About two years ago I had the pleasure of sitting down for dinner with Rod Emory. Over the mutli-course meal provided by our friends at Michelin, I had the opportunity to listen at length to a bona-fide Porsche legend. Rod turned out to be soft-spoken and unfailingly modest. His calm manner seemingly only built in furor when discussing clever …
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Rod Emory Is Extraordinarily Passionate About Porsche
If you don't know who Rod Emory is by now, where have you been for the last decade? From a long line of hot rodders and custom car builders, Emory has been keeping the family name in the Porsche game after going out on his own adventure in SoCal. In a way, his modifications to 356s in the original Outlaw frame of mind gives those cars a second life …
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Porsche provides color charts for their classic models on their website. While most of the documents provide the RoW color codes, I find them very useful for determining original color combinations. It's helpful to know that Aubergine wasn't available in '75, or that 936-Silbermet took a break in the early 1980s. Of course, it's impossible to keep …
Continue to the full articleParts Obsolete and Attending the Emory Porsche Campout
This year Porsche owners and enthusiasts knew they were in for a treat. The fabled Emory Campout was being brought back and it would be better than ever. Fast forward to July 14th and hundreds of Porsches had made their way, from as far away as Florida, to McMinville Oregon and the Porsche paradise that is Parts Obsolete. The first day was …
Continue to the full articleIntroducing the Emory Outlaw Tracker
No, it's not a Porsche. No, it's not even a car. Rod Emory's latest project is a collaboration with Vintage Electric; a bicycle company. As Rod puts it, Vintage Electric approaches bicycles the way he approaches Porsches. Both are Outlaws in their own way. Vintage Electric has collaborated with icons of the automotive industry before, in the form …
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