Porsche opens first Porsche Classic Centre for sales, service and repair

Porsche has opened the world’s first Porsche Classic Centre in the Netherlands, offering classic car sales, servicing repair and overhaul for classic Porsche owners.

When Porsche decides to open a proper, full-scale Porsche Centre dedicated just to the sale, servicing and repair of Porsche Classics, you know the classic car market has become hugely important to car makers.

Porsche intends cashing in on the lucrative classic Porsche market by opening Porsche Classic Centres around the world, and the blueprint for that model has now opened its doors in Gelderland, just outside Amsterdam, as the world’s first dedicated centre.

Porsche say that over 70 per cent of all Porsches ever built are still on the road – in one state or another – and with values of classic Porsches climbing ever higher it’s clearly too big a market for Porsche to not have dedicated centres any more.

The new Porsche Classic Centres will be part of a network of 100 outlets round the world by 2018, which will include Porsche Centres which offer facilities for sports cars of earlier eras which will offer the complete range of classic services, including access to around 52,000 original parts, enabling them to offer repair, maintenance and even complete overhaul.

But the classic service centres won’t be there just to service and repair classics, but will also offer sales of classic Porsches from their showrooms including, no doubt, appealing stuff like the original Porsche 356, 914, early 911s, the 924 and 944, Porsche’s fabulous, and often underrated, 928, the Carrera GT and, you never know, a 959 or two.

It’s a sensible move, but let’s hope it doesn’t do too much damage to some of the excellent Porsche Classic specialists that currently keep classic Porsches in fine fettle.