - 914 (1970–1976), 924 (1976–1979), 924 Turbo (1979-1979), 911 F (1965–1973). Also for 912, 911 G (1974–1989) 924 S Automatic transmission gear selector gate cover strips: 477713277 - 924 (1976–1985), 944 (1982– 1985), 924 S (1986–1988) More next month…

Photos by Ian Allan

Paul

930 Turbo SE

The Tatton Park VWNW Show Porsche 70 display

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From top: David Hemmings’ 1978 early 928 in Petrol Blue; the 1978 928 from the rear; the interior colour was probably the height of fashion in 1978

Steve Heaton’s Bristol Blue 1992 S4 took second in the Concours at the Yorkshire Porsche Festival

concerning these number plates. However, new Register member Mike Roberts has gone to great lengths to show me how his manual 1986 S4 carried the 928 TTE plate as a press car for the launch of the S4 model, and this is confirmed by Porsche. I can confirm that a manual 1978 car that I have just purchased was also registered, as a press car, by Porsche Cars in March 1978 so, somewhere in between, there should be a 928 S and a 928 S2 that might have carried these plates. Mike Cotton (Press Officer at the launch of the 928) has confirmed that Porsche usually had a manual gearbox and an auto gearbox car at each press launch. Does that mean that the GT and GTS models carried these plates? I guess pinpointing these facts is part of the history of the 928 in the UK. Turning to my recent car I have to admit to failing to heed my own advice to members and potential 928 owners. It was a ‘take it or leave it’ decision in my head and, because of the car’s condition, the heart won. My advice is always to take a test drive in the car - this car was stored and had no MOT. My next piece of advice is always to judge it by the state of the interior, combined with the exterior - both are poor. Final advice is to check out the full history - I actually managed to do just that bit! However, the future is bright, the car is unique and risks are the stuff that makes life interesting. The opportunity to purchase the very first manual gearbox official UK press car was not to be passed over, particularly when it comes alongside my own involvement with 928s, from when I bought my first one in 1980. This car comes in Petrol Blue and, by another coincidence, the colour scheme inside and out matches the picture on the front cover of my 40th Anniversary book! Unlike the new book the car needs a huge amount of restoration work that’s going to keep me busy for at least the next 18 months. More news to follow as I get to grips with reality! The space saver tyre is missing; anyone got one in the corner of his or her workshop?

RECENT EVENTS Yorkshire Porsche Festival at Lotherton Hall near Leeds Eleven cars turned out for the special 928 parking area in early August. It’s true we were amongst a sea of 911s, but they are in the majority, after all.

They have to have a day out too! The photographer told me that he had passed the 700 mark with his driveway entrance photo shots. Our Concours winner was, once again, Andrew Brierley except not in his red GT this time but in his recently acquired blue GTS. Second place went to the bright Bristol Blue S4 previously owned by the late Eddie Dow and now in the careful hands of Steve Heaton from Milton Keynes.

13-14 October The Merry Miller meeting of 928UK enthusiasts This event is now quite close. All 928 owners are invited to join this low-key event for one day (Saturday) or a long weekend. The choice is yours.

Maps and directions, together with special Le Mans-type rally plaques, have now been sent out.

There are only four places remaining! The Merry Miller meeting of 928 UK enthusiasts has now enjoyed 20 years as a pub lunch and a natter. We are now staying overnight, not at the pub but in Portsmouth, and then moving onto the Isle of Wight the next morning to add to the variety. There are no places remaining on the ferry on Sunday morning, unless you contact Andrew Brierley (brierley28@virginmedia.com).

You’d better get a move on if you want to join the fun.

Drive home late on the Sunday, or stay till Monday, as you wish. Last-minute details can be obtained directly from Andrew.

taking it out and getting it inside the sunroof bag, it is well worth it when the sun is out. In April I took out the roof and the front driver’s side catch broke - the small plastic sleeve inside the mechanism to be precise. I headed to PC Tewkesbury and ordered a new one, which was available the next day.

Unfortunately, I had to purchase the entire mechanism and then remove the small plastic part I needed. However, my sunroof was working again.

“Roll on to the longest heat wave for 40 years and I try to open my sunroof only to hear a horrible ‘grinding’ noise, which was almost certainly the plastic gears stripping. Damn! I’m not mechanically minded so booked it into Cotswold Porsche for a repair. Strangely enough they also had a red 944 Turbo in for a sunroof repair. My problem was indeed the plastic gears, which had stripped the teeth off.

The OEM parts are very cheap, however, most of the cost of the job is labour related. I also decided to have

David

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 Sunroof shenanigans Welcome to autumn, but what a summer! I always drive with the roof tilted open but love to have it out completely. However, generally it does seem that the rain clouds appear to know when I’m out and about but, this year, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the sun on my rather bald head on a goodly number of occasions. Having a sunroof is now a requirement for me after having three years with an ’83 without. I think John Stratford, owner of a lovely and meticulously maintained Guards Red 2.7, feels the same. Over to John: “When I purchased my 944 the sunroof wasn’t working. In fact, the previous owner had driven it for nearly five years without fixing it. I negotiated £100 off the price to repair it and, fortunately enough, it was only a failure of the front micro-switch - an easy fix. One of the things I love about transaxle models is the large lift out sunroof. Despite being a bit of a fiddle 106 porscheclubgb.com

From top: John Stratford’s 2.7; bright and shiny!; Roger Goode; John Ashcroft

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the exterior sunroof seal (a surprisingly expensive genuine OEM part) replaced at the same time as it had perished over the years. A few days later I collected my 944 and was delighted that, not only was the sunroof working as it should, but the new seal was a perfect fit, flush with the roof, unlike the cheap aftermarket ones (I’m told).

“Typically, as soon as my sunroof was fixed the heatwave ended and the downpour started. Still there is always next summer.”

Shock absorbers John has also been busy on the suspension front: “There were advisory notices on this year’s MOT that the shock absorbers were leaking. As this area was already on my ‘list of things to do’ I decided to tackle it before the next MOT. I had already noticed that the handling on sharp corners/twisty roads was wanting and, having been impressed by the transformation when changing the suspension on my previous transaxle many years ago, I decided to go ahead. I headed to PC Tewkesbury to discuss the work with them. After checking the Classic Porsche parts availability they informed me that the standard shocks are no longer available and there weren’t any in stock. I didn’t want to go down the full M30 Sports suspension route because my 944 is predominately a road vehicle, so agreed to source some parts that they would fit (providing no guarantee on the parts but only on their workmanship, which seems fair enough). I posted on Facebook and received the usual 19 unhelpful replies with 20 different suggestions, so spoke to a couple of the more sensible people. I had considered Bilstein B6, but was put off by the amount of fabrication required, so decided to go for a direct bolt-on SPAX RSX104 set.

Prices for the complete kit varied from £850 to £607 post free from Demon Tweets – it really pays to shop around. They even arrived the next day.

“I took the kit over to PC Tewkesbury and asked them to take a few photographs of the work in progress (which they are always happy to do) and to put the old shocks and springs into the box, which I will keep with the other parts removed over the years.

“I am extremely happy with the results. There is a slight lowering of the front with the overall setting on the ‘softest’, which is pretty essential for the pothole-ridden Gloucestershire roads. I find that the driving experience is far smoother, without the bouncing during hard cornering and I feel far more confident on the twisty roads.

“I attended a Prescott Driver’s School day courtesy of PC Tewkesbury in summer and, whilst I had probably the lowest powered and second oldest Porsche there (and the slowest), I did enjoy the numerous corners and hairpins of this most technical hill climb. Overall, I’m delighted with the improvement.”

I think John has had a number of days this summer to enjoy all facets of his 944, and many thanks to him for sharing his experiences.

Concours triumphs It’s great to see 944s winning Concours events.

Roger Goode, with his white S2, won Region 7’s at Lotherton Hall and John Ashcroft, with his red S2, won at Region 3’s event. Really well done guys!

I love to see and hear about 944s, so please keep the words and photos coming. Even if I don’t use them immediately they will be read and kept for the future. I look forward to seeing you and your 944 somewhere soon.

Drive safe…

Mike Pollock

Transaxle Register Rendezvous at glorious Goodwood

I hope you like the pictures - you can enjoy a gallery of photos from the event at porscheclubgb.com/images

968

Happy 968 driving…

Register Secretary Ken Coad 01923 262960 968@porscheclubgb.com Assistant Register Secretary Chris Sweeting membership@porscheclubgb.com Technical Advisor Alex Eacock 01213 282225 Hello 968 drivers.

Some like it hot!

Wow - the glorious Goodwood race circuit delivered a scorching day for the Transaxle Register Rendezvous on Saturday, 4 August. 924s, 944s, 928s and our very own 968s - what a turnout! We reckoned more than 50 cars attended and everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy the day. Unfortunately, those who arrived early began to leave at around lunchtime because the weather was so hot - nevertheless, as they left new cars arrived. Most enjoyed the sprint, which was happening on the circuit, and chatting to fellow members. George and Paul from Club Office attended to give a helping hand and brought along the Club van and regalia.

All in all it was a very well supported event, and one that helps to create camaraderie amongst PCGB members. As the organiser I still feel we need to attract even more 968s. This is a special event for you to attend, which also attracts non-members who we hope will join the Club.

There are other events happening throughout the year where Register parking is well organised. One such event being the recent Brands Hatch Festival of Porsche, which celebrated the 70th Anniversary of Porsche and had numerous track races, Porsche side shows and big involvement by the factory.

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Boxster 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) As we come to the end of the summer I hope you have enjoyed your cars and have attended some great Club events up and down the country.

It was very interesting to read the article in September’s PP regarding emission laws and how it will affect the 986. Definitely something I will be following over the coming months.

There have been quite a few technical enquiries this month kindly answered by Steve Winter. Here’s a sample of them.

TECHINCAL Q&A Question: Our 2004 Boxster S 986 model is, on the whole, in good condition and has just passed its MOT. It recently started clattering somewhere down at the rear on the driver’s side. I heard this initially as I was driving with the roof down on a very hot day. My impression

Clockwise from top left: 987 clutch micro-switch; broken coil spring; the Robsons’ new 718; the Flemings’ 987 Gen 2

looked after it fairly well, so thought I would share it with you in case there are any other Boxster Register members with a car of a similar age. It was the offside front spring that broke - the top of it looks immaculate, but the bottom that sits in the cup has gone.

“Driving along a dual carriageway at 70mph there was an almighty bang. On looking in the rear view mirror I saw a piece of metal in the road - at that point I wasn’t sure if it was mine or not. When I got home I checked over the car and all seemed OK - I thought maybe I had just run over the metal. I drove it for a week or so and it was fine. As I was reversing onto my drive yesterday after I had been on a test track, I found a piece of coil spring on the drive. My local garage had a look for me this morning and confirmed that it was broken. It’s definitely something to look out for.”

Thanks Terry for sharing with us.

NEW MEMBERS Adrian and Julie Robson This month we welcome Adrian and Julie, who took delivery of their new 718 in June. It is a lovely example in Night Blue Metallic with the Graphite Blue/Crayon Sport Tex and leather combination interior. I look forward to seeing it at an event soon.

Richard and Linda Fleming We would also like to welcome Richard and Linda Fleming who have acquired a 987.2 PDK. This is the third Boxster they have owned, having had two 986 Ss a long time ago. Richard tells me, “It’s every bit as good as I remember!” That’s great to hear Richard, and welcome again.

Next month Next month is a busy month and I will report on the Brands Hatch Festival where I hope the Jardine Group will have won the overall prize in the Restoracing Competition. I will also be reporting on both the Boxster presence at Ragley Hall and the Boxster breakfast meet at Enstone. Until then...

Happy Boxstering…

Tracy

Cayman was that the noise lessened when the engine was idling or had reduced revs between gear changes. There were no warning lights, no reduction in power or problem with brakes. Back home, after 10 miles of gentle driving, I let the engine cool and then took off the engine cover but all seemed OK with no visible leaks. Starting it up there was an intermittent quite noisy clatter that didn’t seem to be associated with revs or clutch in or out. The car was stationary so it’s not wheel bearings or brakes.

Would be grateful for your thoughts.

Steve: The most likely cause is a loose exhaust heat shield. There are several but the two main culprits are those directly over the rear silencer - one each side.

Metal push-on fasteners hold them on over a stud the heat shield corrodes around the stud and falls down. We refit with a larger washer and a new clip. The second is the covering over the exhaust manifold where the oxygen sensor is screwed in. We just chop these off, as they don’t seem to perform any significant function other than make that horrible noise.

Question: I am a Spyder owner of a 987 and a 981. The 987 is only used a few times a year, has only covered 12,000 miles and has full Porsche Centre service history.

I put it on the road this month as it’s due its MOT in

September. Starting the car, when I put the clutch pedal down to the floor and turn the key there’s nothing.

Release the clutch, and do the same procedure - it starts no bother. If I press the pedal down sometimes ‘Depress Clutch’ shows on the instrument panel. It drives fine and gear changes are smooth with no issues.

Is there an adjustment or a micro-switch? I’d appreciate any help, as I have no warranty - the low miles don’t justify it. I only did 150 miles last year.

Steve: The fault lies with the clutch micro-switch.

It’s an easy and cheap part to replace. There is no adjustment so, unfortunately, replacement is the only option.

(Following on from Steve’s reply, as members have had a few issues with this part over the years, here is the micro-switch part number: 99761310950.)

Coil spring warning Back in April Club member Terry Joyce emailed me regarding his coil spring. He thought he would share his experience with us: “I have had a coil spring break on my 2004 986 Boxster. It has never hit a substantial pothole and I’ve 109 porscheclubgb.com

Register Secretary Kevan Sutherns 07733 318671 – cayman@porscheclubgb.com I haven’t much to say for this month having had a short holiday abroad. However, I have had the opportunity to take a couple of good drives - enough said about the electrical signs on motorways, sometimes useless information referring to something at the other end of the country and sometimes no info about something two miles down the road!

But we carry on and, occasionally, we take a drive, which is unexpectedly enjoyable. One of my recent outings was something of a curate’s egg, i.e. good in parts. Driving across to the east past Nottingham then down to Melton Mowbray and past Rutland Water to join the A1, we had a steady run and the roads are quite reasonable if not fast. The traffic kept moving and, once on the A1, we were able to make better progress, to some extent enjoying the view of the stationary traffic trying to go north, that is until we got onto the A14 by Cambridge. It was here that we met heavy traffic taking an age to get to Newmarket. We had made the trip to see a race for

two-year-olds, as my friend has a share in a young horse. It was to be its first race and the only one we wanted to see. Unfortunately, it refused to go into the gate then dumped the jockey and was last seen heading towards Cambridge! Best laugh of the day!

After leaving we took the opportunity to cross to Luton and on up the M1, where we saw the signs saying the A1 was closed at St Neots! Luckily we’d avoided that route. However, further on we had signs and cones from around Loughborough.

GT3 Register Secretary Alex Drobik 01628 620702 – gt3@porscheclubgb.com

Speedster

Hope you all have fun and stay safe.

Enjoy your Caymans…

Kevan

Panamera Register Secretary Stephen Chapman 07484 823098 10am – 8pm Technical Advisor Steve McPherson 07831 346060 panamera@porscheclubgb.com The response to the Register survey was just over 20 per cent so thanks to those who replied. There was little difference in the votes for the bulk of the ideas, the most popular being a Panamera-themed Porsche Experience Centre event.

Watch out for email communications for Register events as they are developed.

Club website vehicle details Please check and update your vehicle details online on the PCGB website under ‘My profile’, as this is used to produce the emailing list.

Photo gallery By the time you read this, I hope to have a photo gallery tab on the Panamera Register webpage. Other Registers have this on their webpages, as do Regions, so contributions of your own Panamera-themed photos would be appreciated. Please send them via email at panamera@porscheclubgb.com Tony Phillips I have included a photo of Tony Phillips’ 550 bhp 2011 Turbo S. It looks splendid in Basalt Black after some serious in-house detailing.

Register Secretary James Kirk 01252 710479/715185 speedster@porscheclubgb.com

Cayenne

At an earlier Brands Hatch trackday I saw a lovely 993 RS Recreation (as shown in the photograph). I’m not sure it got on track, but it sounded really loud and gruesome.

The retro and modified market is going from strength to strength. Remember, you can join this Register as well as your generic Register, enjoying benefits from both.

I am hoping to organise a technical day at RPM in Hertfordshire early next year, builders of the acclaimed 996 CSR. I would hope other Registers and Regions could join us. Watch this space.

Happy Modifying…

Des, Ralph and Ian

Macan Register Secretary Mike Allen 07976697070 – macan@porscheclubgb.com

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. A busy hot summer - I hope you all managed to get your modified beauties out and about. Last weekend was the Brands 70th Anniversary celebration, with some fabulous factory race cars. It was a great event, although it would have been perfect if the Registers were displaying.

Macan II – more details The facelift Macan II is now available to order but is restricted to the two-litre petrol version with 252 hp.

It comes in four pre-configured option packs; classic, sport, design and premium, ranging in additional price from £8,000 to £16,000 including VAT on top of the standard car cost which, for the former version, was around £46,000 including VAT. Items such as PCM, cruise control, Connect Plus, telephone module, Apple CarPlay and Porsche Car Connect appear to be included, but the latter may well incur subscription charges. Once production gets into spring, I expect these fixed option packs will be dropped in favour of customer selection direct from the configurator.

The Porsche Car Connect minefield I doubt I’m alone as a non-tech chap oblivious to the potential of current information available on Car Connect and Car Connect Plus - an option on earlier models but now standard. There is some confusion about what these systems offer. Register member and tech guru Adrian Robson explains: “Car Connect is a subscription service that Porsche provide free of charge for the first 12 months with all new cars. Thereafter it can be purchased as part of the subscription to the Vehicle Tracker service operated by Vodafone Automotive or as a stand-alone service.

“Managed from the Car Connect App (free download), it runs on a compatible smartphone and requires an internet connection through a mobile data connection or Wi-Fi. It allows access to the following when remote from the car:

Any ideas/material for articles for the Register column are very welcome. Please email to panamera@porscheclubgb.com Hope you are enjoying the PCGB events over the autumn…

Stephen

Tony Phillips’ 550 bhp 2011 Turbo S

A lovely 993 RS Recreation spotted at Brands Hatch trackday

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Clockwise from top left: Air Hawk Pro; the new Macan II front view…; …and from the rear; Sue and Greg Smith’s fully loaded new Macan GTS

1. Fuel level and fuel range 2. Tyre pressure differential from target pressures based on last drive 3. Current speed 4. Mileage and date for next service 5. Whether the car is unlocked or locked 6. Remotely fold inwards of the electrically folding door mirrors (if fitted) 7. Flashing the indicators 8. Sounding the horn 9. Locating the car on a map and show a route from your position to the car 10. Disarming the tracker function completely, or for a service or for transport 11. Providing notification of when the car leaves or enters a specified geographic location 12. Providing notification of when the car exceeds a pre-set speed 13. Reporting a theft 14. Reporting a breakdown “Car Connect Plus is another free app that runs on a smart phone. It allows the user to search for a destination and then download that destination to the PCM and navigate to it. It can also access contacts stored on the smartphone and use those as destinations if they include the address.

“It requires an internet connection to the smartphone, which must also be connected to the car either by using the Wi-Fi or a cable connection to the PCM in order to download the destination to the car. It’s also possible to connect the PCM to the smartphone as a Wi-Fi hot spot. This means the internet connection is not through the phone but via either the embedded SIM or a separate SIM in the front slot of the PCM. This can be useful when there is no phone signal if the car’s data SIM, possibly being on a different network, might have a connection.”

Next month we will explore ‘My Porsche’, which is provided free for a period of two years and accessed and managed through a website link. Following this article, I plan to arrange a presentation one Saturday next spring together with a live demonstration for those who might wish to utilise all available features.

Tyre inflation I know we all have a compressor in the boot of our Macans but, sometimes, you might want to put some air in a wheelbarrow tyre or trailer tyre and the 12-volt lead won’t stretch that far. In addition, if, like me, you are lucky enough to also have a 911 and go on track, fiddling about plugging in a wire to adjust pressures is a bind. To solve the problem I’ve discovered the Air Hawk Pro. It’s just the job to slip in the car as it is cordless, rechargeable and has a digital display. Just screw the flexible hose on the valve, set the pressure, press the trigger and it will stop at the correct setting. It even has a 12-volt cable, should the battery run flat, and an LED light for use in the dark.

Get it online for the bargain price of £50!

NEW MEMBERS Welcome to Robert Naylor and Rob Wolfe both with Macan Turbos, Michael Smith with a Macan GTS and Jen Tipper with a Macan Diesel S. Also welcome to Sue and Greg Smith who took their new Macan GTS on a four-week camping trip to Geneva and across France to the Vendee. They also took it for a thrash in the Alps – fantastic driving! I understand it behaved impeccably, especially when seriously loaded. It certainly does look well loaded, particularly with the Thule Backspace X7 Cargo Carrier hanging off the tow bar. The Thule tilts to gain access into the boot, is weatherproof, has a 50kg capacity and is available online for under £400.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS 10 November Workshop winter health check visit Our Register is invited to PC Solihull from 10am for a Macan winter health check. Details of the Porsche winter wheel and tyre programme will be available for discussion, especially relevant if we are in for another winter of prolonged ice and snow.

1-2 December Christmas party weekend Please contact me for the booking code and details for this year’s Christmas party weekend at Wroxall Abbey Hotel and Estate near Stratfordupon-Avon. This joint event with the 997 and 991 Registers, was a sell-out last year, so book now to avoid disappointment.

Happy Macan-ing…

Mike DIARY DATES 10 NOVEMBER Workshop winter health check - PC Solihull 1-2 DECEMBER Christmas party weekend Wroxall Abbey Hotel and Estate near Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Agreed valuation service Porsche Club can provide members with a free valuation service for their Porsche.

This process can now be completed online at porscheclubgb.com. Each submission will be reviewed by a member of the Clubhouse team, and we aim to produce a completed valuation letter within 72 hours.

EVENTS

Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, 9-11 November

The Classic Motor Show takes place at the NEC, showcasing more than 2500 classic cars and motorbikes. PCGB will be at the heart of the event and our stand will feature a selection of members’ cars. Members can enjoy discounted tickets for 10 and 11 November which reduce the cost of a single ticket to £24.50 and the price of a family ticket for two adults and three children aged five to 15 to £68. Book tickets via necclassicmotorshow.com and enter code CSCMS18 for a single ticket or CFCMS18 for the family ticket.

For many Club members, their Porsche carries emotional and aesthetic connections, which need to be allied with investment, taxes and often financing considerations.

A key reason PCGB chose to partner with HFMC Wealth is because the company has direct experience of all these issues and how they can impact on your family’s broader key strategic financial objectives.

HFMC Wealth’s fundamental objective is to manage your wealth together, and help you achieve your key financial goals.

If you value financial planning for the future, or would like a health check of current finances, contact HFMC Wealth for a free introductory meeting. Visit hfmcwealth.com, call 0203 958 0911 or email PCGB@hfmcwealth.com 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

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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?

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* by calling 0845 094 9111, emailing porsche@oraclefinance.co.uk or visiting oraclefinance.co.uk/porsche-club *Members receive one year’s free Porsche Club membership with each new finance agreement.

Pirelli has updated its exclusive members’ offer. PCGB members will now receive a fuel gift card, up to the value of £100, when purchasing two or more Pirelli car, van and 4x4 tyres in a single transaction. For full details of the offer, visit pirelli.co.uk/porscheclubgb Through the Club’s partnership, members can benefit from Silverstone Auctions’ expertise in a number of different ways, including free consignments (usually £300) of cars to Silverstone Auctions sales; advice and guidance to Club members on the practice of consigning their Porsche for sale or undertaking a purchase at an auction; highly discounted catalogue prices; and privileged membership of affiliation and loyalty schemes.

Porsche Club members enjoy preferential rates on Classic Additions products when purchased through Porsche Club. Buy online at porscheclubgb.com or call 01608 652911 .

Porsche Club members enjoy preferential rates on Hamilton Classic products when purchased through Porsche Club. Buy online at porscheclubgb.com or call 01608 652911.

All offers/codes correct at time of going to print

OUR PARTNERS

ARTWORK

Carvolution Discount: PCGB members receive a 15% discount.

Claim: Visit carvolutioncompany.com and use PCGB15 at the checkout.

BREAKDOWN COVER

AA Discount: Porsche Club GB members save 50% on new annual breakdown cover or 20% on yearly renewal.

Claim: Call 0800 048 0075 and quote F0729. Terms and conditions apply.

Please visit porscheclubgb.com RAC Discount: Receive up to 50% off standard RAC prices for a single personal-based cover for the first year of membership, then a 25% discount on each renewal.

Claim: Call 0800 096 6836 or visit rac.co.uk/join/benefits, quoting MS50.

CAR-CARE PRODUCTS

Vertar Discount: PCGB members receive 10% off car-care products and auto accessories.

Claim: Call Freephone 0800 177 7808 or visit vertar.com and use the coupon code PCGB. Car Hood Discount: PCGB members are offered a price of £650 inc. VAT (usually £695) to supply and fit a mohair hood with heated glass rear window to a Boxster 986 1997-2002.

Claim: Present membership card for discount. Call 020 8391 5324.

CAR STORAGE

Ecurie Esprit Discount: A 10% discount across its entire range of car storage, transport, detailing and care services. Whether you want your Porsche securely stored for a fixed or open-ended period, moved anywhere in Europe by an enclosed transporter, detailed and protected with wax, sealant, self-healing paint protection film or even underbody chassis wax, Ecurie Esprit has it covered. Alloy wheel refurbishments, MOTs, dent removal, smart repairs and full bodyshop projects are also catered for.

Claim: Present your membership card or quote your membership number.

Visit ecurieesprit.co.uk/contact or call 07910 108507.

ECURIE ESPRIT

EVERY CAR AS IF OUR OWN

GENERAL MOTORING

The Institute of Advanced Motorists Discount: Advanced driving course to PCGB members for £135 (usually £149).

Claim: Call 0300 303 1134 or visit iamroadsmart.com/poc and quote POC14.

LUBRICANTS

Lucas Oil Products UK Ltd Discount: PCGB members receive 10% off online prices.

Claim: Call Freephone 0808 100 3259 or visit lucasoil.co.uk and use code PCGB10.

Opie Oils Discount: 10% discount is available to members.

Claim: Email sales@opieoils.co.uk, call 01209 202 949 or visit opieoils.co.uk and use the discount code PCGB website.

Woodcote Automotive (Millers Oils) Discount: 20% discount on products bought via the specialist motorsport distributor and 15% discount on Millers Oils products.

Claim: Email robin@woodcoteauto.co.uk, call 01565 653658 or visit millersoils.co.uk

PARKING

APH Discount: 10% discounts at participating UK airport car parks, airport hotel/parking packages and No1Lounges at selected airports. Discounts are on standard rates published on aph.com and on participating products only.

Claim: For full T&Cs, visit partners.aph. com/pcgb or call 01342 859536 and quote PCGB.

PORSCHE PARTS

Design 911 Discount: PCGB members receive a 5% discount on parts and accessories.

Claim: Enter code PCGB005 at checkout.

Visit design911.co.uk or call 020 8500 8811.

Porscheshop Discount: A 5-10% discount is available to members on most items and services.

Claim: Visit porscheshop.co.uk or call 0121 585 6088 and quote your membership number.

Spax Performance Discount: PCGB members receive a 10% discount on all products.

Claim: Call 01869 244771 and quote your membership number.

K300 Ltd Discount: 15% discount on Goodridge hose kits and 10-15% discount on EBC and Pagid brake pads.

Claim: Call 0161 355 1275 and quote your membership number or visit k300performance.co.uk

PORSCHE SERVICING AND BODYWORK

Autofarm Discount: 10% discount on labour costs.

Claim: Call 01865 331234, email workshop@ autofarm.co.uk or visit autofarm.co.uk and quote your membership number.

Dynotech RS Discount: Receive 10% discount on parts and 20% on labour costs and ECU tuning on presenting PCGB membership card.

Claim: Call 01367 358100 or visit dynotechrs.co.uk Parr Independent Discount: 10% off labour rates when PCGB members show their membership card.

Claim: For details, call 01293 537911 or visit parr-uk.co.uk Silver Wheels Ltd Discount: 15% discount is available to members.

Claim: Call 01202 896651, quoting SW9PC when booking, or visit silverwheelsltd.co.uk

HOTELS

Gisborough Hall Discount: DBB from £139 per room per night.

Claim: Contact reservations@gisboroughhall.com or 01287 611500, quoting PCGB18, and present membership card at check-in.

Hand Picked Hotels Discount: Offers Club members 15% off Best Available Rate for Country House and Islands two-night breaks.

Claim: Quote code PPOR18 or call 01642 706 606. Valid for bookings taken until 31 October 2018, subject to availability.

The Montcalm Luxury Hotels London Discount: A complimentary continental breakfast and access to the club lounge at The Montcalm London Marble Arch.

Claim: Book at themontcalm.com using code PCLUBGB. The Park House Hotel, Shifnal, and the Mytton & Mermaid Hotel, Shrewsbury Discount: Free stay and complimentary upgrade to a suite when spending £100 on food and drink (all week at Park House, Sunday nights at the Mytton & Mermaid).

Claim: Call Park House on 01952 460128 or the Mytton & Mermaid on 01743 761220, quoting ‘Porsche Club member’.

SHOPPING

Elm of Burford Discount: PCGB members receive a 5% discount.

Claim: Present your membership card or use code PCGB at elmofburford.com

Hurley House Discount: Members receive 10% discount on food and beverages, spa treatments and a complimentary bottle of Ruinart champagne on booking a stay.

Claim: Call 01628 568500 or email hello@hurleyhouse.co.uk, quoting ‘Porsche Club member’, and present membership card on check-in.

Daylesford Organic Farm Discount: 10% discount on bookings at Daylesford Cottages; on hour-long massages; in the farmshop and cafe area; and at Bamford Barn; free glass of rose when dining at The Wild Rabbit.

Claim: Present your membership card.

Beamish Hall Country House Hotel Discount: For exclusive member rates on room only, B&B and dinner, and B&B, email reservations@beamish-hall.co.uk or call 01207 233733 quoting ‘Porsche Club member’ and present membership card on check-in.

Bicester Village Discount: Save up to 60% on leading brands’ RRPs at more than 160 boutiques. Members also save 10% with a VIP card.

Claim: Print voucher from PCGB website and present with membership card at the Visitor Centre or Information Hub.

Flowdrive offers 20 per cent supersprint discount Members can now receive a 20 per cent discount with Flowdrive Ltd, general distributor of Supersprint high-performance exhaust systems. For more than 55 years, family-run Supersprint has been a premium manufacturer of performance exhaust systems, designing and producing components that significantly improve sound levels and performance output on luxury, sports and supercars.

It designs, develops and manufactures

high-quality exhausts devised through knowledge and expertise with major car companies. The Supersprint approach allows tailoring of systems to create consistent performance gains alongside appreciable sound characteristics.

To redeem the offer, register at supersprint.com/ww-en/login.aspx and enter code V1P-p0rsch3. For help with placing orders, contact 0208 366 5444 or salesuk@supersprint.com, quoting ‘Porsche Club member’.

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CALENDAR WHAT’S ON IN 2018 & 2019 SEPTEMBER

6

26 SEP - 5 OCT

7

26 SEP - 1 OCT 27 29 29 30 30 30 30 30

WOTY - Northern Picos, Spain (R17) The Gallery Rally (R28J) Llandudno lifeboat station (R6) WOTY – Northumbria coast (R7) Monthly drive - North West and Cross Border (R27) Autumn drive (R15) Breakfast and drive Shoreham Airport (R23) Breakfast Club - The 7 Hotel Diner (R25) Classic Vehicle Club meeting (R28G) Breakfast at Bloomsburys (R29)

OCTOBER 5-7 6 6 6

WOTY in North Devon (R13) Alternative cars meet (R1) PC Aberdeen car clinic (R2) PC Cardiff car clinic (R14)

7 7 7 7 13 13 13 13-14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 17 18 20

Porsche Clinic – Dove House Motor Company (R10) (996) (Boxster) Sandringham House Car Show (R12) Sheppey’s Cider Tour (R15) Classic Car Breakfast (R18) Sunday Brunch Scramble at Bicester (R10) (R31) Breakfast run (R30) Detailing Workshop visit (R1) Pirelli Performance Day (R15) Winter health check PC Tonbridge (R25) 20th Anniversary of The Merry Miller meeting of 928 UK enthusiasts (928) Sunday Run – Peak District (R5) Breakfast run - Hawarden Farm Shop (R6) Road Run - number one (R10) Drive and lunch (R14) Drive to Oil Can Cafe (R18) Chislehurst Caves visit (R25) Brunch - the Crew Room Denham Aerodrome (R26) Visit to JD Classics (R11) A55 Traffic Control Centre (R6) Perthshire Run (R1)

20 21 21 21 26-28 26-28 27 28 28 28 28 29

Trio of Curry Nights Inverness (R2) Mercedes World drive (R17) Preston Supercar Meet at Phantom Winger (R18) Breakfast at The Beach Deck, Eastbourne (R23) Gain-an-Hour Weekend (R2) Autumn Break: Castles and Curves (R20) Autumn run (R1) POTM - Bedford Lodge (R12) Breakfast and drive - The Beach Deck, Eastbourne (R23) Drive and Sunday lunch Dale Hill Hotel and Golf Club (R25) Sunday Coffee Cruise (R31) Go-kart night – Bamber Bridge (R18)

NOVEMBER 4 4 4 9-11

Abbey Cwm Hir Christmas Decorations (R14) R20 Escape: Ups and Downs (R20) PC Isle of Man visit (R30) NEC Classic Motor Show

9-11 10 10 11 14 17 18 18 18 25 25 25

Two Moors and more weekend away (R16) Trio of Curry Nights - Dundee (R2) Workshop winter health check visit - PC Solihull (Macan) Anglesey drive and lunch (R6) Visit to PC Wilmslow (R18) R20 Escape: Ups and Downs 2 (R20) Preston Supercar Meet at Phantom Winger (R18) Breakfast - Shoreham Airport (R23) Tea and scones - Old Railway Station, Petworth (R29) Gower Tour (R14) Abu Dhabi Do (R28G) Sunday Coffee Cruise (R31)

DECEMBER 1-2 2 4 7 7 9 9 9 11 15 16 16 19 22

Christmas party weekend (991) (997) (Macan) Christmas lunch (R6) R20 On Tour: Christmas Curry (R20) Christmas dinner (R26) Christmas dinner (R29) Christmas lunch (R4) Christmas lunch (R22) Christmas lunch (R31) Christmas lunch (R11) Christmas dinner (R14) Christmas lunch (R13) Preston Supercar Meet at Phantom Winger (R18) Christmas meal (R16) Christmas lunch (R28G)

January 5 12 27

New Year Dinner (R21) Annual Dinner Dance (R17) Sunday Coffee Cruise (R31)

REGIONS

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REGISTERS

MAIN CLUB

SPOTLIGHT ON RESTORATION Woolies Workshop

MCE Porsche

Porsche 924 944 Specialists.

We are the one stop shop for all your 924 needs. We sell new and used spares for all 924 and 944 models, we offer a full workshop facility including servicing and repairs. We have been at the same location since 1993. Friendly and knowledgeable staff. We offer international shipping on all spares.

Independent Porsche specialist MCE provides a friendly and professional service. We offer: ● Celette body jig and rotisserie restoration. ● On-site media-blasting, low-bake spray booth and paint finishing. ● Scheduled servicing and systems diagnostics for all Porsches – classic and modern models. ● Engine build, performance updates, detailing and carburettor tuning. ● Chassis and suspension rebuilds, four-wheel alignment. ● Interior fitting, headlining, vinyl trimming and re-colouring. ● Electrical and lighting refurbishment. ● Pre-purchase inspections and engineer’s reports.

Mention this advert and get 5% off your first order.

New & used Porsche spares.

Established 1993.

01676 532346 www.wooliesworkshop.com

Call Mike on 07796 372239 mceporsche@gmail.com www.mceporsche.com

RESTORING YOUR PORSCHE INSIDE AND OUT With over 30 years specialising in Porsche, PARR has undertaken restorations on a wide range of Porsche models. Whether you are looking for a minor refurbishment or a full concourse restoration, PARR has the experience and skills required to deliver the best results. As well as restoring Porsche to factory specifiation we also offer individual builds – from bespoke interior work to full custom builds – PARR can create the Porsche you have always wanted.

To discuss your requirements no matter how big or small talk to PARR. 01293 537 911 | www.parr-uk.co.uk

Meet the specialists who will take great care of your pride and joy

Greatworth Classics Nothing gives us greater pleasure than a call from a passionate classic Porsche lover. Your project is a wonderful journey which we share. We’re confident and experienced in delivering professional results. With modern adjustments, we can make dreams come true and deliver well beyond original expectations. Our specialisms include Body and Jig work, Engines, Gearboxes and a full range of Mechanical Upgrades, as well as Servicing.

01295 812266 www.greatworthclassics.com

Williams Crawford Passion for Porsche We take exceptional care of your classic Porsche and have decades of experience with the 356, 550, 911, 912, 964 and 993.

Our dedicated restoration team, led by Graham Kidd, will take care of all your classic Porsche needs.

We specialise in restoration, accident repair, engine and transmission, event preparation and regular maintenance and will arrange worldwide shipping.

01752 840307 info@williamscrawford.co.uk www.williamscrawford.co.uk

YOUR PROJECT IN SAFE HANDS There are a multitude of images of pristine restorations and inspiring bespoke project builds with which we could have filled our advert. However, we thought we would let the calibre of our technical expertise do the talking instead. With almost 120 years of combined experience, these engineers, designers and craftsmen are the very best in the business. Be it a road car, heritage car or motorsport build, we can cover all aspects of your project.

At RPM Technik we have a mantra of ‘Engineering Exhilaration’ and if you go bespoke, the scale of the project is only limited by your imagination. +44 (0)1296 663 824 | www.rpmtechnik.co.uk

Meet the specialists who will take great care of your pride and joy 1968 911 SWB (sof window) Targa currently undergoing restoration.

Genuine 1973 2.7 RS engine prior to its strip (removed from our Trinidad RS project).

Auto Curators PROJECTS & RESTORATIONS

SERVICING, ENGINES & GEARBOXES

SALES, SOURCING & INSPECTIONS

STORAGE & WINTER PROTECTION

Autofarm Established in 1973, Autofarm is globally known for its passion to preserve, restore and prolong the life of every classic Porsche that passes through its project department. Our team of expert technicians is on hand to provide the current custodians all the help, advice and support they need to make the right build decisions for their particular Porsche.

01865 331 234 www.autofarm.co.uk

At Auto Curators, we work to restore the best finish possible to your vehicle, while maintaining originality wherever possible.

Whether you wish to maintain and protect original patina, or attempt to achieve as near to new as possible, we can help. We also work with carefully chosen partner companies to manage full restoration services. We are proud to have prepared the car judged overall winner at the 2018 Salon Privé Porsche 70th Anniversary Concours d’Elégance.

01256 769611 www.autocurators.com

Tech9 Engineering Excellence

RS911 Porsche Restoration Our family-run business in the heart of Wales has been restoring Porsches since 1993.

All work is carried out in-house, with our workmanship, attention to detail and pride in our work delivering the finest restoration possible. We also buy and sell Porsches.

www.porsche-restoration.co.uk Mark@rs911.com Follow us on Instagram: RS911 Porsche Restoration Specialist

For more than 25 years, we have restored numerous Porsche models to concours standards. We also specialise in engine and gearbox rebuilding, for everything from 356s through to the watercooled models, and are a factory supplier for JP Group Dansk and many other suppliers worldwide. Whether you are looking for a complete restoration or that elusive tiny detail required for the finishing touch, talk to us.

0151 4255 911 www.tech9.ms

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Trading Post 356

356

Number Plates RELATED REGISTRATIONS

Milestone Business Park, London Road, Whimple, Exeter, Devon EX5 2QB

SHOP ONLINE AND GET 15% OFF SELECTED PARTS ON THE WEBSITE

CLASSIC PARTS FOR PORSCHE

356 911 912 914 We stock the largest selection of new parts for the 356, 911, 912 and 914 including mechanical, engine, body & interior - we also have a large selection of used parts. In fact, we stock everything you need to keep your classic Porsche on the road!

www.rogerbrayrestoration.com T: 01404 822005 F: 01404 822007 parts@rogerbrayrestoration.com

For Porsche Club member’s car sales please visit www.porscheclubgb.com

We have a warehouse here in the UK stuffed, floor to ceiling with literally tens of thousands of used parts, body panels, doors, engines, you name it, we may have it, even early 911.

E-mail: drew.saunders356@gmail.com (UK) or ulrich.s.sievers@gmail.com (Europe)

928 928 ELECTRONICS SPECIALIST LH AND EZK ECUs REPAIRED MAFs REBUILT 3 AND 6 PIN 911 CDI BOXES REPAIRED

300 RS 987 MD REG 911E S911 LER 996 POR POR 997T POR 911K POR 911N POR 911Y 993 POR 993 RUF X993 POR VNZ 911 964 MC 964 GC RED 911H RSR 911K RSR 911T RSR 911X B911 RSR RUF 911T 911 SCR 911 PYT 911 FEG

911 MSD CAR232A 911 FJX 930 FF XXX 911C 991 PD 911 RWS 918 MHH S918 POR A993 XXX TON 997X 997 CSS WBZ 911 P993 POR CAB 911X VOP 911S RS15 ACE A911 DPG P911 SCH WAG 944S GT68 RSR RS18 POR RS68 RSR RS68 POR

Immediate transfer available

01223 709915 www.jdsporsche.com

PCGB MEMBER TEL: 07730 007694 E-MAIL: ERHA300@AOL.COM

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POR 82T Perfect for a 82 Turbo or Targa.

On retention certificate. DVLA fee paid.

Reduced - £3995 or offers Tel: Richard 07739642684 E-mail: richard.ahern@raportix.co.uk EY11 SPY “Eye Spy” for sale, on retention with plates, £980 ono. Tel: 01243 775700 T25RGA Held on retention by Club Member after recent removal from 997 Targa 4S Offers circa £1050 Email: robert.kehoe@hotmail.co.uk Tel: 07803 054111 959 VB Club member has plate for sale for immediate transfer.

Offers around £3,000.

E-mail: papaporsche@yahoo.com Tel: 07796 935550 OO12 GTS - £1,800 987 LHD - £1,250 NJI 968 - £550 Contact Paul Tel: 07812 053 840 E-mail: paul.wood.uk@outlook.com 451 EYE - £2500 739 GOB - £2500 NHZ 999 - £2000 YHJ 999 - £2500 YAS 339 - £5000 Tel: 07553 462667

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Miscellaneous Porsche 911 996 GT3 MK2 shares for sale Three shares for sale in Porsche 911 996 GT3 MK2 2004 model in Speed Yellow.

This vehicle is truly immaculate and is as it left the factory. Each share is £25k with a monthly payment of £150 to cover insurance etc. Appreciating asset. Please call 07540 786240 for further information.

FOR SALE 3 Porsche genuine Tequipment indoor car covers. All excellent condition with Porsche logo.

Supplied in original bags.

1 each of: Cayman (987). 911 (991).

911 Sport Classic (997) £85 each including P+P. PCGB Member. 07773 099331

944, 911 Cookie Cutter 15inch Alloys x4 Black with Diamond Cut Rims Totally faultless, Professionally refurbished to very high standard. Do not confuse this with a quick slap of paint. Full professional refurbishment £695. Tel: 01491 825074 Porsche 911 993 Targa Tiptronic S shares for sale Three shares for sale in Porsche 911 993 Targa Tiptronic S 1997 model in Ocean Blue Metallic with Night Blue Marble leather. Full service history, excellent condition. Each share is £17,500 with a monthly payment of £150 to cover insurance etc. Appreciating asset. Please call 07540 786240 for further information.

Wanted – 993 Targa Low mileage, FSH, not black. Private buyer. Or exchange with 997, 2010, in blue. Tel: 01865 730659 Blaupunkt Toronto SQR45 Radio Cassette user manual Tel: 01924 498906 or 07771 661650

Macan Winter Wheels/Tyres FOR SALE Fantastic almost as new condition , done circa 3k miles .

Purchased new from Porsche Portsmouth at cost excess £2,300.

Dunlop SP winter sports 4 D , 255/50 R19 specification hey need to be sold , so make me an offer .

TEL 07774 447382 Porsche Cayman S 981 ZunSport Grilles Complete set as new. 11 parts in total. £250 07831 312178 or peter_waterfield@btconnect.com

WANTED ALL PORSCHE MODELS All conditions wanted, from restoration projects to concours. Right & left-hand drive. Complete collections purchased.

Cash buyer. Discretion assured.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested in selling your Porsche and are looking for a prompt hassle free cash buyer! Please feel free to contact me for a no obligation friendly chat.

I am especially interested in the following models: 356, 911, 964, 993, 996 and 997.

CALL DIRECT ON

07787 528131

WANTED Harbour Cars buy the finest used Porsche.

For a polite, professional and friendly service please get in touch with us.

01243 530630 info@harbourcars.com

Birdham Road, Chichester, PO20 7DU

912? Think Revival. www.revival-cars.com

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Cars for sale | Wanted

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1998- Porsche 993 Turbo S Coupe- 66,000 Miles £POA - “Awarded a trophy at the Concours Masters Celebration 2018”

1997- PORSCHE 993 C2 TARGA 88,000 MILES - £42,500

2010 PORSCHE 997 C2S CABRIOLET 40,000 MILES - £45,950

2004 PORSCHE 996 C2 TARGA 104,000 MILES - £21,950

2002- Porsche 996 Turbo Coupe 72,000 Miles - £39,950

1995 PORSCHE 993 CR COUPE 77,000 MILES - £48,000

1996 Porsche 993 C4S Coupe 3.8L 37,000 Miles - £175,000

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We know what your Porsche is worth.

Porsche Centre Swindon is looking to expand its range of Porsche Approved Pre-Owned cars, including classic models.

Contact James Castle on 01793 398 540 for a no obligation valuation of your vehicle and save time by selling or part-exchanging your Porsche to the people who know it best.

Porsche Centre Swindon Frankland Road Blagrove Swindon SN5 8YG info@porscheswindon.co.uk www.porscheswindon.co.uk

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Cars for sale | Wanted | Servicing

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NOTICE TO PCGB MEMBERS/VENDORS Before giving out ANY information regarding cars, or any other items for sale, please satisfy yourself that any potential purchaser is bona fide.

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CLASSIC PORSCHE

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Over 100 years combined experience from our ex main dealer master technicians

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Servicing | Repairs | Parts

To advertise here telephone us on 01603 772553

EBAY SHOP - STEVESTRANGE007

01223 425300 Independent Porsche service in East Anglia

Sales

Service

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Full diagnostics / Engine & gearbox rebuilds / Clutch, brake, wiring fault finding / Four wheel alignment Servicing and MOT / Respray / Restoration / Accident repairs / Aluminium welding

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SPECIALIST IN ALL THINGS PORSCHE

• Fixed Price Servicing • Engine & Transmission Rebuilds • Restoration • Full Diagnostic Facilities • Pre-Purchase Inspection

Tel: 020 8500 2510 Email: info@hpporsche.co.uk

www.hpporsche.co.uk 181 FOREST ROAD, HAINAULT, ESSEX IG6 3HZ

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Servicing | Repairs | Parts

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NOTICE TO PCGB MEMBERS/VENDORS

Porsche Specialists since 1971

Before giving out ANY information regarding cars, or any other items for sale, please satisfy yourself that any potential purchaser is bona fide.

• WORKSHOP FACILITIES Servicing, repairs, diagnostics, inspection, engine & gearbox rebuilds, MOT work

• LIGHTWEIGHT COMPOSITE PANELS Manufactured in house panels and styling conversions. All models from early SWB 911’s to 997 RSR supplied in fibreglass, kevlar or carbon doors, roofs, bonnets. The list is endless.

• FULL BODYSHOP & REPAIR FACILITIES • NEW AND USED PARTS

To advertise here telephone us on 01603 772553

Next day delivery or collection

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NEW Coil-On-PLUG Kits for 911 & 930

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INDEPENDENT PORSCHE SPECIALISTS Avon Advanced Car Care Unit 3, Fairways Ind. Est. Filton, Bristol, BS34 7QS T: 0870 765 5911/0117 944 1944 E: sales@advancedcarcare.co.uk www.advancedcarcare.co.uk A progressively high tech, fully equipped Porsche servicing facility based in Bristol. The professional personalised care for you and your car is what makes us so unique. We pride ourselves on our integrity, flexibility and understanding of each client’s specific needs. Our friendly and professional staff believe that our best customer is an educated customer. We will take as much time as is necessary to explain what needs to be done to your ‘pride and joy’ and how we will go about doing this. No matter what your needs or desires, if it’s quality main dealer standards you need, we do it here.

We don’t cut corners and we don’t rush jobs. At Advanced Car Care we take the time to do it right, first time! Call us for a free estimate, or pop into our Bristolbased premises. Which trusted trader.

Bedfordshire Export 56 LTD Unit 9, Blundells Drive, Bradville Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK13 7HA T: 01908 216661 E: enquiries@export56.com www.export56.com 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

Berkshire

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.

Williams Crawford Ltd (Plymouth)

RPM Technik

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.

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 B S Motorsport Ltd Building 421, Westcott Venture Park, Westcott, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 0XB T: 01296 658422 E: office.admin@bsmotorsport.co.uk www.neilbainbridge.com Race preparation and restoration of Classic Porsche road and competition cars. Prestigious Storage and dyno facility & Over 45 years experience in restoration, racing and diagnostic development. Championship winning engineers now offering full service options from our new Service facility.

Cambridgeshire

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.

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 Unique Porsche Unit 4a, James Street Industrial Estate Westhoughton, Bolton BL5 3QR T: 07711 806911 Darren King or Darren Horrocks E: unique.porsche@gmail.com

Hampshire

TWG Motorsport Thorpe Road, Longthorpe, Peterborough, PE3 6LU. T: 01733 332911 E: twg@supanet.com www.twgsport.co.uk Since 1982, TWH Motorsport has been dedicated to providing you with quality and dependable care of your Porsche. Expert mechanical repair and maintenance are the cornerstones of our business and, combined with our quality control scheme, give our customers 100% satisfaction. We offer a complete service from minor to major repairs for your car. To find out more about how are comprehensive service and repair can help you with all of your Porsche needs, we invite you to experience first-hand our quality service, staff and technicians.

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.

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.

Export 56 LTD Unit 9, Blundells Drive, Bradville Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK13 7HA T: 01908 216661 E: enquiries@export56.com www.export56.com

Unit 9, Blundells Drive, Bradville Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK13 7HA T: 01908 216661 E: enquiries@export56.com www.export56.com Proprietor, Mick Pacey is an enthusiastic and passionate owner and racer of Classic Porsche cars as well as an independent Porsche specialist which helps in his understanding of your requirements, as enthusiasts, running air cooled Porsches. With over 25 years experience Export 56 is dedicated to fine quality restoration and can list a number of rare road and race Porsche cars completed in our workshops.

The Export 56 Service Centre is the newest addition to our Classic Porsche facilities in North Bucks. Conveniently located in Central Milton Keynes and provides an exceptional offering to Air Cooled Porsche clients for all aspects of servicing, repair and maintenance. ..

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3rd Floor STS House, Bristol Way, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 3QE T: 01753 553969 E: joel@rsjsportscars.co.uk www.rsjsportscars.co.uk RSJ have been established since 1998 as a Porsche dealer and we are focused on the sales of used Porsche cars and the servicing and repair of used Porsche cars. As a Porsche dealer RSJ aims to be the next best alternative to a main dealer. We prepare our cars for sale to a main Porsche dealer standard. Our used Porsche cars have all cosmetic and mechanical refurbishment carried out to the same level as our staff did when they worked at a main Porsche dealer.

Our aim is to make your life-long dream come true to buy that used Porsche 911 and have a good experience while owning it. Please call to come and view more than 25 used Porsches in our indoor 6,000 sq foot showroom.

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911 Forge Lane, Moorlands Trading Estate, Saltash, Cornwall, PL12 6LX T: 01752 840307 E: info@williamscrawford.co.uk www.williamscrawford.co.uk

Cheshire www.tech9.ms Tech9 Motorsport Ltd Hale Garage, Hale Road, Liverpool, L24 5RB. T: 0151 4255 911 E: sales@tech9.ms One of the largest and longest serving Porsche specialists in the North West. Our highly skilled, enthusiastic team would love to welcome new and existing clients to our facility close to Liverpool Airport.

We operate the latest diagnostic systems and have huge stocks of new and used parts for classic Porsche. Engine and Gearbox rebuilding from 356, through all of the 911 variants air-cooled and water cooled including GT3. Motorsport experienced, multiple Championship and Series Outright Winners - complete vehicle builds and race/trackday preparation. Highly experienced with R/RS/RSR and GT models GT2, GT3 etc. UK distributor for German tuning brand TECHART Car Sales, Service and Restoration to Concours standards.

Discount available to Porsche Club members on request

Cornwall Location close to Liverpool Airport.

The Colourworx Ltd (Newquay) 1 Wesley Yard Newquay TR7 1LB T. 01637 873218 E. info@colourworxnewquay.co.uk www.thecolourworx.co.uk Club members and owner/drivers with over 40 years combined experience in car repairs. Accident repair centre – all aspects of body repair undertaken irrespective of vehicle and guaranteed fair pricing We can offer vehicle inspections and free estimates. Modern, fully equipped and insured premises.

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 fixed-price servicing to full rebuilds, with free loan cars. Collection and delivery service available.

Dorset

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.

JMG Porsche

Brookspeed

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.

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...

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.

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

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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 La Rose Porsche 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.

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 Darren King or Darren Horrocks 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.

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Chelsea Carrera Ltd

RPM Technik

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.

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

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 www.tech9.ms Tech9 Motorsport Ltd Hale Garage, Hale Road, Liverpool, L24 5RB. T: 0151 4255 911 E: sales@tech9.ms

Norfolk www.tech9.ms 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 over 21 years of Porsche main dealer experience and 7 years independent experience, so we are more than confident that our standard of 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.

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Surrey Cridfords Porsche

Tech9 Motorsport Ltd Hale Garage, Hale Road, Liverpool L24 5RB. T: 0151 4255 911 E: sales@tech9.ms www.tech9.ms

Oxfordshire Wrightune Ltd The Croft, Whitely Road, Hithercroft Industrial Estate, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 9RG T: 01491 826911 E: info@wrightune.co.uk www.wrightune.co.uk Wrightune was founded by Tony Wright, well known and respected in the Porsche world. 35+ years of continuous experience with Porsche cars results in a wealth of knowledge and expertise.

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.

MCE Porsche Middleton Cheney, Nr Banbury, OX17 2NP T: 07796 372239 E: mceporsche@gmail.com www.mceporsche.com Independent Porsche Specialist covering Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Buckinghamshire areas, specialising in the maintenance, preservation and restoration of all Porsche sports car models from 356 to 997. A qualified Automotive Engineer with over 25 years professional experience, and a passionate and dedicated Porsche enthusiast, get in touch with Mike or visit the website for friendly, helpful advice and to see the full range of services offered.

Shropshire

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.

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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Precision Porsche

EST. 1997 Independent Porsche specialists for repairs, service, spares, salvage projects and sales. Tel: 01952 608-911 M: 07831 711609 Telford, Shropshire

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.

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.

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

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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 Welsh Porsche Specialists 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.

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!

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PP: What’s your dream Porsche?

TF: It’s the black PlayStation GT1.

PP: You’re planning your ultimate road trip. Where would you go?

TF: I’d head through the Pyrenees and northern Spain with a group of similar cars and like-minded people.

PP: What’s your proudest car-based achievement?

TF: I used to race a grass tracker and my first winner’s trophy was just the best.

Q A Tom Fisher, R8 East Midlands Club Official, talks about his involvement in the Club Speed Championship, his love of the Boxster and his proudest car-based achievements

PP: What does your Porsche future hold?

TF: I would like a new hybrid Boxster at some point – but something may have to go to make room!

PP: If you switched careers, what would you do?

TF: I’d stay retired, please, although I always enjoyed my nursing career.

PP: What music is in your car stereo?

TF: At the moment I’m listening to Foo Fighters and Steely Dan. PP: What would you do with your last gallon of fuel?

TF: I’d drive an open Boxster locally in the Peak District or on the Isle of Mull.

PP: What’s the craziest thing you’ve done in a car?

TF: Any public trackday at the Nürburgring – it’s absolute madness.

PP: Describe yourself in one word…

TF: Optimistic!

PP: When did your relationship with Porsche begin?

TF: As a student I had posters of 718s, wild 911s, GT40s – and Raquel Welch – on my wall. Then in the late 1990s, our business was doing well, so I bought a 993.

PP: What do you currently own?

TF: I have a GT3, a 924 GT, a Boxster S, a Race Boxster S, a replica Ford GT40 and a Triumph TR4.

PP: Do you have any advice for other Porsche owners?

TF: Get to know your local official Porsche Centre and/or find a local specialist and form a trusting relationship with them. A lot of knowledge and advice is also available at Club nights.

PP: What’s the best Porsche you’ve ever driven?

TF: I would say any Boxster. They are capable of doing anything, depending on the state of tuning, and have balance, comfort, a soft top, plus space for suitcases – a great blend.

Tom puts his Boxster through its paces at Brands Hatch

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MY PCGB LIFE WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT PCGB? It’s constantly developing and improving and never rests on its laurels.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE PCGB EVENT? The Porsche Festival at Brands Hatch is simply fantastic.

HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE SPEED CHAMPIONSHIP? Graham Rose, a seasoned competitor, convinced six of us at a Club night to give it a go. That was six years ago and most of us still compete regularly.

WHAT’S THE BEST THING ABOUT IT? It’s the superb atmosphere, plus the way we all get on and help each other. And, of course, we all have great fun.

DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE MOMENT? Any time I make the podium is a favourite moment!

WHAT ARE YOUR SPEED CHAMPIONSHIP AMBITIONS? To keep improving my skills (difficult) and to develop the car (easier).

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