Hammer Down: At 88, He Still Drives His 1968 Porsche 911

In 1975, Dan Rowzie climbed into a Porsche 911 on the roof of the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan with eighty miles an hour to beat. The car carried an IROC-spec three-liter flat-six, the same engine used in the international racing championship the year before. The goal was simple. New York to Redondo Beach faster than Brock Yates and Dan Gurney’s Cannonball record. 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, at eighty-eight years old, he spends his time with a Burgundy 1968 Porsche 911 in his garage. Vintage race motor. Roll cage. Purposeful modifications made over decades of ownership. “There’s a lot of feedback and spirit,” he says, “that’s missing in the later heavier cars.” Now he’s slowly returning it to stock for whoever comes next. Directed by: Tiziano Niero https://instagram.com/zero2niero Read the article: https://petrolicious.com/blogs/articles/hammer-down-dan-rowzie-and-a-1968-porsche-911 Follow: https://instagram.com/petrolicious Subscribe to The Petrolicious Post: https://petrolicious.com/products/the-petrolicious-post? Drive Tastefully® #drivetastefully #petrolicious #porsche911 #cannonball