This 1956 Porsche 356A rally car conquered all seven continents:
Renée Brinkerhoff started rally racing at age 57 with an ambitious goal: to race a 1956 Porsche 356A on every continent. Neither vehicle nor destination daunted chief mechanic Simon Redhead. Here's how Valkyrie Racing conquered the globe.Brinkerhoff's first race in the 356 was La Carrera Panamericana in 2013. Two years later, a crash sidelined her ambitions.
Then the engine struggled in the thin mountain air. Overheating issues claimed the flat-four but didn't faze Redhead: "We changed the engine and continued on."Starting in Beijing, the Peking to Paris rally stretched 8500 miles over 36 days. After the mechanical gods smote another engine, a replacement air-cooled flat-four was flown in. It arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia, in four suitcases, requiring assembly for Brinkerhoff to finish the race.
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