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The Outlaws have their day at Porsche Werks Reunion Amelia Island
Irwin Greenstein Transportation Technology & AutomotivePorsche Club of America’s second annual Porsche Werks Reunion, held March 9 at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort on Amelia Island, Florida, celebrated the hot rod 356 Outlaws. With the 356 generation of Porsches now riding high on six-figure valuations, the suggestion of modifying one into a customized Outlaw can brand you as a bona fide nut job. But Outlaws, both 356s and 911s, have gained a cult status for their extracurricular high-performance and home-brewed engineering that thumb their nose at the Concours garage queens pushed across the auction blocks of Gooding, Bonhams and Mecum.
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San Francisco International gets that sinking feeling
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveAn expensive time bomb is ticking in the San Francisco Bay area following the publication of a new study that has found large parts of the region to be sinking at an alarming rate. The threat also covers the reclaimed land which is home to San Francisco International (SFO) and much of its infrastructure. Scientists at NASA’s Sea Level Change planning team and at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) published the findings on March 7 in the Science Advances journal.
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A Moccaschwarz Porsche 924 rekindles the flame
Pablo Deferrari Transportation Technology & AutomotiveThe fire that raged for 924s was reduced to an ember. This happens with nearly everything I obsess about. It’s possible that knowing everything about a particular subject leaves nothing to the imagination. This becomes a problem because the next step in an obsession is possession and that can be ruined psychologically. When all is revealed, the fascination dissolves. A 1980 Porsche 924 dressed in Moccaschwarz was the puff that ember begged for.
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Would you park your Porsche in the living room?
Noelle Talmon Transportation Technology & AutomotiveI only just heard about the Porsche Design Tower in Miami. Since I'm not a millionaire, the brand-new, luxury high-rise apartment building escaped my attention.
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Sharjah Airport developing facilities with confusion over dates
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveAviation in the United Arab Emirates focuses on the huge hubs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, with the new Dubai World Central set to take center stage at some point in the near future. Yet when planes first started stopping in the area on their east-west journeys across the British Empire, a small outpost that is now part of a residential complex in central Sharjah was the passenger terminal of choice.
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The reincarnation of a Porsche tire
Pablo Deferrari Transportation Technology & Automotive"What's the tire for?" Lots of co-workers saw the thing in my studio, certainly a few had been meaning to ask, but this guy was the first. I looked down at it and then at him.
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Living with the 718 Cayman: The first 6 months
David Newton Transportation Technology & AutomotiveI took delivery on my 718 Cayman on July 1, a little more than six months ago. The next weekend, I drove 150 miles to Monticello Motor Club for the Stuttgart Challenge in a monsoon. Within weeks, the Northeast was hit by two successive heat waves of nearly 100 degrees, and now more recently we've seen as many subzero cold fronts.
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Sea-Tac construction projects continuing after record year
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveThis week, Seattle Tacoma International Airport began its latest Central Terminal construction project as figures for 2017 show the airport achieved a record year for passenger numbers and cargo handled, and the Seattle area as a whole experiences economic boom.
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Purple pain: A bold lesson in disappointment
Jeff Coe Transportation Technology & AutomotiveWhen I picked up my first 968 way back in 1996, I was thrilled. It was a 30K-mile example and a cabriolet. It was a blast to drive, and I was so happy to own such a great car. It checked all my boxes for a fun car with one exception: color. The car was painted Amazon Green, which is a dark teal color. The color has many fans, but I'm not one of them.
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Can Trump sell apprenticeship programs to America?
R.V. Scheide ManufacturingChances are that more Americans are familiar with "The Apprentice," the reality TV show formerly starring the current president of the United States, than they are with apprenticeship programs. Today, graduates from such programs constitute just 0.2 percent of the labor force.
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