BORN FREE

A right-hand drive 356 A T2 is rare enough, but this rather lovely example was delivered new to Kenya in 1959 and has pretty much travelled the world ever since...

Words Steve Bennett

If only cars could talk, or indeed time-travel. Sadly, they can’t. Well, not in real life, anyway. They can in the movies, though. We’re reminded of this fact at Cranfield-based independent Porsche restoration specialist, Export 56, where a DeLorean DMC-12 is currently taking up residence. Apparently, the car’s Flux Capacitor has given up the ghost. Not for the first time in recent history, we wish Doc and Marty were on hand. It takes a special car to survive. Porsche makes a big deal of its product survival rates, particularly when it comes to logging the existence of classic 911s. The 356 hasn’t fared quite so well, but compared to its contemporaries, survival rates are positively prolific. There’s always a paper trail, of course, but rarely does an individual car of…

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