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Porsche Racing Cars: 1953-1975 and 1976-2005 By Brian Long The mystique of the Porsche marque has author Long firmly in its grasp, for he has an extensive collection of titles dealing with the iconic German cars to his credit. This two-volume set, however, concentrates on the most important Porsches of them all, those built for racing. The tale begins with the birth of Ferdinand Porsche, and all the well-chronicled steps he and his son took in the creation of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":700757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,16906,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,89,17945,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-45792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-porsche","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-porsche","tag-porsche-books","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"\n
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