The 10,000th Porsche

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Allen Henderson
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Re: The 10,000th Porsche

#31 Post by Allen Henderson »

James Davies wrote:Yes, and definitely not a Hoffman USA car, as it has Bosch headlights.
Good tell ! The Europeans and Germans, especially, always got the best stuff ! At one time I thought it MIGHT be a Carrera 56007 but then I saw the photo with Peter (or is that Wolfgang?) Porsche; no Carrera emblem.
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Porsche Zuffenhausen probably has a "car finder" looking for historic Porsches like the 901 they found a couple years ago. Good chance they would like to find 10,000 Porsche made !! That's probably why no one is sharing. Thanks.
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#33 Post by Joris Koning »

I believe the car also had an antenna and so likely a radio. Might want to watch for this on the kardexes. It is well known not all options always made it on there.so aqua cars in the time frame with a euro dealer and a radio/antenna would be interesting to explore further
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#34 Post by James Davies »

One further complication is that Aquamarine cars from this period were having bad paint quality issues (actually all the metallics), as discussed in Frank Jung's excellent "Porsche 356 by Reutter" book (pg 129). Many had to be sent back to the paint booth as the new enamel paint was very hard to spot repair (unlike Nitrolack). So it's likely that because of this, cars effected by these quality issues were finished quite far out of chassis number order. Again, just a complication.

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#35 Post by Allen Henderson »

Agreed, Metallic paints were a problem for Porsche at least until 1973, if not later. Back in 1955 the metallics (Porsche had lots of nice colors! like Aquamarine (a non-metallic version came on or two years later) were single stage, making it extra difficult to achieve consistent results, not to mention metallic colors that held up well.
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#36 Post by James Davies »

Before 1956, the metallics were nitrocellulose lacquer. The switch to enamel for the 356 colors made the paint more durable, but the painting process was much less forgiving. They continued with metallics through early 1957, then got rid of them all except for Silver.

And yes, it was more expensive to do a car in metallic, but they were quite popular during the pre-A period. Porsche always had at least 3 metallic colors available. Hoffman only spec'ed metallic paint on the de Luxe cars he imported in 1953. His USA Standard cars only got the non-metallic colors. Cost reduction.

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#37 Post by Allen Henderson »

OK, no new information on the Chassis Number for the 10,000th Porsche. How about, then, the 500th :? Thanks
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#38 Post by John Lindstrom »

If you look closely you can see the women showing off their legs. It must have been a cold day, all they’re revealing are their ankles. The one in stockings had it goin on!

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