You are absolutely correct Danny. When at lunch with my good friend Hans Mezger many a year ago, asking him where he came with that idea, he stated the same himself, "That's an old idea, used by Mercedes in their Grand Prix engines long time ago." A very nice humble man to this day...

Almost forgot - NONE of those ORIGINAL two-piece, rear bodies were preserved, most surprisingly. All were cut up and ended up being hauled away in trash, apparently.

Theoretically, perhaps... Above drawings show naturally aspirated engine. Bellow, a split with turbo intake.

Here are all of the 917 models in existence today. In the photo bellow, which shows all 25 each ORIGINAL 917s lined up at Werk1 in Zuffenhausen for FIA homologation inspection line up.

Good choices - The red GT3RS for Euro delivery and high-speed cruising while on the Continent. The GT4 or the Boxter Spyder or the Boxter GTS (her choice) for the wife / girlfriend while in the US. All good, IMHO!

Please NOTE - For one perfectly restored '73 2.7 Carrera RS you can buy no less than about _8_ (EIGHT) well equipped 991 GT3 RS cars nowadays...

According to Wolfgang Hatz, Member of the Executive Board and Head of Research and Development, the Weissach Chief, in another words, the GT3 RS engine is TOTALLY new.

If cage yes, wing no so much.

An interesting solution to the manual shift dilema is to buy BOTH: a manual shifter as well as the electronic one - by buying TWO BRAND NEW 981 Porsche cars! A Cayman GT4, the latest, GREATEST mid-engined still affordable car with the manual and BoxterS with PDK. Clearly, the BEST of BOTH worlds, no doubt. Albeit no…

"Form follows function" - as far as those lights are concerned, they are the latest development in that department, using LASER and LED technologies.

The Gt4 RS will have these with a center-lock, no doubt!

The good part though, is the ever-upgadeable engine in the GT4. Buy the car, take it to BBI and see what they can do for you. You'll be amazed what's possible!

Get a real bike rack, Sir!

Turbo engines and no manual gearboxes, look no further = ever stricter emission demand both.

Interesting fact how the Corkscrew came into being: The Architect in charge of making Laguna Seca race track asked a bulldozer be brought to the site. After looking the area over, he proceeded to drive the dozer, with it's front blade making a pathway right from the outset, over what he thought the new layout should…

Interestingly, Hans' first assignment at Porsche was to design a slide-bearing crankshaft for the 2.0 904 Fuhrman 2xOHC Carrera engine. Slide-bearing cranks (more reliable than roller-bearing ones used previously in similar but lower displacement engines for sprint races in various Porsche Spyder models), were needed…

A bit of a clarification is in order - Since the category Porsche AG wanted to enter the GT1 required a front of the body to be crash-tested, cleverly, they took a front of a 911, which already passed the crush standards. Than just revised the front suspension to compliment the rear arrangement, which was very similar…

Here is a better photo.

There were actually two aero packages available. There is a continuation of the round shape of the nose in both instances. Since they are in a shadow, they can hardly be seen. But they are there.

Always wondered whether those rather uncomfortable-for-one's-fingers protrusions, on the inside of the wheel at 10 and 2, are there to actually discourage one from gripping the wheel at those positions . . .