The Kiel pub owner and gallery owner Holger “Holgi” Henze is planning to sell his red Porsche, which became famous through the “Werner” comics and races against comic artist Rötger Feldmann alias Brösel. “He’s just in the garage and I always have little time, work a lot, so he’s not getting any better,” said the 79-year-old of the German Press Agency. Henze wants to exhibit the legendary car with H-registration at the Techno-Classica vintage car show in Essen (April 12-16).
Henze became known through the “Werner” comics by his friend Rötger Feldmann (Brösel). Henze fought the first “Werner” race in 1988 at Hartenholm Airport with his Porsche 911 from 1968 against Brösel and his self-made motorcycle called “Red Porsche Killer”. More than 200,000 people are said to have attended. Henze won. It was only in 2018 that Brösel was able to take revenge in a new edition. At the time, his friend was “a fraction of a second faster because they pushed him off the box,” Henze speculates.
“Basically, I go to the fair to see what’s on offer,” said Henze. He has owned the car since 1970. A few years ago, the TÜV estimated it at 150,000 euros. He does not have a specific asking price. Everything on his car had been redone in the past. “It was even dismantled down to the sheet metal. Everything was repainted.” The machine had been overhauled. Since then, the car has only run an estimated 30,000 kilometers. At its peak, the Porsche manages 250 km/h.
The history of the race between Porsche and the motorcycle with four Horex engines goes back to a war of words in the early 1980s in Henze’s “Galerie Club 68” in Kiel. Brösel is said to have described his car as a wandering dune and salt shaker. Holgi then derided the draftsman’s Horex as pre-war junk and rubbish. This night and the agreed race found their way into the “Werner” volume “Eiskalt!”.
