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Our 7 Favorite Porsches From Luftgekühlt

Our 7 Favorite Porsches From Luftgekühlt

Our 7 Favorite Porsches From Luftgekühlt


Robb Rice

It’s been 10 years since Patrick Long, a multiple winner at Le Mans who spent nearly two decades as a Porsche factory racer, teamed up with creative director Howie Idelson to build what has become an automotive exhibition like no other. Not only are entrants limited to one manufacturer, but they are confined to a subset of that automaker’s legacy. Welcome to Luftgekühlt, a loving tribute to air-cooled Porsches.

For the 10th edition, which took place on October 5 at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood, a few hundred of the German marque’s automobiles, from the early 1950s to 1998 (along with numerous restomods), were staged across various movie-set backdrops, giving each car added gravitas. “It’s such an esprit de corps of what the brand is,” says Rory Ingram, who brought two rarified examples from his family’s renowned Ingram Collection. “I would have loved to come to the very first one.”

Racer and actor Patrick Dempsey, who was at the initial gathering in 2014, notes how Porsche has always had a “strong community,” but is quick to credit Long and current creative director—and Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Champion—Jeff Zwart for this event’s exponential growth and success. “I think Patrick, his effort and his passion, mixed in with Jeff’s artistry and vision, I mean it’s a perfect combination,” says Dempsey, “and we all just want to get together because we have this shared passion . . . it’s a family, it really is.” Here, our favorite cars from the latest Luftgekühlt reunion.



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