For the third season it ran the dominant 911-based 935, Porsche built a special car for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Later nicknamed "Moby Dick" due to Norbert Singer's aerodynamic long-tail bodywork ...

Read Also: Bisimoto Creates An All-Electric Porsche ... s current ‘935’ or an all-new project. Either way, it is certainly striking. The car designed by Khyzyl Saleem has a long-hanging ...

So much so that Porsche devoted an entire video in its "Top Five" YouTube series to the car. You could say it's a whale of a tale. The 935/78 got its nickname from its long tail, a testament to ...

The car was distinguished by a white body combined with the traditional Martini livery and a long tail shape optimized for low drag - the reason why the 935/78 was often nicknamed Moby Dick.

The Porsche 935 was the wildest version of the 911 concept ... More to it, look at this thing. It is a full long tail treatment to make a McLaren LT look like a cheap bodykit.

With a white body and a characteristic long swooping tail, it was dubbed "Moby Dick ... was tasked with building the ultimate Group 5 Porsche 935. His sole objective was to deliver a win at ...

Porsche has outdone ... of the legendary 935 Moby Dick – a massively turbocharged take on the 1978 930 911 with an elongated tail designed specifically for the long straights and continuous ...

Perhaps the most distinctive styling feature is the 'long tail' rear overhang ... Under the retro-inspired skin, the 935 utilises the latest technology out of Porsche's current flagship.

Jeff Glucker July 23, 2018 Comment Now! The Porsche 935 is a motorsports legend, and the 935/78 is a special car among special cars. Known as "Moby Dick" for its white color and long tail, the ...

The 917 may be the racing car that cemented Porsche’s reputation in motorized ... right proportions to flow with the contours of the long tail, but doesn’t look too bad,” he said.

By the following year, Porsche had taken that to extremes, with the 935/78’s elongated ‘whale tail’ to maximise airflow at the back of the car on Le Mans’s long Mulsanne straight.