Category: Nostalgia

Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance 2017

The 22nd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance took place this past weekend. With special guests such as this year’s honoree, Al Unser, Sr., as well as a discussion headed by

Checking out the Porsche corral at 2017 Rolex 24

In big races such as the Rolex 24, there are car corrals where one can check out groups of cars of a particular make. This year, we’re focusing on Porsche, because,

Bruce Canepa Helmet

Canepa: We Check Out a Car Collection in Just 1 Hour

This post continues from a series of articles in which I’ve chronicled the events of a trip to California earlier this year. Here we’ll take a look at what was a very quick trip

Fantastic Photos from Luftgekühlt 3

Re-shared from FlatSixes.com, Photography by Brett Sloan The 911’s iconic status in sports car hierarchy makes car meets like Luft 3 really exciting. Events like this don’t come along often, so I’m

Luftgekühlt 3 celebrates the air-cooled 911

This weekend, creative director Howie Idelson and Porsche racer Patrick Long put together the third annual Luftgekühlt, which celebrates the early air-cooled engine models of the Porsche 911 from pre-A 356

Valentino Balboni driving a Lamborghini Miura on Amelia Island

It’s Not Every Day That You See an Icon Driven by a Legend

Over the weekend, I attended the Amelia Island Cars & Coffee and their 21st annual Concours d’Elegance. While there on Saturday, my wife and I were waiting to be shuttled to our parking area, when a Lamborghini Miura drove by a few times. On one pass, I captured some photographs of it approaching on the straight and rounding the corner. Later that night, looking through the raw files, the driver’s head and face, for some reason, looked very familiar… When I zoomed the image up to full size, I recognized him immediately; the retired legendary Lamborghini chief test driver, Valentino Balboni. Can someone help me get my jaw up off the floor?

A History of Seinfeld’s Porsches Selling at Amelia

If you are a fan of Porsche, and you’ve been anywhere near the internet in the last month, it’s unlikely that you haven’t heard about the upcoming Seinfeld collection grouping

Setting 3 Records on 3 Wheels in 1 Wonderfully Miserable Trip from LA to NY

[This is without a doubt the best thing I have read all week, so I decided to re-share it here. Zach Bowman recounts in immersive and poetic detail how he

Florida Bug Jam 2015

Florida Bug Jam 2015: Bug Wars

Many of you can probably remember when Volkswagen was known more for making small, cheap, ubiquitous cars with character, known as the Beetle, than they were for a diesel emissions

No Free Lunch: An $8,500 Porsche 996

About two months ago, I purchased my fourth new-to-me car in as many years — and I still had two of the previous three. Of those three, one was purchased