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Classic Porsche

Dec 01 2024
Magazine

The definitive celebration of Stuttgart’s air-cooled classics. Published by the same team that brings you the market-leading 911 & Porsche World magazine, Classic Porsche is the only magazine which exclusively covers air-cooled Porsches, from the earliest prototypes through five decades of stunning road and race cars. Every issue is packed full of showcase features focusing on standout examples from the Porsche back catalogue, as well as profiles and interviews with key Porsche personnel (including legendary racing drivers), rare archive photographs, event reports, owner stories, in-depth articles focusing on restorations, Porsche-specific technologies and much more. Classic Porsche is brought to you by a team dedicated to the scene — all Porsche owners, drivers and enthusiasts, making Classic Porsche a must-have title for anyone who shares the same passion for this prestigious marque. Guarantee your regular fix of air-cooled classics by subscribing to Classic Porsche and get each issue at a cost much lower than you’ll find on the newsstand. Classic Porsche is published ten times a year.

Classic Porsche

FORK IN THE ROAD

HERO WORSHIP • Modified air-cooled Porsches often earn the Outlaw epithet, but we think of this altered 356 B Super 90 as more of a Hero, or at least somewhere in between the two...

LIVEWIRE • Our look at what’s happening in the wonderful world of air-cooled classics…

PRODUCTS • Hot new products for you and the precious air-cooled Porsche in your life…

ZESTY BUSINESS • Selecting a standout GT3 hue for his 911 SC was an inspired decision for Mark Manning. Looking on the bright side, maybe he’ll inspire future generations to do something similar with air-cooled Porsches?

SILVER MACHINE • It’s a project started twenty-eight years ago, and one that’s swallowed nearly £200,000 in the process. It was once a humble 1972 914, but is now a 916-inspired mutant, complete with crushing 993-derived power and performance...

BEAUTY IN SPEED • With its sights firmly set on the FIA’s GT class, Porsche developed its 904 racing coupe for the 1964 season. Powered by an improved version of the four-cam flat-four, the new arrival was low, sleek and an absolute masterwork of design by Ferdinand ‘Butzi’ Porsche…

THE INBETWEENERS • Between the better-known Porsche chiefs, Ernst Fuhrmann and Wendelin Wiedeking, were Heinz Branitzki and Arno Bohn, neither of whom can be said to have left behind a record of achievement…

ALTERED STATE • This 356 B Carrera 2 makes use of a 356 C body and a Type 587/1 engine making use of 904-specification components, but don’t go looking to the aftermarket for the source of these parts — they were provided by Porsche itself…

SIX YEARS IN GMÜND • In 1944, obliged by Albert Speer, who was serving as Nazi Germany’s Minister of Armaments and War Production, the Porsche family moved to Gmünd in the Carinthian quarter of Austria...

FAMILY VALUES • Imagine your dad owned a black 911 Turbo in the 1980s and was a cop in the Essex police force. Sounds a bit like a UK version of the Will Smith movie, Bad Boys, doesn’t it?! Such powerful memories are certainly enough to make you want to buy a black 911 of your own...

SOME GRANDMOTHER • Only a handful of Porsche motorsport machines have been one of a kind. Shining in this role in the 1960s was the racing and hill-climbing Type 718 W-RS, a handsome roadster with a successful four-year career in both Europe and North America...

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