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has fascinated me since I was a kid. I first learned about them from an architect friend of my parents, who was a regular visitor to our house in the ’70s. On one occasion he was extolling the virtues of the then just-announced 911 Turbo to my dad and I was enthralled by what he was saying: all this ‘free’ extra power just from putting a turbine in the exhaust! How was that even possible? That’s why I’ve always been intrigued by the Porsche 930. It looks so good, too,

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