On I Thursday went on a drive upto Enzo's Cafe, Pokolbin with friends Craig and Colin in their early Porsche 911s. It's a very exclusive club. To belong your Porsche has to be an early-longnose-911 and it has to be silver.
It's always a great run up the backroad starting at Tuggerah, then up the Yarramalong Valley to a coffee stop at Jerry's at Kulnura and on to Wollombi, Broke and Pokollbin. It's 130kms of great driving road. The surface is not good and in some parts the road is narrow. The scenery is wonderful and the biggest bonus is that there is very little traffic and Enzo's is a great cafe. And of course the company is good.
Doing that drive in fine weather is my definition of a perfect day. We did have some rain on the second part of the drive on Thursday and the roads were quite slippery but they were dry on the way back. You certainly know you are driving on a wet road in an early 911.
My 1971 2.2 911-nearest car in photo- is just wonderful to drive. It's like a go-kart with a body. The steering is superb-you can place the car exactly. It handles very well and can be driven very quickly as long as you know what you are doing. The engine is super responsive and it makes a wonderful noise-pure music.The brakes are good and the gearbox is very ordinary-definitely the car's worst feature. It is also noisy and on rough roads-that is most Australian roads- it has more rattles than a millionaire's baby and when driven hard with the throttle on and off repeatedly it is thirsty.
The car is not fun to drive in heavy traffic. The clutch is heavy and the gearbox is hard work. It most definitely not a candidate to be a daily driver but on a twisting open road it is driving in its purest form. It is a pure sports car and every 911 derivative since the early cars has been a step away from that purity.
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