I had reason to research this topic at weekend as I spotted a car in Gulf Blue………
Here is web site that shows off the colour palette choice rather well and below some other pictures……
In the second button is link (at the bottom of this blog) to a PTS Explorer site where if you hover over the colour of choice and then click you can see all the cars attributed to that colour….what a choice……
What an interesting selection outside Porsche Uk HQ when I visited Porsche Reading on Wednesday.
OPR 911 a famous plate used by Porsche Uk for years, currently on a 991 gen 2 GT3 RS in lizard green. I spotted this first as I drove in. A yellow 718 T, a 992 Turbo S convertible and a new Panamera on a Stuttgart GO plates for the latest Turbo S.
In the background some of the fleet Taycan’s.
I’m not sure I like the new car park layout more akin to Long Term Car Park at Heathrow (previously the landscaping before was lots of green shrubs…. latest attempt….. lost its soul) but means you can get to see some neat cars close up.
Porsche UK HQ Cars
This is a really neat home brew kit…….
What happened with no rules?
Good write up today in the Telegraph… what a looker!
In 1969 Jaguar launched the iconic XJ6 Saloon which set a new standard for luxury executive cars of the era.
I remember as kid seeing my first arrive at my golf club. The owner a well known man who was the then owner of a leading golf publication known as ‘Golf World’.
Later in life this car (1975 to 1978) became a 2 door coupe with the 4.2 litre straight 6 cylinder or the more powerful V12 5.3 litre.
I have always thought these to be a beautiful looking car and so much better in the Coupe styling.
I happened to be watching Wheeler Dealers tonight and the boys were sorting out a lovely 1976 P reg car. I do not recall ever catching before. The Tv program from 2013 and the car sold for £15k.
I decided to google the current worth and to my total surprise found the same on eBay for £25,950 locally near Reading.
Check out the eBay listing!
What I strange thing to be writing about. Boys and their toys.
My hedger cutter of 20 years standing (Husqvarna) gave up the ghost so I needed to replace it. I have alot of beech, hornbeam around my property so needs regular tidying up.
Have recently bought a Stihl Chain-saw which works well I thought I ought to check out the Stihl range on the hedge cutter. The Kombi allows a powerful engine unit and then you fix in the extra tools. Some 15 in the range.
Cannot recommend enough. Check out the Welsh voice!
The first videos on the 992 Targa 4S are coming out. Why would I be interested.? Well some of you may have picked up I owned a 991 Targa 4S Gen 1 with he 3.8 litre engine from 2015 to 2018. It was a manual so rare….. around 10% of the Targa’s where manuals in 991 variant.
I find Mr JWW a marmite character. On this occasion I actually think his has pitched his review really well as he accepts this is not an out an out sport GT car…..but he likes it.
Personally like a number of reviewers I’m not sure about this new 911. I’m not a fan of the digital dashboard or the girth and the same looking backside to all their other cars now. Sometimes they get it right the first time…..sometimes it takes a couple of goes to get it back on the right direction.
The PDK system here, is now 8 speed was 7 speed in 991 version and again a manual option.
Manuals not available yet but he thinks it will be the one to go for. So do I.
The 0-60 is around 1 sec quicker that a very serious improvement over the Gen 1 cars.
Enjoy.
IoW gets TT style racing in Autumn of 2021. Its a long time since I went over to IoW (Late in 1979) remember the Military road on a drive to see the Needles. This looks like fun!
A much sought-after 'Series 1' example, chassis number '148/R' was sold new to Richard Gordon Ltd of South Audley St, London finished in Pacific Blue with Blue Grey Connolly leather interior.
Over the next 50 years or so had a further seven owners. The last owning for over 25 years from 1994 until last year.
In the Porsche magazine this month a lovely feature on the Carrera GT …………this was the feature photo but no credit to where it was shot……I know where this is….do you?
I popped out this morning to recreate….weather crap…..a usual exercise before I do in the Sun in the GTS…..
Somewhere in England…but exactly where is this?
Taken 31 July 20 at 12:45 35C Hottest day in UK this year!
Like most kids in the mid 1960’s we all had the corgi model the DB5 James Bond. I gave mine way to a cousin …..
Below is my replacement
Here are the opening paragraphs on the Goldfinger car
“Given that each Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation takes 4,500 hours to hand-make, we always expected the build quality to be sky-high, but now, with the release of new images following the completion of Job 1, we’ve the hard evidence. The first of 25 customer cars looks immaculate - the way that Aston probably dreamt it could produce cars back in 1963. In 2020 it is using the same traditions, albeit supplemented by modern technology. The result, somewhat predictably, is the best of both worlds.
Aston Martin’s Newport Pagnell Heritage Division revealed the full list of Q-inspired additionsthese DB5 Continuation cars – each of which is priced at £3.3 million – in May, and now we can see how the features look on the actual car. The smoke screen deploys actual smoke, the nose-mounted machine guns pulsate and glow as if they’re firing real rounds, and the oil slick delivery system spurts out fluid from a moving taillight. It’s all looks authentically Bond.”
Whilst reading the FT on Saturday, in the Travel section with the title 'Chasing Waterfalls’.
It talks about Struie Hill……..
On my photo below is mentions Ben More is some 30 miles away.
What it fails to mention is this is highest mountain in this part of the Highlands. A magnificent mountain…..well worth a visit….it was raining when we visited in 2016……shame as really the only time it did rain on the entire trip.
Ben More Assynt is the highest mountain in the extraordinary landscape of Assynt. It is hidden from the roads, however, by the neighbouring summit of Conival. Ben More has huge, scree girt flanks, a fine approach ridge and a view of total desolation.
"There is a moment when the view opens up over the Kyle of Sutherland, its waters glinting like a blade in the dark, rich landscape of Scotland’s far north."
The writer is from Kyle of Sutherland and was visiting old haunts.
The Alladale Hotel and Lodge recently won all sorts of awards. It reminds me of a mini Skibo Castle that I have been lucky enough to say at with a Member.
Also the Achness Hotel looks rather special with good selection of Whiskies at the bar!
This is in the wilderness land near Lairg behind Dornoch…... so in a mates back backyard (an old Le Mans companion)
Making me very homesick for a NC500 re-run
30 May 2016 cars parked up at Struie Hill
James May just done a great job on the Porsche 917 as part of the new Grand Tour series.
Here is the video….some really good insights I’ve not heard before………..including the cost to develop the 917 Porsche with the sole goal to win a Le Mans effectively bet the company………….good thing they won in 1970.
I have signed autograph of Stirling Moss that I knew had been shot at Monaco in the early 1960’s. At the bottom of this blog note.
I did some research as the authentication certificate was a not clear. It turns out this race was Lotus’s first ever Grand Prix win on 29 May 1960. But, it was a privately entered Rob Walker car a Lotus 18 Cooper with Stirling driving in his number 28 car. It was on pole…ahead of the three Lotus team cars.
He fell back at the start to third and then to second an on lap 17 overtook Jo Bonnier in his BRM (number 2) at the Loewes’ corner (at the time called Station) and I have photo on the overtake as his waves his customary hand to thank the driver he has just passed.
Below the edited highlights of this race and to add a bit more context some of the rushes from Grand Prix the 1966 film with James Garner as the lead I remember as a 10 year old.
Historic motorsport legend Sir Stirling Moss at Race Retro Stoneleigh Park. He won again in 1961 in the Rob Walker Lotus Cooper. This time as number 20. Tragically his career cut short in 1962 at the well documented crash at Goodwood.
Henry Catchpole revisits trip he did a few years ago as homage to the demise of this famous engine.
Woolf Barnato of Bentley boys fame in the late 1920’s is buried in Englefield Green…..Near Windsor……and the excellent trip starts with a visit to his gravestone.
This is the video that captured the essence of Magnus and his vision for early aged 911’s from 1963 to the mid 1970s.
His combo garage and home in the now trendy arts district in LA. His place reminds of an office, R&D Laboratory that I rented in Brisbane in West End for one of my businesses back in the early 2010’s. It also needed to find a new lease of life.
I would typically be thinking about Le Mans in a couple of weeks and starting to get my gear prepared. Whether it will happen in mid September this year is anybodies guess right now odds must be still 50 50.
I found this historical film sequence a few years ago and everytime I watch it, takes you right to the heart of the race. Obviously the track has changed but not that much. Today the pine trees have been really thinned out (in most cases I suspect used by the campers for firewood).
Enjoy.
I’ve updated the suggested tour route section with two tours that I have recently found.
Well worth a visit.
Below a Munich to Munich tour to give you an idea.
Creating a driving web site of top roads in Europe. Alpine roads especially.
I was over at Pangbourne College at the weekend (end of May 26) for their annual Classic Car event well attended.
Never been before….
I will attempt to revisit in 2027.
This this a little trot through the last few years of the Roadster before the Plus 6
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