Back in 2018, Porsche was flooding social media with pictures and stories celebrating the seventieth anniversary of its time as a sportscar manufacturer. To mark this milestone in the company's history, Porsche Cars GB commissioned the restoration of no fewer than twenty legacy models, including a 914, a G-series 911, a 964 and a 993. Each car was finished in the same Liquid Metal paint covering the 918 Spyder PHEV, while mechanical and interior restoration — the latter incorporating a commemorative plaque — preceded the appearance of the finished fourwheelers at the annual Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birminqham every November.
Through its Porsche Classic Partner Centres, Porsche Cars GB has restored a number of historically significant Stuttgart-crested cars. For example, at the backend of 2015, in a bid to highlight the existence of the rich pool of talented Porsche Centre technicians well-versed in the field of maintaining Zuffenhausen's classic speed machines, Porsche Cars GB Owner Services Manager, Jonathan Mannell, arranged for 924 GTP chassis 002 — a participant in the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans and the only factory race car ever to compete wearing the Union Jack — to be liberated from the Porsche Museum and passed through each of the UK's Classic Partner Centres for restoration. Under the direction of Andy Wexham (previously a Porsche Classic Technician, now head of independent specialist, RSR Developments), the team at Porsche Centre Leeds took care of stripping and inspecting the car, as well as sorting its electrics, in readiness for its new lease of life. Porsche Centre Glasgow recommissioned the suspension, brakes and wheels. Meanwhile, Porsche Centre Swindon
