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Click on the icon to view a fact- filled pop-up video featuring a 1981 Porsche 911 SC.


THAT THE PORSCHE 911 IS 50 YEARS OLD and still relevant may offer some hope and comfort to those of us who, like myself, will have to confront the same milestone in the relatively near future. In fairness though, most of us are nowhere near as polarizing as the 911. It’s given car enthusiasts something both to treasure and to argue about for each of those 50 years. To its legion of fans, there is no substitute. To detractors like stock car driver Bobby Allison, it’s “a $12,000 imported Corvair.” And Hagerty contributor P.J. O’Rourke once famously called it “an ass-engined Nazi slot car.” Nobody ever seems to be indifferent to the 911.


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