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The Petrolicious Post 004 has officially gone to print.
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The Petrolicious Post isn’t meant to sit untouched or sealed away as a collectible. It’s designed to be used, lived with, and worn in, something you can flip through, fold up, leave on a workbench, or pin to a garage wall. It belongs in the rhythm of everyday life, not behind glass.
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The @kimera_automobili K-39 was just unveiled during the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este along the shores of Lake Como, where Kimera displayed the car alongside the rest of its lineup. With a design influenced by endurance racing from the late 1970s and 1980s resembling that of the Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo. The bodywork is inspired directly by historic race cars that once competed in the World Endurance Championship, with widened quarter panels, a long rear deck, dramatic aero, and turbofan wheel covers.
One of the most significant parts of the project is its new partnership with Koenigsegg. The K-39 uses a bespoke twin-turbocharged V8 developed specifically for the series, producing 1,000 horsepower and 885 ft-lbs of torque, revving to 8,250 rpm. But Kimera says drivability and responsiveness were just as important as performance numbers. Koenigsegg resized and recalibrated the turbochargers specifically for the K-39 to deliver power more immediately and more efficiently throughout the power band.
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Ralph Guglielm @rennvolks_garage bought this 1965 Volkswagen Beetle out of the woods above Boulder Creek for $1,500 after it had been abandoned between a breakup. The shift linkage was broken, the coil was dead, and the drive home to Santa Cruz happened entirely in second gear.
Now the same car lives as a Baja-converted Herbie tribute that has somehow found its way onto frozen lakes in Montana, rally stages in Utah, and into the middle of one of the strangest enthusiast communities imaginable.
For Ralph, the Beetle became the thing that pushed him out of safe decisions and into the kind of life his aunt always told him to chase: one where you ask first and figure the rest out later.
This is a story about underdogs, bad ideas, analog driving, and why an old Volkswagen still makes people smile sixty years later.
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Directed by: @paololekai
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The Berlinetta Boxer is one of the rarer sounds in motoring. Most Ferrari twelves are V-shaped and sit up front. The BB’s flat-twelve sits low behind the cabin instead, in a layout almost nobody else used in a production road car. The layout came from Ferrari’s Formula 1 program, which won championships with flat-twelves through the 1970s.
📸: @paololekai
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In 1975, Dan Rowzie sat on the roof of the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan waiting for the Cannonball clock to start. The car was a Porsche 911 fitted with an IROC engine. The target was Brock Yates and Dan Gurney’s cross-country record: New York to Redondo Beach at an average of eighty miles an hour.
They didn’t beat it. But Rowzie still believes their thirty-eight hour and thirty-nine minute run remains the fastest Porsche time of any official Cannonball.
Today he’s eighty-eight years old and still spending time with a Burgundy 1968 911 in his garage. Vintage race motor. Roll cage. Good taste.
“There’s a lot of feedback and spirit,” he says, “that’s missing in the later heavier cars.”
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Director: @zero2niero
Featured: Dan Rowzie
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Across two days at Goodwood Motor Circuit, the 83rd Members’ Meeting unfolded as a full spectrum of motorsport, where cars built decades apart were pushed to their limits in the same space. The Protheroe Cup highlighted the enduring appeal of the Jaguar E-Type, while the Super Tourer shootout brought a more modern edge, rooted in cars that once mirrored everyday road machines.
Alongside it all, the presence of a championship-winning Formula 1 car served as a reminder of how quickly innovation can reshape the sport. At Goodwood, those moments are not separated by time, they exist together, continuing forward.
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Your dose of Sunday Serenity™, where a Subaru 22B never forgot where it came from.
No music. No commentary. Just the sound of rally history settling in.
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Directed by: Ben Adams
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4.4L of flat-twelve through a canopy of trees.
The 365 GT4 BB was the first Berlinetta Boxer Ferrari ever built, and one of the rarest. Fewer than 400 left the factory. Most Ferrari twelves are V-shaped and sit up front. The BB's flat-twelve sits low behind the cabin instead, a move almost no other manufacturer ever made. The car was built around its powerplant.
This is a sound most people have only ever read about. Ferrari hasn't built a flat-twelve in nearly thirty years, and almost nobody else ever did.
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Director: @paololekai
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Scenes from our film with @jbernbau and his 964.
He doesn’t know how many miles are on it. Doesn’t care. If the day is decent and he doesn’t need trunk space, Penelope is the only car he reaches for.
Film Directed by: @paololekai
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