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Car enthusiast's Porsche mural unveiled in San Luis Obispo

The artist, Chuck Jennings, said he started the mural in early December 2023. He finished it on Friday — almost 115 days later.
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Posted at 8:05 PM, Mar 30, 2024
and last updated 2024-03-31 02:25:08-04

A local Porsche club and autobody shop held a special event Saturday in San Luis Obispo.

The California Central Coast Porsche Club of America, in conjunction with The Stable auto repair shop, unveiled a new mural painted by one of its own members.

The mural depicts several racing Porsches through the years with San Luis Obispo's Exposition Park Raceway grandstands in the background.

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Chuck Jennings, the artist behind the mural, started it on Dec. 5, 2023, he said, and just finished it on Friday.

"This is the most fun and most important project I've ever done, and it's wonderful that so many people can see it," Jennings said. "It's a very public piece of art. In fact, while I was working on it, every day somebody would come up and start talking to me about this piece of work."

You can see it for yourself at 750 Francis St. in San Luis Obispo. The mural is visible from Broad Street.

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"This is the most fun and most important project I've ever done," Jennings said. "And it's wonderful that so many people can see it." Jennings was a former professor at Cal Poly and was the Art and Graphic Design Department's chair, according to a biography of him on the SLO County Arts website.