The Porsche 906/10 is commonly known as the 910 and was a development of the successful 906. Alterations to wheel size and wheel fitting (13" wheels with a single, central wheelnut) ensured that the Porsche 910 was purely a competition car, unlike the preceeding 906.
The 910 was both lighter and shorter than the 906 and used either the Type 901/21 2 litre fuel injected flat six engine or the 2.2 litre Type 771/0 fuel injected flat eight engine.
The competition career of the Porsche 910 started in 1966 with entries in European hillclimbs before it progressed into endurance races. Porsche did not campaign the 910 for an overly long time, indeed they only used it for around about a year before it was retired from works use and used singularly by privteers.The 910 gave Porsche their first real taste of overall succes in endurance racing (finishing 1,2 and 3 at the 1000km Nurburgring in 1967) and paved the way greater and greater success as the Zuffenhausen marque became synonymous with endurance racing, Le Mans and victories.
There were only around 30 910s built; 19 of which were raced for the Porsche factory.
Lesney Matchbox made a nice version of the Porsche 910 in theirSuperfast series of 1970. Despite not being the tradional white and red colour scheme of the works cars the model remains very popular even today. Available in all white or a metallic red the Matchbox Superfast Porsche 910 has held its value well during the last 40 years with mint, boxed version reaching £60 or more at auction.
Pictured are a few of my collection including the two wheel versions that are available - thick or thin. I'm lucky enough to have boxed mint models of each Lesney Matchbox version and despite them only being 1:64 (approx) scale they remain an impressive little car!
There were only around 30 910s built; 19 of which were raced for the Porsche factory.
Lesney Matchbox made a nice version of the Porsche 910 in theirSuperfast series of 1970. Despite not being the tradional white and red colour scheme of the works cars the model remains very popular even today. Available in all white or a metallic red the Matchbox Superfast Porsche 910 has held its value well during the last 40 years with mint, boxed version reaching £60 or more at auction.
Pictured are a few of my collection including the two wheel versions that are available - thick or thin. I'm lucky enough to have boxed mint models of each Lesney Matchbox version and despite them only being 1:64 (approx) scale they remain an impressive little car!
