DOWN WARRAGUL WAY

Sun and fun in Warragul, south-east of Melbourne, Australia. I was set to drive a 356 for the first time since the mid-1960s, when I raced my beloved Speedster on Aussie circuits, showing others a clean pair of heels. Fast-forward to the present day and this driver and air-cooled Porsches are somewhat older, which may explain why I found the silver Super 90 pictured on these pages something of a handful. How the car’s owner, Dave Chapman, successfully wielded it around the fantastic Targa Tasmania road rally in 2018 remains a mystery. Nevertheless, he did a power of good in an event he’d never entered before and, just like Sicily’s Targa Florio (the legendary endurance race Targa Tasmania is based upon), simple everyday country roads closed for the event threw up something of a challenge for seasoned and debutant competitors – never mind missing the occasional woolly Merino wandering across the track if you want to see the finish line.

Dave’s Super 90 was built in December 1961 and was promptly shipped to then Australasian Porsche agent, Norman Hamilton of St Kilda, Melbourne, in February 1962. The list price was