Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed Ford, all its products and everyone who ever worked there. This was his introduction to objective automotive criticism.
There is no other marque that carries the passion of Porsche. Sure, there’s whatever car name you just blurted out in your head preceded by “Oh yeah? What about…”—BMW, Lotus, Crosley, whatever it was—but nothing else combines pure performance with the reasonable accessibility of Porsche. Throw in 75 years of racing heroics and nothing else comes close. “But Ferraaaaaaarrreeee,” you bleat.
At the track itself, ground zero for Porschepalooza, the racing was the main draw, with eight classes of competition ranging from small-displacement 356s to every generation of 911, with 904s, 906s, 908s, and the mighty and powerful 962 all overseen by the professionals at Historic Sportscar Racing.
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