# @hypewhip on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcprxziFFLq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69808681-hypewhip-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-30T04:45:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** HYPEWHIP (@hypewhip) — https://gondola.cc/hypewhip

## Caption

🤩 No AI. No filters. Just perfect timing. The recent solar eclipse created one of the most unreal Porsche 906 photos you’ll ever see.

Photographer Pablo García captured the legendary Carrera 6 beneath the eclipsed Sun, with Porsche later sharing the shot for World Photography Day.

The celestial backdrop was very real: the 2026 total solar eclipse crossed Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain and a small portion of Portugal, with partial coverage visible across much of Europe.

And the car sitting underneath it is arguably just as special as the event happening above it.

Introduced in 1966, the Porsche 906 Carrera 6 was a purpose-built competition machine featuring a fiberglass body wrapped around an ultra-light tubular steel spaceframe.

The entire car weighed just 675 kg (1,488 lbs) — lighter than many modern motorcycles with their riders and luggage combined.

Its 2.0-liter air-cooled flat-six produced around 210 hp, which doesn’t sound outrageous today until you remember how little mass it had to move.

Depending on gearing, Porsche lists the 906 as capable of approximately 174 mph (280 km/h), an incredible figure for a 2.0-liter race car from the mid-1960s.

More than 60 years later, seeing one silhouetted against an actual solar eclipse feels like two incredibly rare pieces of history lining up for a fraction of a second.

Is this one of the greatest automotive photographs ever captured, or what car would you have put underneath the eclipse? 👀

What are your thoughts? 🤔💭

Featuring Media From Porsche By aloha_pablo

#porsche #porsche906 #supercar #cars #eclipse

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