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Cold Fusion Vessel? Nope. The World’s Lightest Fuel Tank!

It was September 8, 1968, and Porsche had little left to prove in the European Hill Climb Championship. Five races in the 910/8 Bergspyder had delivered five victories, putting the title all but beyond reach with two rounds remaining. Naturally, Porsche showed up at Salzburg’s Gaisberg mountain with an entirely...
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White Racers from Zuffenhausen

© White Racers from Zuffenhausen: Porsche 904, 906, 907, 908, 909, 910 In 2018, we reviewed one of the other books in this series, Porsche Spyders 1956-1964, and this year we will have a couple more to do. White Racers from Zuffenhausen, is another in this series, and as we...
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Porsche 909

Porsche 909 Bergspyder (1968)

The pinnacle for hillclimb racing was the mid-1960s and perhaps the most extreme machine of the era was the Porsche 909 Bergspyder. It took weight saving to the extreme. The 909 Bergspyder did not win a major event. It ended up being an awesome laboratory of ideas (not all worked). The 909 Bergspyder was based on the 910, but Piëch had tasked his team of engineers, including the legendary Peter Falk, to remove weight on every component.
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