The Last Days of Print
My love of magazines started in my pre teen years at the rump end of africa where things took months to arrive. By my teen years I was devouring them at such a rate I took to buying up old…
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Festival of Speed
It seems we have spent the summer shuttling up and down from Goodwood more regularly than usual. The scenic trip across the South Downs is always welcome with the SatNav finding new and unusual back roads to circumvent sporadic jams…
Mid Summer Report
Mid summer sees us head into Europe to enjoy alternative pursuits until early autumn. This year launching new brands and sorting out supply chains means we have been delayed by four weeks. This has allowed us to attend events we…
Road trip Ireland
No sooner were we back from our 5100 mile Arctic circle adventure, than we were off on the next road trip, this time with the 9Werks crew to Ireland. After such an opus magnum of a trip the reckless optimism…
Norway
12 years ago I lost a friend my own age; fit and active, life and sole of the party, went to bed feeling unwell and at the age of 42 slipped away in her sleep. I was working 16 hours…
Monthly Running Report
Spring is always a busy time preparing cars for the summer ahead. This year has turned out to be more of a chore than normal with everywhere booked up, not returning calls or cancelling appointments at the last minute. Taking…
Monthyl Running Report
Having lived here on the farm for the last 10 years we have slowly built up a collection of useful garage tools from a bolt extractors through to a torque wrench that takes two people to lift. From ceramic coating…
Suspension upgrades for the 996
Spring is always a busy time in the garage. Snowboards are put away and events start to populate the calender. While there is always the opportunity for a cheeky 10 days final fling on the slopes in early April, with…
Monthly Running Report
With events and road trips for the year in the planning stages it is time to start reviewing possible replacements for trans european excursions. Currently duties are shared between the trust C4S and the 928. Both cope well covering several…
Running Report
It has been and extremely busy year for me both within and outwith the Porsche scene. Hangovers from the pandemic meant much tooing and frooing to 9 Excellence to bring deferred maintenance back inline as well as a three road…