Yahoo Autos Porsche celebrates its 75th birthday with commemorative display in Italy
COMO, Italy — The annual Villa d'Este Concours d'Elegance is turning into a Villa d'Este car week, Pebble Beach-style. While the concours remains the main attraction, several smaller parallel events have popped up in recent years to feed enthusiasts hungry for more car-spotting.
In 2023, one of the shows taking place at the same time as Villa d'Este was a display dedicated to Porsche's 75th birthday. It was part of the FuoriConcorso series of events and held at the picturesque Villa Olmo mansion. This wasn't a cars and coffee-style, show-up-with-whatever-you've-got event; Porsche hand-selected the participants and shipped several rare classics from its collection to Italy for the occasion.
The display scratched every Porsche itch imaginable. The emblematic 911 stands proud as the centerpiece of the brand's history and was shown in nearly all of its forms, from the original air-cooled model to the current, 992-generation car. Some of the highlights included an early 911 Targa, a 911 Carrera RS 2.7, a 1980s 911 Turbo with a so-called "Slant Nose" body kit, and a 964-generation 911 Carrera RS.
