If you should see a man walking down a crowded street talking aloud to himself, don't run in the opposite direction, but run towards him, because he's a poet. You have nothing to fear from the poet - but the truth.
(Ted Joans)
The 356, it was the 356th product, something like that.
I'm dropping out to create a company that starts with motorcycles, then cars, and forty years later signs a legendary Brazilian driver who has a public and expensive feud with his French teammate.
Here's the answer, its a neat bit of trivia
Into the 1980s, Hamilton was often referred to as the first Porsche concessionaire, but that distinction seems to have been dropped in recent times so it may have been proven inaccurate. However we were the first r/h/d marketThe story began in 1951, when Norman Hamilton, a Melbourne pump manufacturer, was driving a big, American Oldsmobile Rocket 88 in Austria when he saw a tiny, slippery-looking sports car zip by.
Something of an enthusiast and no mean driver, Hamilton gritted his teeth and set off in pursuit along the Grossglockner Pass, tracking the elusive open-topped car to its source.
His appetite whetted, he subsequently met Dr Ferdinand Porsche, whose company had gone into production of the little Volkswagen-based sports car three years earlier.
As a result of that meeting, a gut feeling and a handshake, Hamilton became Australia's first Porsche agent and talked Dr Porsche into producing the sports car in right-hand-drive.
As part of their arrangement, Hamilton convinced Porsche to build its first two right-hand-drive models, after agreeing to fund the necessary tooling.
The legacy is favoured status for Porsche Australia in the Porsche world, but this was all ahead of Hamilton when, a couple of months after the Grossglockner Pass incident, he and his friend Andrew Kennedy collected a pair of right-hand-drive 356s, a Fish Silver cabriolet and a Maroon coupe, from the factory and drove them across the Alps to Genoa, where they were shipped to Australia.
The pair of Porsches was displayed at the South Melbourne Town Hall on November 1, 1951, and there is an irony in the fact that the Porsche went on sale in Australia three years before the VW Beetle with which it shared its major mechanical components, the Porsche having a 1286cc, air-cooled, horizontally-opposed engine mounted in the back, developing a modest 33kW of power.
http://www.bowdensown.com.au/cars/911tr.html
^^This particular 911 is one-of-a-kind specification; a non-lightweight lightweight!
I am a porsche-phile and I pronounce it porsh. am I ashamed?
I tend to find that it is only americans who actually care how it is pronounced....
present company excepted of course
what are you on about?? lets see, name of famous french footballer, Henry. Don't think that is pronounced the same everywhere
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How can men use sex to get what they want?
Sex is what they want. - Frasier
I've got a question: Why don't I have a Porsche, and what can you do to remedy this situation?
i was waiting on a moment, but the moment never came. all the billion other moments, were just slipping all away. i must have been tripping, we're just slipping all away. just ego tripping.
What was the retail price for 911 Targa 3.3 SuperSport's?
We say Soo-bah-roo. German's pronounce Audi Oodee, VolksWagen = FolksVaagen, and the Yanks say Maaazzda lol
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