Gallery

A random gallery of pictures while out and about in the ‘993 over the years…

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April 2022

Nothing happened in 2021 either! – but we did move house, though that meant that we had little time to do anything with the car. The good news is I now have a bigger garage, so at least the car has been safely covered in a garage and I have room to work around it.
I’ve just had a reminder through that the agreed valuation certificate is about to expire, so I had to get the car out to take a few pictures to send off.
So, here’s a few of the photos that I’ll be sending off to Classicline to get an updated certificate……..

January 2020

Nothing happened in 2020 – we had Covid-19 instead, and nobody could go anywhere!
Today though, I needed to get the car good and hot to test all the HVAC bits and clear fault codes – so went for a drive round in the lovely quiet and dry winter roads.
Here’s a couple of pictures from a stop along the way……

September 2019

Jasmine Porsche Breakfast meet
Four times a year, Jasmine Porsche open their doors to PCGB, TIPEC and any owners and customers for a breakfast meeting – just some bacon butties and a coffee with a bunch of other petrolheads but we all contribute to a local charity.
I’ve missed the last three mornings because of other stuff going on at the time, but got there today. There were probably about 50 Porsche’s turned up as we had great weather, then topped it off with a nice drive into the country.

August 2019

Oulton Park ‘Gold Cup’
Having missed last year as I was on holiday, I went along this year for the Monday only after a long flight back from New York – so slightly jet lagged. It was a little overcast in the morning, but still a good day.

July 2019

At the Silverstone Classics this year – it rained all day, so no photos from the circuit.
However, here’s a few pictures from when we got back to the hotel at night and the rain eventually stopped!

May 2019

‘Porches on the Prom’ is an event that the PCGB organise each year, where any Porsche owner is invited to bring their car along to Llandudno to display on the prom. Unfortunately, it’s always fallen on the same day as the Cumbria car show so I’ve never made it along.
I went along this year though, and what a day. It rained overnight, but stopped just before the prom opened in the morning – then 850 Porsche’s turned up to be lined up on display.

May 2019

Once a year, there is a ‘Supercar Breakfast meet’ at the stunning Mitton hall near Clitheroe. As the weather was nice, I set of early to try and get a spot in front of the Hall. Although I managed to bag the last available space in the grounds, the car wasn’t really on show and was quite hidden.
Still – there was a great turn out, and the car did get some praise even when mixing with Ferrari’s, Mclaren’s, Lambo’s and even a couple of 918’s. I’ll get there a little earlier next year…..

January 2019

I didn’t use the car too much after Silverstone – a mixture of holidays and illness, so it was good to go to the annual classic car breakfast meeting on new years day morning – followed by a run around the quiet country lanes.

July 2018

Our annual trip the the Silverstone classics. We were fortunate for great weather again, and the car looked fantastic amongst all the other air-cooled classics. Stayed in a nice little hotel around 25 miles away, and some surprising cars on the car park there too!
All topped off with a drive at the Porsche experience centre with a professional instructor showing me how to drive a 991.2 GTS flat out. What a car….

July 2018

We met up with a bunch of guys from the 911uk.com forum at Donnington Park for the ‘Trax’ performance car festival.
I didn’t do any track time, but it was a great day out with fantastic weather – and a good early morning drive down on the A roads where we could open the taps a little!

May 2018

…..a few random pictures from the Super-car breakfast meet in Preston.

May 2018

We had a long weekend in the Lakes. The weather was fantastic (for a change), and we got to drive some good roads.
On the last day we stopped off at the ‘Cumbria International Car Show’ and parked up in the PCGB area for a few hours.

February 2018

This was the first time this year that I can get the car out when we don’t have rain or snow with salty roads at a weekend.
I took a long drive through some nice little villages before going to a nice restaurant for lunch.

November 2017

We had a few days in the Lakes stopping at the Gilpin Hotel. I would have liked to get more pictures, but it seemed that every time we stopped the car it was absolutely throwing it down with rain or sleet – and I wasn’t going to get out of the car for that!
Here’s just a couple of shots of a dirty car after a full day blasting round Windermere – before the snow came in…..

October 2017

I don’t tend to use the car for work that often, as being stuck in traffic on the M6 for ages is no fun. However, I had to be in work early, and knew I was also leaving early today so thought with the weather being nice – I’d take the car out.
Here’s a couple of pictures I took at dawn. It’s amazing what difference a bit of lighting makes, so I’m going to have to learn more about low light photography and buy some decent flash lights. Just a shame I didn’t have the SLR, and had to take these pictures with a Samsung S7…….

August 2017

Here’s some pictures from the Gold Cup event at Oulton Park, in the PCGB display area. I really enjoy this meeting, and the weather was great again this year

August 2017

Back at the Phantom Winger for the August 2017 ‘Cars & Coffee’ Supercar Sunday…….

July 2017

Here’s a few pictures from our trip to the Silverstone Classics with PCGB (July 2017) – and I also tested a new 991 GTS at the Porsche Experience centre, getting a bit of track day training from one of the Porsche race instructors. What a car that was!

Can you spot our car in this lot?

July 2017

Some pictures from the ‘Fast Car Festival’ at Donnington – where the “911uk.com” forum had a display area. A majority of the cars that managed the 8:30 am start were later 996 & 997’s – but we still managed a reasonable turnout of Air Cooled classics. Mine was one of four 993’s……

June 2017

At the Cars ‘n’ coffee breakfast meeting in Preston. There’s always a good selection of Porsche here, along with loads of other super cars (Ferrari, Mclaren, Lamborghini, Aston Martin etc.)

May 2017

A couple of pictures from the hotel balcony before going to the ‘Cumbria international car show’. After 3 days of rain, at least the day was dry for the show!