Back in 1981 Porsche had the 911 on the chopping block. The 928 was always intended to take over as the company's flagship model, and the 911 was destined to fade away into the history books. Even though the 911's popularity never really waned through the 70s and early 80s, it was just going to keep floating in the market without any updates until …
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Here’s the Porsche-powered Studebaker you never knew existed
While visiting the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend, Indiana this week, I can't say I was expecting to find anything inside that might be even tangentially Porsche-related. While Studebaker did contract Porsche to build a few prototypes, including a front-engine V6 sedan in the early-1950s, none ever came to pass. This is not that car, nor …
Continue to the full articlePorsche gave this 962 a perfectly exact restoration
Porsche has always been a racing company that happens to build cars for the street. It has earned its reputation as a reliable and dynamic sports car from decades winning sports car competition. Perhaps no car is more connected to Porsche's reputation than the iconic 962, which along with its 956 cousins won hundreds of races in the 1980s and …
Continue to the full articleExcellent Ruf Exhibit Open Now At The Petersen Museum
In partnership with our favorite aircooled Porsche show Luftgekuhlt, Los Angeles, California's best automotive museum The Petersen has launched a new exhibit to celebrate the greatest Porsche-based supercar manufacturer in the world. Ruf was founded in 1939, and spent decades building and rebuilding some of the greatest sports cars in history. It …
Continue to the full articleNew York Auto Museum Adds 16-Car Aircooled Porsche Exhibit You Absolutely Need To See
We get it. You've been cooped up in your house for the last year and a half, you're ready to get back out into the world and experience cool car stuff again. The time has come to get back to normal, and the Saratoga Automobile Museum has you Porsche fanatics covered with its new exhibit. Rare Air is a 16-car display documenting the best air-cooled …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Santa Clarita’s Wunderground Museum Is An Amazing Sampling Of Porsche History
Why is there a hole in the floor of this Porsche dealership showroom? Oh, there's a brand-new all-carbon Porsche 935 down there. You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention. What is the Wunderground? In what was once used as underground storage for a Saturn dealership, there now exists a gorgeous mini-museum dedicated to all things …
Continue to the full articleInside the Brumos Collection’s New Museum
Brumos Racing folded in 2013, and their namesake dealership, Brumos Porsche closed its doors in 2016. In the world of Porsche racing in America though, there are few names more legendary. The institution driven into the psyche of race fans by Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood spent decades seemingly turning from success to success, and in that time …
Continue to the full articleVisiting The Porsche Museum In Stuttgart
When my wife came to me a few months ago with an inexpensive flight package to Europe and a gleam in her eye, I couldn't say no to a week long vacation to the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. I only had one stipulation, that I was able to visit the Porsche museum in Stuttgart. After a few days in Amsterdam ambling through art museums and checking …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Has Recreated The First 356, And They’re Taking It On Tour
It isn't really possible to find a car more significant to the history of the Porsche brand than the very first one to wear the Porsche name. 356 "No. 1" Roadster was first registered for road use in June of 1948, and heavily influenced the styling of the original run of Gmund 356s. Over the next seven decades, this Porsche was reshaped by the …
Continue to the full articlePetersen Museum Preparing ‘Porsche Effect’ Exhibit To Debut In February
JANUARY 15, 2018 UPDATE: Petersen released more information today, including additional details on some of the Porsches we can expect to see. They include the following: 1938 Berlin-Rome Type 64 race car 906 race car 919 LMP1 Hybrid The Petersen Collection’s 901 and Continental A rare model “X83” Turbo S Flachbau 964 A rally-spec …
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