The legend might be nearing seventy, but his talent hasn't diminished a bit. Walter Röhrl is still the king of driving in inclement weather, and this masterclass of graceful drifting through a sodden Nordschleife must be seen by anyone with a drop of motor oil in their veins. Even with a 2.0-liter motor powering this vintage 911 S, Rohrl still …
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Watch This Classic 911 Drift Acrobatically on the Rally Stage
Andreas Dahms certainly knows his way around a sodden, dirt-packed road in a classic 911. With Inka Lerch sitting in the next seat calling the stage notes, Dahms puts on an acrobatic display showing that, even with the handicap of having only two driven wheels, a well-sorted 911 can beat Lancer Evolutions and other four wheel-drive machinery on …
Continue to the full articleRally Mechanics Install This Porsche’s Engine In A Field, In Africa, In Just 12-Minutes
At the start of the recent East African Safari Rally, Stig Blomqvist (along with co-driver Mattias Adielsson), had built up a healthy lead. They won the first two days, but woke up on the third day to an equally unhealthy engine. The supporting Tuthill Porsche rally squad was forced to get the engine and transmission swapped out of the car for a …
Continue to the full articleTake A Look At How The Offroading LuftAuto 2 Was Built
When you get Pat Long, Jeff Zwart, Rod Emory, and Joey Seely of E-motion Engineering to collaborate on a single project, the outcome is bound to be a seriously rad Porsche. In this case, 'LuftAuto 002' is that outcome and it fits the bill to a T. The LuftAuto thing all started with Luftgekuhlt 3 when they built a white Safari-style Carrera to be …
Continue to the full articleDirty Bathtub: Jeff Zwart’s 356 at Big Sky Ranch
Jeff Zwart is not shy about flogging his 1953 Porsche 356. We've seen the car sliding through the snow with Jeff at the wheel, and now getting sideways and dirty. While nowhere near as swift as Jeff's 964 rally car, which he ran at Big Sky Ranch the same day, the 356 looks like an absolute riot on the loose gravel surface. The 356 is both more …
Continue to the full articleTake a Redline Tour of the French Countryside From Inside a 904 GTS
2017 marked the 26th running of the Tour Auto Optic 2000. Designed in the style of a classic rally, participants compete in a series of timed events on 4 circuits (Le Mans, Val de Vienne, Albi, Pau-Arnos) plus 11 special stages on closed roads. This year's event saw 200+ vintage cars participate along a route starting in Paris and then …
Continue to the full articleThis Porsche 964 Carrera 4 Safari RS Build Redefines the Category
When the 964 Carrera 4 launched in 1989, it was a revolution. For a short time the nearly-all-new Carrera 4 sold alongside the outgoing Carrera 3.2 and the 930. Where the older cars clung to tradition, the 964 Carrera 4 pushed bravely into the future; a future Kelly Moss Road & Race (KMR) is helping to realize. Torsion bars gave way to Macpherson …
Continue to the full articleVideo: Benton Performance Builds A “Fully Committed” Porsche 912
Petrolicious has been creating gorgeous vintage car films for years, and Benton Performance has been building gorgeous old Porsches for years. It only makes sense that the two of them have come together finally. This video is an amazing piece of work that shows not only the talent that Benton has for slamming together some amazing Porsches, but …
Continue to the full articleRM Sotheby’s Selling #LUFTAUTO This Weekend At Luftgekühlt
This Sunday, the 10th of April, the folks in charge of Luftgekühlt will be running their third annual show at Modernica in Los Angeles, and this Safari 911 is scheduled to be something of the centerpiece if you will. Built in conjunction with what amounts to the entire Porsche building community, the car will be auctioned off at the show this …
Continue to the full article14 Minutes Of 1st Person Porsche Rally Insanity
Could you imagine driving a racing prepared Porsche flat out through the forest, throwing caution to the wind as you throttle on harder trying to set the fastest time of the day? Well, maybe that's not all that difficult to imagine, just take your last back-country twisty road drive, and accelerate that feeling by about 200%, and you've got the …
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