We really love this. Read on for the full back story as well as additional images (more here). If this ever gets released as a book (and it looks like it’s shaping up to be), we’d be interested in buying it.
Check out Auto Ego in the Times for similar car-and-owner human interest pieces.
Photo credit: Matteo Ferrari
(via ColdTrackDays)
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Took these at a PDA track day I attended earlier this year. Wish I had taken more, in hindsight. Not sure if it’s a 930, although it very well could be. The car was just perfect: the graphite blue (?) paint, the wide body, the polished Fuchs. Very aggressive, yet also very classy.
The steed:
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We’ve been quietly enjoying these for awhile now, but it’s gotten to the point where we simply can’t stay silent on the matter any longer: Axis of Oversteer, one of our favorite destinations on the great big information superhighway that is the Internets, has been generously providing high resolution, print-worthy vintage Porsche posters lately, and there appears to be no end in sight. Among our favorites to date:
Glorious stuff. Get them here (and check back frequently for updates). And if you like what you see, don’t forget to thank the good people over at Axis.
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What the heck is it? From what we can gather, Chevron Cars Ltd. was a small British racing car manufacturer, and the model in question appears to be a Chevron B8 (we think).
Photo credit: Guillaume Tassart
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M6 TTL with modern 50mm Summicron on the left, M3 with collapsible 50mm Summicron and Voigtlander VC light meter on the right.
Photo credit: Lemuel Chanyungco
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Into the heart of the beast… here is something so good, so pure, that if no other hint of it but this record existed, there would still be such a thing as rock and roll… Van Morrison’s voice a fierce beacon in the darkness, the lighthouse at the end of the world. Resulting in one of the most perfect rock anthems known to humankind – Paul Williams, on “Baby Please Don’t Go/Gloria”
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What the heck is it?
At the request of then Volkswagen Group CEO Ferdinand Piech, Giorgetto Giugiaro and his Italdesign team was tasked to design a Volkswagen sports car, with instructions that it had to accommodate a 12 cylinder engine in a W configuration, be mid-engined, and also be able to be configured with Volkwagen’s Syncro four-wheel drive system.
Another reason for its conception was to prove to the world that Volkswagen Group could build a large and reliable engine for its luxury car, the Volkswagen Phaeton, and its sport utility vehicle, the Volkswagen Touareg (source).
Photo credit: Pixelklinik / Christian
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A laughable description given Lartigue’s status as a twentieth century master photographer, but we thought we’d have a bit of fun.
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Really nice stuff from Audi, circa 2005.
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Motoring Con Brio 