‘I want one,’ blogs Dan Scanlan, after a week of fun & sun in Porsche’s Gen Six
9114S droptop!
Happy birthday 911!
Porsche’s iconic rear-engine sports car, born off the first VW Bug and its Porsche 356 kin, hits the big FIVE-O this year. And to celebrate, I got a beautiful ‘13 911 Carrera 4S Cab with – wait for it – a remote key fob shaped like it, and painted the same Aqua Blue Metallic.
The seventh-generation 911 shares DNA with the first one, code-named 901, until Peugeot h...
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2014 PORSCHE 911 TURBO S CAB: TRULY HAIR-RAISING!
It’ll run 197 mph with the top down. What’ll that do to your ‘do’, asks Road Test Editor Howard Walker.
Ponder this for a sec. Porsche has just announced its brand new 911 Turbo S Cabriolet that has a top speed of 197 mph. My question: What does 197 mph actually do to your follicles?
After, say, two miles do you have any left? In response, maybe there should be a Hair Club
For Men Special Edition model so you can swing by for follicle replenishment after every
190-mph to...
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PORSCHE 914-6 GT: RELIVING THE DREAM!
Sarasota Café Racer Bob Bailey, together with co-drivers Jacques Duval and George Nicholas, won class honors at the 1971 Daytona 24-hour Enduro in the #5 Porsche 914-6 GT. Bob’s back racing a nut & bolt recreation of the original.
The original race-winning #5 Porsche 914-6 GT is currently in Paul Pflugfelder’s collection in Boston and has been replicated for Bob Bailey by Ron Zitza, Zotz Racing in Orlando, FL. Bailey’s current racer, in original Sunoco livery, has been updated from orig...
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CAFÉ RACER’S PORSCHE SPYDER: MT. EQUINOX!
Oldwick Café Racer Tom Miller runs his personal best time at the Mt. Equinox climb to the clouds in his Porsche Mong-Spyder.
Cars have been competitively challenging Mt. Equinox for more than 60 years and, in the United States, only Pike’s Peak predates it. Unique among hill climb venues, Mt. Equinox, near Manchester, VT boasts the longest paved (5.2-mile) hill climb course in the world. Oldwick, NJ Café Racer Tom Miller, a collector, vintage racer, restorer and marketer of classics and high...
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