Valentin Schäffer (1978) Another keen young recruitee to Zuffenhausen in the early 1950s, Valentin Schäffer, would become Porsche’s racing turbo... Read More
Autograph card signed by Jürgen Barth (ca. 1980) More books have been written about Porsche than any other car company... Read More
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The inspired engineer behind so much of Porsche’s success, Helmuth Bott has long remained the company’s eminence grise, but little... Read More
Peter Falk sits on the sill of the famous #23 Porsche 917 KH Coupé, winner of the 1970 Le Mans... Read More
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Jean Behra following his accident at Caracas 3 November 1957 Staring out of period black and white photographs, Jean Behra’s... Read More
The formidable Carrera 6 outside the Porsche headquarters, Stuttgart Zuffenhausen, 1966 The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906,... Read More
Tilman Brodbeck poses with a 1973 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Coupé (left) and a 911 Sport Classic (right) – 21... Read More
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Rallye Paris-Dakar 1984: Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 4×4 (Type 953) – driven by (from L-R) #175 Jacky Ickx, #176 René... Read More
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Anatole Lapine, 1973 Anatole Lapine who was in charge of styling at Porsche under two disparate CEOs, Fuhrmann and Schutz,... Read More
Ernst Fuhrmann at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 12 June 1977 Porsche’s first CEO is frequently maligned as the... Read More
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A huge banner adorns the side of this high bay warehouse in Werk 2, announcing the 25th anniversary exhibition of... Read More
Porsche 356 Cabriolet competing at an aerodrome race in the USA, ca. 1952/1953 America has for decades been Porsche’s biggest... Read More
Arno Bohn at Weissach with the 968 Cabriolet (1991) Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider... Read More
Porsche: The Carrera Dynasty by Glen Smale © Glen Smale A Spanish noun, ‘carrera’ can mean road, track or race... Read More
Obviously these two attractive models from the lingerie manufacturer Triumph (München) like this Porsche 914/6 – Rutesheim Athletics Club, Baden-Württemberg,... Read More
British GP meeting which Nick Faure led outright, starting from the second row, against the Falcons and BGG Escorts. But... Read More
Ed note: The history of specific chassis used in notable races decades ago can be hard to verify but are... Read More
Development of the 1979 Kremer-Porsche K3 Kremer Racing, headed up by the two brothers Erwin and Manfred, from Cologne, Germany,... Read More
There are 934s, and there are 934s… The Porsche 934 has long lived in the shadow of its more powerful... Read More
The premise was disarmingly simple: a race bringing together the best drivers in motorsport, all competing in identical cars, in... Read More
The 914/6 was the Porsche-engined version of the 914, the joint venture sports car designed by Porsche and built at... Read More
This story covers the development of the Porsche 911 RS/RSR prototype in the middle of 1972. Surprisingly, the very first... Read More
People usually recall the Chevrolet Corvair as the car that was “unsafe at any speed” which is rather unfair because... Read More
When I first started writing my book, “R to RSR: The Racing Porsche 911s” in 1987, whilst living in England,... Read More
There are 935s, and then there are 935s… Although almost a hundred Porsche 935s were built between 1975 and 1984,... Read More
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My first “real” racing car was a Porsche RS/R, which I bought in the mid-1980s. Previously, I had done quite... Read More