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

WORD ON THE STREET

LAST IN LINE • Porsche built the 964 Speedster in the depths of a downturn and sold barely a third of the planned production run. Three decades on, this chop-top 911 is finally getting its due…

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…

OVERLOOKED DUO • One is the four-cylinder ‘baby 911’ everybody used to apologise for. The other is the 964 nobody wants to talk about. Together, they make a strong argument for ownership in the modern age...

STREET SMART • Twelve thousand miles is a long way to travel, but Australia’s premier historic motorsport gathering has long been on our hit list. Editor Furr made the trip Down Under to experience the event first-hand...

BEACH PARTY • Porsche shipped only a handful of competition-configured examples of the 911 S to America. One went to a Czech refugee turned Hermosa Beach dealer. Sixty years on, the car is still with us...

INDYPENDENT THINKING • Dominated by race car owners, the United States Auto Club cast a jaundiced eye at Porsche’s ambitions to compete at Indianapolis. In the second instalment of our two-part series focusing on the manufacturer’s plan to take on the Indy 500, we discover just how resourceful Weissach’s engineers where when Interscope commissioned a new car to carry the 935/72 flat-six…

KING OF THE MOUNTAINS • Thirty-nine events in two seasons, twenty outright wins and two Spanish championships. Chassis 904-057 still wears the bodywork Heinkel moulded for it, and is accompanied by a scrapbook recording every start…

G-SERIES PERFECTED • More than seventy-three thousand Carrera 3.2s were built, making it the least rare 911 to feature in these pages, but also the most resolved G-series 911 of all. Here is how to buy a good one…

CLASSIC PACKAGE • Adelaide, 1960. A young journalist trades his Beetle for one of the last Speedsters built, then spends five years beating the cream of the British motor industry up hills nobody had heard of…

PARK LIFE • Based in the stately surroundings of Bedfordshire’s Wrest Park, Auto Umbau made the transition from police to Porsche and hasn’t looked back...

DEALER SPOTLIGHT • Continuing our series looking at the cars currently available from independent Porsche dealers, we head to the showroom of RPM Specialist Cars...

MARKET WATCH • The 907 we previewed last month crossed the block in California, but the sale price wasn’t a figure anybody had written down. We pick through the month’s results and ask what the room is really telling us…