Neilda, all my favourite colours on one Porsche..(-:
Dean, I too thought Porsches were over rated to the extent I judged them as no more than tuned up Beetles, a time when the lovely little Lotus Elan was my premier target in life, other than the girl next door..(-: It took a while but in time I wanted to sample the pleasures that so many professional drivers chose for their personal transport. T`was an article in Motor Sport in 1970 the author`s name of which I can not remember, though he was made aware of Porsche by DSJ (Jenks) the much revered journalist who rode shotgun for Stirling Moss on his rather famous run through partof Italy in 1955. Sure that run was in a Merc, but DSJ`s transport of choice was apparently a Porsche, of which he was very fond. The unnamed author decided to sample Porsche for himself and the article he wrote was titled 50,000 miles with a 911 relating his own experiences. For sure it is in the interests of journalists to stay in favour with manufacturers by enthusiastically presenting new cars to the then readers of the magazines, but from this chaps article it seems he chose Porsche for his personal transport too and stayed with Porsche for many a year..
Today..? Well I tend to think a Porsche has lost some of it`s right to the name as it is entirely a product of VAG thus a bit of the heritage would seem to have been lost, I guess that may be why those with traditionalist tendencies perhaps judge the air-cooled 911`s as THE Porsche to own..? With the obvious (?) marketing value in an established brand name it seems some will pay dearly for the name alone, a situation of which there are many examples, the latest fiasco I can think of is Norton m/cycles.. There are many others of course, though at least VAG have a definite Porsche linkage, the wealth of knowledge and financial backup to maintain some value in a company name which was started by an engineering family who seemingly only employed engineers in all the top positions in an attempt to make the best sports car in the world.... Methinks they did rather well in reaching that objective and for quite some time, winning in just about every variety of of motor sport as wide and varied as the Le Mans 24hrs to the cross desert madness that is the Paris Dakar..?
PeterG, Yup, plenty of Porsche styling queues in that design for sure.
K, there have to be reasons other than practical not to be a fan of Porsche...?
All that aside, it is still an old mid 80`s +8 Morgan that resides in my garage, and for practical reasons too...
