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“A PORSCHE REPRESENTS SO MUCH MORE TO ME THAN SIMPLY BEING A VEHICLE”

Michelle Hambly collection

Michelle Hambly’s garage is such an inviting place. Although primarily a place to store cars, it’s also a library, a coffee corner, and contains other memorabilia that pulls you closer to the Porsche brand.

This is a place where you’ll want to learn more about the sports car from Stuttgart. A place that invites you to relax, take your cup of coffee and start paging through one of the many books on Porsche. A place that manages to successfully combine the atmosphere of a garage with a Porsche museum.

Michelle’s Porsche shrine didn’t happen overnight though. There’s a long history behind her efforts in acquiring all of these cars, books and memorabilia. The floor on which Michelle’s cars are parked is the entrance to her house. Is there any better way than to be welcomed home by a room full of (mostly) 911s?

“I remember as a small child of three or four years old, I was always in the garage with my late father,” says Michelle. “He was always busy working on the cars, be it changing the oil or replacing spark plugs. One of my first memories as a

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