The Heritage Porsche Project documents not only what a Porsche was when it left the factory, but what it has become in the hands of the people who loved it.
The Heritage Porsche Project began with a car, a friendship, and a missing story.
Our 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera Widebody, known as The Heritage Porsche, was originally built by our friend Mark Raza, who passed away from ALS on June 28, 2025. Before his passing, a group of Mark’s friends came together from several states to help him finish the car he loved most. Over one long weekend, they transformed it into the fiberglass widebody, Gulf-inspired, 993 GT-winged Porsche he had imagined.
Every wrench turn, every late-night adjustment, and every improvised solution carried Mark’s fingerprints. Some details were beautifully executed. Others were pure Mark: practical, unexpected, and somehow functional. We call those moments “Mark-isms.”
His usual answer to a problem was simple:
“No worries. I got it.”
And he usually did.
The car was not perfect. That was never the point. It was honest, strong, personal, and unforgettable. After Mark passed, one thing became clear: we had the car, but we did not have the full story behind it. We never got to ask every question. We never got to hear every reason behind every choice. We never got the full account of what that Porsche meant to him.
That missing story became the foundation for The Heritage Porsche Project.
Preserving the Stories Behind the Cars
The Heritage Porsche Project exists to preserve Porsche stories in a way that goes beyond production numbers, option codes, and auction values.
Those details matter. Factory specifications, original colors, rare options, and documented history are all part of a car’s heritage. But they are only part of the story.
We are just as interested in what happened after the car left the factory.
Who owned it? Who maintained it? Who modified it? Who restored it? Who raced it? Who drove it across the country, tracked it on weekends, parked it in the garage for twenty years, or brought it back to life after everyone else gave up on it?
That is where a car becomes more than a machine.
A Porsche may begin as a factory-built object, but its real heritage is shaped through use, care, repair, risk, memory, and miles. Our goal is to document that complete story through photography, written profiles, owner interviews, video, research, and historical records.
What We Do
The Heritage Porsche Project is built around several connected efforts: storytelling, preservation, restoration, motorsports, technical service, and owner support.
Heritage Documentation
We create owner-focused Porsche profiles using photography, written interviews, video interviews, build details, ownership history, and factory heritage information when available. These profiles help preserve the story of each car as it exists today, including the memories and people attached to it.
We welcome the stories of concours-level restorations, track cars, daily drivers, family heirlooms, modified builds, race cars, project cars, and imperfect survivors. A Porsche does not need to be rare to matter. It needs a story worth preserving.
Vintage Porsche Restoration
We support the restoration and preservation of vintage Porsche vehicles with an emphasis on mechanical integrity, historical respect, and practical drivability.
Not every restoration needs to erase the past. Some cars deserve a factory-correct approach. Others deserve sympathetic preservation. Some need to be rebuilt for the way their owners actually intend to use them. Our approach is to understand the car, the owner, the budget, and the goal before deciding what should be repaired, restored, preserved, or improved.
Porsche Engine Rebuilding
Engine work is a major part of keeping older Porsches alive and usable. The Heritage Porsche Project supports Porsche engine rebuilding, inspection, diagnosis, and planning with a focus on reliability, transparency, and long-term ownership.
Whether the goal is a stock rebuild, a durable street engine, a track-capable package, or a historically respectful restoration, the process begins with understanding the engine’s condition, intended use, and known platform-specific risks.
Race Preparation and Track Support
Through The Heritage Porsche Project Race Team, we connect Porsche heritage with real-world motorsports use.
Our race team exists to prove that these cars are not just museum pieces or garage art. They are meant to be driven, tested, developed, and understood at speed. We use our own cars as rolling development platforms for safety upgrades, brake testing, tire testing, suspension setup, driver development, and race preparation.
We also help prepare customer cars for autocross, HPDE, time trial, and club racing use. That may include safety planning, brake system upgrades, suspension setup, cooling improvements, inspection checklists, classing research, and practical preparation for track-day reliability.
Buyer Assistance and Porsche Purchase Risk Assessment
Buying a used Porsche can be rewarding, but it can also be expensive if important issues are missed before purchase.
Our Porsche buyer assistance and purchase risk assessment services are designed to help buyers understand what they are looking at before they commit. This may include reviewing listings, identifying common model-specific risks, helping evaluate modifications, recommending inspection priorities, and assisting with pre-purchase inspection planning.
Most pre-purchase inspections are useful, but many do not go deep enough into the issues that matter most on certain Porsche models. Our goal is to help buyers ask better questions, understand the risks, and make better decisions before money changes hands.
The Heritage Porsche Project Race Team
The Heritage Porsche Project Race Team is the motorsports side of the project.
It exists to demonstrate, test, and develop Porsche vehicles in the environment where engineering decisions matter most: the track.
Our race team work includes HPDE instruction, autocross participation, race car development, product testing, technical documentation, and preparation for future Porsche club racing. The race team also gives our partners, sponsors, and customers a visible connection to the Porsche community through events, paddock presence, media coverage, and real-world testing.
For us, racing is not separate from heritage. It is part of it.
Every track day, every repair, every setup change, every failure, and every improvement becomes part of the car’s continuing story.
Our Philosophy
The Heritage Porsche Project is built on a simple belief:
Porsche heritage is not frozen in the past.
It continues every time an owner restores a car, modifies it, races it, repairs it, teaches someone about it, or passes it on to the next caretaker.
We respect originality, but we also respect use. We appreciate factory-correct restorations, but we also understand the value of a car that has been adapted, repaired, and improved by the people who kept it alive.
Some cars are valuable because they are rare. Some are valuable because they are beautiful. Some are valuable because they are fast.
Others are valuable because they carry the memory of someone who mattered.
Those stories deserve to be preserved too.
Why It Matters
Cars are physical objects, but the meaning attached to them is human.
A Porsche can represent a dream, a friendship, a family connection, a recovery, a second chance, a lifelong goal, or a chapter of someone’s life that deserves to be remembered.
The Heritage Porsche Project exists to capture those stories before they disappear.
Because one day, every car will change hands. Owners move on. Builders pass away. Receipts get lost. Photos disappear. Memories fade.
But if the story is documented, it can continue.
That is the mission of The Heritage Porsche Project.
To preserve the cars.
To honor the people.
To document the miles that made them matter.