Porsche’s Museum Deep Cuts Series Continues with Incredible 911 East African Safari Racer

Some of our favourite Porsche 911s of all time are the epic “safari” rally racers, so of course we fell all more than ourselves watching Porsche’s most recent video from its museum archives. The automaker has been highlighting distinctive models lengthy lost to its museum storage—such as a V-8–powered 911 prototype, an early Boxster mule in 911 disguise, and more—and it has turned its lens on the 911 that competed in the 1978 East African Rally. 

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Watch Porsche’s video beneath for awesome period driving shots and the history of this 1978 rally vehicle. What’s most exciting—for us, anyway—is that Porsche may well just be thinking about a production Safari 911 model. All we can say is, the Cayenne wasn’t the brand’s initial off-roader—and it definitely isn’t the coolest.

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Porsche’s Museum Deep Cuts Series Continues with Incredible 911 East African Safari Racer

Corvette Museum to Keep Sinkhole Portion, Display Automobiles in Cave

As a memorial to the homies it lost, the National Corvette Museum will leave component of the giant sinkhole that swallowed 8 uncommon Corvettes as a permanent exhibit.

The museum, which has enjoyed a 59-% spike in visitor volume considering that it put the “Great 8” wreckage on display, said it decided against filling the abyss to retain “this new element of history.” Retained will be a hole that is 30-feet deep, 25-feet long and 45-feet wide—a mere fraction of the original opening—with a “dirt embankment” in the cave beneath where 1 or 2 cars can be displayed. Later, if the museum grows tired of the sinkhole saga, the square void can be covered.

“We have to look at creative techniques to create interest in the museum,” executive director Wendell Strode mentioned on the museum’s weblog. “It would be so a lot less complicated to just be a normal automotive museum with our Corvettes on show, but we have to feel outdoors the box.”

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Building begins in September, at which time the Bowling Green, Kentucky, museum will have celebrated its 20th anniversary and the Great 8 will take a deserved break. While we laud the museum’s publicity efforts and its newfound fascination with speleology, had the sinkhole emerged throughout organization hours and taken men and women down with it, we’d be writing a extremely diverse story.

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Corvette Museum to Keep Sinkhole Portion, Display Automobiles in Cave