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D-Type expected to break all sales records
The Auto Union D-Type and its predecessors are the direct ancestors of today’s Formula One cars. A 1939-vintage D-Type will be auctioned in February. Experts predict it will sell for over $10 million...
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The first green Porsche
This 1900 electric Lohner-Porsche Voiturette will be on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show photo courtesy Porsche The Los Angeles Auto Show is gaining in importance to automakers every year, and...
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Any color, as long as it’s…
To celebrate Porsche’s 35th anniversary, the company plans to produce 777 Cayman S Porsche Design Edition 1 sports cars. photo courtesy Porsche Porsche Cars’ Porsche Design branch, which was founded...
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Ludvigsen Library headed to new home
The Ludvigsen Library, the vast collection amassed by award-winning automotive historian, researcher and author (and longtime Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car contributor) Karl Ludvigsen, has been...
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The Volkswagen Type 1 “Beetle” marks its 75th anniversary
1938 Volkswagen Beetle prototype. All images courtesy Volkswagen AG, unless otherwise noted. For countless drivers who came of age between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, the iconic Volkswagen Type...
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Cars of Futures Past – 1901 Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus and Mixte
Ferdinand Porsche’s 1901 ‘Semper Vivus,’ the world’s first hybrid automobile. Photos courtesy Porsche AG. Ask a casual observer to name the first hybrid automobile, and the responses are likely to be...
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Video collection celebrates “Porsche by Design” exhibit
Porsche Type 904. Still image taken from Vimeo video. Next month, the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) will debut an exhibit celebrating Porsche’s history and legacy of racing victories. Entitled...
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Four-Links – cross-country Model A, Porsche and the Nazis, Stooges and Fords,...
* First off, congratulations to Rod Wade and Michael Flanders, who recently set a transcontinental speed record for pre-war cars by driving their Ford Model A from Staten Island to Venice Beach in 50...
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Four-Links – fake collector cars, slammed brochure cars, Opel’s calendar...
Photo by Craig Howell. * The Detroit News this week turned its spotlight on the prevalence of fakes in the collector car hobby and the rea$on$ why they’re becoming increasingly common. * We’ve linked...
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Ferdinand Porsche’s first race winner rejoins Porsche in Stuttgart
Ferdinand Porsche’s first race vehicle, the electric P1. Photos courtesy Porsche AG. Though never lost, perhaps one of the most significant vehicles in Porsche history has remained out of the public...
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After devastating fire, restoration begins on one of the world’s oldest Beetles
Photos via Prototyp Automuseum. For much of the latter half of the Twentieth Century, comedians compared the ubiquitous Volkswagen Beetle to the cockroach—both of them so hard to kill, they’d likely...
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Four-Links – Orphan Car Show, Ferry Porsche in America, vertical grilles on...
For those of us who didn’t get to see the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show last weekend, Mac’s Motor City Garage gathered some coverage of the annual event focused on independents and those marques abandoned...
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