Anyone familiar with Adam Carolla and his CarCast program know the admiration he has for Paul Newman. A lifelong car enthusiast, Carolla wrote a rather large check last year—for a reported $4.8M—to purchase a very special 935. Though any 935 is worth a mention, this particular example was raced to class victory by his hero at Le Mans in 1979. The …
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Remember Paul Newman’s Porsche 935 That Adam Carolla Bought? Watch Him Drive it for the FIrst Time!
It was just under a year-a-go that Adam Carolla jumped head first into the Porsche market with the purchase of the ex-Paul Newman Le Mans' class winning 935 during the 2016 Gooding & Co auction in Monterey. While Carolla is no stranger to ex-Paul Newman race cars (it's reported he owns the largest collection of them in the world) this was his first …
Continue to the full articleAdam Carolla Is Selling His Lamborghini Collection To Pay For His 935 Purchase
By now, most of you know that comedian and CarCast podcast co-host Adam Carolla was the winning bidder of Paul Newman's Le Mans-winning Porsche 935 last month in Monterey. It's a beautiful and historically important piece of Porsche history that took a class victory at Le Mans in 1979 (2nd overall) and went on to win the Daytona 24 Hour race in …
Continue to the full article800 Horsepower in the Fog: Laguna Seca in a 935.
Sports car racing in the 1970s and 1980s was a very special time. The Porsche 911 was one of very few cars which participated in both Group 4 and Group 5 racing. While the largely production-based 934 tackled Group 4, the wild 935 silhouette cars played in Group 5. With as much as 800-horsepower on tap, these were mythic beasts in every sense of …
Continue to the full articleGooding & Co. To Auction Ex Paul Newman Le Mans/Sebring/Daytona Winning 935!
Porsche has had more iconic racing cars than any other manufacturer. That is a fact that cannot be debated. Among those, perhaps the best known is the legendary 935 of the '70s and '80s. If there were one to own, chances are high that it would be this one. This is the exact Porsche driven to class victory at Le Mans with legendary actor Paul Newman …
Continue to the full articleRide On-Board A Le Mans Winning Porsche 935 K3 With Leh Keen
Introduced in 1976, the Porsche 935 was the factory racing version of the Porsche 930 Turbo. Over the next few years, Porsche would update the 935 through various versions, culmination with the 935 Evolutions. However, because Porsche didn't initially offer to sell this version to privateers, it left teams, like Kremer, no other choice to begin …
Continue to the full articleVideo: Bruce Canepa Dominates The Field In His Porsche 935
Bruce Canepa doesn't do things in half measures. If he's going at it, he's going whole hog. That's true in his restoration business, and that's true in his fanatical style of vintage racing. He was on an absolute flyer in this session, and I'm so glad that it was all on video. This is masterfully produced, by the way, as the commentary is even …
Continue to the full articleRide Onboard Bruce Canepa’s Porsche 935 At Laguna Seca
Bruce Canepa's Saturday afternoon drive is a little different from one you or I might take, because his is in a high powered rocket ship, otherwise known as a 1979 Porsche 935. Canepa's vintage racing stable has included this particular 935 for a couple of years, and every year it seems to get just a little faster. Known widely as the last …
Continue to the full articleTesting the Porsche 935 at the Porsche Experience Center [Video]
The Porsche 935 was first introduced in 1976. As the factory racing version of the Porsche 911 Turbo the 935 had an outright win at Le Mans Since and over 150 other races world-wide until 1984. Porsche's Chief Driving Consultant, Gordon Robertson, gets behind the wheel to experience just how insane 760 hp feels on full boost. If you can't see …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Factoid: A Heavily Modified Porsche 935 Was Used in an Attempt to set the World Record for the Highest Speed Achieved on a Bicycle
When I first spotted the picture below on Jalopnik I thought to myself "I need to know the story behind this picture." As it turns out, there's some interesting history and I learned about a sport that's new to me, motor-pacing. Will you look at the size of that front sprocket? 150 mph is fast, in any car, Porsche or not. Imagine how …
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