Jack's '72 Porsche 911

Jack's '72 Porsche 911 Jack Olsen's 1972 Porsche 911 -- made with 911 components from the 1965 model year up to 2000. He's been driving and developing it since 1999.

Over the years, Joe Rogan has talked a few times about my garage and my car. I don't add much to this page these days, b...
02/19/2026

Over the years, Joe Rogan has talked a few times about my garage and my car. I don't add much to this page these days, but here's a clip that somehow got popular on Instagram. )I'll post a YouTube link here, though.)

Aside from the Rogan show, the footage was shot by Justin Evidon, Sean Fannin, and Josh Clason.

There were a couple of shows where podcaster Joe Rogan talked about my car. The other morning, I was cleaning up space on my phone, and I decided to just tak...

09/21/2025

California gas is expensive. Make the best choices about how you're going to use it.

10/04/2024

I did some math last Wednesday on the way home from Willow Springs. Over the course of 25 years of my ownership, my 52-year-old 911 now has more than 27,000 on-track miles. That's only a small piece of its total mileage, but that's a lot to ask of any car, and it's a hell of a testament to the durability of Porsche's air-cooled 911.

For you air-cooled Porsche enthusiasts, I believe tickets are available as of today for Luftgekühlt 10, which will be ba...
08/20/2024

For you air-cooled Porsche enthusiasts, I believe tickets are available as of today for Luftgekühlt 10, which will be back on the Universal Studios backlot.

(AI interpretation of the event for your amusement.)

Updated for 2024. :)
04/05/2024

Updated for 2024. :)

I'm going to take it as flattery that a graphic I made (with Elie Man's cool vector art of my car) has been knocked off ...
10/14/2023

I'm going to take it as flattery that a graphic I made (with Elie Man's cool vector art of my car) has been knocked off as a t-shirt in India.

But now I'm the one correcting the horsepower figure -- the long hood 911s did not have anything like 272 hp, and all of them are now older than 44 years.

Between the straightforward base versions of Porsche's 911 and their purpose-built race cars is the GT division, which c...
08/13/2023

Between the straightforward base versions of Porsche's 911 and their purpose-built race cars is the GT division, which creates the highest-performance versions of Porsche's still-street-legal 911s. The model the GT department came up with this year is the 911 S/T, which combines the 520-hp 911 GT3RS engine with a manual 6-speed transmission and an assortment of weight-saving and performance-enhancing mods. Andreas Preuninger has run the GT division for decades, and I was surprised in 2021 when he complimented my 51-year-old 911 on Instagram. Two years later, the GT division has come out with the first two prototypes for the 911 S/T, and one of them is black with the word Porssche in silver on the side. Not a huge coincidence, black being a common-enough color. But this week, Preuninger gave my car a shout-out again on Instagram. I'm very flattered.

(And I'm also, um, boasting about it here on Facebook.) :)

The Petersen Auto Museum paid a visit a little while back in order to make a clip about my garage and my 'car collection...
11/10/2021

The Petersen Auto Museum paid a visit a little while back in order to make a clip about my garage and my 'car collection.' If you watch, you'll get to enjoy seeing just how uncomfortable I am on camera -- but there's more: you'll also get some glimpses of the camper and the sailboat floating goofily above my driveway.

Porsche has always been at the forefront of racing. Since the brands inception, has taken more than 30,000 pole positions. Those victories are carri...

The 2022 registration sticker came for the car today, which made me think about how this whole pandemic thing is moving ...
03/07/2021

The 2022 registration sticker came for the car today, which made me think about how this whole pandemic thing is moving toward its end and I'll be back at the race track soon.

There's something to be said for simplicity.  (And light weight.)
12/07/2020

There's something to be said for simplicity.

(And light weight.)

433 hp$585,000 base price.1:26.90 at Big Willow.
08/12/2020

433 hp

$585,000 base price.

1:26.90 at Big Willow.

The Porsche 993 Remastered by Gunther Werks car was hitting around 105 mph through turn 9 at Big Willow, one of the trickiest in the racing world.

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