A little over a month ago, Gooding & Co. announced the addition of a 1969 Porsche 917K, chassis 917-024, to its Pebble Beach Auctions to be held this coming August. The automotive and mainstream press (ourselves included) eagerly jumped on the story and rumors of a potential new record price for this "iconic" Porsche 917 quickly grew. It was …
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XCAR Drives Our Teenage Fantasy Car: The Porsche 959
Porsche's 959 was the height of automotive technology in the late 1980s, and was the ultimate in excess. It was quick, it was fast, it was comfortable, it was expensive, it was gorgeous, and it was absolutely perfect. In its era, it was a part of a super-car renaissance. Much like we are experiencing today with Porsche's 918 Spyder, McLaren's P1, …
Continue to the full articleThe Velocity Channel’s “Overhaulin'” Will Feature Their First Porsche Build Ever Tomorrow Night
Velocity Channel is home to a number of my regularly watched shows including Chasing Classic Cars, What's My Car Worth, and OVERHAULIN'. If you're not familiar with OVERHAULIN', it features Chip Foose (the father of the modern hot rod) and his iconic designs. As much as I like OVERHAULIN' it's almost exclusively American Muscle. However, this …
Continue to the full articleThis Is Why Jeff Zwart Chose BBI Autosport To Build His Pikes Peak Cup Car
Earlier today Jeff posted a link to a video on his facebook page. The link brought us to a video filmed in Ultra High Definition by director Will Roegge; it's the inside story of BBI Autosport and the incredible Porsche Cup car they built for Jeff to run at Pikes Peak this year. In Jeff's own words it's a "Really nice 'behind the scenes' of what it …
Continue to the full articleWatch Chasing Classic Cars This Monday At 9PM EST To Follow Gooding’s Porsche 959S Sale From The Amelia Island Auction
Remember back to March of this year, and you may recall a certain beautiful Porsche 959S going up for sale at the Gooding & Co. Amelia Island auction. Because of the undying genius and unstoppable hard work of our friends at Sloan Cars, the car was properly advertised, properly prepared, and brought top-dollar at auction. From start to finish, …
Continue to the full articleRauh-Welt Porsche Racer Crushed After Fall From Crane Truck At Twin-Ring Motegi
UPDATE: 7/29/2014 Additional photos of the damage were posted to the Rauh-Welt Begriff facebook page, along with a short statement. RWB post said: It was dropped when I take down with a circuit crane. It is responsibility of the circuit. The Idlers 12 Hour race at the Twin Ring Motegi in Japan is quite an interesting event, being that …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Pictures And Results In The USCC At Indianapolis
Porsche North America took advantage of the high-speed layout of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course to capture a podium finish in the Brickyard Grand Prix today. The No. 912 Porsche North America Porsche 911 RSR finished in third-place in the highly competitive GT Le Mans class of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The team used all …
Continue to the full articleHere’s Why We Think Porsche Purchased Kyalami, An Historic South African Grand Prix Circuit
Late last week, Porsche of South Africa participated in a short private auction, and walked away with something that is really very cool, the Kyalami Grand Prix circuit. The circuit had come up for sale, and was being eyed by a few local land developers putting the track in danger of becoming a series of housing developments or office buildings. …
Continue to the full articleWhat Fantasy Race Would Hurley Haywood Run Today Given The Chance?
One of best parts about publishing this site is the opportunities we get to rub elbows with the likes of Hurley Haywood. During Porsche press tours and other events we've spent countless hours listening to Hurley and his stories. He's always warm, genuine and passionate. As much as we cherish these opportunities, we're usually so overwhelmed …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Replaces Cayenne’s V-8 With Twin Turbo V-6: Announces Redesigned 2015 Cayenne; More Powerful Engines, A Proper Plug-In Hybrid, And Still No PDK
In following with the redesign Porsche introduced last fall on the Panamera, the 2015 Cayenne is also getting a facelift, along with a scad of new features. The Macan's big-brother is continuing to grow up with sharper exterior lines, some new pretty headlamps, a pair of "3D tail lamps", and an injection of that "familial DNA" that Porsche seems to …
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