--- title: Journal · HICONIUM description: Essays and field notes from the market for the unpriceable. canonical_url: https://hiconium.com/journal image: https://hiconium.com/og/default.png --- > HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.com/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > Path: [Home](https://hiconium.com/) › Journal # The Journal Essays and field notes from the market for the unpriceable — written at the desk in Zürich, checked against the files, one manufacturer at a time. ![Art plate: a Porsche 956 at speed down the Mulsanne straight at night, headlights carving one cone of light](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/journal/art/mulsanne-956-night.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) [## Nobody’s Perfect](https://hiconium.com/journal/nobodys-perfect) At four o’clock on the afternoon of 19 June 1983, Al Holbert crossed the line at Le Mans in a Porsche 956 that was trying, with some determination, to die under him. The left door had gone missing on the Mulsanne hours earlier. … [![Signed, Victor Max August Haehling von Lanzenauer](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/journal/authors/victor-signature.png.w1200.q75.webp) Our man for Porsche · 5 min](https://hiconium.com/journal/nobodys-perfect) [Read the essay](https://hiconium.com/journal/nobodys-perfect) Porsche · Essay · Our man for Porsche July 6, 2026 · 5 min [![Art plate: the nose of a 1948 Porsche 356 roadster alone in a vast dark hall under one narrow shaft of light](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/journal/art/356-hall-light.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) Porsche The Same Car, Since 1948 Seventy-eight years of one silhouette: our man for Porsche on air, obstinacy, and what the market pays a company for refusing to change its mind. Victor Max August Haehling von Lanzenauer July 5, 2026 5 min](https://hiconium.com/journal/the-same-car-since-1948) [![Art plate: a photographer silhouetted before a wedge supercar between two palms, low sun flaring, monochrome](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/journal/art/riocam-palms.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) RIOCAM The Fashion Photographer Who Loves Cars Camilo Rios White was born in Medellín, raised in Fort Worth, and made in Miami — a decade spent turning the hot supercar poster into couture, now shooting with the house. The House June 28, 2026 4 min](https://hiconium.com/journal/the-fashion-photographer-who-loves-cars) [![Art plate: a hand airbrushing a wedge supercar onto a pinned T-shirt under one bare lamp](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/journal/art/airbrush-lamp.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) Partnership What’s It Worth to You? Hiconium prices the unpriceable. With RIOCAM it now makes the car yours to look at — on the number, the myth, and the artists we’re bringing into the room. The House June 21, 2026 4 min](https://hiconium.com/journal/whats-it-worth-to-you) [![Art plate: a row of cars under dust covers in a dark garage, the nearest revealed by a single bulb](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/journal/art/keepers-bulb.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) Series The Keepers A film series: one person, one collection, per film — past the alarm that has a name, into rooms of fuel and patience. First visits are shot this winter. The House July 2, 2026 2 min](https://hiconium.com/journal/the-keepers) [![Art plate: the rear wing and louvred tail of a Ferrari F40 raked by one hard light in darkness](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/journal/art/f40-louvres.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) Ferrari Enzo’s Last Word The F40 was a speculation object before it was a myth. Forty years later the market has learned what most people still confuse: what it costs, and what it is worth. The House June 14, 2026 4 min](https://hiconium.com/journal/enzos-last-word) The files - [Porsche Nobody’s Perfect Victor Max August Haehling von Lanzenauer July 6, 2026](https://hiconium.com/journal/nobodys-perfect) - [Porsche The Same Car, Since 1948 Victor Max August Haehling von Lanzenauer July 5, 2026](https://hiconium.com/journal/the-same-car-since-1948) - [RIOCAM The Fashion Photographer Who Loves Cars The House June 28, 2026](https://hiconium.com/journal/the-fashion-photographer-who-loves-cars) - [Partnership What’s It Worth to You? The House June 21, 2026](https://hiconium.com/journal/whats-it-worth-to-you) - [Series The Keepers The House July 2, 2026](https://hiconium.com/journal/the-keepers) - [Ferrari Enzo’s Last Word The House June 14, 2026](https://hiconium.com/journal/enzos-last-word)