911 & Porsche World

ALEX MANOS

Cars I really love are 911s from the early 1970s. Announced in 1969, the second-generation of Porsche’s flagship included the introduction of a 2.2-litre flat-six. The 911 T, one of which I have on-sale at my classic sports car dealership, Beverly Hills Car Club, may have been the entrylevel pick of the bunch (the two-litre variant remains the lowest-output 911 ever built), but in 2.2-litre form, it produced 123bhp.

For the 1970 model year, the then new 914 was

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