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111 ,Porsche Stories That You Should Know Wilfried Müller 111 ,PORSCHE STORIES THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW emons: 111_Porsche-DEUTSCH+ENGLISCH_Finale.indd 1 25.08.16 16:52 Contents 14_ Anatole Carl Lapine G Series 911, Bestseller and Space Glider | 40 15_ Harm Lagaaij EARLY YEARS | 8 Who Dares, Wins | 42 1_ The Lohner-Porsche Electromobile 16_ Michael Mauer Faster than a Gallop | 10 Porsche Style in the 21st Century | 44 2_ The Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus 17_ Wendelin Wiedeking Ancestor of Hybrids | 12 A New Broom Sweeps Clean | 46 3_ »Sascha«, the Austro-Daimler Racing Car Small, Light and Fast | 14 MILESTONES | 48 4_ Auto Union Grand Prix Racing Car 18_ It Started with the Type 7 A Model for Modern Motor Sports | 16 The Birth of the Porsche Company | 50 19_ The Beetle and Porsche KEY FIGURES | 20 One Idea, Two Legends | 52 5_ Ferdinand Porsche 20_ Porsche 356 Number 1 The Legend Begins | 22 The First Prototype | 54 6_ Ferdinand »Ferry« Porsche 21_ Porsche 356/2 »I started by looking around ...« | 24 A Small Series of Gems | 56 7_ Louise Piëch 22_ The Carrera Engine Steering Porsche through Times of Crisis | 26 Like a Racehorse – Complex and Fast | 60 8_ Ferdinand Alexander »F. A.« Porsche 23_ The Porsche 550 Spyder Designer of the 911 | 28 A Mid-Engine Carriage | 62 9_ Wolfgang Porsche 24_ Porsche 911 2.0 Powerful, but not Power-Hungry | 30 The First Lines of the Legend | 64 10_ Ferdinand Piëch 25_ Porsche 911R A Visionary and Shaper | 32 The First Racer in the 911 Series | 66 11_ Helmuth Bott 26_ Porsche 917 A Director with a Heart | 34 From a Beast to a Cult Item | 70 12_ Ernst Fuhrmann 27_ Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 First Chairman of the Board, Promoter of Turbo | 36 The Revolutionary | 72 13_ Horst Marchart 28_ 911 Carrera RSR 2.1 Turbo A Quiet Helmsman Who Changed Course | 38 The First One with a Charger | 76 111_Porsche-DEUTSCH+ENGLISCH_Finale.indd 2 25.08.16 16:52 29_ Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0 44_ Bob Wollek The Most Anticyclical Porsche in History | 80 The Unfulfilled Dream of Le Mans | 116 30_ Porsche 928 45_ Walter Röhrl Too Far Ahead of Its Time | 84 Drive Flawlessly, Speak Frankly | 118 31_ Type 953 Four-Wheel Drive for the Sahara | 86 EXTREMISTS | 120 32_ Porsche Cayenne 46_ Porsche 909 Mountain Spyder An Offroad Milestone | 90 Extreme climber | 122 47_ Porsche 908/03 RACING DRIVERS | 92 A Pure Driving Machine | 124 33_ Hans Herrmann 48_ Porsche 917 PA Spyder 16-Cylinder Historic Victories, a Wise Retirement | 94 A Giant that Couldn‘t Walk | 128 34_ Herbert Linge 49_ Porsche 917/30 Spyder »That ain’t fast!« | 96 The Monster | 130 35_ Vic Elford 50_ Porsche 935 2.0 »Baby« Two Premieres and an Impossible Win | 98 The »Baby« with Winning Genes | 132 36_ Joseph Siffert 51_ Porsche 935/78 »Moby Dick« Speed in His Blood | 100 The Most Powerful 911 of All Time | 134 37_ Gerhard Mitter 52_ Porsche 956/962C European Champion with a Foot in Plaster | 102 Serial Winner with the »Ground Effect« | 138 38_ Hurley Haywood 53_ TAG Turbo V6 made by Porsche America’s Best Endurance Racer | 104 A Dwarf with the Strength of a Giant | 140 39_ Jacky Ickx 54_ Porsche 919 Hybrid Thoughtfully Fast | 106 Extremely Complex, Extremely Fascinating | 142 40_ David Piper Madly in Love with the 917 | 108 AROUND THE PITWALL | 146 41_ Derek Bell 55_ Fritz Huschke von Hanstein Nothing But Racing | 110 Man of the World and PR Genius | 148 42_ Hans-Joachim Stuck 56_ Wilhelm Hild From the Zugspitze | 112 The Man with the broken Cigarette | 150 43_ René Metge 57_ Peter Falk The Friendly Desert King | 114 A Quietly Successful Head of Racing | 152 111_Porsche-DEUTSCH+ENGLISCH_Innenteil.indd 3 15.09.16 10:39 58_ Hans Mezger PORSCHE ART | 186 Who Made the Horses Gallop | 154 72_ Janis Joplin’s 356 SC Cabriolet 59_ Jürgen Barth Painted, Stolen, Salvaged | 188 Diplomacy at Racing Speed | 156 73_ Steve McQueen’s »Le Mans« 60_ Norbert Singer From a Flop to a Legend | 190 Master of the Air | 158 74_ The 917 Hippie Car Psychedelic Art at a Speed of 400 | 192 FAMILY JEWELS | 160 75_ 917/20, the Sow 61_ Porsche 356 1100 Coupé »Ferdinand« Big Bertha or Pig Bertha? | 196 Automobile Longevity | 162 76_ Porsche 911 Biggibilla 62_ Porsche 911 Turbo No. 1 Songlines for a Carrera | 198 Tartan and 260 hp | 164 77_ Eleven Eleven 63_ 914/8 The Concrete Porsche | 200 Dr Jekyll for Doctors Porsche & Piëch | 166 64_ Porsche Panamericana BIRDS OF PARADISE | 202 An Exotic Automobile for the Future | 168 78_ The Type 64 Founding Ancestor of the Porsche | 204 MAGIC WORDS | 170 79_ Porsche Type 360 Cisitalia _ 65 Gmünd It’s Hard to Shape the Future | 206 Cradle and Refuge | 172 80_ Porsche Exclusive _ 66 Carrera Anything You Like | 208 An Honorary Title for Very Special Porsche Cars | 174 81_ Less is More _ 67 Porsche Speedster In Praise of What Makes You Tough | 212 A Yoga Course Is Helpful | 176 68_ Downhill Racing Torturing the Brakes on Mont Ventoux | 178 MOMENTS | 216 69_ Teloché 82_ Christophorus The Team HQ at the »Sharp Corner« | 180 Mrs Konnerth was the First Model | 218 70_ Turbo 83_ The First Crash Test Horsepower from the Flow of Exhaust Gas | 182 Almost with a Living Dummy | 220 71_ Weissach 84_ Type Numbers A High-Tech Centre on a Sheep Pasture | 184 The 911 Is Not the 911th | 222 111_Porsche-DEUTSCH+ENGLISCH_Finale.indd 4 25.08.16 16:52 85_ Across the Atlantic 99_ Porsche 984 In 1950 Porsche Started up in the USA | 224 An Entry-Level Two-Seater | 264 86_ Far, Far Away 100_ Mission E The First Porsches in Australia | 226 Drive to Extremes at a Whisper | 266 87_ The 1965 Monte Carlo Rally »It’s Fine if You Finish Last.« | 228 THE MOST AMAZING TRACKS | 270 88_ Monza, 4 November 1967 101_ 24 Hours of Daytona All Broken – the Car and Five World Records | 232 A Long Night in Florida | 272 89_ Porsche 917 102_ Sebring International Raceway Eureka! – Thanks to Dead Flies | 234 »Twice as Painful« | 276 90_ Le Mans 1970 103_ 1,000 Kilometres on the North Loop: Wearing the Crown | 236 Flying through the Eifel | 278 91_ 1,000 Kilometres of Spa-Francorchamps 1971 104_ Le Mans Four Tenths of a Second | 240 Toujour l’amour, sometimes fou | 280 105_ Paris–Dakar Rally SUPER SPORTS CARS | 242 Entered Three Times, Won Twice | 284 92_ Porsche 959 106_ Targa Florio What Is Possible in Sports Car Design? | 244 72 Kilometres, 800 Bends – per Lap | 288 93_ Porsche 911 GT1 Road The First Mid-Engine 911 | 248 CLIFF-HANGERS | 292 94_ Porsche Carrera GT 107_ A Bike Pursuing a Porsche The Last of the Old School | 250 A Burst Tyre at 175 km/h | 294 95_ Porsche 918 Spyder 108_ Le Mans 1969 The One with Three Hearts | 254 24 Hours, 120 Metres Behind | 296 109_ Daytona 1977 PROTOTYPES | 256 No Door, but Lipstick on the Back Light 96_ A 911 for Four 110_ Le Mans 1977 Far from Easy | 258 Porsche’s Only Victory with Five Cylinders | 300 97_ Porsche 928 H50 111_ Le Mans 1987 Porsche’s First Four-Door GT | 260 A Sweet Triumph in a Rough Year | 302 98_ Porsche 965 »It Feels Very Safe at 300.« | 262 111_Porsche-DEUTSCH+ENGLISCH_Innenteil.indd 5 15.09.16 10:43 KEY FIGURES 5__ Ferdinand Porsche The Legend Begins The Porsche legend starts with Ferdinand Porsche, who was born on 3 September 1875 in Maffersdorf in Bohemia (today Vratislavice in the Czech Republic) and died on 30 January 1951 in Stuttgart. He was to have been a plumber, but the new source of power, electricity, fascinated him. He rode to evening school on a humming elec- tric bike that he made himself, a self-taught genius who did everything differently from that time onwards: a wheel-hub motor instead of complex power transmission for his electromobile in 1900, then hybrid powering, then small, light racing cars like his »Sascha« instead of big-engine giants; then the Mercedes S, SS and SSK sports cars. Wherever Porsche worked, his career moved forwards at racing speed: Austro-Daimler, Daimler Motor Company, Steyr. Usually his employment ended in a dispute: his designs seemed too elaborate for some and he had a fiery temperament. In 1931 he had had enough of thinking for other bosses. In Kronenstrasse in Stuttgart he founded his own de- sign office with a team of brilliant engineers like Erwin Komenda, Karl Rabe and Franz Xaver Reimspiess. Kro- nen-strasse was the birthplace of the mid-engine, synchroniser rings, torsion bar suspension – an endless list of innovations. The Auto Union »Silver Arrow« was designed there, as well as small cars for NSU and Zündapp: round-shaped, rear engines, one of them a boxer engine. In 1934 he was commissioned to design the »Volkswa- gen«. In 1935 the first prototypes were tested. Then war broke out, and Porsche designed Kübelwagen and tanks. ___ Ferdinand Porsche After the end of the war he was imprisoned by the French for 22 months, fell seriously ill, was released in August in 1934 in a typical pose: 1947 and rehabilitated by court in 1948, and saw the success story of his Volkswagen »Beetle«. In the same year, with a stop-watch in his hand he checks his son Ferry put the first Porsche 356 on the road. Small, light and sporty – just the style of his father Ferdinand.
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