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> Nurburgring Oldtimer GP 2016, We went there in our 911s, but this post is about 914s!, We went there in our 911s, but this post is about 914s!
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post Aug 18 2016, 07:45 AM
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It was the Oldtimer GP at the Nurburgring last weekend, and a few of us drove down for a few days of Eifel mountain road blatts, classic racing, Weissbier and Sauerkraut.

Rich and Stephen - in the Sepia Reaper - and Pete and Ian - in their Orange Peril - left from the UK on Thursday morning:

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And I drove my green RS rep from my folks' place on the West coast of France, 650 miles East, thru Belgium and into Germany..:

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...Stopping off at various motorsport landmarks on the way. All in one day I saw:


Hotel De France. Le Mans 24 Hrs lodgings of choice for all the big race teams in the 60s and 70s:

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Autodrome De Linas-Montlhery, South of Paris:

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Reims - Gueux, in the Champagne region of East France:

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And our little convoy finally met up on Thursday afternoon, at a wet and rainy Spa Francorchamps in Belgium...:


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...Before pressing on for the final 80 miles into Germany and to our lakeside campsite in the beautiful Eifel mountains:

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Although a few of us had been to the 'ring before, this was our first Oldtimer GP, and we decided the best way to celebrate arriving was to get stuck in to some Weissbier:

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Anyway, that's enough early 911 coverage. After all, this is a 914 forum (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

So let me introduce one of our party, Stephen.

He owns an imported from Texas 914, in light ivory, which he is planning to convert to a GT rep, with 3.0 911 engine on PMOs.

And me: I own an imported from Texas 914, in light ivory, which I too am planning to convert to a GT styled car, on a 3.0 911 engine on Webers...

Although we had arrived in Germany on Thursday to drizzly weather, Friday dawned bright and sunny.

Which was just perfect for Stephen to test drive my 911 over the 20 miles of fantastic sweeping, undulating roads that separated the campsite from the Nurburgring GP circuit:

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The obviously awesome location aside, the event itself is brilliant.

If any of you are lucky enough to have been to Le Mans Classic and teh Spa 6 hours historic events, the Oldtimer is somewhere half way between the two.

Like LMC it is pretty big (but not as crowded as LMC), lots of variety of marques represented, a bit corporate, modern spectator comforts.

And like Spa 6 Hours there is very close racing (with no big gaps between races like at LMC), more relaxed atmosphere than LMC, more open access to the cars and drivers in the paddocks, brilliant track for spectating.


But what sets it apart from the other european classic race weekend is the representation of Porsche as a marque.
It's almost like the Nurburgring is Porsche's spiritual home. Thousands and thousands of P-cars.

If you like 911s, this is clearly the place to be. We all agreed that we had never seen so many 911s in one place before...
If that is your bag, we posted scads of 911 shots over on DDK, and you can go soak them up over there: DDK Nurburgring Oldtimer 2016 thread

But this is the 914 forum, and that is what Stephen and I were most interested in, so here's a filtered view...:
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914s were in short supply, despite orginal volume of production data...

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This GT was pretty tasty. Sadly not racing this weekend though:

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This GT rep was immaculate. Result of a 7 year restoration.

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Interesting, flat undertray custom fabricated:

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3 litre on Webers:

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This was the only 914 we actually saw in motion on the open road!

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Sticking with mid-engined Porsches, I know we all appreciate these...

We spotted 2 904s at the event.

This one was not racing, and we saw it out driving home on the public road on Saturday 8) :

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The banded rims it was wearing didn't look too neat / safe to our eyes!

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This one on the other hand was racing:

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This is one of the guys running the race team fielding this 904, the Coca-Cola 935, the white RSR with an arrow on its bonnet etc.

He's an ex Porsche factory rally co-driver, who kept us entertained for ages with stories from back in the day.

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And avoiding 911 content again, how about Porsche's other models?

This year marks 40 years of the Porsche transaxle cars. Rather than lots of shots of 924s, 944s, 928s, etc....

We thought this car summed up Porsche's best effort in this category:

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And going a long way back in time, how about this. A factory built rep of a Type 64.

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It might be a special museum piece, but Walter Rohrl had still somehow been allowed in there and scrawled his autograph on the glovebox lid!

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BEST POST of the day!

thank you!

Great pics and write-up.
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James - Thank you...appreciate any additional pictures you have of that GT!

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nice pictures (and cars) and it looks like you guys had serious fun. This is a real cool post. Thanks.
(can I come with you guys next time ? :-))
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+ 1, Porsche's are Porsche's, its good to see some others of the Breed.
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nice pictures (and cars) and it looks like you guys had serious fun. This is a real cool post. Thanks.
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+ 1 and exactly what I was thinking.....its been too many years since Ive been to LM or LMC and those were getting way too F1 corporate for my taste even 10 years ago. Would have to take the 911 as the -6 is years away from being done. But I think I could slum it to a Euro classic race in the old girl and sup a beer or two
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