e-Brake News: Werks Reunion 2016 registration open: Featuring the water-cooled Porsches that started a revolution

Published: Tue, 05/03/16

eBrake News
May 3, 2016
PCA—Werks Reunion, the premier Porsche event during “Monterey Car Week,” is back on August 19. The concours and car show at Rancho Cañada Golf Club is free to spectators and will have a field of up to 1,000 Porsches, with 924/944/968 and 928 as the featured model ranges.
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Jalopnik—If you like old Porsches and the history of the 20th century, try to become friends with a chap called Dieter Landenberger. You can also ask him about the Porsche Museum’s latest project, the restoration of the 1980 Porsche 924 GTP Le Mans racer.

Porsche’s famous museum keeps around 100 cars on display at all times, but a few streets from there, they also have a “secret” warehouse with more than 300 prototypes, time capsules and other historic vehicles. In fact, why don’t you take a peek inside? They even have an Audi!
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Car and Driver—Porsche’s cars have always been expensive, and watching this early 1960s documentary on how the 356 was made, you get a sense of why. Things have been different since the Boxster was introduced 20 years ago, ushering in a leaner, more cost-effective manufacturing process, but Porsche’s earliest cars were truly handmade. Hence, the name of this documentary, Made By Hand.