Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2023 i Classic Porsche

CLARKE BLUETOOTH BATTERY MONITOR The new Clarke CBBT1 is a must-have affordable gadget for anyone looking to keep a watchful eye on their car’s health, allowing users to monitor key battery-related information via a dedicated smartphone app. Helpfully, the app allows up to four devices to be monitored at the same time. The CBBT1 monitors a range of information from your car’s twelve-volt lead acid battery, allowing you to see charge percentage, voltage and temperature at a glance. The app will even send you an alarm notification if the battery is registering unusual readings. The device can store historical data for up to thirty days, saving the data every two minutes. You can save unlimited historical data within the app. The CBBT1 also records the last known parking position, providing…

One-stop shop. In automotive circles, this is a term often bandied to denote a company capable of accomplishing a wide range of services under one roof. While it may indeed work as a sweeping description for many businesses, few are in a position to offer the depth and breadth of expertise, experience and facilities as historic Porsche specialist, EB Motorsport. Based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, the firm is owned and directed by brothers, Mark and James Bates, both of whom are keen motor racing enthusiasts with a predilection for Stuttgart’s finest. The company is renowned the world over, not only for its flawlessly manufactured replacement parts for classic Porsches, complex repair solutions and painstakingly meticulous nut and bolt restorations, but also for the incredible accuracy of its reverse-engineering, enabling rare…

When Ulrich Bez returned to Porsche from BMW and became the Zuffenhausen concern’s technical board director in October 1988, he was met with senior management personnel thinking the 911 had outworn its welcome. “The general view was that we should do something new,” said Bez. “A new car.” This meant not a new 911, rather a new automobile. After the flurry of decision-making marking Ernst Fuhrmann’s reign as head of Porsche, the company had simply pressed on with variants of the cars he and Helmuth Bott created. The traditional surrogate for the Porsche customer, Ferry Porsche, turned seventy-nine during the month before Bez took office. While Bez took care to cultivate his counsel and support, Ferry could no longer assume his traditional role as the company’s touchstone for new design…

We all have tales about what first turned us on to Porsche. As I’ve written in these pages previously, around 1962, my father went backwards though a hedge in his pal’s 356. I was smitten from that point onward. I don’t recall Dad being quite so enthusiastic. Then again, he did buy himself a brand-new Beetle 1200 soon after the event. Parental influence is also partly responsible for Matt Cramp’s love of Porsche. He’s the owner of our star car. “As a boy, I used to attend car shows with my dad, who would be driving his Aston Martin DB2 Mk III. I first saw a 356 A on one of our days out together. It was a Speedster finished in black. I was fifteen years old and that was…

Ask any petrolhead to bring to mind the cars of rallycross and they’ll almost certainly conjure up images of the Austin Metro 6R4, Ford RS200, Audi Quattro S1, Citroen Xsara and maybe even a classic Mini mud machine. Air-cooled 911? Not so much, which is why it may come as a surprise to learn a two-litre 911 was campaigned by Vic Elford in the inaugural rallycross event at Lydden Hill on 4th February 1967. Broadcast on British national television, the event was motorsport like no other, and though we’re familiar with the sight of 911s in various road, race and rally trim today, things were quite different in the mid-1960s. THE RED TWO-LITRE PORSCHE WASN’T THE IDEAL SOLUTION, BUT IT WAS THE ONLY ONE AT ELFORD’S DISPOSAL Elford began his…

100 TH ISSUE SPECIAL CENTENARY EDITION Here we are! The hundredth issue of Classic Porsche. The magazine has come a long way since the very first issue back in late 2009. Increases in publication frequency, pagination and even the type of air-cooled Porsche featured in our pages have changed significantly over the years, which is why we decided to take a look back at the evolution of Classic Porsche by way of highlighting key editions of the magazine, from the very first all the way to the bumper souvenir issue in your hands right now. If you’re feeling nostalgic, back issues can be ordered direct from bit.ly/issuescp. And, of course, you can get Classic Porsche delivered direct to your door by taking advantage of our latest subscription deals…

How about this for two ends of Porsche’s air-cooled product spectrum? 914 meets 911 Turbo. Of course, this particular duel will only ever have one winner, but this isn’t the point of the article you’re reading. You see, both cars occupy the same garage. They’re in the possession of Porschephile, James Grayston. Looking at the dynamic duo side-by-side, it’s hard to believe they were in production alongside one another, forming the entry-level Porsche offering and the very pinnacle of its engineering prowess in the early-to-mid 1970s. Of course, every classic Porsche is special to us, as demonstrated by the wide variety of Porsches from the manufacturer’s legacy output featured in this, the hundredth issue of Classic Porsche. Obviously, we couldn’t let our centenary pass without paying homage to the 911…

Today’s Porsche world is full of backdates. Indeed, it is rare for an issue of Classic Porsche to pass without featuring a 911 remodelled to look like a much older incarnation of the Porsche flagship. There was a time, however, when 911s were being forward-dated. Typically, a G-programme model would be treated to a 964 makeover. This might come as a surprise to younger readers who have only ever heard stories relating to the 964 being ‘the great unloved’ of the 911 world prior to the model’s relatively recent stratospheric rise in popularity. As enthusiasts of a certain vintage will attest, however, there was a time the 964 was in the doldrums. Its integrated polyurethane bumpers were seen as complicating the 911’s clean silhouette, while complaints regarding increased kerb weight…

COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION OF ClassicPORCHE ORDER BACK ISSUES AT bit.ly/issuescp MARKET IN STATE OF REALIGNMENT Members of the UK’s National Association of Motor Auctions (NAMA) are reporting the market is steady, and there is strong optimism this will be maintained for the remainder of the year. “There have been cases of seasonal trend, but overall, auction members have been pleased with the busy summer,” says Paul Hill, NAMA spokesman, following a recent meeting with key industry figures to discuss the current sales climate. Whilst the market is moving at a steady pace, values are down half a percent when compared with those twelve months prior. Furthermore, values have dropped six percent during the past three months, though due to an overall lack of stock, values are predicted…

Anniversaries abound. For starters, this is the hundredth issue of Classic Porsche, a publishing milestone if ever there was one. And, of course, we are celebrating seventy-five years of Porsche as a manufacturer (and therefore seventy-five years of 356), as well as sixty years of 911, without which, it’s doubtful Classic Porsche would exist. Sure, there were plenty of Porsches before the 911, but it was post the model’s 1963 launch that Porsche really found its place in the world, going from a manufacturer of small, cult, quirky sports and race cars, to something altogether more sophisticated and modern, which would guide the manufacturer for the next six decades and counting. The 911 should have been the 901, but for Peugeot’s insistence three number model designations with a zero in…

Do you dream in colours? If so, do they harmonise or clash with one another? Back when mind-expanding drugs were in vogue, psychedelia ruled. The wilder the hues, the better the trip. Paul Leyton harbours no such motives, but he loves to get a reaction to his Orange Blossom Special and its Purple Haze upholstery. His Porsche started life as a 1976 2.7-litre 911. Don’t be fooled by the external oil filler cap — this car was, at one time, on its way to becoming a Singer Vehicle Design wannabe. Paul shows me a photo of the car when newly arrived in the UK from the USA. It was a lovely-looking G-series in silver, endowed with a tea-tray and Fuchs wheels. Under normal circumstances, you’d be delighted with this spec,…

The 911 is the only car you can drive from an African safari to Le Mans, then to the theatre and onto the streets of New York. So said Ferry Porsche. Wind the clock forward to 2023, and it’s clear Porsche intended for the new 911 Dakar to live up to Ferry’s bold claim. Indeed, before the car was unveiled in full, we were told about a torturous endurance test schedule subjected to a series of prototypes. The work included three hundred thousand miles of driving. Of these, six thousand miles were off-road. Cold-weather testing was carried out on the snow and ice of Sweden, heat testing was conducted in Morocco and, impressively, Porsche engineers managed to convince their bosses the car needed to be blasted up fifty-metre-tall sand dunes…