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Soul
Yesterday I had a bit of an amazing experience. I have been obsessed with the Porsche 930 Flatnose since I was a kid, especially the 930 Turbo. Yesterday evening I just happened to see one trundling down Kingsland Road banging away on overrun, so I just started sprinting after it in the hope I could take a photo. As luck would have it, the guy driving happened to turn into the Turkish mosque round the corner and I caught him up and asked if I could take a couple of photos. I took some photos, he got me to sit in the driver seat and took photos of me in it (I'm such a loser...), and then he told me to get in the passenger seat and took me out for a drive in it.
This guy said he used to run a specialist garage but he's retired now. He bought the car in 1987, 1 year old, and he's done some fettling over the years, and it was fucking fast. A fair bit of lag but when it came on boost the back end was squatting hard and lighting up the tyres. I won't say exactly how fast he managed to go between traffic lights but it was insane.
It was so epic. I know at the end of the day it's "just" a 930 Turbo with a 935 front end on it, but to me it was Porsche's half-way house to the 935, sure you could get a street-legal 935 but that's me as a kid, I knew I would never be able to get my hands on a 935 so why dream too big...?