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73 RS and several racecars from Today's Porsche Classics at the Castle 2015 UK
Below a very small selection of what was on display today Headingham Castle in Essex, England, a Norman motte-and-bailey castle with a stone keep constructed in the late 11th Century...
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Nick Faure at event today & taking the 73 RS model to its first ever win
British racing driver Nick Faure won the first race that any MY 1973 2.7 Carrera RS won in March 1973 at Croft Autodrome in North East England. This was in the company '72 RHD M472 Touring British Market demonstrator because the RS M471 that was on order for racing had not arrived in time for the first race in the series.
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Nick was photographed today at the Porsche Classics at the Castle event alongside the very same RS in which he launched the model's many successes by winning that Croft race. The car now privately owned.
Coincidentally Nick sold me a similar RS back in the early 1990s - another of the rare first-500 series right-hand-drive RS that was also built in 1972. He took me for a demonstration drive around the Surrey country lanes near to his dealership. Suffice to say I was hooked :)
Nick and several "friends" in pit lane at Silverstone for British GP. Can't recall which year exactly, but I just snapped them when passing... Attachment 355557
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Sharing a few more views from Classics at the Castle Headingham Event in Essex
Nick,
As requested a few more shots from Headingham. Fred and the whole team do a fantastic job organising this event. Give me a shout if you are back on UK for this event next year would be good to meet. I do remember you being a director of PCGB and having a black RS but that was a many years ago when the late David Gillhooley was RS register secretary.
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There is more to England than Essex...
Goodwood Revival 2015 in Sussex is a much larger scale event and world class classic event ...Porsche put on is little display recreating a workshop form early 60s...
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As do Shell (in background) and various others