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Renowned South African Art Dealer Gavin Rooke gathered together a group of great craftsmen to design and exquisitely remanufacture a series of vintage Porsche 911/912 cars as race worthy and collectable works of art. Once built, Gavin and his Dutchmann team takes these DUTCHMANN Edition Weekend Racer Porsches to various African desert and hill climb races. Here in the opening episode, Gavin Rooke and his Dutchmann Porsche team, makes its way from Cape Town to Knysna.

Surfer, designer, Brian Bent takes a Ford Model A frame and gathers together pieces from old cars, church pews seats and old airplane fittings to create his version of a California original.

Scenes in Morocco while practicing for the 2015 Dakar Rally

At the 2013 LA Auto Show, Porsche debuted the new 918 Porsche Spyder Hybrid. This Porsche was enclosed within a glass booth, with highly impressed fans milling around trying to get a glimpse of this new super car. In this third and final part of the series, we see the team from Bentley Motorsport continue their efforts at achieving a finish at the grueling 2014 Spa 24 Hours with a pair of Bentley Continental GT3 cars. Chris Reinke, the head of Audi LMP program, talks about this year’s car benefiting from the efficient combination of the V6 TDI engine, e-tron quattro hybrid drive, and the new aerodynamics, as they come to SPA and then head to LE MANS.

The BMW Z4 GT3 leads the way for the 2015 24HR Nurburgring with a massive team of drivers and car models from BMW that take up the challenge to make it through 24hrs on one of the toughest circuits in the world.  AFRICAN RACER. EPISODE 2. PORSCHE MOTOR NEEDS REBUILDING JUST PRIOR TO RACE. Gavin Rooke takes the Porsche Racer for trial runs. The engine does not make it through the trail runs. Just as the Knysna Hill Race gets closer, the Porsche needs a motor rebuild. MALIBU CARS AND COFFEE. AN AMAZING COLLECTION OF CAR PORN ALONG THE PCH.

Car collector Michael Axon brings his 1958 Lotus 11 to the Malibu Coffee and Cars event. BMW documents its time at the 2015 Nürburgring 24 Hours. The 2014 MINI Dakar race car thrashes it out on the snow.

For the 2015 Le Mans 24Hr race, two Porsche teams took overall wins. Earl Bamber (NZ), Nico Hülkenberg (GER) and Nick Tandy (GBR) took the 17th overall victory.  Followed by the sister car of Timo Bernhard (GER), Brendon Hartley (NZ) and Mark Webber (AUS). This made it the fourth one-two result for the brand after achieving this in 1971, 1983, 1987 and 1998.

In 2013, to celebrate its centenary, Aston Martin designed and built the CC100 Speedster Concept. This is a short glimpse from their film on the design process that gave birth to this stunning master piece.

In Privateer Stories. Buttonwillow, we see glimpses of the Buttonwillow Raceway in Buttonwillow, California. Vintage car racer Chuck Kolstad talks about this racetrack and his love for it.

Recently introduced at the 2015 Shanghai Motor Show, this new Mercedes AMG GT comes with a new 4.0 lire V8 biturbo, with zero to 100km.h in 3.8 seconds and a top speed of 310 km/h. Racer Frank Mons and his son bring their rare British classic racer, the ELVA MKVI, to the Buttonwillow race track in Southern California, for the VARA race weekend. Head of the BMW Design Group, SVP Adrian van Hooydonk participates in the 40th year anniversary of BMW Motorsports and explains what the M stands for.

The Bonaldi Motorsport Finnish driver wins Race One and Two in the 2015 Monza Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo. On the no speed limit roads in Alice Springs, in the Australian Outback, this Porsche 918 Spyder is allowed to stretch its limits. Racing legend Al Lager, has been building and racing Porsche engines for the last 53 years. His first sight of the Porsche 356B Abarth Carrera GTL in 1964 captured his imagination, and 50 years later he built the 22nd Abarth from the bones of a true Porsche 356. Here he talks about the original Porsche 356B Abarth Carrera GTL.

Josh, one of the crew team leaders of the DragonSpeed team, at the 2015 Long Beach GP,  talks about the US Flag livery Mercedes Benz SLS AMG driven by Henrick Hedman. The team from Bentley Motorsport sets out to race at the grueling 2014 Spa 24 Hours with a pair of Bentley Continental GT3 cars. Darren Cox of NISMO talks about the NISMO LMP1 race car.