Classic Porsche

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

COUNTING CYLINDERS

WORKING DRAFT • Development cars get scrapped, re-engined or quietly sold off when the project ends. This one went to Algeria, spent forty-three years with the same owner and still carries an engine no Porsche customer ever received...

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

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

RIGHT OR WRONG • An original car earns the right to its own imperfections. A recreation has no such luxury. Darren Tompkins spent years establishing exactly what the Porsche motorsport department did in 1974, then did it again…

HIDDEN IDENTITY • A German aristocrat, an assumed American name and four seasons of Californian club racing in a four-cam Speedster its maker wasn’t offering to the public. Chassis 81079 has the paperwork to prove all of it…

BENT, NOT BROKEN • Offered twice in four months, this beautifully restored bent-window coupe struggled to find its number. What happened to chassis 52409 says a great deal about how the market values originality…

NOTHING IN COMMON • This issue of Classic Porsche features five cars powered by air-cooled flat-fours spanning three entirely separate bloodlines. We explain why Ernst Fuhrmann’s four-cam masterpiece shares almost nothing with the engine in a standard 356, and why it takes three working weeks to build…

GIANT KILLER • Roy Schechter paid eight thousand dollars for a 1,498cc Porsche Spyder, then beat a Maserati 450S and a Ferrari Monza with it. Chassis 718-023 still wears the bodywork Wendler made and still carries the engine Porsche built…

BOXSTER BLUEPRINT • Porsche sold more 914s than any other car it made, then spent twenty years pretending the format never worked. Here’s what to look for, what to pay and why cheap examples of this Targa-topped roadster are disappearing…

SOUL SURVIVOR • Four decades of racing left this 911 E 2.4 forgotten in an Irish garage. Marika Haapavaara bought the car sight unseen, traced every owner it ever had and refused to turn it into an ornament...

THERE SHE GOES • Porsche had never worked with an outside constructor until a Chicago distributor made a telephone call to Stuttgart. Chassis 70P/032 is the result, a development car, though some say its DNA reaches all the way to the 917…

DEALER SPOTLIGHT • Continuing our series looking at the cars currently available from independent Porsche dealers, we head to Finland and the workshops of Carrera Classic...

MARKET WATCH • Restoration quality is among the hardest things in this market to prove to a stranger. Results at Ascot and in Belgium suggest buyers have...