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    Porsche: The Colour Family Album
    Porsche: The Colour Family Album
    Porsche: The Colour Family Album
    Ebook104 pages36 minutes

    Porsche: The Colour Family Album

    By Andrea Sparrow and David Sparrow

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    A celebration - in stunning colour photographs - of all the road-going Porsches from the original Gmund cars to the latest 911. Included in this volume are Gmund coupe, 356, 911, 912, 914, 914-6, 924, 928, 944, 959, 964, 968 and Boxster.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVeloce
    Release dateSep 11, 2018
    ISBN9781787113954
    Porsche: The Colour Family Album

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      Book preview

      Porsche - Andrea Sparrow

      INTRODUCTION

      A Porsche is not something to be neutral about. Many people who have never owned a Porsche claim to hate them (but would secretly love to have one). Many people who do own one believe that their particular incarnation is the only model worthy of the Porsche name. Most people who have raced them love them - and they should know.

      There have been many books written about Porsche, and doubtless there will be many more. Several volumes the size of War and Peace could be written about the changes to the 911 - the Carrera is worthy of attention by itself; the water-cooled Porsches deserve more than a cursory glance. However, it’s only possible within the scope of this book to give the briefest outline of the Porsche story - the hundred years from Ferdinand Porsche’s first interest in the motorcar to the present day.

      Of course, the earliest 356 looks very different to the latest 911 - or does it? The new car is certainly not old-fashioned, so perhaps the 356 was way ahead of its time. Porsche styling philosophy has always been so artful - never changing just for the sake of it but not afraid to try new ideas, judging the customer’s mood just right. What will the fortieth anniversary Porsche look like; well, it will certainly look good.

      Carrera RS 1973.

      1

      FERDINAND PORSCHE

      Ferdinand Porsche was born in September 1875 at Maffersdorf, which was then in Austria but is now in the Czech Republic. By his teenage years young Ferdinand had developed a fascination for all things mechanical and, when not busy in his father’s workshop, could be found studying at evening classes, or at home poring over books on engineering.

      Porsche was particularly excited by the latest development in industry: electricity. With his natural understanding of how such things worked, he was able to rig up an electric lighting system for his father’s business, and soon began earning money by making and fitting doorbells for friends and neighbours. He was also keenly interested in the motorcar recently introduced by Daimler. A local businessman had taken delivery of one, and Porsche was sure that these vehicles were destined for great things.

      Carrera, Targa - classic Porsche names and classic Porsche shape. Only two examples were made in this mouthwatering colour. (Carrera Targa 1974)

      The ‘Autobahn’ has huge appeal, but a Porsche is in its element on a good country road. (944 S)

      Porsche moved to Vienna at the age of twenty-one and took a job with an electricity company. His natural talent - and the fact that he was a hard worker - made him popular with his colleagues. Whenever he got the chance he would sneak into engineering lectures at Vienna University. He was not registered there - and so had no right to attend - but it appears he was tolerated and only occasionally thrown out!

      Vienna was a thriving, bustling city. Business people thronged there and the wealthy and well-connected based themselves there. Consequently, on the streets there were plenty of the new motorcars and Porsche became more and more interested in them.

      In 1898 the company for which Porsche worked was approached by

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