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Printing a DB4

As a follow-on to my previous post about 3D printing, my old photography partner who also has lots of experience building fiberglass race car bodies, sends along a link of interest.   http://www.replicadb4.com/ is a site that documents the process of … Continue reading

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Does A 3D Printer Figure In Your 944’s Future?

If guns can now be fabricated with 3D printers, why not parts for your 944?  A while back I ran across an intriquing project in which a 3D printer was used to fashion an adaptor to fit an inexpensive Camaro … Continue reading

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Dredging Up The Past

In the heyday of the 944, the contenders were mainly the lower-priced Japanese competitors in the form of the Mitsubishi Starion, the Nissan 300ZX and the Mazda RX7. I never drove a Starion, truly disliked the feel of the Nissan … Continue reading

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Station Wagons, Too

Stumbled — I should say — tumbl’d upon a crazy and wonderful Tumblr site yesterday that features station wagons.  And I also came upon a Porsche variant there that recalls a recent post or two.

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Visiting Eric

This morning, following a quick shoot at a Web client’s place of business, I drop in on Eric.  We inspect a 944 fender that is a candidate to replace the damaged left one that we have probably seen too often.  … Continue reading

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Patina? Clearcoat It!

This weekend, at a downtown curbside car show, I spotted an example of my favored presentation as of late.  No Porsche examples, but here is a 1951 Chevy with the treatment. More discussion in an earlier post here.  

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Porn Time with the 962

More from Chris Harris, a car from the 944 era …

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More Porsche Porn From AUTOCAR

Notice the number plate compared to this one.

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Ekkehard Zimmerman and dp Motorsport

Okay, it took some Googleering on the Greater Interwebs, but I had to come with more to explain the mystery (to me) vehicle in the A Shooting Brake? post.  Seems that this was (is?) a limited production conversion of the … Continue reading

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A Shooting Brake?

Here is something passed on to me by a reader, apparently found on a Pakistani auto-oriented web site.  Look familiar?  Do you wish your 944 was like this?

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