The Porsche 910 that realised a Revival “dream”

Morfett runs Historika Klassic, a Porsche specialist in Ipswich that restores, prepares and races some of Stuttgart’s finest classics. Having started the business with his dad Kevin 20 years ago, Historika’s reputation grew stronger with every project, allowing the business — including the workshop — to gradually expand.

It’s that workshop that brought Morfett to the point where he had a 910 competing at the 2025 Goodwood Revival, lining up on seventh the grid for the Whitsun Trophy before climbing to a fourth place finish.  

“Over the years he's collected numerous artefacts,” Morfett says of his dad. “Cars and all sorts, and one of those pieces was an unnumbered spare 910 chassis. It had sat in our workshop for years and years and years, then about seven years ago, we’d accumulated in our Aladdin’s Cave so many original parts we thought we should probably start thinking about trying to build a car.” A wise move indeed.

“With a number of associates in Europe we got the body done, bonded to the chassis,” Morfett continued, “then we got the car back to us and began the slow process of trying to build the rest of it in collaboration with Josh Burling.”

“With all of these things there are always delays. The two-test schedule turned into one test, which actually went pretty well, and then we went to Le Mans. We had a really minor fuel breathing issue, so that meant we couldn't finish the race, but we got the car back, went through it again and reworked it, and this is where we are now.”

Morfett’s explanation hardly does the project justice. Seeing the 910 rolled out in the Revival paddock, visitors snapping away and soaking in the 910’s hand-painted details, it’s a gorgeous creation — small, beautifully proportioned and almost friendly in appearance compared to the likes of the McLaren M1Bs and Lola T70 Spyders it’s racing against. But this remains an authentic (if not raced in period) Porsche 910, and a massively complex project. 

Nestled in the steel spaceframe chassis is a 2.0-litre twin-plug flat-six engine with around 220PS (161kW) mounted to the same five-speed manual gearbox as the 904 and 906. There are Koni coilovers all the way around, other brand-new magnesium suspension components (made to original spec, replacing original parts that simply weren’t strong or safe enough anymore), solid disc brakes with original-spec calipers, and 13-inch wheels measuring eight inches wide at the front and 10.5 inches wide at the rear.

Where new parts were required, Morfett detailed, “we've got original drawings and the original parts, so we’ve made them as-was, which you have to do to get the FIA papers”.

Endurance GT racer and Goodwood regular Phil Keen was behind the wheel of the 910 at Revival, having been involved in some of the car’s development and testing. We wondered if setting up a new Porsche 910 might be a difficult job? As it turns out, it wasn’t, in part because the car doesn’t weigh much more than 600kg, but also because of the engine.

“What we like is the Porsches, they always have small engines compared to the competition,” Morfett said. “We've got a 904 in the [RAC TT Celebration] with the Cobras, and it's still a 2.0-litre — with Porsches, it’s all about the handling.

“The 904, it took us longer [to set up], but this actually was fairly happy straight away. We fine-tuned little bits, we found under braking it was quite twitchy, but we managed to sort everything out at the last test.”

What’s the plan for the 910 going forward? “Just race it, really,” Morfett said with a huge grin. “It's how the company started. My dad used to race, and we started the company to race our own cars and promote the business, just like Porsche used to. Then that becomes a bit of an obsession.

“We enjoy trying to do as well as we can, especially with small engineds up against the likes of the big engines.” Morfett shared, just as a Ford GT40’s V8 growled into life nearby.

Although not racing the car at Revival, he explained how the 910 is still remarkably friendly to drive: “It’s a proper racing car compared to 911s where you know you're sitting in a GT car. It's like a go-kart — you're right on the ground, the engine’s right behind you, it’s very loud. I love it.”

With one conversation with Morfett it’s clear to see this car, and the Historika business overall, was born out of a pure and simple passion for Porsche and racing. What started with 911s has evolved into an outfit that can restore, race and support 911s and now Porsche prototypes, including 904s, 906s and 910s.

“When I started this 20 years ago,” Morfett said, “and I first came to Goodwood, my dream was to have cars running here. Now we’ve got two.”

Photography by Charlie Brenninkmeijer.