porsche days at gingerman raceway

[Garretts_turbo]

I think this is my first photo contribution here on JW. Glad it was a good one…

Here are the pics I got from the Porsche day at Gingerman Raceway in South Haven, Mi.
It got rained out, but a few cars got out to make some laps before slicks and rain got to be too bad of a mix hahaha.
Not too many rare Porsches out there but a few showed up.

All pics can be found here: http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/garretts_turbo/porsche%20day%20at%20gingerman/

A teaser:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/garretts_turbo/porsche%20day%20at%20gingerman/P7011352.jpg

[Vansquish]

You snapped some pretty nice pics there...with some cars that I don't even recognize...what's the vehicle next to the 356 in the pic above?

[Garretts_turbo]

heh, no clue. i'm not up on my porsches; i'm sure someone will know though.

[davide]

Too bad about the rain...

Got some lovely porsches there, a lot of unkown for me and a lot of flared arches and huge wings :)

[Garretts_turbo]

hahaha yeah some of the older porsches rock out some crazy wings
one of the people in our dsm club's boss showed up to our dyno day with his race porsche and we were like wtf is up with the wing? hahaha
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/garretts_turbo/WMDSM%20dyno%20day%2010%2031%2005/PA300580.jpg

[Stikz]

You snapped some pretty nice pics there...with some cars that I don't even recognize...what's the vehicle next to the 356 in the pic above?
At first i thouhgt it was a 550, but Jeez, its definitely not that. Great pics by the way.

[nthfinity]

nice shots Garret!

that spyder looks sooo familiar, but i can't put my finger on it... looks like it would've competed agaisnt the Testarossa...

[Vansquish]

nice shots Garret!

that spyder looks sooo familiar, but i can't put my finger on it... looks like it would've competed agaisnt the Testarossa...

Perhaps, but it looks to be more in the size/weight class of the Lotus 11.

[nthfinity]

nice shots Garret!

that spyder looks sooo familiar, but i can't put my finger on it... looks like it would've competed agaisnt the Testarossa...

Perhaps, but it looks to be more in the size/weight class of the Lotus 11.

i found a picture of it in one of my Porsche books... but no descriptor... it raced against a 904/8....

[Vansquish]

Ok...for those of us who are curious, the unidentified spyder with a Porsche badge on the nose is a 1962 (or later) Dolphin America with a 1700cc RS61 engine and drivetrain. It weighs about 1100 pounds which is about 160lbs less than the Porsche RS61.

http://img424.imageshack.us/img424/2676/dolphinamerica3he.th.jpg (http://img424.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dolphinamerica3he.jpg)

[Garretts_turbo]

heh...1100 pounds, very nice.

[Vansquish]

^^ Yeah...it was a highly successful racer in the 63 season, and significantly outperformed the factory RS spyders from Porsche. In fact, the Porsche dealer who came up with the hybrid Dolphin/Porsche was put under heavy pressure to discontinue using and building them by the factory.

[Schwalbe]

Very cool Porsche picture set with some rare models. Thanks for the pix Garretts_turbo. :D