NUMBER CRUNCHER

This 1988 Cassis Red Carrera 3.2 has not only been around the block, it’s been around the clock, having rung up the best part of 500,000 miles in little more than three decades…

Words Johnny Tipler

Thinking back, I thought my old 964, the Peppermint Pig, was doing well at 375,000km. It’d been around the block, or so I reckoned, but on the grand scale of high-milers, this figure is nothing when compared to the ground covered by Steven Pidding’s Carrera 3.2, which has racked up an astonishing 805,000km (more than 500,000 miles!). How come? Blame the high score on the car’s original owner, a businessman by the name of Phillippe Lathuille. Based in south-eastern France, he averaged about 10,000km every month — yep, every month — being constantly on the move, travelling across continental Europe to visit his various far-flung business interests in an age before Zoom calls and Teams meetings made an anachronism of such a lifestyle. Blame is too harsh a word, obviously,…

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Classic Porsche (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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