[Munky King]

…and people say the ‘60s was the time for peace, love and drugs - I think the 80s and 90s also had a few people on the edge…

My first Porsche was very nearly a 959 coupe replica back in the late 80s. Luckily I took my Uncle with me to see it before I parted with all the money I had and a large chunk I didn’t. He pointed out all of the filled over rust and all sorts of naughtiness (like the ‘builder’ using nails to keep parts of the wings on).

These days, I’m sure most Porsche people would tell me, ‘your only taste is in your mouth’, but would have been the cats ‘meow’ back then.

I went to see another stock (uncle approved) 911 after that - a light yellow 71 T. Looked amazing but was a long hood as short hood cars were way out of my league.

The owner managed to put it backwards in a field showing me ‘what it’ll do’, which put me off Porsches for years… funnily, when we got back from the test run (I didn’t drive it) and me helping him push it out of the field, he said something like ‘I’m guessing you probably aren’t interested then?’