{"id":50978,"date":"2018-04-25T06:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=50978"},"modified":"2018-04-25T06:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:29:51","slug":"celebrating-air-cooled-porsches-on-a-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/celebrating-air-cooled-porsches-on-a-sunday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Air-Cooled Porsches on a Sunday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-50978-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/Rally-911-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;50992&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Celebrating Air-Cooled Porsches on a Sunday Morning&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Celebrating Air-Cooled Porsches on a Sunday Morning&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Click Here to Begin Slideshow\\n\\nFive years ago, Porsche factory driver Patrick Long put on the first Luftgek\\u00fchlt, a celebration of the air-cooled Porsches that helped bring the company branding, marketing and motorsports success. A good number of cars showed up for the first Luftgek\\u00fchlt, mid double-digits, and every year the event has grown and grown and outgrown every venue it\\u2019s had in the greater Southern California area.\\n\\nThis year, Long placed the event in a lumber yard. Not just any lumber yard, but the huge Ganahl Lumber Co. in Torrance on Crenshaw Boulevard. And so, starting around 5:30 on April 22 \\u0026#8211; Earth Day \\u0026#8211; the sound and smell of air-cooled four- and six-cylinder Porsche engines filled the Torrance air as Long, with his friends assisting a hand-picked staff, helped define the pecking order throughout the vast lumber yard.\\n\\nThe public was allowed in at 9 that morning and they came in droves, all whisked to the site through a circulating group of shuttle buses from parking lots about a mile away. While there must have been 3-500 cars on display in the outdoor and indoor areas of the facility, it appeared there were in excess of 5,000 avid Porsche fans on the grounds, buying souvenirs \\u0026#8211; including the recent biography of Porsche\\u2019s superb racer Hurley Haywood, where buyers were lined up for the opportunity to pay around $100 \\u0026#8211; and learning more about the cars they love.\\n\\nThere must have been at least one Porsche of every variety at this Luftgek\\u00fchlt 5, ranging from the famous 1949 Gmund coupe to 356s of all stripe, 912s, 911s, 914s and some very famous racing varietals. As a former owner of those era Porsche cars, it was a walk through my personal history. I was especially glad to see a good number of 1972 Porsche 911s being displayed \\u0026#8211; that particular year, Porsche elected to place the oil filler on the right rear of the car outside the engine compartment; many engines were ruined when service stations filled gas, not oil, into the cars.\\n\\nThe day was Southern California beautiful: few clouds, springtime ambient temps and minimal wind. That brought out ever more people, who mingled as they observed the Porsches they loved through the racks of wood, climbed above some of the race cars to get photographs and reminisced about the days when air-cooled Porsches were the coolest cars on the block. Well, maybe they still are.\\n\\nSeen among those in the crowd were former IndyCar and current WEC Toyota Racing driver Mike Conway, legendary racer John Morton, Pikes Peak \\u201cRace to the Clouds\\u201d winner (in Porsche cars) Jeff Zwart and co-founder of Andial, Porsche\\u2019s performance and tuning legend Dieter Inzenhofer. 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