Franco Scaglione designs. His work with Bertone for Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Jaguar, Porsche, Lamborghini, and many others has a lasting influence

https://drivemag.com/red-calipers/the-incredibly-beautiful-cars-of-franco-scaglione/#&gid=1&pid=10

I wish I could read all those plaques, that owner was having a lot of fun

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122132555553149342&set=pb.61584480260429.-2207520000

Fritz Schiedel was a bit obsessed with making this Porsche 550A as light as possible for racing ( bought directly from Porsche competition director at Sebring in '58, never raced, a backup car for the new RSK) Thank you John!

I'm surprised he didn't swiss cheese the dash, but I get a kick out of the lack of decorative trim around the instruments, and the holes in the key? Awesome

DUI high speed chase wasn't ever going to result in an escape... only in a crash.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/938038618960182

Happy 9-30 day!

https://www.facebook.com/magnus.walker.9406/posts/pfbid0CxZkCcqtQudKT96gdCu9SRWCjF6SYcusUejvYEVLx4aLbtd39cqx8AYBDNPB3RaNl

dichotomy

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=27691851747092801&set=gm.2346039632589911&idorvanity=804065043454052

a Datsun Cherry 120A Coupé prepared for Group 5 touring car racing, sponsored by Aannemersbedrijf J.G. Winter Zandvoort and driven in Dutch national races at Circuit Zandvoort

the Bahamas Speed Week at Nassau (end of the racing season grand party) was the brainchild of a sports car racer and seaplane fleet operator Sherman “Red” Crise, who realized the abandoned Windsor Field airstrip would make a great racetrack

Crise was an interesting figure. He cut his teeth as a page at the New York Stock Exchange while studying for an aeronautical engineering degree. After graduating, he invested his NYSE earnings in a chain of three garages in New York, where he soon also gained the racing bug. 

Surviving the Wall Street Crash of 1929 relatively unscathed, he went touring across Europe with an American racing team in 1930 and returned to the USA the following year to set up a seaplane base, which soon became very successful.

The racing bug was still there and Crise soon tapped into the burgeoning interest in midget racing by establishing a chain of dirt tracks, which prospered from 1938 to 1942, when the USA entered World War Two. 

Crise - already a pilot - was swift to sign up and was assigned to the First Photographic Squadron, flying unarmed fighter planes on photographic missions, before transferring to Air Transport Command as a Captain. 

Towards the end of the war he was forced to bale out over China and suffered a broken neck, eventually being repatriated to Miami to recuperate. From his hospital bed he then dreamed up his next venture - the Miami Beach Marine Basin - which lasted a year until being destroyed by fire. 

During this period, Crise and his wife would often take yacht trips out to the Bahamas and it was during one of these visits to New Providence Island, home to the capital Nassau, that Red first spotted the open expanses of asphalt that made up the abandoned Windsor Airport. An idea soon formed in his head...

https://www.racingcircuits.info/north-america/the-bahamas/nassau-windsor-field.html

Invitations were sent out to the competitors of the SCCA at the end of the 1954 season, anticipating the first Speed Week from 6-12 December. 

When confirmed entries were slow in coming through, Red Crise put out feelers with the local car dealers and soon there were almost 100 unofficial enquiries for starting positions.

 The addition of a bike race also helped to ensure the event would have a decent chance of success and, bit by bit, a good entry was finally obtained.

https://www.racingcircuits.info/north-america/the-bahamas/nassau-windsor-field.html

In 1954, the Nassau Trophy Road Races were born on the Windsor Field circuit, with Masten Gregory taking victory in a Ferrari 375 MM. The following year it was Phil Hill’s turn, behind the wheel of the Ferrari 857 S, while in 1956 Stirling Moss triumphed in a Maserati 300S.

The track saw the greatest names of the era pass through, including Alfonso de Portago, Carroll Shelby, Dan Gurney, A.J. Foyt, brothers Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez, and Innes Ireland, alongside cars that would go down in history: the Lotus 19, the Scarab Chevrolet, and the Chaparral 2A of Hap Sharp and Roger Penske, which dominated in 1964 and 1965.

https://automedia.revsinstitute.org/sun-sand-and-speed-an-atmospheric-look-at-the-1955-bahamas-speed-week

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1366716045583488&set=pcb.1366716208916805

In August 1942, the British govt started a (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF at Nassau Airport to train general reconnaissance crews using the North American Mitchell and Consolidated Liberators.

(Why train in the Bahamas? Far from the European theater of war?)

In December 1942, the airport was named Windsor Field (after the Duke of Windsor, who had taken up regular residency on the island after abdicating as the King of the United Kingdom.) and became a Royal Air Force (RAF) station.

The OTU returned to the UK in September 1945 and was disbanded.

Invitations were sent out to the competitors of the SCCA at the end of the 1954 season, anticipating the first Speed Week from 6-12 December. When confirmed entries were slow in coming through, Red Crise put out feelers with the local car dealers and soon there were almost 100 unofficial enquiries for starting positions. The addition of a bike race also helped to ensure the event would have a decent chance of success and, bit by bit, a good entry was finally obtained. In June 1946, the RAF withdrew from Windsor Field and it reverted to civilian use. 

In November 1957, Nassau International Airport at Windsor Field was brought into full operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynden_Pindling_International_Airport

the 911 Turbo turns 50, fine, that's cool and etc... but, what I realized, is I haven't heard why Porsche 911s seem to have very good looking plaid upholstery. German car, Scottish cloth design - so that had me looking into that...

https://www.porsche.com/stories/innovation/porsche-911-turbo-50-years/

How the historic tartan pattern made its way into the latest Porsche anniversary collections? What does a fabric with deep Scottish roots have to do with Porsche?

Research reverals that the McLaughlin tartan was a design highlight of the 911 Turbo # 1, because  the chief designer at Porsche at the time, was going for a fashion look and wore a pair of tartan trousers to work...  Inspired by his bold style choice, the design team decided to explore how this classic pattern could add a unique flair to the interiors of their cars.

At the 1973 International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Porsche unveiled the 911 RSR Turbo concept car, which featured an upholstery fabric inspired by the Black Watch tartan in a blue, green and black pattern. 

Two more patterns were soon added to the collection: the McLaughlin (also known as MacLachlan) tartan in a bold red and blue, and the Mackenzie tartan in shades of beige, red, blue, white and olive green. 

 The tartan interiors quickly became a distinctive feature of the Porsche high performance models

https://www.porsche.com/stories/culture/what-is-the-porsche-tartan-collection/

Singer and Louis Vuitton 911, unveiled on Wednesday at Pebble Beach, Calif., as part of Monterey Car Week,

The Porsche 911 Reimagined by Singer – Classic Turbo designed in collaboration with Nicolas Ghesquière, artistic director of women’s collections at Louis Vuitton

The conversation with Singer began with a simple request. The bespoke auto workshop, founded in 2009 by Rob Dickinson, the former frontman of English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, wanted to commission a detachable dashboard clock based on Vuitton’s signature Tambour watch.

“In addition to the design and production of this clock by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton workshops in Switzerland, it quickly became apparent to us that this collaboration with Singer could extend to the personalization of every functional element of the vehicle, enhancing them through our expertise in leather craftsmanship and watchmaking,” said Jean Arnault, Louis Vuitton’s watch director.

the Louis Vuitton Dolomites Classic Run is next month in September, and will mark the French luxury brand’s first classic car rally in 14 years.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a73405739/singer-louis-vuitton-911-reimaginations/

 https://elitetraveler.com/motion/cars-and-bikes/louis-vuitton-singer-one-off-porsche-911-monterey-car-week

https://wwd.com/eye/lifestyle/monterey-car-week-singer-porsche-911-louis-vuitton-1239091096/

Spotted somewhere near Comic Con

the Daily Timewaster just posted this : Tazio Nuvolari | Moto Vitelloni, and thanks to Robert Menking, I learned the history of this car, the Porsche type 360 Grand Prix designed by Cistalia in Italy, built by Porsche

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/07/tazio-nuvolari-moto-vitelloni.html

the history of the Cistalia Porsche at https://www.stuttcars.com/porsche-type-360/

The Cisitalia Grand Prix, a single-seater car for the postwar 1.5-litre supercharged Grand Prix class, built by Italian sports car manufacturer Cisitalia and introduced in 1949. 

It was designed on behalf of Cisitalia by Porsche between 1946–47, and is therefore also known by its Porsche project number, Typ 360.

In the end of WW II, Pietro “Piero” Dusio founded a company called Compagnia Industriale Sportiva Italia, CISItalia in short, with the future plan to start the series production of racing and sports cars.

At the same time there was one Austrian-born former racer and self-taught engineer Karl Abarth living in Italy who wanted to work with racing machines as the war was over. He contacted Ferry Porsche. Abarth knew the Porsche family through his wife who used to be the secretary to Anton Piëch (husband of Ferdinand Porsche’s daughter and Ferry’s sister Louise). In Italy, Karl Abarth had became Carlo Abarth – a name every auto enthusiast knows. In the end of September 1946, Abarth became Porsche engineering company’s representative in Italy.

I just learned more about Janis's 356... her roadie painted the designs, and it was stolen in '69, during a gig at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. (thank you Kim!)

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/christophorus/porsche-356-sc-janis-joplin-12303.html

and under the gas cap... 

She bought the car used, off a lot in 1968, for 3500, and it was auctioned in 2015 for 1.76 million dollars, which is still a record for a Porsche 356.

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/08/betcha-didnt-know-this-was-under-gas.html

things from the Swayze/Reeves original Point Break that would be epic to own... the Porsche that Lori Petty's character drove, or the Mach 1 that Keanu's character drove... or the guitar Patrick Swayze was tuning!

This now causes me to wonder, did this result in Keanu asking for his John Wick character to have a Mustang? 

Porsche barnfind, of the rare kind, a twin grill 356. 247 made

https://www.facebook.com/groups/55036685782/user/1620504960

Ken Miles, Cooper Porsche, Palm Springs, 1957

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26840269772270154&set=gm.3358274384346142&idorvanity=132380976935515

At the Paramount Ranch on Nov '56, Ken won both the Under 1500cc. and Over 1500cc. main events in this car.

http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/BillTibbetts051MilesCooperPorsche1.html

I posted about the car 15 years ago... how weird to say "oh, just happened to have learned about this 15 years ago, and did a decent job putting the info on this blog" 

15 years... that's a LOT of years 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/just-learned-about-pooper-yeah-stupid.html

so, here's a rare example of someone getting CRAZY lucky.... a 61 dollar fix for a Porsche Cayman transmission that Porsche claimed would take 15,000 dollars to fix

Grassroots Motorsports magazine

seen on todays walk

Best condition I've seen a Mitsu 3000 in yet