Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed

"macshome" (macshome)
01/12/2014 at 10:50 • Filed to: porsche, art, 911, 901, 356, 917, 935, Panamerican, 980, 959, 908, 904, 962, 804, 550, 718

I went to the Porsche by Design show this past Saturday at the NC Museum of Art. It was a really cool exhibit with a nice collection of cars. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! but here is a preview!

What has 880HP and 16 cylinders? This guy!

How about Dan Gurney's old office that he won two GPs in? Here you go!

Want to see the only surviving 901 prototype? OK!

How about the oldest know 356? The 17th built was there.

Are dirty race cars your thing? Here's a 917K that ran Le Mans and then was parked and preserved.

How about a hand-built recreation of a Pre-war Type 64 from original parts?

What about a crazy 365 1600 Abarth Coupe?

Maybe a dead hippy's custom 356?

Check that full photo stream link for more…

DISCUSSION (16)

getchapopcorn > macshome
01/12/2014 at 12:22

When did you go see it? I went yesterday and am thinking that I'll have to go back again in a couple weeks because they are having a 'hoods up' event jan 24-27th.

heliochrome85 > getchapopcorn
01/12/2014 at 13:12

we should coordinate. Im planning on trekking up for the show during open hood weekend!

macshome > getchapopcorn
01/12/2014 at 13:27

I was there yesterday. Drove through crazy tornado weather just as we were pulling up!

getchapopcorn > macshome
01/12/2014 at 14:10

You got there at the same time I did! (If you saw some crazy guy spending more time on the floor trying to look under the cars than standing up looking at the cars that was me)

macshome > getchapopcorn
01/12/2014 at 20:36

That weather was nuts. My phone kept throwing EBS alerts, the sirens going off outside. When we pulled up the ramp off of Wade the wind went nuts. Branches and pinecones started blowing across the road into my car and trees started coming down on the other side of the intersection.

We were happy to get inside!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > macshome
01/13/2014 at 16:15

So jealous. Did you watch all the videos they put up on Vimeo?

quarterlifecrisis > getchapopcorn
01/14/2014 at 20:22

I know we'd mentioned it in my thread too....we should get together. I'm definitely going to go back.

quarterlifecrisis > heliochrome85
01/14/2014 at 20:23

I feel weird posting the same reply twice...but...I'm planning on going back for open hood weekend. We + lawsohard + whoever else should orchestrate some sort of meet up.

heliochrome85 > quarterlifecrisis
01/14/2014 at 21:38

lets. im definately planning on coming up that weekend for the show.

quarterlifecrisis > heliochrome85
01/21/2014 at 23:07

Now that we're a little closer to this...I hate to jack someone else's post...but... Saturday or Sunday, and what time works best? I plan on watching the end of the 24 hours on Sunday afternoon live. Does late morning/noonish on Saturday work, then food and beers and such after?

quarterlifecrisis > getchapopcorn
01/21/2014 at 23:07

(Yes, I did just copy and paste the exact same thing to two people in the same comment thread.)

getchapopcorn > quarterlifecrisis
01/22/2014 at 10:46

BAH I wish that I could - stupid work sneaked up out of nowhere.

quarterlifecrisis > getchapopcorn
01/22/2014 at 11:23

Womp womp. No bueno man.

heliochrome85 > quarterlifecrisis
01/22/2014 at 18:30

I have a cars and coffee on saturday here in columbia and was planning on driving up sunday morning. I'm open to doing sunday morning?

quarterlifecrisis > heliochrome85
01/22/2014 at 19:48

That works for me. Wasn't sure where you actually were. You tell me what time, I'm about a half hour from the museum.

I think I'll reshare my photodump post once we set a time to see if anyone else is interested.

heliochrome85 > quarterlifecrisis
01/22/2014 at 19:52

email me. nocturneaubergine@gmail

we'll work something out. im coming from columbia sc