Secret Porsche Collection Packs Plenty of White Light, White Heat
Tucked away in a secret location, all-white Porsche collection is centered around three of the best supercars to come from Stuttgart.
For those who have the means, their car collections can be whatever they want it to be. Some are focused exclusively on one make or model. Others on the best of the best ever made. A few even prefer to collect memorabilia surrounding their beloved cars, while only possessing a couple or so examples in their garages.
The Porsche Club of America’s Porsche Panorama knows of a collection where nearly everything, from the location to the cars themselves, is white. The magazine was granted access to this secret collection recently, one we’re lucky to see through their eyes.
“Here at the White Collection, we have about 65 Porsches,” said caretaker Carl Bauer. “It’s a number that’s constantly changing, but it’s usually going up.”
Among those 65 is a centerpiece of three special Porsches: a Carrera GT, a 918 Spyder, and the “crown jewel” of the entire White Collection, a 1987 959 Komfort. For Bauer, the 959 is “a technological tour-de-force…an unbelievable, groundbreaking car for Porsche in the Eighties.”
“Here at the White Collection, we try to go for a very distinct museum environment,” Bauer says. “It goes from the pads that the cars are parked on, the floor signage that we have here.”
On one side of the centerpiece of Porsche supercars is a row of 911 Carrera RSs, “starting in 1973 up until the end of the air-cooled [era] with the 1996 Carrera RS.” The other side has GT3 RSs, and the rest of the collection spirals out from there with everything from GT2s and Speedsters to Targas and 944s.
“Another crown jewel we have is a Carrera RSR street car,” Bauer says. “It’s a full-on, muscle-bound race car with a street interior. There is nothing that is not covered in a unique material in that car.”
The Carrera RSR is decked in red leather with white leather trim, and the corners wear amethyst metallic wheels wrapped in Pirellis covering the gold Porsche brake calipers. And its boxer is as loud as the rest of the car, which only suits the Carrera RSR to a T.
“So, I know a lot of older Porsche fans may not consider a 911 to be a true Carrera, but we do have 356 Carreras here in the collection,” says Bauer. “One of the more unique ones we have is a ’59 A 356 Carrera 1600.”
As Bauer says, the 356A Carrera is “similar to the Carrera RSR in a lot of ways,” beginning with the race-bred boxer to give the 356 a much-needed power boost over the pushrod boxer. The interior is also red and white, but in equal measure compared to the RSR. Unlike the RSR, though, the 356A Carrera wears an ivory shade, whose yellow tones help it stand out against the blinding backdrop.
“We have a very extensive technical library here at the White Collection,” Bauer said. “We have documents starting, I think, in 1951, 1950, spare parts lists, workshop manuals, etc. In addition to the technical library upstairs, we have a pretty extensive collection of everything Porsche.”
Bauer says he got into Porsches thanks to his father, who bought a 1978 Targa a few years before he was born, a car his father still has. Bauer visits his collection every so often, spending three weeks living and working with his collection of all-white Porsches.
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