The Porsche thread.

[Max S]

Porsche 956 and 919 doing demo-laps on the Nordschleife ahead of this year's 24h-race:



And a roadside-find, a Porsche 924 with Nissan headlights.
For...reasons, I guess :



Max

[LateFan]

918 promo shots in NYC. Look at the ride height!

[LateFan]

Used to be a '71 "E." Now a 3.2 hotrod. On BaT.

[LateFan]

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[LateFan]

^^Sweet.

beta - good one!

[LJ851]

[beta14ok]

^^ Nice composition!!

rules:

[LJ851]

[LateFan]

Nurb' 24 hours coming up.

[SOneThreeCoupe]

If you saw a striking silver/blue ‘70 S at the show, I had a hand in its build. I had a hand in a couple other cars at the show and some friends of mine built engines and fuel injection for a few as well.

I did not like the limited attendance. I thought the venue was striking and unique, although the long bathroom and food lines were a drag. Whoever the location scout is has vision and talent, that’s for damn sure.

I’ve worked with air-cooled Porsches since ‘05 and have been restoring them since ‘07. I have no problems sharing my knowledge via PM if anyone has any questions- I’m not really up to date on values but if you need to know what space cam you need for a 019 pump build or who you should have rebuild your MFI throttle bodies, I’m down to share what I know.

[LateFan]

Luft 2018 show







804 Chassis 03, the 1962 Dan Gurney F1 winning car


"The 1949 Porsche Gmünd SL 063 Le Mans Class Winner, restored by Rod Emory, has been a star of Pebble Beach, Rennsport Reunion, and Luftgekühlt last year. The earliest successful Porsche at Le Mans, it just might be the most valuable Porsche in the world." - Road & Track

[LateFan]

Exactly.

All the magazines are showing these Mission E test mules.

<EDIT> Look at the rear door opening cut line in the side pictures, and the B-pillar post - that's a Panamera (shell, anyway). I'm hopeful the real car bits are hidden inside that boat.

[rturbo 930]

Who says it's the Mission E? Looks like a new Panamera to me. If it really is the Mission E, they messed up big time.

[LateFan]

Where's the cool tail with the Gurney flip trailing edge? Where are the hips and the width in relation to the greenhouse? Where are the cool proportions?

So, if they've very cleverly hidden a cool new car inside a hacked up Panamera, then ignore me. Carry on.

If this is the watered down "buildable" version of the prototype, then it's a dog. That's not the design quality we're used to seeing from Porsche. It would be a bland blob at any price, but this car will be placed up between the Panamera and the 911. It will bomb.

Maybe they're really good and they've fooled us all.

[LateFan]

This has been bugging me. The Mission E prototype is a stunning design. Very Porsche-family in proportions and details. It's hard to tell if maybe it's really large (which to me is a real negative).

But the fenders, the nose, the narrow greenhouse and the way it sits down in the body, the narrow waist, the way the whole car hangs down low over it's wheels....



But lately test mule pics have been popping up, and are a completely different car. None of the proportions or style of the prototype we saw. This is a Porsche Camry... Look at the bland flat fenders, the wide windshield, the bland side profile which has none of the coke bottle shaping.
(Yes, they've hidden the cool lights inside some tape)



Now I realize manufacturers often hide the guts of a prototype in a cobbled up shell in order to do basic testing (not just plastic cladding and tape, but a different car. Remember the badass funked up 918 prototype? They used everything in the shop and some spare 911 bits on a Friday afternoon to cover up the chassis. But it had all the proportions of the real car underneath - wheelbase, width, mid-engine, the way it sat.



This car has none of that. I can't even figure out what existing bits they made it out of. It's really long. Like really long. Could it be a Panamera with a different nose and tail?