A Chapter Ends, A Chapter Begins (Short Version)

Posted on May 31, 2021 by lawrence

944folly, under new management, or something like that … read more

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Ready for Winter

Posted on November 6, 2023 by lawrence

Jim provides these photos, taken by none other than himself (one of my best students), of the ex-Blue Rascal outfitted with tall, skinny 205/65R15 Toyo Observe GSi-6 tires on “Phone Dials” for winter duty. The locale is Catherine Creek. Drive on!

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A Visit From Jim

Posted on October 29, 2023 by lawrence

Jim A. (aka jamesa) drove in today from Outer Oregon. We spent a few delightful hours catching up on life events, comparing health-related and other notes, discussing the pluses and minuses of our respective computing scenarios (I’ll let him tell you about his new Mac M2) and, of course, talking Porsche. At some point, we started scouting shooting locations but soon ran out of time before we could find optimum lighting situations to give the new Copenhagen Blau finish its due. But we got in a few warmup images and will look to additional shoots in the future when both the car and your narrator are more fully prepared. Here are a few examples from the afternoon; more may follow soon. And there are new features — like the Porsche script door handles — and fixes that have been added and yet others are still in the works. I’ve suggested that Jim do some speech-to-text updates to keep us all informed here. – lawrence

P.S. We’re now running this site from a new host, and some growing pains are in evidence. For example, you may have return to the gallery display of images each time after you tap or click a thumbnail to expand the view, rather than being able to scroll or swipe your way through them. Working on it.

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Porsche Racing History

Posted on October 8, 2023 by lawrence

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FaceTime with Herman Today

Posted on October 5, 2023 by lawrence

Today’s diary entry: Herman virtually “takes me with him” as he drives his Porsche, top-down, around Kansas City as I sit in front of my iPad in Washington state.

Photo and illustration by Lawrence

Filmmaker friend Kevin sees my illustration and responds by quoting from Hunter S. Thompson:

Raoul Duke: We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like: I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive. Suddenly, there was a terrible roar all around us, and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, and a voice was screaming: Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals? Huh! Huh! Huh! Fucking pigs!
Dr. Gonzo: Did you say something?
Raoul Duke: Hm? Never mind. It’s your turn to drive.

Photo of Herman’s Car by Herman

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Reflecting the Skies Above …

Posted on August 31, 2023 by lawrence

… in its new paint. More to come. Photo by Jim A.

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Blauer Schlingel zu Blauer Engel 07

Posted on October 27, 2022 by lawrence

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Paint 02 …

Progress Notes

21 Oct 2022

Fin

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Then the bad news:

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A run in the clear coat is not a disaster. Just a bit more work.

The walk around vid has the comment:

Walk around video of the paint on Jim’s 944. Done at 65 degrees in a Harbor freight shed with no fans. I’d turn the lights off when I’d refill the paint gun to discourage the bugs and it worked. 35 degrees this morning, yesterday was my last day to paint.

We’ll let it cure for a while then start the reassembly.