I heard someone talk about that, but I have no idea. I would not think so personally. ( Just because I won two Caymans was a complete coincidence....honest)

 

The red speedster is awesome

 

There are many Porsches I admire greatly...550 Spyder, 2.7RS, 917, Carrera GT, RS 4.0 come quickly to mind.

However , for me, the ultimate car is the 904. I have had a look at a few of them over the years, and just had a closer look at a superb car at Parade and took a few pics.

Butzi Porsche designed the car and saw it as his great creation. Not the 911, interestingly. Came out at about the same time as the 911, and to me still looks as stunning as when it debuted. The car below is about mid-production. Only about 110 were built. Fibreglass bodies were built by Heinkel and bonded to a steel chassis.5 Speed box. Original idea was to use the then-new 911 engine but it was not yet ready for this purpose, so the old 4 cam was used instead with a few late cars with six cylinders and one flat 8 as I recall. For its time is was quick. 5 second to 60,150-160 top speed. A beautiful thing.





Beautiful simple interior:


Fiendishly complex 356 four cam four cylinder


Clamshell is quite heavy and a two-person job to open or close


Saw this one a couple of years ago:





and this one in the Museum garage



I don't really get bucket lists, but if I had one, this would be at the very top.

 

Ronan, you might have been "loafing" at 80mph, but I was almost "flat out" at just over 90 mph. Your cloudy windows may have been the result of the almost permanent etching of unburnt fuel/oil mixture coming from E&T ahead of you. For that, my apologies. I think you should have received extra points for the staging time you were given (I was impressed that you parked exactly on the designated spot on the hill in the dark and on the wet grass). It was a great deal of fun and an amazing display of the variety of Porsches built over the years (I agree the 904 is timeless). Will share photos and video soon.

 

Glenn!.,...never noticed the dirt among the flies and general moose detritus on the way. In any case, that's why there was a $20 carwash

 

Looked for you Ronan after seeing your car. Cool little city Traverse city is.
Will post pics soon.

 

Of course...there were a few surprises...like this: the very first 911

and this,the very latest.......

but eventually...the sun sets...till another one next year!

 

Next best thing to being there, thanks.

 

Great read!

 

Ronan, thanks for the pics.

 

Late to the game but here´s some more pics...

 

AMAZING photos!! Thanks for sharing!

 

Woman in the background taking the pic is priceless...

 

^^^ + 1

 

Ronan Great pics ,many thanks for sharing .
Terry