Porsche announced that the full-size Sally Carrera and Lightning McQueen cars will reunite at Rennsport Reunion 7, which will take place from September 28-October 1, 2023.
Sally Carrera will hail from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany while Lightning McQueen will come from the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, United States.
The two museums have kindly loaned Sally and Lightning to allow them to be brought together once again for the aforementioned event.
“You can’t have a celebration of motorsport and Porsche without Lightning McQueen and Sally Carrera!” commented Pixar Animation Studios Creative Director of Franchise Jay Ward.
“The life-size cars were created back in 2006 for the premiere of the original Cars movie, held at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte. Sally was made from a real 996-generation 911 and actually runs and drives. Sally and Lightning often traveled together to celebrate key moments and they got to see a lot of the world as new Cars movies were launched. In the past decade, though, they’ve been on display far apart, and even on different continents – it’s wonderful that they’re being reunited at Rennsport after so many years,” Ward noted.
According to Porsche, Ward will be at the event together with Cars production designer, Bob Pauley.
Sally and Lightning will be positioned right at the heart of the Rennsport Reunion displays, allowing visitors to get up close to both beloved characters.
Joining both iconic cars will be the 2022 “Sally Special,” a one-off Porsche 911 equipped with dozens of unique parts and finishes specifically designed for the car and created in collaboration between Pixar and Porsche.
It was sold for US$3.6M (approximately P203.983 million) at the Sotheby’s auction at Monterey.
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