Salon Privé, the upmarket London-based supercar and classics concours, has secured a sensational collection of 15 Group C Porsches for its inaugural event at Syon Park in Brentford on 22-24 June.
The event, which mixes modern fare with classics, was previously held at the Hurlingham Club in Fulham, but has moved further out of town – to the London home of the Duke of Northumberland – in order to expand.
The move has had an immediate effect by tempting Canadian auction house RM to hold a sale during the show.
The Porsches will be the centrepiece of the classic part of the event. Among them are the first 956 produced, chassis 956 – 001, which started from pole position and won Group C in the hands of Derek Bell and Jackie Ickx on its debut at Silverstone in 1982. The same car carried out much of the development work that resulted in a clean sweep of podium places at the Le Mans 24hrs that year.
Other stars are chassis 956 - 008, a newly-built works car for the 1983 Le Mans that led for the first four hours, in the hands of Stefan Bellof and Jochen Mass and which went on to win the famed Norisring Gold race in front of over 100,000 spectators, again in the hands of the legendary Bellof.
