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 For over fifty years at race courses around the world, competition models from a small German car maker have made their mark on the racing scene and in the record book. From the first modified 356 coupes with 50 h.p. at Le Mans to the awesome 1200 h.p. 917 and the all-conquering 962 models, the men at Porsche have built racers that were tough, fast and technologically advanced.
In August, 1998, on the occasion of Porsche's 50th anniversary as a car manufacturer, the machines and the men who made them famous gathered at Laguna Seca race track in Monterey, Califor!!oa Two weeks of preparation and practice culminated in a weekend that saw perhaps the largest gathering of racing Porsches in one place, ever.
The Monterey Historic Races honored Porsche as its Featured Marque, and thousands of spectators re-lived racing hisory as Speedsters, Spyders and scores of other Porsches took to the track.
It was perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime event, and author and photographer Hal Thorns has captured all the color and excitement of this monumental gathering.
With over 200 color images he gives you a prime trackside seat, and takes you into the paddock and under the hood of the most famous race cars from Zuffenhausen. Dozens more unique color archive photos are seen for the first time, along with black and white images from the earliest days of Porsche racing.
Hal's comprehensive text tells the story of these exciting machines in Europe and America, and the men who designed, built and raced them.

With cutaway illustrations by Shin Yoshikawa, an introduction by Jurgen Barth and a foreword by George Follmer, five decades of Porsche racing come to life.

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