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Octoberfest Gets Kicked Off At Lyon Air Museum With Porsches On The Flightline Car Show

John Wayne Airport and Lyon Air Museum serves as a background for the Porsches On The Flightline Octoberfest signaling car show of the iconic German marque - Porsche.  Image Credit: Albert Wong (2024)


Octoberfest Gets Kicked Off At Lyon Air Museum With Porsches On The Flightline Car Show

The Porsches on the Flightline Car Show in Santa Ana, California, held in 2024, was an exhilarating event that brought together Porsche enthusiasts and car aficionados alike. Taking place against the backdrop of an airfield, this unique car show featured a stunning array of Porsche models, old and new, from vintage classics to cutting-edge modern designs. The setting of the airstrip provided a sense of grandeur, as rows of meticulously maintained cars gleamed under the Southern California sun, each representing the rich heritage and innovative spirit of the Porsche brand.

Porsche Design Watch Presentation Rennsport Reunion 7 Edition

Rennsport Reunion 7 close-up presentation area set-up in the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Media Center. Adorned with graphics in the wall and hands-on watch making materials on the desk space surround. Porsche Design Timepieces "Sports Car On The Wrist." Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (2023)

 

Porsche Design Watch Presentation Rennsport Reunion 7 Edition
 
Once every three to five years (pandemic augmented), the Rennsport Reunion has become a significant event in the world of motorsports and Porsche enthusiasts. It was created to celebrate the rich racing heritage of Porsche and to provide a platform for drivers, fans, and historians to come together and honor the history of Porsche's racing endeavors. Rensport Reunion 7, held at Monterey's WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, celebrated 75 years Porsche as a car manufacturer and luxury products company.

Rennsport 7 - 300 Cars Confirmed To Compete At Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca

Rennsport 7 - 300 Cars Confirmed To Compete At Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca 

Action-packed track program revealed for the Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7 along the Monterey Peninsula, formally Fort Ord property, race track.

Porsche Cars North America, together with WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), has formerly announced the all-star on-track schedule for the upcoming Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7. Over 300 race cars will participate in competition at the world’s largest gathering of Porsche enthusiasts across four days. The seventh celebration of Porsche motorsport past, present and future will take place September 28 – October 1 in Monterey, California.

PPIHC Announces Hurley Haywood 2023 Grand Marshal

Image Credit: The Brumos Collection via The Speed Journal (2021)

 
PPIHC Announces Hurley Haywood 2023 Grand Marshal


Hurley Haywood, a legendary sports car racer, will serve as the Grand Marshal of the 2023 Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, brought to you by Gran Turismo. Haywood will make a demonstration run up the mountain in a Taycan Cross Turismo Turbo S on Sunday, June 25.

PETERSEN MUSEUM SHOWCASES THE PORSCHE 956 AND 962

Upper Level of the Petersen Automotive Museum  Image Credit: 2018 Petersen Museum

 
Luftgekuhlt Exhibits Porsche Prototype Giants at the Petersen
Words and Images By Brandon O'Brien / Motor Driven Images unless otherwise specified
 
The Petersen Automotive Museum has opened the second of two Luftgekuhlt exhibits. The first which opened May 15th highlighted the work of German manufacturer and Porsche tuner RUF Automobile. This exhibit focuses on the history and legacy of the Porsche 956 series race cars and is called Prototype Giants. The exhibit will be on display only until November 19th. 
 

RALLYING THE TARGA CALIFORNIA — IN A COBRA! PART 1 OF 2


Torque… That was what impressed on my mind while concentrating and powering through twisty corners in the backroads of Paso Robles and Pismo Beach during this year’s Targa California Rally. An incredible event paired with an equally incredible car… 


Low tide at Pismo Beach. Photo Credit: Jonathan Sieger

RALLYING THE TARGA CALIFORNIA — IN A COBRA! PART 1 OF 2
By Tom Stahler

Like most of the stories that fill the car-adventure writer’s columns, it began with a phone call… Longtime friend and fellow Porsche enthusiast, Jonathan Sieger — or ‘Jono,’ as I affectionately refer him, rang me up with an absolutely-impossible-to-refuse offer: He and I would co-drive in the eleventh installment of the Targa California Rally.

Patrick Long’s #Luft6 Outdoes Itself With Movieset Backdrop Location

Not your usual car show #luftgekühlt #luft6 — Not your usual custom Porsche vision with the Emory Motorsports 356 RSR on display at Universal Studios Hollywood (center left).
Image Credit: Stan Kaplan via FB (2019)

 

Patrick Long's #Luft6 Outdoes Itself With Movieset Backdrop Location

Oh, to be in Los Angeles and a Porsche automobile marque lover at the beginning of the month of May.

What can best described as an annual Porsche cars & coffee carshow tradition on steroids, #Luft6, or Luftgekühlt (pronounced like "looft-guh-kyoolt" - eh, so-so) which is German for “air cooled,” got it's start as a dream of standout American Porsche factory race car driver, and local SoCal boy, Patrick Long along with noted Southern California creative director Howie Idelson.

Porsche’s Lost Weekend In SoCal

One of the many display areas at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim. Image Credit: Madeline Stahler (2019)


Porsche’s Lost Weekend In SoCal
By: Tom Stahler

The 356 Club of Southern California put on its 11th Annual All Porsche Swap and Car Display at the Phoenix Club of Anaheim on March 3. As part of one of SoCal’s biggest Porsche weekend, which included Saturday’s Literature Meet, and more than a dozen Porsche-related businesses open houses, the event attracted enthusiasts and industry people from around the world.  

Rennsport VI Royalty Display On The Laguna Seca Corkscrew

Rennsport VI Royalty Display On The Laguna Seca Corkscrew
[ht: Ted Seven via Facebook]

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