The main display this year at the 36th Annual Ault Park Concours d'Elegance was entitled Porsche: From Road to Racing. So far I've been showing a lot of Porsche road cars and really only a couple that were actually racers. Here is a collection of some [...]
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Porsche Becomes a Supercar
By the late 1980s Porsche, like other European sports cars, was getting the reputation for running fast. Not just fast but at insane speeds. Though the cars were street legal they had such power along with a vast array of computer controlled mechanics [...]
Detail: Porsche Becomes a Supercar
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
911 at the Ault Park Concours
In 1963 Porsche introduced its first all new car. Dubbed the 911, like its predecessor the 356, it was a rear mounted boxer style air cooled engine. Unlike the 356 this car sported a flat six of 1991 cubic centimeters; essentially two liters of [...]
Detail: 911 at the Ault Park Concours
Monday, July 1, 2013
Early Porsche at the Ault Park Concours
Porsche: From Road to Racing was the premier display at this year's Ault Park Concours d'Elegance. Most people know the iconic marquee's history. Austrian engineer Ferdinand Porsche started the company in 1931 to supply designs to other firms. His first [...]
Friday, June 28, 2013
Horse Power From Horse Country
Back in the early days of the automobile there were manufacturers popping up all over the place. One of the least likely was the heart of Blue Grass race horse country, Lexington, KY. But in 1909 a race horse promoter named Kninsey Stone founded the [...]
Detail: Horse Power From Horse Country
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