I had a ‘67 912 that was custom painted at the factory in Champagne Yellow. I picked it up at the factory the day before the factory closed for the changeover to the unfortunate ‘68 model with the air pump. I later learned that Porsche had run out of the 912 chassis and that mine was a converted 911 chassis (s/n…

In the late 1940's a company named Crosley built a small, 4-cylinder, water-cooled production engine by dip-brazing or welding aluminum cylinder tubes to aluminum plate mounts for heads and crankcase and then wrapped a jacket around that assembly to hold the coolant. It was used in a small sedan and a small sports car…

Remember, the Porsche 917 used two end-to-end flat 6's with the power takeoff for the transmission in the middle