We love it when a race team brings back a favorite old livery, so we especially love today's news: at the 22nd running of the Motul Petit Le Mans next month, the Porsche GT Team's twin 911 RSR race cars will sport a throwback Coca-Cola livery, paying homage to Bob Akin's legendary red and white Porsche 962s.

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Bob Akin Motor Racing ran Coca-Cola themed liveries from 1980 to 1987—first in the traditional red and white, then later switching to black and white once Yokohama came on as an additional sponsor. Porsche chose to commemorate the early red-and-white livery, a nod to the Coca-Cola Porsche 962 that took Akin, Hans Stuck and Jo Gartner to victory at Sebring in 1986.

The Coca-Cola 962 at the 2018 Rennsport Reunion VI at Laguna Seca. Porsche

Porsche's throwback livery is a nod to Atlanta, too—home of Coca-Cola, Porsche Cars North America, and Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, where the Motul Petit Le Mans will bring the 2019 IMSA season to a close.

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Porsche will enter two 911 RSRs in the Petit Le Mans: No. 911, driven by Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Frédéric Makowiecki, the team that won the 2015 Petit Le Mans overall; and No. 912, driven by Earl Bramber, Laurens Vanthoor and Mathieu Jaminet. Just like the Porsche 962 of the early 1980s, the 911s will wear brilliant white BBS wheels.

Akin’s 962 at the 2009 Monterey Historics Marshall Pruett

Period photo of Akin’s 962 at Daytona in 1985. The Marshall Pruett Archives

This isn't the first time Porsche has done a throwback livery. At last year's Petit Le Mans, the Porsche team ran a vintage Mobil 1 livery, and the team kicked off the 2019 season with the famous red-white-and-blue design of Brumos Racing. See the Akin-inspired Coca-Cola 911s at the 10-hour Petit Le Mans on October 9-12th.

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