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Dec 29 2008, 09:23 AM
by
Antonio Alvendia
with 3 comment(s)
Hey guys! Due to popular request, I'd decided to put up a desktop photo of Nakai san's Rauh Welt Porsche 930... I know some of you were requesting other photos from the story, give me a little while, and I can try to put some of those pics up later too. Working on something else the moment, stay tuned to Speedhunters! As usual, you can find the new photos in our Speedhunters Desktops section . Enjoy! -Antonio Alvendia
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Posted
Dec 27 2008, 11:13 AM
by
Antonio Alvendia
with 34 comment(s)
Porsche month on Speedhunters is long over. So why would I decide to write a story about one of Japan's most influential Porsche builders, and have the aggressive wheel lip and stunningly stylish rear fender of Nakai san's Rauh Welt Porsche as the main leader photo? Because Nakai san isn't just a Porsche guy... his style and his influence has much more effect than you might think. Before I continue too far with this story, I just wanted to point out that all these Rauh Welt shop visit...
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Posted
Dec 19 2008, 01:59 PM
by
Andy Blackmore
with 25 comment(s)
Porsche month on Speedhunters was packed with features and we couldn't fit everything into one month, so we decided to keep this back for a feature as the holiday season approaches. Let me know if your interested in these sort of features and I will publish some more livery posts if there is interest. Porsche has a very successful history in motorsport and that's made it difficult to list all the favourites, but this should go some way to showcasing some of the iconic Porsche's and acting...
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Posted
Dec 13 2008, 08:14 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 7 comment(s)
I'm sure most of you remember the wave of Porsche stories that filled up Speedhunters over the course of September.... a few of you thought we had gone a bit bonkers with Stuttgart fever!... There might be some truth to this... some of us Speedhunters on the site are real Porsche fans so we certainly indulged ourselves. Looking back at Porsche month, there were a few stories that we were working on, which unfortunately didn't get closed out. One of them was our link up with the famous Porsche...
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Posted
Oct 01 2008, 07:15 AM
by
Antonio Alvendia
with 2 comment(s)
By now our readers have probably seen the great video footage that Rod shot at Porschewerks Leipzig for the 911 RS vs 911 GT2 feature on Speedhunters. While you all are capable of Googling the specs and numbers on the Porsche 911 GT2, I wanted to talk for a minute about how the car felt when I was driving it. The GT2 I drove was actually a Clubsport edition GT2 - an instructor car from Porsche's Sport Driving School at Leipzig. The Clubsport designation means it comes equipped with a bolt-in...
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Posted
Sep 30 2008, 09:00 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 17 comment(s)
So that's it for Porsche month... it's been quite the odyssey for the site it has to be said. Perhaps we went a bit crazy with our outpouring of love for the cars from Stuttgart... For those of you who were pained by this experience we apologize hahaha. It's hard to please everyone isn't it. At any rate regular service is about to be resumed. For now we'll leave you with this video we've been working on for the past few weeks. It features one brand new 2008 Porsche 911 GT2...
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Posted
Sep 30 2008, 07:10 PM
by
John Brooks
with 11 comment(s)
Regular readers will know that September is Porsche month here on SpeedHunters and Rod, Antonio and I trekked around Europe back in July eventually reaching Spa Francorchamps for the annual 24 Hours race. So what better way to round off a month considering the best of Porsche with a homage to one of the great temples of speed, the old Spa Francorchamps circuit. Many of you will know already of Spa, where the Grand prix circus plies its trade annually, treating the difficult, very fast track with...
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Posted
Sep 29 2008, 08:15 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 21 comment(s)
In the mid-90s, my wife and I moved to London to pursue a dream of directing music videos in the UK scene. This of course, was not such an easy manuever. It was quite a huge challenge to go to a large, foreign city to get started in a freelance career.... Pretty stressful times I have to say, although I wouldn't be where I am today unless I put myself through that hardship.... A particularly tough scenario I had to deal with during this period of my life was, I had to endure seven whole years...
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Posted
Sep 29 2008, 11:36 AM
by
Antonio Alvendia
with 5 comment(s)
As we prepare to wrap up our Porsche themed month here on Speedhunters, I thought I'd post some photos of FIA GT cars running uphill at one of the most famous corners in the world of GT racing and Formula One - Eau Rouge . This famously treacherous corner is part of the Circuit de Spa Francorchamps in Belgium. Eau Rouge gets its name from a Belgian stream/river by the same name; the famous uphill corner is located at the point where the Spa circuit crosses over the stream. Above is a photo I...
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Posted
Sep 28 2008, 02:47 PM
by
John Brooks
with 7 comment(s)
Seeing old race cars for the first time in ages is a bit like bumping into an old flame, there is a natural tendancy to don the rose tinted spectacles, remember the good times and forget the bad. Racing imitates Life. Those of you paying attention will know that Rod, Antonio and I were guests of Porsche AG at their Leipzig Factory earlier this year. Like all good hosts they made us feel very welcome and when they showed us up to the museum/display area it was an opportunity to meet up with some old...
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Posted
Sep 26 2008, 04:00 PM
by
Andy Blackmore
with 54 comment(s)
I thought it would be great to show other Speedhunters something unique and exclusive as an extra bonus to our Porsche feature month. As some of you may be aware, I work on the Need for Speed Car team as the Senior Vehicle Concept Artist at our Downtown Vancouver Studio. The majority of my working day is taken up designing bodykits and cars and assisting with livery/vinyl direction. I'm going to explain the process in designing a unique bodykit for one of the key cars in our game. I think this...
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Posted
Sep 26 2008, 01:00 AM
by
John Brooks
with 7 comment(s)
Porsche and Le Mans........and me? How did all this start? Well, it's probably easier to say when, 1970. Inspired by tales in the magazine Motor Sport of supercars competing at the world's greatest race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I was hooked. Naturally I did not actually go to the race, I was a bit young but I do remember being at a cousin's wedding, sneaking out to the family car every hour or so to hear the radio reports..........I nearly flatted the battery......my father was not best...
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Posted
Sep 25 2008, 12:29 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 14 comment(s)
For some the world is not enough, same goes for certain car owners. To cater those happy few that can buy million dollar cars and turn them into something even more outrageous we have Gemballa. The tuner is situated in Leonberg Germany, that's around 10km from Stuttgart where Porsche themselves are situated. Gemballa made some interesting conversions in the past but I wanted to show you the most extreme one, the Gemballa Mirage GT based on the Porsche Carerra GT. The kit that Gemballa developed...
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Posted
Sep 25 2008, 09:59 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 3 comment(s)
News flash: I have just uploaded more high resolution RWB goodness and it's now available in our Desktops section.
Have fun trying to choose which one you want!...
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Posted
Sep 24 2008, 05:59 PM
by
Andy Blackmore
with 11 comment(s)
Yes, yes, another Porsche post. However, this post is special eye-candy as it features some very cool artwork by the Porsche Vehicle Design Studio. Each year Porsche release a number of calendars. A special 'style' edition has been available the last couple of years and features some stunning artwork from the Design Studio.I love big calendars, I always try and get one each year. Its not a cheap calendar, but its been a great resource for me this year even if it did cost me an arm and a leg...
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Posted
Sep 24 2008, 04:30 PM
by
Antonio Alvendia
with 1 comment(s)
I was just looking through the photos on my small Canon point-and-shoot Ixy Digital 910IS, and I spotted a photo I took of the food vendors at Spa Francorchamps... seeing the photo brought back the aroma of the huge stacks of freshly made Belgian waffles they were making, right there at the circuit! I mean, who can resist Belgian waffles... especially when you're in Belgium ! Anyway, as we were taking in the buttery sweet smell of the waffles, we were seeing and hearing some amazing sights and...
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Posted
Sep 24 2008, 07:30 AM
by
Antonio Alvendia
with 8 comment(s)
Sometime last year, I received a call from my friends David and Tim at Classic Motorsports Magazine . They asked me if I'd be available to come out to Willow Springs Raceway to shoot photos of a bunch of classic Porsches they rounded up for an upcoming issue. Of course I was interested - classic Porsches are cool, and besides, I've been a longtime fan and supporter of the magazines that David and Tim produce as their labor of love - Grassroots Motorsports and Classic Motorsports. In fact...
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Posted
Sep 24 2008, 04:08 AM
by
Andy Blackmore
with 9 comment(s)
As the Porsche Feature month draws to an end, I thought it would be a good idea to show some of the iconic liveries which have graced racing Porsche's over the decades. Our first example is a group shot of the Porsche 956/962 from the Rennsport Reunion back in 2007. Seems an awesome event. The Porsche 956 and 962 dominated endurance racing around the world. The 956 made its competition debut in 1982 (the car with 'ROTHMANS' in Capitals is one of the first chassis). The 962 was an updated...
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Posted
Sep 23 2008, 12:54 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 26 comment(s)
As we get closer to the end of the month and our all out on focus on Porsche, it's time for me to finish up my Rauh Welt car features with the much-anticipated look at Nakai-san's personal 1985 Porsche 930. This is a car over 12 years in the making, and in its current state it is definitely one of the most unique Porsche 911's anywhere in the world. From its extensive bodywork to its laps and laps of racing experience, this car has been a testbed for all of RWB's products, and as you saw in my previous feature, it has inspired Porsche owners all over Japan and more recently all over the world....
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Posted
Sep 22 2008, 02:45 PM
by
Antonio Alvendia
with 7 comment(s)
All this week, I've been carefully packing up all my belongings into big boxes because I'm moving at the end of this month. While everybody else on the team is busy Speedhunting, I've been busy house-hunting as well, and let me tell you... Speedhunting is definitely 100x more fun! I can't seem to find a place central to LA that can accomodate the Cipher Garage Collection of cars, good offset wheels, rare steering wheels, horn buttons, transmissions, engine parts, LSDs, die casts,...
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