Period magazine articles on pre-a

[Alan Hall]

I find a great source of information on early cars is period magazine stories and particularly the photos. I suggest this topic be a list of period articles.

I'll start with the following, in no particular order:

Mechanics Illustrated, July 1952: "MI Tests the German Porsche"

Road and Track, November 1952: "Porsche Coupe Road Test", "Porsche Story", "Salon: Sam Weill's Porsche 356-4", "Porsche...Technical", "Porsche...Racing"

Auto Sport Review, April 1953: "The Porsche - Pro and Con"

Auto Age, May 1954: "Calling all Porsches"

Auto Speed and Sport, January 1953: "Auto Trial - Porsche 1500"

Auto Speed and Sport, January 1952: "Auto Trial - Porsche 1500", "Montlhery Enduro"

Speed Age, May 1953: "Testing the Porsche"

Tom McCahill on Sports Cars, 1951: "Porsche"

Please add others, and as I run across others I will also add to the list.

Alan

[Alan Hall]

Additionally....

The Autocar, Dec. 12, 1952: "Porsche Modifications"

Autosport, Mar. 15, 1953: "The Phenomenal Porsche"

Autosport, Jun 5, 1953: "The Porsche 1500 Super"

Light Car, Sept. 1953: "The type 356 Porsche"

Autocar, Nov. 6, 1953: "The Porsche Type 356 Saloon"

[Martin Benade]

Are these available somewhere to view? I would like to see them.

[Hendrik Moulds]

Good idea Alan and thanks for the list.
Some of these have been republished:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Porsche-356-U ... Swr7ZW4ehp

or

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Porsche-356-/ ... SwpIdW7uUe

Otherwise you need to buy copies of the actual magazines.

[Hendrik Moulds]

There's also:

Autosport, 5 November 1954: "A T.T. Cup Winner"

and the Motor Show magazines from 1951 are interesting.

[James Davies]

Great thread Alan. I'll add a few more:


"Porsche 1,3 Liter" Das Auto + Motor und Sport Week 16, 1951

"Porsche 1500" Auto Speed and Sport, Jan 1952

"Top Secret: Porsche Racing Shop" Auto Speed and Sport, June 1952

"John Bolster Tests the Porsche 1500" Autosport, Jan 8, 1954

"Because It's a Porsche" by Tom Countryman, Motor Trend, July 1954

"Test: Porsche Typs", ADAC Motorwelt, Week 11, 1954

"Road Testing the Porsche Super", Road & Track, Sep 1954

"Porsche Speedster on Trial", Sports Illustrated, Oct 18, 1954

"Handmade Handy Car", Speed Age, Nov 1954

"Class + Punch = Porsche", Cars Today, Melbourne, Sep 1955

"SCI Tests the Porsche Speedster 1600", Sports Cars Illustrated, June 1956

"More Push for the Porsche", Sports Cars Illustrated, ? 1956


I have a bunch of these in PDF format if anyone is interested.

[James Davies]

Btw, the Mechanix Illustrated article is here.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mi-tests ... n-porsche/

[Alan Hall]

It would be nice to get links to digital versions of these articles, but I don't know what the copyright situation would be. I could scan any of the ones I have, if we can figure a place to host them.

[Alan Hall]

James,
Your mention of the4 October 18, 1954 Sports Illustrated article reminded me that I had posted a scan of that article here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24672&hilit=sports+ ... ed#p110740
Hmm, not really sure how to post links to earlier topics, hope that works.

[James Davies]

Thanks Alan! Link worked.

I have most of the articles in this thread scanned into PDFs. I'm sure most are still under copyright, so I won't be putting any links to them here. But I am happy to share what I have.

[Spencer Harris]

"Road Testing the Porsche Super", Road & Track, September 1954
"Road testing a production class winner...the Porsche Speedster", Road & Track, May 1955 (Includes the Hoffman double page ad: 'Years ahead in engineering - miles ahead on the road' with a photo of the Professor, the $2995 Speedster, a Continental Coupe and a Continental Cab - neither with their Continental badge.)
"A Tale of Two Continentals; Porsche Coupe vs. Speedster" Road & Track, January 1956 (Speedster was still $2995 and the coupe was $3590 - Speedster won the 1/4 mile drag 19.2 seconds to 19.8 seconds.)

[Brad Ripley]

I compiled the "Pre-A Magazine Article List" into an Excel file with the addition of a few articles from my personal collection.

[Alan Hall]

Another one I have run across:

Auto Sport Review, January 1952: "The German Automotive Jewel Sets the Pace"

This article has some photos of the 1951 Porsche 356 SL Gmund coupe from Lemans that is being discussed in the main discussion section. Interesting to compare the photos with the restored car.

[Brad Ripley]

Up-dated list attachment.

[Hendrik Moulds]

There's also:

"The New Porsche Sports Car" from The Motor, July 21, 1948.
"...And Germany Casts A Shadow" from Picture Post, October 20, 1951.

The second article really gives a flavour of the mood of some towards Germany in the UK at the time.