Marlon Targa 86

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Ed Hughes

No likey-the grill screws up the front end. Too bad they can't really go retro and put an air-cooled engine in.

mck911

what is that thing?

Brett San Diego

Click the "back to post" button for more info. It's a car that pre-dates #1.

Brett

mck911

Gotcha...interesting, but ugly.

whalebird

I am not sure that there is a car that predates #1. Everything from Gmund was pretty well documented and that thing has strong 356 qualities. There were different coachduilders that modified those cars and I would say thats not from Porsche. I could be wrong but I would want to see some documentation. # 1 was a mid engine alloy bodied car using off-the-shelf VW running gear.

ked

here's some useful discussion w/ further links...
http://356registry.com/forum/viewtop...441b0bd031251d
in its earliest days, Porsche needed carrosserie to build their design. Waibel, on its own, simply built a "356-like" body on a VW chassis. not what I'd call a 356 prototype, but then, I'm not trying to make $$$ on the deal.

whalebird

The registry's discussion is interesting, but I tend to agree with the deeper posts in that thread. However there is a bit of speculation on their part as well as mine. Whos to know. Billing it as a Porsche proper is a bit of a stretch, and accepting it for what is known about the car is possibly more valuable then trying to push it into the Porsche idiom. So many in this forum may have a disintrest in the early cars, but the early years and the cars were amazing beyond the hardware in that they embody the culture and mindset of postwar europe. They are each a cultural experiance. Just look at the wooden "bucks" used to shape the cars listed in the blog linked in frm the above ^^post. It says a lot about the cars we love today.