Imagine for a moment, if you will, driving a 52-year-old Le Mans prototype worth several millions of dollars on public streets. You know, public streets, where any dingus in a Hyundai Santa Fe could just run a stop sign and run headlong into, on top of, and vaults over you and your Gulf Oil-liveried wedge on wheels. When you're a certified badass …
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Enjoy: Canepa Puts Coke-Liveried IMSA 962 up for Sale
Devotees of IMSA GTP: get your checkbooks open. Bruce Canepa has recently announced the sale of a classic 962—one which helped pave the way for the model in mid-eighties American road racing. As the second 962 sold to privateers, 962-102 brings plenty of history along with it. Formerly raced by Bob Akin and Hans Stuck Jr., in their hands this …
Continue to the full articleCanepa Is Rebuilding 959s With Almost 800 Horsepower, And No You Didn’t Read That Wrong
As I rounded a corner at Luft5 this Sunday to see a gorgeous deep blue 959 sitting there with gunmetal grey wheels and an interior the shade of Marilyn Monroe's lipstick, I felt like the bottom had fallen out of my brain. I had known it would be there, and I even knew what color the Porsche would be beforehand, but the visual I'd crafted in my head …
Continue to the full articleNo Shoes Allowed: How I Got To Ride Along In A 959 At Sonoma Raceway
This weekend during 'HooptieCon' at Sonoma Raceway, I was given the opportunity to sit in the passenger seat of a gorgeous 4,700 mile Porsche 959 as it circulated a paced parade lap. You wouldn't normally expect to see Porsche's pinnacle of 1980s engineering excellence participate in an event called HooptieCon, but this is a truly special event. …
Continue to the full articleWatch a Porsche 917 Engine Get Restored In Just 3-Minutes
It's safe to say that no one could tear-down, restore and reassemble a massive Porsche 917 engine in just a little over 3-minutes. However, thanks to a little time-lapse videography and some nifty editing, that's exactly what happens in this mesmerizing video from Canepa. Watch as a few highly skilled and meticulous crew members work their way …
Continue to the full articleDriving a $5.5 Million Porsche 917 on the Street
At the most recent Canepa Cars and Coffee event (held every second Saturday of the month at Canepa Design Headquarters) spectators and visitors got an amazing surprise. Mr. Canepa himself took a bonafide 917/10 Can Am car out for a morning drive. The wail of the flat twelve engine, combined with the whistle of the turbochargers is sure to make …
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