Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed.

Our American clients still have a few weeks to visit “Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed” at North Carolina Museum of Art, as the museum has extended the exhibit until February 2 of 2014. Since opening in October of last year, the exhibit has attracted thousands of Porsche fans, and featured rare cars such as a Type 64 from the Automuseum Prototyp from Hamburg, Germany, Ralph Lauren’s 959, Miles Collier’s 917 in Martini & Rossi livery, as well as a factory 16-cylinder race car that was built as a technology demonstrator. Visitors also got to see Steve McQueen’s 356A Speedster, on loan from his son Chad, in addition to many other prototypes and historic race cars.

The exhibition hosted a number of short documentaries about Porsche.

“Porsche by Design has been extremely popular with our traditional members and visitors, as well as visitors from across the country who are intrigued by high design and the idea of cars in an art museum,” said Museum Director Lawrence J. Wheeler. “We’re thrilled to keep the exhibition open for an additional two weeks and excited to offer a ‘hoods up’ event to the public.”

2013 being the 50th anniversary of the Porsche 911, a number of celebrations took place in addition to the release of an anniversary 911 model, though we can’t think of a better way to wrap up the year’s festivities than to see historic Porsches and learn about where it all began. In addition to two museum members-only “Hoods Up” events, the museum will also host one open to the public over an entire weekend.

“Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed” will stay open through Feb. 2, at the North Carolina Museum of Art (www.ncartmuseum.org) in Raleigh, N.C. Visit the museum’s website here or call (919) 839-6262 for hours and directions.
Read more: http://www.autoweek.com, thanks to Jay Ramey. Picture from www.performance.porschedealer.com

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