Porsche 911

Porsche 911 Red Book 1965-2004

This is the essential pocket reference on the world's most recognizable sports car. This book furnishes all you need to know about the original performance, appearance, and options of any Porsche 911. This is your one-stop 911 technical specification reference! Chapters are devoted to each 911 model year, putting all of the data at your fingertips. Complete listings of chassis and engine serial numbers trace the 911's production history, color variations, interior appointments, options, and customer racing packages. Factory reference codes for engines and transmissions - the keys to determining any 911's authenticity, are also packed into this handy, compact guide. All production variations for the world market are covered, making this the reference book that every Porsche enthusiast will turn to again and again in their pursuit of excellence.
Porsche 911 Red Book 1965-2004 by Patrick Paternie
ISBN: 076031960X

Porsche 911 Road Cars

One of the most identifiable sports cars in the world, Porsche's 911 was fresh and modern when it was introduced in 1965 and to this day, remains one of the world's quintessential sports cars. This tribute to the Porche 911 is jam-packed with full-color photographs and archival black-and-white images of some of the finest 911s still on the road, as well as the Porche 911's recent incarnations. Author and photographer Dennis Adler chronicles the evolution and constant refinement of Stuttgart's most famous product, from the first flat-six 901 prototype to the 450-horsepower Turbo S of 1996 and 1997 to today's water-cooled 996 platform. Highlights some true motoring milestones including the 911S, Targa, Carrera, Turbo, Cabriolet, among others. 8 1/2" x 11".
Porsche 911 Road Cars by Dennis Adler
ISBN: 0760716498

Porsche Buyer's Guide

From the seminal 356 launched in 1947 through the entire range of 911s, the front-engined 914 and 944, and 1999's Boxster, 959 and 968, all Porsche models are examined for the benefit of current Porsche owners, prospective buyers and enthusiasts who simply admire the craftsmanship and performance associated with the marque. While the buying tips and year-by-year, model-by-model data included are reprinted from MBI's Illustrated Porsche Buyer's Guide, 4th Ed. (0-7603-0227-8), the photography has been replaced entirely with color imagery by Randy Leffingwell. Buying advice includes performance specifications and common repair and restoration needs for each model. Randy Leffingwell has written or photographed more than 20 automotive, motorcycle and tractor titles for MBI. He lives in Ojai, California.
Porsche Buyer's Guide by Randy Leffingwell
ISBN: 0760309477

Gold Plated Porsche

Stephan Wilkinson was looking for something to do. So he bought an old, rundown Porsche and over the next two years tore it apart and rebuilt it in a garage behind his house. The project cost a small fortune, and it started him thinking about many other things.
Quirky, cool, entertaining, and opinionated, The Gold-Plated Porsche captures Wilkinson's inspired digressions on his various other careers and misadventures. As a less-than-inspired Harvard student he had spent more time working on cars than on the books. During various Harvard sabbaticals he sweated out the lowest scut work available to tour the world as a merchant seaman. He built an airplane in his garage and flew it cross-country. He drove an ambulance. There was a short and unproductive association with a certain marijuana smuggler from Newfoundland, and the former Israeli intelligence officer who sought to entice Wilkinson into a lucrative but illicit career as a pilot. Wilkinson's flying skills did lead him, eventually, to become the chief, and only, pilot for Dennis Banks - one of the leaders of the controversial American Indian Movement. For a week or so, anyway. And there's his long and eventful writing career, which included an unfulfilling stint as editor in chief of the prestigious Car and Driver.
As he recounts his own personal history, Wilkinson also waxes eloquent on the history of Porsche, American engineering and culture, status, and his love of flying and of all things mechanical, not to mention the integrity of wedding dress silk for engine repair.
In The Gold-Plated Porsche, Stephan Wilkinson proves himself as adept at crafting a sentence as he is at rebuilding an exquisitely complicated engine.
The Gold Plated Porsche: How I Sank a Fortune into a Used Car and Other Misadventures by Stephan Wilkinson
ISBN: 1592282563

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