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The Original Hot Rod: The Berlin-Rome Type 64 Racer

By John Plow
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I’ve always loved the lines of this car. I finally got to see a replica body during the new Porsche Museum’s grand opening in early 2009, where I took this photo. And I couldn’t stop staring at it. It’s so VW, so Porsche, so perfect. Every line is right. Everything is in place and nothing [...]

A Sign of (FOR?) the Times.

By Michael

No shit, with year-over-year Porsche new car sales down approximately 45% as of Oct 1,2008.

Update on the 911

By Michael

I got some work done on the 911 this past weekend while performing its’ annual service. In addition to changing the oil – all 9 litres of it! – I also replaced some gaskets on the top of the engine: – the breather box gasket – the oil pressure sender washer – the oil thermostat [...]

I love this photo.

By Michael

Similar to old VWs and Porsches, the advantage of preferring small cars is that you can fit them into relatively small places. Unfortunately, the disadvantage of preferring small cars is that you can fit a lot of them into small places

Porsche’s Test Rig Drives the Nurburgring

By Michael

The article and video below interested me. I’ve seen dyno rigs in F1 where the entire car (including drive train and chassis) is “run” through each circuit. It’s cool to see Porsche doing the same for a street engine. As seen on Edmunds.com: WEISSACH, GERMANY — Porsche has developed a novel test rig for engines [...]

Nobody needs a Porsche.

By Michael
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Whenever I hear a member of the fairer sex say that a man drives a flashy car to make up for other, shall we say, “areas of personal development” either hasn’t driven a worthy car, or is dating the wrong men. Sometimes a damn fine car is just that. A damn fine car. Because of [...]

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