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After just a couple years of racing, Enrst Fuhrmann’s legendary four-cam boxer engine was deemed ready for production use, and by 1955 it was made available in the 356A Carrera, named after the grueling and deadly Carrera Panamericana road race. This incredible collection from Garage44 presents a thorough cross-section of the Carrera program as it existed in the late 1950s and early ’60s. Each is powered by a plain-bearing version of the four-cam engine, and each represents a different facet of the Carrera ethos, which in many ways has been the guiding principle for nearly all Porsches—equally at home on track or in traffic, and able to switch between the two with ease. The 356A Carrera 1600 GS Coupe is the more refined of the trio, the 356B Carrera 1600 GT Coupe aimed principally at competition, and the 356A Carrera 1600 GT Speedster a stripped down, simplified driving machine ready for any (dry) road or circuit. Any one of them would be cause for excitement on its own, and taken together they illustrate a progression from high-speed touring to focused track use during one of the most technically ambitious periods in Porsche’s early history.

In the German state of Baden-Württemberg, on the northern edge of the city of Stuttgart, lies the borough of Zuffenhausen. Humans have lived here continuously for over 7,000 years, and 75 years ago, they began doing something very special: building Porsches. In this Icons of Zuffenhausen collection, Wob has assembled some of the best of the breed. Some are cars that defined the Porsche brand as we know it today, like a veteran 356 racer and a sublime ’73 Carrera RS. Others are cars that seek to stretch the definition of what a Porsche can be, like a one-off Spyder prototype racer, a hyper-exotic 918 Spyder, and a 992 GT3 R Rennsport—perhaps the ultimate track weapon. This is the second collection of incredible high-performance Porsches from Wob, and we’re very excited to see the cars start to go live this evening, Monday, September 29.

In the German state of Baden-Württemberg, on the northern edge of the city of Stuttgart, lies the borough of Zuffenhausen. Humans have lived here continuously for over 7,000 years, and 75 years ago, they began doing something very special: building Porsches. In this Icons of Zuffenhausen collection, Wob has assembled some of the best of the breed. Some are cars that defined the Porsche brand as we know it today, like a veteran 356 racer and a sublime ’73 Carrera RS. Others are cars that seek to stretch the definition of what a Porsche can be, like a one-off Spyder prototype racer, a hyper-exotic 918 Spyder, and a 992 GT3 R Rennsport—perhaps the ultimate track weapon. This is the second collection of incredible high-performance Porsches from Wob, and we’re very excited to see the cars start to go live this evening, Monday, September 29.

Amid rolling green pastureland west of Stuttgart rises a series of gleaming white blocks known to Porschephiles around the globe as the Weissach Development Centre. Since 1962, this has been the place where Porsche has refined their most legendary street and race cars, and pushed them to their limits. This holiday season, BaT power seller and Local Partner Wob is bringing us the Weissach Winter Wonderland Collection, a twelve-car group of Porsche’s finest bedecked in a wintry mix of colors.

4/3 Update: the second group of cars in the PTS collection are now live! Check the bottom of this post for links.
The Porsche 911 has always been the exception to the rule of Resale Red. But then again, the 911—bug-eyed, rear-engined, and improbably configured as a 2+2—has long been the exception to nearly every sports car convention. Every generation manages to look good in almost any color we can perceive with our trichromatic rods and cones, and this is why the factory has been accommodating paint-to-sample requests since the 1960s. The program was formalized in the 1990s, and now offers an extended menu hundreds of colors deep. This latest collection from Wob consists of 16 991- and 992-generation cars finished in Paint-to-Sample schemes, many with additional options from the Special Wishes catalog.

The Bond Group and Road Scholars are back together to bring us Round 10 of their impressive, ongoing Gruppe P Collection. This time around, the headlining act is a Grand Prix White Porsche 959 Sport—the first of the 29 track-oriented Sport variants that were produced to be auctioned on Bring a Trailer. At the other end of the spectrum is an example of Porsche’s slowest vehicle—a rare narrow-track Junior 108S vineyard tractor. Four Slate Grey cars form a subset of the collection, each with extensive history and desirable specs, and other highlights include a 1600 Super Speedster, a 356B Emory Outlaw, and a low-mileage 993 C2S in silver over black. That’s a broad overview—the specifics are much more interesting, so let’s get into them!