Porsche! Porsche! Porsche! Tour the Second Annual Werks Reunion! [Gallery]

-35 years ago, Ron Meyer traded a ’71 Targa for this 1956 356 Speedster. Longhood Targas don’t exactly go for chump change these days, but with Speedster prices officially stratospheric, we’d say Mr. Meyer came out ahead in the bargain.-The 911 SC didn’t spawn a whole passel of specialized variants. There was a Targa. There was a Cabriolet. The turbo-look models didn’t show up until the 3.2 Carrera arrived in 1984. But the 911 SCRS is to be one of the most excellent factory riffs on the 911. It appeared in 1984, badged as an SC to meet a homologation loophole. Twenty cars were built and divvied up among factory and privateer squads. This car, chassis number 09, is the only surviving factory Rothmans car. We’d strap an air tank to the roof and drive it on the moon.-This Carrera GT doesn’t feature a V10. It is not constructed of carbon fiber. And a clutch job won’t cost you a full-time barista’s yearly earnings. A rebuild of its Fuhrmann four-cam engine, however, will cost you much, much more.-Lightweight even by the spartan standards of the 1959 356, the GT would hit 140 mph, using only 115 horsepower to get there.-Carlo Abarth had a finger in numerous automotive pies in the 1950s. His collaboration with Porsche, the Abarth GTL, also featured the complex Fuhrmann four.-This particular 1960 GTL won the Swedish GT championship twice. Carl-Gunnar Hammarlund managed 11 wins in 11 starts. After that show of dominance, what else could he do but retire? So he did. The car is now part of the Ingram Collection.-This 1955 550 Spyder’s last victory came at Watkins Glen, driven by the late, wonderful Denise McCluggage.-3.8 in a 914? That is home hairy, hairy, business, son.-’69 911S in Golden Green? That’s ace.-Watercooled front-engined Porsches of the ‘80s unite!-This 2004 996 GT3 RS flew all the way from Saudi Arabia to be here. Boy, is its wing tired.-993 Speedster, buddy.-George Vaccaro has owned this Slate Gray 912 since he picked it up in Zuffenhausen in 1967. It’s got 180k on the clock and has never been restored. We would happily eat a plate of schnitzel off of it. It’s that clean.-You’re gonna argue with Siffert and Regazzoni? Really?-Butzi’s favorite, the 904.-While some later 904s received 911-derived powerplants and a few even received flat-eights, this one features a four-pot Fuhrhmann.-Built to resemble Ferry’s early postwar prototypes, this car was built using a Beck Classic as a starting point.-Like the 914 and 921E, Volkswagen’s “bay-window” T2s used a version of the Type 4 engine.-Some weird thing Porsche fooled around with in the late ’80s. It’s basically a 911 with a bodykit, a turbo engine with watercooled heads, an all-wheel drive system, and a granny gear for rock crawling. Germans, man.-Kurzheck! Buncha dudes in folding Persols wanted to stand around it.-It never got weird enough for Hunter S. Thompson. Porsches never got weird enough for Dr. Emil Enzmann of Switzerland, who built 80 of these 356-derived cars between 1956 and ’65. Porsche wouldn’t sell Enzmann parts for his 506s, so he purchased them from France’s Sonauto.-It’s a 1957 Denzel!-Cadillac designer Gael Buzyn just purchased this 924 Turbo Cup. It arrived from Canada the week of the Concours, where it had spent its early life racing in the Canadian Rothmans Cup series.-Guards Red Turbo Cab. Welcome to Southern California in 1989.-2.7-liter 911s equipped with thermal reactors aren’t known for their longevity. This ’77 in Ice Green could’ve been consigned to the scrap heap at any point due to the cars on either side of it being more desirable. Thankfully, it survived.-Oddly enough, this workaday 911 wound up being one of our favorite machines in the whole show.-We caught the judges straight-up capping on this 924 Turbo for having a loose glovebox and worn door detents. Somehow, that made us just root for the thing that much harder.-In what he now admits was a fit of stupidity, our own Eddie Alterman sold his 356 Convertible D. Most of the time, Eddie’s a pretty smart cat. But sometimes he can be a real dunderhead.--

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