If you think back to early November, we reported that legendary California Porsche shop Benton Performance suffered a massive shop fire that cost nearly their entire store of spare parts. Wheels, engines, entire chassis went up in smoke. But John Benton is never one to sit around and mope. Once the fire had been put out he and his …
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Porsche-Based Interactive Art Exhibit To Be Unveiled Next Week In San Francisco
Beginning next Thursday, a unique Porsche will be on display as part of the first 'If So, What?' art fair, said to meld technology with art, at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. The fair/exhibition brings together music, design, artistic talent, and technology for a huge display of wild new-age art. This particular project melds the gorgeous …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Built A Wonky Full-Sized 911 Turbo Out Of LEGO
Porsche's 911 naming structure has gotten a bit out of hand lately, with things like 911 Targa 4 GTS becoming the norm, but they've stepped up that lengthy name convention with the new LEGO Big Brick 911 Turbo 3.0. LEGO recently introduced a scale model version of Porsche's iconic 3-liter 930, which comes alongside a brand new 911 RSR kit, as part …
Continue to the full articleReview: Building The Three New Porsches From LEGO’s Speed Champions Series
Youth is a limited resource we exchange for wisdom. Then we buy sports cars in an attempt to regain some of what we’ve traded away. In that same vein, I have continued to be an avid LEGO fan from my youth through to today. Whenever they launch a new line of automotive-themed sets, I run out to my nearest toy store (sadly, being closed nationwide …
Continue to the full articleLEGO Speed Champions Race Through The Porsche Museum After Hours
When you're a LEGO minifig for sale in the Porsche museum gift shop, you want to see a whole lot more than just that gift shop. Once the lights go down, these two little plastic miscreants hop aboard their brick-built Porsches for a run through the now-vacant museum. Zooming a new mid-engine 911 RSR through the museum is a tiny plastic recreation …
Continue to the full articlePorsche, LEGO, If You’re Listening, We Need Both of These 919 Hybrids
I don't think I'm alone in thinking that today's top-tier racecars are not as handsome as their counterparts from twenty five or more years ago. Fortunately, the 919 seems to translate much, much better to LEGO than the 962 or 917 ever have. Portuguese builder Manuel Nascimento constructed both the 2015 and 2016 Porsche 919 Hybrids in LEGO Technic …
Continue to the full articleCross Country in a GT3: 9 Day-4856.6 miles-2 countries-19 US States-211 gallons of fuel-1 speeding ticket
What started as an idea quickly turned to reality when artist Nic Hunziker located a donor GT3 for his "Art Car" project. Over the last 9 days Nic, along with co-pilot and FLATSIXES.com contributor Brett Sloan, drove the newly acquired 996 GT3 from Nova Scotia back to L.A. Along the way they covered: 9 Days 4856.6 Miles 2 Countries 19 US …
Continue to the full articleHUNZIKER ART CAR: NOVA SCOTIA TO CALIFORNIA IN A GT3 DAYS 7 & 8
Last month we introduced you to Nic Hunziker's new "Art Car" project where he'll be bartering art in order to build what he calls "the missing link between the 996.1 GT3 and the 996.2 GT3 RS" a 1999 GT3R Strassenversion. If you're not yet familiar with the project you can check out our original post or head over to the project's website for even …
Continue to the full articleHunziker Art Car: Nova Scotia to California in a GT3 Days 5 & 6
Last month we introduced you to Nic Hunziker's new "Art Car" project where he'll be bartering art in order to build what he calls "the missing link between the 996.1 GT3 and the 996.2 GT3 RS" a 1999 GT3R Strassenversion. If you're not yet familiar with the project you can check out our original post or head over to the project's website for even …
Continue to the full articleThe Hunziker Art Car Project: Bartering Art for a Porsche
With artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Sandro Chia and Jeff Koons having painted or designed cars for BMW, it's likely they are the most famous car marque known for art cars. However, Porsche is no stranger to them either. Officially, Porsche put a toe in the water of art cars with their exhibition of 24 painted GT2 bonnets at their Museum in …
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