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 …
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Take 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 …
Continue to the full articleRomain Dumas Explains What It Takes To Convert A GT3 RS To A Rallye Ready 911 RGT
In the most recent episode of Mobil 1: The Grid, famed Porsche factory driver Romain Dumas gives a quick walk-around explanation of his 997 GT3 RS 4.0 that has been modified to rally car specification for the WRC's "RGT" category. Dumas himself piloted the car at the Rallye Monte Carlo just a couple of weeks ago, where he finished second in class, …
Continue to the full articleThe World’s Most Intriguing Man Has A New Porsche Transporter
He's an endoscopic doctor. He's a falconer. He's a vintage Porsche rallyist. He really might be the real-life 'most interesting man in the world', and he'd for sure give any other poseurs this side of Chuck Norris a run for their money. He's Dr. Erik Brandenburg. The good German doctor, in his spare time, runs a Martini-themed Porsche 911 in all …
Continue to the full articleInsanity Takes The Form Of A Rally Prepared GT2
Porsche engineers will occasionally step out of their calm, precision engineered, white-lab-coat safe haven into a zone called "insanity". Projects that have sprouted from this zone include the bonkers Carrera GT, the absurd 918 Spyder, and the almost-requires-a-straight-jacket 911 GT2. When Porsche lets their engineers run wild, they build cars …
Continue to the full articleThe Porsche 911’s Alter Ego – Rallying & Off-Roading
Rumors were flying over Christmas about Porsche showing a 911 'Safari' concept at the Beijing auto show in April. While we're skeptical about the possibility, we also think the video below, is an interesting coincidence. Watch as seven-time Pikes Peak Champion, Jeff Zwart, attacks Pikes Peak and then drives the Porsche Museum's Paris-Dakar …
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