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TLC Rides Hollywoods love affair with Porsche
http://tlc.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=14&cpi=54899&gid=0&channel=TLC
Anyone catch the show yesterday? See Leno wipe out at 190 in a CGT. Good stuff. 
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Yeah. I've seen it before. My thoughts:
Anyone who can keep a car from going into a wall around a curve with inner and out walls at 190 mph should automatically qualify as a "professional" driver. Leno had some luck, but I'd also say that he has skill. The show really concentrated on the 550 and the CGT...yet they couldn't get a hold of a real 550. They seem to have intentionally left out another car in the Porsche lineup... Speaking of the 550 replicas. $20K? I might pick me up one of those. Are they any good?
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Legion - as good as a VW pan can be wiht some 356/911/912 parts and a typ 4 motor....
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I do give him mad props for having the balls to even try this. I've heard from an insider that it had a lot to with "ignorance is bliss". They had to give him a pep talk, telling him not to lift, and had to carefully word it so that they conveyed the seriousness of the event, with out scaring him into panic mode.
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What's so bad about a VW pan?
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What about the guy.. who has what looked like a very serious collection...has a real 917.. and said 'I've never started it'
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I think he owns the same 959 and CGT I saw at Tweeks Funfest last year.
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He also had a 962, which is my all-time favorite Porsche.
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I thought the ones they were showing from...(Fibersteel was it?)...had box steel frames.
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Leno was just a litttle bit scared from the look on his face. They set up Leno's run well by building up his confidence while riding with and following Donahue around the track...but when it came to his solo run...you could see the uneasiness in his face and body language. I agree with Tyson.... physics, the track and luck saved that CGT from hitting the wall. |
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After the spin Donahue jumped in the other CGT and sped out to meet Leno. Meanwhile the pit guys radioed Leno to bring it right back to the pit. Leno complied perhaps pointed the wrong way and seeing the shortest route he returned opposite direction to the racing line. As Leno entered pit out but heading the wrong way the two CGTs almost collided as Donahue departed pit out to catch up with Leno. Last edited by ted; 03-08-2006 at 10:38 AM.. |
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Didn't they say the cars were fitted with special tires and suspension?
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Not to hijack the thread, but VERY few 550 replicas are pan built. The pan built cars are rear engined making the body look strikingly different than the mid-engined cars. The overwhelming majority are tube frame chassis. Beck, Thunder Ranch, Vintage all make tube frame cars. Only Perry makes a pan based car.
The engines vary from T1, T4, subaru, subaru turbo, a couple of audi engines, at least one flat-4 alfa, a northstar v8 and a couple of 911 engines from 2.4 to our car's 3.0 (soon to be 3.1). Transaxles vary accordingly. The great thing about replicas is that no one cares if you modify it and stuff a 3.0 911 engine into it. Its a replica. Build it and then drive the tires off. angela
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Beck 550's are pretty serious stuff, not a crap replica based on a VW. And yes, they are only about $20-25k. Part of the reason that they are so inexpensive is that there's not much to them. Very small and light, and I believe probably an insanely good time to drive.
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I saw it, not a bad show. I always watch TLC on Tuesdays, although Overhaulin' ain't the same without Courtney.
Too bad they didn't have a better camera angle on Leno's spin. The other people scared more than Jay were the NBC "brass".
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