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2015 Portland Auto Show – Part One
Sneaking off for a couple of hours during a trip to visit our daughter — on my wife’s birthday, yet — I got some face time with Portland’s annual automotive marketing extravaganza. Shall we start with Porsche? Returning to this venue after … Continue reading
Top Gear and Google Street View
I’m about a year late on this, but I just discovered that Top Gear‘s track can be seen on Google Street View. Here’s some backstory, with the help of The Stig:
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Porsche Appreciation
ClassicCars.com’s blog reports on last week’s Gooding & Company auto auction in Phoenix (Scottsdale, to be more specific) and the continued astonishing rise in prices for Porsches, including the once-lowly 912. Of course, the 944 species seemed to be absent … Continue reading
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The 944 Gearbox/Transaxle
One of the latest in a series of great Van Svenson videos:
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Mission Aborted
I try to exercise the Blue Rascal no less than weekly, weather permitting. With most of the main streets now clear of the considerable snow of the past week, Ivi and I set off for a local photographic junket. But … Continue reading
Discovered, Forty-Five Years Later
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The Cuban Gullwing
In a context of recent rapprochement with Cuba, a photographer finds these remains under a banana tree: Read more here on the ill-fated mystery 300SL. Read the comments at your own risk.
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Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe
The Blue Rascal, thankfully, has that increasingly-rare feature … a manually-shifted gearbox. If the current trend continues, eoncoboxes will be the only new cars so equipped (and maybe even those will give way to CVTs). The use of the traditional … Continue reading
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944 Radiator Work
This video just hit YouTube yesterday, a few months after my untimely radiator incident: Thanks to Jürgen, aka Pelican Parts user “Dr944S2” from Germany. Click through on the user name to find links to more great how-to tech videos or subscribe … Continue reading
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