DRIVING FORCE

Occupying two state-of-the-art sites either side of Manchester, Road and Race Restorations is a Porsche-approved repair centre with thorough knowledge of the brand’s new and legacy output, including its motorsport machines...

Words Dan Furr

SUBSCRIBE TO Classic PORSCHE SEE PAGE 108 FOR DETAILS Through its Porsche Classic Partner Centres, Porsche Cars GB has overseen the restoration of several historically significant sports cars. For example, at the back end of 2015, in a bid to highlight the existence of the rich pool of talented Porsche Centre technicians well versed in the field of maintaining classic Stuttgart speed machines, then Porsche Cars GB Owner Services Manager, Jonathan Mannell, arranged for 924 GTP chassis 002 — a participant in the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans and the only factory race car ever to compete wearing the Union Jack — to be liberated from the Porsche Museum’s vault in Zuffenhausen and passed through each of the UK’s Classic Partner Centres for restoration. The team at Porsche Centre…

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