By this point it should be pretty well accepted that everyone reading this website knows who Rod Emory is. The guy is a legend in the vintage Porsche community, and has built some truly amazing machinery over the years. The "outlaw" movement owes pretty much everything to Rod and his father, and it's probably time to pay it back with a charity …
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Rod Emory is working on a hard core off-road Porsche Macan Baja
It seems like off-road Porsches are all the rage these days. We've seen totally rad Cayennes from E-Motion Engineering, awesome off-roading in Moab, and even Porsche themselves are getting in on the Cayenne craze. And that's to say nothing of the safari 911 trend that has been blowing up in this community for the last decade. The next logical …
Continue to the full article‘Porsche Road Trip’ Is The New Porsche TV Show You Need To Watch
Car shows are usually pretty terrible. Everything these days is an over-dramatized build show, or three middle-aged white guys trying poorly to replicate the magic of Top Gear. What if there was a car show, all about Porsche, which was actually fun to watch? A travel show based around cars and culture and community? Hey, it's here! Porsche Road …
Continue to the full articleNow Is Your Chance To Buy Rod Emory’s Outlaw 356 RSR, But Only Because I Can’t Afford It
Few machines blend the best of old and new like Rod Emory's Outlaw 356 RSR. By extrapolating the observable development of the 356 throughout its lifetime, Emory built this car to go and see where the model would've ended up had it been given more time to mature. Now complete, this rugged beauty is going up for auction at the upcoming RM Sotheby's …
Continue to the full articleRod Emory’s Outlaw 356 RSR Blends Classic Style with Modern Speed
What could the 356 have evolved into had Porsche kept developing it? Rod Emory, a man whose life has revolved around Porsches and hot rodding in all its various forms, wanted to find out. His creation, the 356 RSR, is his idea of what a racy, widebodied, turbocharged and very focused 356 racing car would've been. Imagine an early 1970s 911 RSR, but …
Continue to the full articleRod Emory’s Pipe Dream Became Reality In This Twin Turbo 356 Monster
If you are anything like me, you have a ridiculously ambitious idea for your project car and what you want it to be like when it's "done". For many of us, a project will never truly be done, but for someone with the fabrication and mechanical skills, a full shop of tools, an intelligent and diligent staff, and an appropriate budget to finish the …
Continue to the full articleThe Story of the 1957 Emory Outlaw Speedster
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 …
Continue to the full articleRod 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 …
Continue to the full articleThe Behind-The-Scenes Story Of The Restoration Of 356SL ‘063’
By this point, you've probably heard enough and seen enough about the Le Mans-winning 356SL that was shown at Pebble Beach in 2016 you could probably recite its history from memory. It won its class at Le Mans in 1951, and 66 years later it's been returned to the exact state it was just before the Tricolore flag fell to start the race. In between, …
Continue to the full articleRide Onboard This Ex-Targa Florio Porsche 908/3 For A Lap Of Sonoma Raceway
The Porsche world's favorite potato-chip-magnate-turned-vintage-racer, Cameron Healy, is among the coolest people in the world, and he has a serious love of Porsche. He's been working with Rod Emory on a number of projects recently, including the full restoration of Porsche's 1951 Le Mans-winning 356SL and subsequent preparation for the Pebble …
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