The Porsche thread.

[LateFan]

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That's what I always do when I park my 917 - a block of wood to keep it from rolling...........
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[LateFan]

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What the hell is this?!
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[LateFan]

"Luft" 2019. A Hollywood backlot movie set. Great variety of cars, not all show cars, which is cool.

[LateFan]

Ran across this in Classic Motorsports...

Barn find 1960 356B Cab shell, with a nose from a 356A, the windshield leaned back, and I'd guess a slightly chopped top. That looks to me like a 4 cylinder Polo engine as well - anyone know from looking?

Built by Rod Emory for John Oates of Hall & Oates music fame. It seems Oates is an old motorhead and used to race in IMSA at one point - who knew.

The only thing I'd do different I think is to leave the bumpers chrome.

[majdomo]

anyone else going to luft 6? first one, psyched for the cars, less for the douchefest...

[ajhostetter]

Great noise....904 GTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK-vkP-DS1A

duuuude...

[LateFan]

Great noise....904 GTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK-vkP-DS1A

[LJ851]

[beta14ok]

^ Super tragic! Loss of life, injury, and destruction of an amazing collection of Porsche art.

[Rob]

Anybody hear about the Ingraham Collection?

https://abc11.com/a-terrible-tragedy-durham-explosion-leaves-1-dead-17-injured/5241686/

Obviously a terrible tragedy with the lost of life

[2mAn]

Oh and this...I need to build this with my kids:

Yes...


When you see it...

[ajhostetter]

Fun litte story on why a Porsche's ignition key is on the left...I'd always heard the LeMans story: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rea...el-11553866078

Oh and this...I need to build this with my kids:

[LateFan]

You may be right. I just read the blurb in the Hemmings story.....

"....a modified version of its 2.8-liter 911 RSR racing engine. In stock form, this produced 308 horsepower and 217 pound-feet of torque, but it wasn’t in Piëch’s nature to accept off-the-shelf parts. Instead, the engine was enlarged to 2.9 liters and, as Basem Wasef wrote in the August 2018 issue of Porsche Panorama, modified to produce a reported 345 horsepower.

"reported"

It was a Special for Mr P after all, so who knows what the real story is. But if Mrs P was using it for a daily, I can't imagine her bopping around town with a thumping race motor.

[SOneThreeCoupe]

From Hemmings -

2.9 RSR 345hp

Nope. That’s more than 115hp/L from a standard MFI, not even high butterfly or slide valve, and 15hp more than the 3.0 RSR race engines.

I would file that under “hyperbole.”

[LateFan]

One of the first factory-prepared 911 race cars. 1966 911 for the Monte Carlo Rally.

https://www.excellence-mag.com/issue...t#.XKp-Oy_MzKY