Schlagwort-Archive: Le Mans

936, Race

Porsche 936

Porsche 936
Jürgen Barth, Bernd Dobronz
Motor Buch Verlag

Racing driver and longtime Porsche employee Jürgen Barth has retracted with the victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Porsche 936 one of his greatest successes of his career. Together with his co-author Bernd Dobronz he traces not only the development of this open sports prototype. The authors have rather been able to tell the stories about the triumphs and tragedies of that time and thus capture the atmosphere of a particular era of racing.

The specification of the principal with the Porsche 936 inseparably connected persons and riders, an overview of all the Porsche 936 and the disputed with him related types and races precisely researched vehicle histories types 908/03 Turbo and 936 round this unique historical document from impressive.

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959, Supersport Cars

Porsche 959 Jürgen Lewandowski _ Südwest Verlag 1990

Porsche 959
Jürgen Lewandowski
Südwest Verlag
1990

The Porsche 959, built in 1986/87, has already become a legend. Only 200 of the cars were made, and the original price of $ 630,000 has jumped up to well over $ 2,000,000 on the second-hand market.

In this book, Jürgen Lewandowski presents a detailed, fully illustrated account of the development of the 959, from the basic 911 model via the rallye version to the road-going “sports car of superlatives,” supplemented by technical data on all the versions of the car.

The volume also includes a chapter on the racing and rallying history of the 959 and its even more powerful stablemate, the 961, together with a test report on the fastest road-going Porsche ever built.

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Race

Porsche Vom Semmering zum Nürburgring

Porsche
Ingo Seiff
1994
182
9783613015852

Porsche and motorsport. A long and successful history. Since 1900, Porsche are on the race tracks on the world’s racetracks go. the author Ingo Seiff explains the racing history of the sports car manufacturer Porsche on 182 pages.

About the “Sascha” and the developments for the Mercedes SSKL, Auto Union and many other brands, the early period of Porsche is shown to us. On numerous b / w illustrations you see the development until the first true Porsche racing cars. The book shows us the past history of the Porsche Motorsports. A beautiful lexicon of motorsport history of the Porsche brand.

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Porsche Raritäten

Porsche-Raritäten
Tobias Aichele
GeraMond
2008
978-3-7654-7693-8

The history of Porsche and sports car sold by the world’s successful Stuttgart manufacturer seems to be already well documented. But can be discovered even at Porsche still unknown pages. This illustrated book presents them with unique historical footage and original design drawings and explained technical and stylistic peculiarities. A veritable treasure trove for Porsche fans!

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Poster

Porsche – die Rennplakate von 1951 bis heute

Porsche - die Rennplakate
Jürgen Lewandowski
Delius Klasing, Bielefeld
2008
176
978-3768825153

In 1951 began a small, unknown sports car manufacturer, slowly making a name: Ferry Porsche had brought to the UR-356 is a legend for rolling – and as 1951, the first customers have won the first race, the graphic artist Erich Strenger also drew a first poster, with the still young company made advertising for themselves: Porsche announces new successes. Since then, Porsche has reported on hundreds of posters on victories – whether in circuit racing, the Grand Prix or the rally tracks of the earth. In addition to this unparalleled success story posters also available but for your own, memorable design language developed Erich Strenger for Porsche – and designed for decades. His posters have won design awards and are now looking for collectibles. Porsche has maintained this tradition after the death of Erich Strenger – thus demonstrating this book, in addition to the variety of information about the race itself and the racing and road vehicles, even half a century award-winning graphic design history.

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917, Race

Porsche 917-The Heroes, the Victories, the Myth

Porsche 917-The Heroes, the Victories, the Myth
McKlein Publishing
2008
264
9783927458383

New chapters, new pictures and new background stories. This second edition of the successful book “Porsche 917 – The Heroes, the Victories, the Myth” is an even more comprehensive documentation of the legendary sports car from Porsche’s Zuffenhausen factory.

This comprehensive book describes the breathtaking development and the fascinating technology of this amazing sports car. Additionally, it covers the complete story of the 917 in racing backed up by comprehensive statistics. However, the outstanding highlight of this book is the personal insight it contains from many contemporary witnesses. They tell the story of how the 917 was conceived, designed and built – and made yet faster over the years. They tell how they worked with it and how they both loved and hated this legend among racing cars. The authors have talked to engineers, drivers, technicians, team managers and mechanics about their “baby”. This extended and updated edition is by far the most complete collection of facts, data and anecdotes concerning the Porsche 917 – and much more, including a large number of previously unpublished high-quality photographs.

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