June 16th, 2020

This year's Festival of Speed and Revival have been cancelled. Not particularly surprising, perhaps, but very disappointing for all those involved and connected.

www.goodwood.com/grr/event-coverage/festival-of-speed/2020/6/goodwood-festival-of-speed-and-revival-move-to-2021/

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June 1st, 2020

The 1967 911S was widely used in competition and a small number of cars were clearly ordered with that in mind. At least four were supplied in competition spec in the UK – it’s probable there were others, but not many. The first on the list is Dickie Stoop’s silver car. The experienced racer ordered it with a rally kit and special engine mods, a Nurburgring ratio gearbox, a limited slip diff, a 100-litre tank, a roll hoop and a passenger sports seat. At much the same ...  
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May 25th, 2020

Some pictures from the March 1960 FJ race at Sebring via the excellent Barcboys site www.barcboys.com. The event was right on the transition from front- to rear-engined cars and, within the Cunningham team and elsewhere, from Stanguellini to Cooper and Lotus. Hansgen put the Cooper T52 on pole, but dropped out of the race, which was won by Hall in an Elva 100 from Crawford in a Stanguellini and Chamberlain in a Lotus 18. Apparently Crawford was ...  
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May 19th, 2020

Some more interior pictures of our 1964 Lotus Elan S1 to competition spec www.robertbarrielimited.com/s1.php







 
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May 5th, 2020

If you wanted your 1967 911S supplied in competition spec you specified it with a rally kit and a sport kit, among other things. But what exactly was in the kits? According to the factory’s Competition Driver publication – the prototype of its much longer and more detailed Sports Purposes manual – the rally kit for the 911S consisted of a pair of bucket seats, with sports seats a no-cost alternative, rubber floor mats and a driver’s foot ...  
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May 1st, 2020

We do love a bit of research. I recently spent a ridiculous amount of time compiling a list of the first RHD 911S’s. I can’t really remember why. I‘m not even sure there was a real point – just a pedantic need to know. Oddly, I have since met others who have done exactly the same thing. The Porsche Cars GB records suggest 35 such cars came to the UK in the second part of 1966 and the first part of 1967. I should thank Peter Cook, archivist at the Porsche Club, for ...  
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