My dear friend Freddy Rabbat is too humble to brag about his own car but I have to post these great pictures I just "stole" from his web site www.356carrera.net , great site by the way, as it's nice to see how many great cars you can find in Brazil.

Pictures were taken at Interlagos - Sao Paulo...if you follow Formula 1, you are familiar with the Interlagos racetrack...

Hey Freddy...I'm posting the pictures without your authorization, please do not sue me! ;- )

 

Actually Freddy offered the hi-res shots already (from 356-talk post) and I printed some of those on a plotter at work , 4 feet long ! Great posters for my office ;-) Awesome shots of Interlagos for the F1 and 356 fans !

 

Thanks Pedro! I love pics like these. Don't get much better than a race track full of 356s.......even when they're not racing and just cruisin' around.

Robert

 

Wow! Those pictures are incredibly cool, very nice looking track as well - thanks for sharing!

 

Hey Pedro! It is nice to see these pictures here!! Thanks! I am not suing you this time

Also thanks for the compliments on the www.356carrera.net website!
It is not an easy job to get the owners to show their cars there… anyway we managed to display more than 40 from the 160 ever produced.

Interestingly the Carrera Cabriolets were produced in very small numbers over 9 years (1955 – 1964); the Carrera Speedsters for example were produced in similar total quantities but more cars per year than the Cabs - 160 cars too, all of them produced in not more than 4 years (1955 – 1959)…

The 4-cam cars are nice toys to drive, capable to travel long distances at a cruising speed of 100/110mph, and easy to get them up to 130+mph… but not so easy to control them at that speed level… they do not like cross winds as modern cars do… anyway it is funny to see modern car owners faces when you pass them, observers comments are: - How can a little car like that, running on razorblade tires, be so fast!! When they see them in action they realize that Porsche was born a long time ago as a very capable pure breed driving machine!

Some weeks ago I was driving mine (it is restored as it left the factory by May 1959) besides a nice and stock 1971 911S 2.2 from a good friend of mine, and he got really amazed when we left the toll boot together and the little 4-cam left him behind up to legal speeds…

BTW Robert, you are right… we were cruising at the Interlagos racetrack… the leading cars were 996GT3-Cup and RS (being introduced for the 2005 GT3 Cup season in Brazil),
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and they were not pampering these cars because of us… we had to follow them and keep the newer cars behind… not an easy task for most of the cars…

We had great fun that day!!!

I have to confess I was reaching (with my 356) 180-190kph at the end of the long straight and then braking hard (60mm GT vented drums) to do the descending long S accelerating again…

This is why I avoid going there with any special car… you promise yourself not to do any silly thing… but when the adrenaline gets you… you forget about everything else…

Cheers,

Freddy

 

"Some weeks ago I was driving mine (it is restored as it left the factory by May 1959) besides a nice and stock 1971 911S 2.2 from a good friend of mine, and he got really amazed when we left the toll boot together and the little 4-cam left him behind up to legal speeds…"



"legal speeds" on Brazilian roads, meaning how much you are willing to spend in order to bribe law enforcement! ;- )