"Thomas Donohue" (tomonomics)
03/22/2019 at 08:36 • Filed to: None
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"Thomas Donohue" (tomonomics)
03/22/2019 at 08:36 • Filed to: None | 4
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> Thomas Donohue
03/22/2019 at 08:39 |
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GIB!
Nibby
> Thomas Donohue
03/22/2019 at 08:46 |
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nice beetles
AuthiCooper1300
> Nibby
03/22/2019 at 08:57 |
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More than you’
d
think.
Pretty sure those are not 911s but 912Es (with fuel-injected, “Type 4" VW engines)
Grindintosecond
> Thomas Donohue
03/22/2019 at 09:06 |
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912 drivers could only afford sailplanes....
Correction, afgord to LOOK at sailplanes, because you dont fly them in sport jackets like that guy.
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Thomas Donohue
> Grindintosecond
03/22/2019 at 09:10 |
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And there was no money left over for a tow plane, so they just sit in the field and wait.
punkgoose17
> Nibby
03/22/2019 at 09:14 |
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The nicest of b
eetles.
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Thomas Donohue
> AuthiCooper1300
03/22/2019 at 09:16 |
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Yes, they are twelves.
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AuthiCooper1300
> Thomas Donohue
03/22/2019 at 09:33 |
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It is interesting that they took a promotional picture f o r a US market-only car in s u c h an obvious German setting.
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Thomas Donohue
> AuthiCooper1300
03/22/2019 at 11:14 |
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Perhaps that was the intent.....you too could be a worldly individual if you purchased our inexpensive, yet very German vehicle!
Or, it was convenient to quickly get some promo shots near the factory.
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AuthiCooper1300
> Thomas Donohue
03/22/2019 at 12:20 |
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I suspect the latter. As gorgeous as Strenger’s corporate publication
d
esign
and artwork was, Porsche’s marketing efforts were
still
rather amateurish at the time
.
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that very
same year, 1975) and the bigger-engined cars that followed, which
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kanadanmajava1
> Thomas Donohue
03/22/2019 at 17:12 |
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Porsche has been offering factory delivery for the US buyers. I don’t know when they started this but maybe it was available already in the 70's?
But those wheels are weird. I haven’t seen many pictures with rubber bumper (‘74->) models with that steel wheels style. These were common under 912s but 912 didn’t see rubber bumpers.
There’s an exception though. Single year model 912E ( in 1976) was sold only in the US. That’s likely a picture from 912E marketing material.
SpeedSix
> kanadanmajava1
03/25/2019 at 15:45 |
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That threw me off too - I’ve never seen pictures (promo or otherwise) with those bumpers and steel wheel style.