Patrick Long’s #Luft6 Outdoes Itself With Movieset Backdrop Location

Not your usual car show #luftgekühlt #luft6 — Not your usual custom Porsche vision with the Emory Motorsports 356 RSR on display at Universal Studios Hollywood (center left).
Image Credit: Stan Kaplan via FB (2019)

Patrick Long's #Luft6 Outdoes Itself With Movieset Backdrop Location

Oh, to be in Los Angeles and a Porsche automobile marque lover at the beginning of the month of May.

What can best described as an annual Porsche cars & coffee carshow tradition on steroids, #Luft6, or Luftgekühlt (pronounced like "looft-guh-kyoolt" - eh, so-so) which is German for “air cooled,” got it's start as a dream of standout American Porsche factory race car driver, and local SoCal boy, Patrick Long along with noted Southern California creative director Howie Idelson.

This event has a preview party which starts the evening before at The Petersen Automotive Museum. This gathering starts out as a typical Petersen parking roof-top drive in but since this serves a a warm-up for the "Luft" ... nothing seems typical anymore.

Take, for example, this very unique MOMO 356 RSR Outlaw built by Emory Motorsports whose operation is located near McMinnville, Oregon.
 

As captured here by Petersen photographer Ted Seven, the MOMO 356 RSR Outlaw was sitting in the Petersen Vault before being revealed to all who joined in for the pre-Luftgekühlt 6 gathering.

This excerpted and edited from  Gauge Media Group Inc. -

MOMO Porsche 356 RSR OUTLAW BY EMORY MOTORSPORTS
September 28, 2018

MOMO, in collaboration with Rod Emory at Emory Motorsports, was delighted to unveil the MOMO 356 RSR Outlaw at its public debut during Rennsport Reunion VI at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Rennsport Reunion, Porsche’s heritage event, was the perfect backdrop to reveal this project, which honored MOMO’s 50-year history with Porsche enthusiasts.

The concept for this very special sports car dates back to 2012 when Porsche 356 specialist Rod Emory imagined the ultimate 356, one worthy of Porsche’s RSR designation in reference to the legendary 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR. A rendering was posted to social media and led to a call from Henrique Cisneros, Chairman of MOMO Automotive Group in 2014. His aims were clear: “It needed to have cool MOMO wheels and spit flames from the exhaust,” Rod recalled of the conversation.
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Drawing inspiration from MOMO’s classic five-spoke center lock wheels fitted to the Porsche 935 and 962 race cars of the 1970s and ’80s. The result is the MOMO Heritage 5 wheel, which provides a focal point for the MOMO 356 RSR Outlaw.

The wheels measure 17×7” front and 17×8” rear, fitted using original Porsche 911 RSR centerlock hubs. A crowd pleaser since its first public appearance at the 2017 SEMA show, the MOMO Heritage 5 wheel was the basis for the MOMO Heritage 6 wheel launched earlier this year.

Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R tires – the Italian company’s stickiest road-racing compound – were fitted to all four corners, with 225/45 ZR17 specified for the front and 255/40 ZR17 on the rear.
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The MOMO 356 RSR Outlaw by Emory Motorsports debuted at Rennsport Reunion VI where enthusiasts were able to see it in the MOMO booth. The car also appeared at SEMA 2018, where it showcased MOMO products and promoted the brand.
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This was the first time this special "one of" car created for MOMO will be seen 100% finished and complete - for everything Luftgekühlt 6.

The other grand output from this very special cars & coffee marque party is the photographic images shared on social media.

Best image seen that encapsulates the look and the feel of this very special venue of Universal Studios backlot for Luftgekühlt 6. Stan Kaplan captured that moment in time where light and composition makes it's own statement at leaving the perfect impression. Image Credit: Stan Kaplan via FB (2019)

Strolling the backlot movieset streets filled with air-cooled Porsche after air-cooled Porsche, as with all previous mid-Spring Luftgekühlt events here in ol' Southern California, has one wishing for more.

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Photographer Kurt Bradley captured this tribute to the 914 during his first Luft event - such a perfect and unequaled backdrop from the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot movieset. Image Credit: Kurt Bradley via Twitter (2019)

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That's right, Luftgekühlt has evolved into the best one-day mid-Spring annual cars & coffee event, complete with mirror hanger ID locator cards, on steroids ... that, given its early history, will undoubtedly become a Porsche Only Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance style event of LA LA Land - we all welcome its growth and can not wait for what #Luft7 has to offer in venue, experience and images.

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