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Porsche RS60

I also had a thing about Porsches, the 550 and RS60 (or 718 or RSK.  I remember when I lived in Flanchford Road in the 1970s there was an RS60 parked for a while in Hartswood Road, and it had a plate inside it which proclaimed than it had been raced by Jo Bonnier..  It would have been about £10k then (a house there would be about £30k), and it would be worth well over £1m today.

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However, there was a company, GP Projects, who produced a kit to turn a VW Beetle into an RS60, with a fiberglass body.  I fancied one, and had a bit of dosh, and in about 1990 I went to see one in Surrey, and bought it for around £6k.

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It was in good nick, with a hood (though with in on it was practically impossible to get in or out).  I don't know what the performane of an original RS60 would have been like, but it was good, fast fun, and you had to be careful going round corners because it was so light that you could easily slide.

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I was once at the traffic lights at Turnham Green Terrace, and a young chap came up to me and said "Please tell me it's not real".

I drove it around London, down to our country cottage at Bishopstone in Wiltshire, then when we lived in Dameham and had an office in Salisbury I would commute there, and drove it up to Prescott once.  The country lanes were slightly dodgy, as you wanted to go fast, and round sharp bends you would slide on gravel, and also particularly when meeting large or fast oncoming vehicles, or farm machinery.  Then I kept it under the open garden shed at the Damerham Corn Mill, because it was much better suited to the country than to London, and then I separated and I left it there.  Son George moved in to the Corn Mill, and he used it quite a lot, going to work etc.  But eventually it fell into dis-use, the brakes would lock up, etc.  After a few years friend Michael F took it away in exchange for some money that I owed him.

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