One to Buy: ex-Ben Pon Jr. 1967 Porsche 910
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Introduced mid-way through the 1966 season, the 910 served as Porsche’s replacement for the outgoing 906.
Based around a tubular steel spaceframe chassis into which were dropped various iterations of Porsche’s Flat 6 and Flat 8 engines, the 910 went on to become the breakthrough model that achieved outright wins at World Championship level for the Stuttgart firm.
Having initially been reserved for use in the European Hillclimb Championship during 1966 (which it won and subsequently went on to dominate throughout 1967 and ‘68), Porsche took the 910 into the World Sportscar Championship for 1967 where it achieved a hat-trick of outright wins at the Targa Florio, Nubrurgring 1000km and Mugello GP.
In total, 29 examples of the 910 were built with many of these having been successfully raced by privateers.
One such 910 was chassis 018 currently on offer at the Canepa showroom in Scotts Valley, California.
Originally supplied to Ben Pon Jr. whose father was the Dutch importer for Porsche and Volkswagen, chassis 018 ran a limited campaign in 1968 but nevertheless managed to collect a sixth place finish overall and first in class at the big Anderstorp race meet on June 16th and seventh place overall at the Norisring 200 miles a couple of weeks later.
For 1969, chassis 018 was sold to Hans-Dieter Blatzheim who continued to race it around Europe.
Today, chassis 018 has been restored to its original 1968 configuration and looks resplendent in Ben Pon’s signature orange colour scheme (the Dutch national racing colours).
