Gooding to Auction Drendel Collection of 18 Porsches at Amelia Island February 7, 2012, 1:54 pm Gooding & Company of Santa Monica, Calif., recently announced the consignment of a group of 18 Porsches, consisting primarily of racecars, from the Drendel family collection. The vehicles are scheduled to be auctioned during the Amelia Island collector car weekend in early March. Not since Bonhams auctioned the Michael L. Amalfitano collection at its August 2010 sale at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, Calif., has a significant assemblage of competition Porsches been offered at auction. Porsche helped popularize turbocharging in race engines. Matthew Drendel, who founded Heritage Motorwerks, a Porsche repair and restoration firm in Hickory, N.C., was fascinated with the technology, and began his collection with a 911 Turbo. He would go on to acquire at least one example of nearly every significant turbocharged Porsche competition car of the "70s, "80s and early "90s. Drendel died in 2010 at age 35. The highlight of the collection is a 1973 Porsche 917/30 Can-Am Spyder with a flat 12-cylinder engine and more than 1,000 horsepower. Although not originally campaigned in the blue, yellow and red livery of the Penske Sunoco team and its most famous driver, Mark Donohue, the car is scheduled to cross the block in this configuration, and is expected to bring between $3.25 million and $4 million dollars. Other notable from the collection include a 1984 Porsche 962 endurance racer, which was driven to back-to-back wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona, and two works competition 911 derivatives, a 911 RSR Carrera and a 935, both of which raced in the Martini & Rossi colors so closely associated with Porsche competition cars of the "70s. Each car is estimated to sell for around $2 million. The auction will be held on March 9 at Amelia Island Plantation, a resort located off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla.