Key information Porsche Sounds (Special Edition) Author: Dieter Landenberger ISBN: 9783943573190 Price: £34.99 Hardcover, cloth binding Size: 28x28 cm, 252 pages 300 photographs (colour and b/w) 1 CD with original engine sounds Text: English/ German Porsche Sounds is another fine publication to have been … [Read more...]
Déjà Vu of Porsche 911 2.4 S – Part 1
The dictionary defines the term Déjà vu as ‘already seen’, or the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced, has been experienced in the past. This was certainly true for Porsche enthusiast Dave Whelan, as he returned to the scene of the West Cork Rally where, in March 2000, he almost wrote off his 1972 Porsche 911 2.4 … [Read more...]
Genesis of Genius
Key information Ferdinand Porsche — Genesis of Genius: Road, Racing and Aviation Innovation 1900 to 1933 Author: Karl Ludvigsen ISBN: 978-0-8376-1557-8 Price: $99.95 Hardcover, 9.5in. x 12 in. 496 pages 570 B/W and color photos & illustrations Every once in a while a man or woman comes along who wants to shake the … [Read more...]
Goodwood Revival 2015
The Goodwood Revival 2015 marked the first time in the history of the Cobra saga, that all six of the Daytona Coupes would be gathered together in one location. This never happened in period because the first of the Daytonas was produced in California, while the remaining five cars were made in Italy. Even once they were racing in 1965, they were never all in one place together … [Read more...]
Porsche 917-023 Autobiography
Key information Author: Ian Wagstaff ISBN: 978-1-907085-21-5 Publisher: Porter Press International Specifications: 285 x 235mm, jacketed hardback, page extent 320pp Illustrations: Over 300 photographs, including colour Publication: 1 June 2015 RRP: £60.00 If there was one Porsche racing car that set the Stuttgart company on the road to … [Read more...]
Porsche 956/962
“Towards the end of the ‘70s a lack of manufacturer enthusiasm to develop new cars for the existing Group 5 and Group 6 categories loomed. For Porsche, 1976 and 1977 saw victories at Le Mans with the 936 but in 1978 Renault snatched a win with the A442, while Kremer revelled in the glory of an unexpected victory in 1979 with their 935 K3. After the 1979 season, the three … [Read more...]
SILVERSTONE CLASSIC
This weekend, more than 100,000 classic car and historic motor racing enthusiasts will help the Silverstone Classic to celebrate its 25th birthday, or Silver Jubilee, whichever you prefer. That's quite a milestone, but the event has really become a real highlight on the historic motor sport calendar and so it is fitting that this year is a bumper year. In 2014, a … [Read more...]
Porsche Carrera
There is a story behind every book, and this series charts the stories behind the books I have written. Also, you will find out who has been interviewed during my research, and establish how those interviews have become inextricably linked with the subject matter. First up, it’s the turn of the Porsche Carrera book. Back in the mid-90s I was still living in Johannesburg, … [Read more...]
Cobra book progress
Progress on my Cobra book to be published by Haynes later this year, has been galloping along, and I have had the privilege and pleasure of meeting some amazing people, and of course cars. Here, you will come across loads of spin…the right kind of spin, not the kind that politicians sell you, but the sort that comes with high performance sports and racing … [Read more...]
A tour of Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg museum
AutoMuseum Volkswagen Before the turn of the millennium, fans and visitors to Volkswagen’s vast Wolfsburg factory had only one option to look at past the company’s automotive wonders. With an eye on its complicated past, in 1985 the German firm opened a small museum in the town which was created especially for it. The warehouse-type AutoMuseum Volkswagen building in … [Read more...]
Photographing Cobras
Motor racing in the 1960s produced, without doubt, some of the most colourful characters and some of the most iconic racing cars. With the subject of my next book being on the racing AC Cobras, I have chronicled below some of the joys and challenges of photographing Cobras. Once motor racing had got under way in the 1950s after the low of the previous decade, the years of … [Read more...]
Part 2: Holiday in Sweden with an MG TC
So, the last you heard about the Cowcher's MG TC adventure, they were about to head off on a 3,080 mile round tour to southern Sweden. Part II rejoins them on 14 September 2014 as they're about to set off, the first part of the journey taking Tom, Eva and their daughter Nia 1,000 miles from their West Wales farm to Lund, Sweden. It was a cool autumn morning when they finally … [Read more...]
Part 2: Porsche Transaxle Book
In Part 2 of my blog on my Porsche Transaxle Book (working title), I cover the 928, 944 and 968 models. The first of these cars represented Porsche's first foray into the realm of V8 motoring, and while the new model wasn't aimed at the US market, it certainly ticked all the right boxes as far as that market was concerned. As was rather typical for the Stuttgart … [Read more...]
Part 1: Holiday in Sweden with an MG TC
What do you do when you have an MG TC in the garage at home in Wales, and the family want to go on a holiday to Sweden? The only answer of course is to put the MG TC on a trailer, hitch it to the family Volvo, and head for the ferry. Simples… A few weeks back, Welsh farmers Tom and Eva Cowcher and their daughter Nia from Carmarthenshire, embarked on a late summer holiday to … [Read more...]
Ferrari 250 GTO: a raw beauty
Ask any young boy to name his favourite race car, and it would almost certainly be Ferrari. Its name conjures images of beauty, elegance and raw power. The pure magnetism of the Ferrari name has been achieved as a result of countless motor sport victories around the world. Despite stiff opposition and often against every odd. In the 1950s and 60s Enzo Ferrari’s only interest … [Read more...]