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  • Carrera Classic racing season started in mid March at Paul Ricard in Southern France. We left Finland in real winter weather, -7°C and a lot of snow. 4 days and 2000 km later we were at Paul Ricard in a nice sunshine and +12° to…

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  • Carrera Classic has been working during the winter 2022-2023 with a new fascinating project, a matching numbers 1955 model 356 Pre-A cabriolet. This car is original Finnish car imported in 1955 and its history is well known from 1955 – 1961 and 1972 to present….

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  • Team Carrera Classic started racing activities in 2018. From the beginning the plan was to drive in Europe with other 1965 911 Porsches. Risto Virtanen joined the team as a driving coach and later in 2020 as a race driver. The first two seasons the…

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  • Dix Mille Tour – Paul Ricard 2.0 Liter Cup continued last weekend 26-28.8 at Paul Ricard in southern France. Team Carrera Classic was there after long, 4 days, one way transfer of 2000 km in the van and one day on the ferry. Paul Ricard…

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  • Carrera Classic organized together with Porsche Classic Club Finland Luftgekühlt Treffen at Botniaring race track on Sunday 10.7. 2022. The event was a great success. We had finally a nice weather and a lot of enthusiastic participants. We had about 40 aircooled Porsches around (+…

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  • Our two year 964 backdate project, CC1 is ready and delivered to the customer. Carrera Classic .fi has been the last 10 years known for high quality restorations of 1960´s and 1970´s Porsches, mainly 356, 912 and 911 models. This project was new and highly interesting for us…

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  • When Porsche 911 /912 rally activities started actively in the late 1960 it became necessary to have more light on the road. The Porsche choice was the French Cibie halogen lights which were the best at the time. The Cibie Pallas lights were first time…

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  • Spring had arrived and snow was melting even in Finland. We had now almost completed our two year 964 backdate project, which has been named CC1. The final test drives weredone in late April at Botniaring racetrack in Jurva. The conditions were great, but unusual. The track was clean and dry, sun…

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  • Our 964 backdate project had progressed to the final installation phase. The gearbox was not a big issue as it is standard five speed manual transmission. We just rebuild the transmission and changed the damaged pinon and ring. The transmission got Quife limited slip. The engine…

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  • We visited Botniaring racetrack for a winter test of our 912 rally car. We know the long Botniaring track (4014m) very well, but this winter experience was our first one. It was a beautiful sunny late Friday afternoon. There was a lot of snow and…

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