So the plan for yesterday was to hook up with my two best friends from Uni, Ash and Ben and take three of Ben’s Porches from their storage facility over to a show at Hedddingham castle in Essex. All three of us have run Elises and are (or were) seloc members. Not a bad plan, given that the cars are as follows – 1973 911 2.4S, 
993RS and 964 RSR and pictured amongst this text..
993RS and 964 RSR and pictured amongst this text..The storage is outside London and having cashed in all my good behaviour tokens with my very pregnant wife I am on the road from Manchester to London at 5am, a schlep despatched in two and a half hours! If the baby arrives today I am deep in the shit.
On arrival the news is that Orange car wouldn’t start last night – gutted - Ben was going to be in the RSR and ash and I were probably going to share the Orange car and 993 RS. I have driven both before and I was really looking forward to the 2.4s. For its age it is an amazing machine, tighter than any Elise I have driven that is for sure.
Anyway, here is the boyhood dream bit, we head to th
e storage unit…out of respect of the owners who have their cars there I am not going too say much or post a picture (well maybe a sneaky one below)…but opening the gates to the Porsche’s barn reveals my lotto win dream garage. A narrow barn with cars nose in on each side with a narrow path down the middle to run them in. 20 cars in all. All in humming Carcoons. First in on the left is a Jimmy Clark F1 Lotus!!! My jaw hits the floor – the name Paddy Hopkirk will give a clue on what sits opposite. And it goes on from there, essentially the modern classics we all dream of driving one day, lined up, sitting, waiting.
e storage unit…out of respect of the owners who have their cars there I am not going too say much or post a picture (well maybe a sneaky one below)…but opening the gates to the Porsche’s barn reveals my lotto win dream garage. A narrow barn with cars nose in on each side with a narrow path down the middle to run them in. 20 cars in all. All in humming Carcoons. First in on the left is a Jimmy Clark F1 Lotus!!! My jaw hits the floor – the name Paddy Hopkirk will give a clue on what sits opposite. And it goes on from there, essentially the modern classics we all dream of driving one day, lined up, sitting, waiting. So anyway, we ro
ll out the old car and its dead, gutted. Next out we shuffle out the RSR and fire her up – smoke, lots of smoke, we wait for it to clear its throat, but it is still spitting oil – oh this great p
lan is going tits, I am driving to the show in a bloody Leon at this rate! Five minutes later the RSR is shut down and rolled back inside. Hmmm, I enquire about Ben’s track slag… an 964 he has taken up to RS spec. But it is away having a cage fitted.No worries says Ben, we will go
back to the house to fetch my new car and take that instead. So we go and get
his...new GT3 RS....from the shed next to his rented house, it was parked indoors next to the owners DBS cab FFS!!!
his...new GT3 RS....from the shed next to his rented house, it was parked indoors next to the owners DBS cab FFS!!!Fast forward an hour and I am sat behind the wheel of the 993 RS hammering down the B1051 towards Thaxted being pursued by the GT3 RS. I have driven this car to a TD at Spa before so I know the car pretty well and am comfortable pushing on. This car is fuckin brilliant, proper class. As much fun as an Elise down a twisty, yep easily. Porches dull? Not this car, its epic. We stop so Ash can ride in the GT3 RS and I get to chase now. Holy shit the 3 takes off like a scolded cat through some fast sweepers…lets ‘ave it!! Best half hour of driving I have had this year.
