Porsche 910

The 910 is an exceptionally rare and important part of Porsches racing history, and should be of great interest to any serious collector, as it was a direct ancestor for the 908 with which Porsche won its first World Championship in 1968.

The 910 was one of the second generation of Porsche sports racers; it was a line which began with the 904, and it had been strengthened by the lessons learned when the factory bought two Elva Mk 7s, one of which came second in the 1964 European Hillclimb Championship. The 904 was highly successful both for the factory and its many customers; it was followed by the 906 which, again, sold (and won) in quantity. And so to the 910 which, most unlike Porsche, illogically came before the 907, 908, and 909, with which it was closely related.

The Porsche 910 was raced by the factory for only a single season, 1967, but it powered Gerhard Mitter to his third European Hillclimb Championship, took the first three places in...