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[ad_1] 5/24/202210:00 estFiled to: HumorBy: Jerry KingPhoto credit: Jerry King Advertisements Never Miss Another Update, Review, or Giveaway Subscribe to the first and only source of original Porsche-related content. [ad_2]

[ad_1] Preserving the shine on cars like this beautiful 964 is a job that not just anyone can do. This old Porsche needed a rehab, but it also needed protection from itself. Thankfully, our friend Larry Kosilla is just the kind of guy to make sure the paintwork and interior materials are kept as nice as possible. The black nineties supercar had extremely thin and delicate paint, an old and cracked rear fender rock guard, ancient clearbra stone protection, some mold in the front trunk, and a used but not particularly dirty interior. This presents several different sets of difficulties,…

[ad_1] Going into the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring, Porsche had to have been cautiously optimistic. There were a total of eight 911 GT3 Rs taking the green flag for the endurance race from some of the most effective customer teams in the world stacked with some of the greatest driver lineups. To get to the end of the race with six of those cars failing to finish the race, and the highest placed Porsche no better than ninth in class must have been a major disappointment, then. It all started to fall apart pretty early on, as the #29…

[ad_1] Earlier this year Ken Block, the Head Hoonigan, competed in the East Africa Safari Rally in a Tuthill-prepped Porsche 911. This custom competition build is based on a 1978 Porsche 911 SC 3-liter, and it carried Ken and co-driver Alex Gelsomino for nine days of competition across 5,000 kilometers. This is certainly a cool-looking machine that pays homage to historic Porsche rally cars of decades gone by, but brings modern construction and componentry to the table. That 3-liter now makes some 280 horsepower in ready-to-rally spec, and the five-speed gearbox has been fitted with a limited slip. Obviously the…

[ad_1] Back in October of 1972, nearly fifty years ago, Porsche unveiled the car that would set into motion one of the most highly revered lineups of track cars any automaker has ever built. For Porsche fanatics, the letters R and S, when combined, conjure dreams of high-rev flat six engines, high grip, more downforce, lightweight bodywork, and incredible track prowess. Standing in for the worlds Rennsport, RS is Porsche’s track-ready lineup of 911s (and now Caymans), which was brought into the world by the engineers behind the 1973 Carrera RS 2.7, a legend of Porsche history that stands today…

[ad_1] With a sonorous spin up of its 4-liter naturally aspirated flat six, José Silvino Pires’ 911 GT3 R racer blasts a small layer of rear tire rubber into smoke and blasts away from the start line of the Rampa da Falperra hillclimb. This car started life as a specially prepped race car built for the GT3 class of international sports car racing. Porsche had intended it to compete on a closed circuit in a wheel-to-wheel competition with other GT3-class racers. That isn’t to say that Porsche isn’t happy this car is seen blasting up hills in the Portuguese countryside,…

[ad_1] The world of electric supercars is heating up, and Porsche wants to be ready for the competition. Porsche and Rimac are increasing their collaboration in the future of electric tech with a new Series D round of funding from the Croatian brand. The Series D round is seeding with a total of around $536 million, and Porsche has committed to entering the round with an “eight-figure sum” investment. Porsche already owns a 45 percent stake in the merged Bugatti Rimac, as well as an additional 24 percent of Rimac Group, which itself owns the other 55 percent of Bugatti…

[ad_1] The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship season has entered its second half this weekend with the Jakarta International E-Prix going down on Saturday. Porsche came into this round hoping for a good result, perhaps even a repeat of its victory in Mexico City, but sadly it was not meant to be. In qualifying Andre Lotterer failed to get into the pole shootout duels by mere thousandths of a second, was forced to start the race from eighth. Pascal Wehrlein made it into the duels, and put up a respectable fight good enough for a sixth place starting position.…

[ad_1] Way back in 2016 famed comedian and Porsche fanatic Jerry Seinfeld sold sixteen special cars from his massive collection through the Gooding & Co. auction at Amelia Island. Among that grouping of cars was the gorgeous green Porsche you see above. It was represented and sold as one of the sixty original aluminum body Furhmann four-cam 1958 Porsche 356 Speedster GS/GT models, and it hammered at an impressive $1.54 million. Three years after the auction concluded, in 2019, the buyer, Fica Frio, LTD. issued a lawsuit claiming not only that the car was an elaborate fake, but that Seinfeld…

Four years of the Trump presidency and the calamity of Covid-19 is driving a political realignment across the United States, and the Golden State is changing too. This shift, however, doesn’t pit Democrats against Republicans. It’s the grassroots pressure from parents demanding more leadership to open schools that’s forcing side-taking between students and the state’s powerful teacher’s unions. While Democratic governors unite behind a call for open schools and rising stars like Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimundo boosted their political profile by keeping schools open, Governor Newsom’s late-coming plan to open schools led with a $2 billion package of incentives…