{"id":400,"date":"2011-05-27T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2015-07-03T06:39:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:39:30","slug":"randy-wells-photography-classic-porsche-automotive-travel-music-reviews-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/randy_wells-9075.jpg\" title=\"randy_wells-9075.jpg\"><img id=\"image622\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/randy_wells-9075.jpg\" alt=\"randy_wells-9075.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BEYOND EXCELLENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The August issue of <em>Excellence: The Magazine About Porsche<\/em> features an article of mine on a &#8217;73 911 build titled &#8220;The Color of Money.&#8221; Nope, this isn&#8217;t one of those &#8220;cookie cutter&#8221; R Gruppe builds with a 3.2 Motronic motor and center fill cap. It&#8217;s a no-holds-barred homage to all that is right with this hobby. <\/p>\n<p>Scott Longballa is to be congratulated for taking a hands-on approach in creating this unique and totally intoxicating package &#8211; a short stroke MFI powered &#8220;RSR&#8221; that goes way beyond the expected using only the best parts available. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I very much appreciate the opportunity to cover pioneering builds like this one. Very few pay attention to how all the details in a project contribute to the final outcome. Fortunately, I&#8217;ve been given the chance to photograph and write about several more of these &#8220;ultimate&#8221; Porsches recently, along with the happy &#8220;barn find&#8221; story along the way. At the end of the day it&#8217;s the quality of the people (not just the cars) that keeps this rewarding and fun. Thanks to all of you for the great ride!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/excellence-mag.com\">excellence-mag.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEYOND EXCELLENT The August issue of Excellence: The Magazine About Porsche features an article of mine on a &#8217;73 911 build titled &#8220;The Color of Money.&#8221; Nope, this isn&#8217;t one of those &#8220;cookie cutter&#8221; R Gruppe builds with a 3.2 Motronic motor and center fill cap. It&#8217;s a no-holds-barred homage to all that is right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7820,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/7820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}