928 in the Car of the Century Contest - Hampton Roads Auto Show, VA
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That's some stiff competition!
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Thanks for the support.
At the VIP kickoff party this evening.... open bar, heavy hors d'oeurvres on the house, no crowds and pretty girls handing out roses to the ladies. Now that's the way to see a car show. Oh, and a silent auction for charity, too.
Saw a few local news anchors and a Virginia state delegate in attendance, otherwise just a bunch of car salesmen All very nice folks, though.
Notable other attendees: a Merc SLS, beautiful A7, A8L and R8 Audis, a nice 991 GTS (albeit a ragtop), and the Caddy CTS-V was cool in metallic black... that's about it. Thought there might be a VW Golf R there (I'm a VW fan), but no dice.
Forgot the camera, so pardon the crappy resolution:
At the VIP kickoff party this evening.... open bar, heavy hors d'oeurvres on the house, no crowds and pretty girls handing out roses to the ladies. Now that's the way to see a car show. Oh, and a silent auction for charity, too.
Saw a few local news anchors and a Virginia state delegate in attendance, otherwise just a bunch of car salesmen All very nice folks, though.
Notable other attendees: a Merc SLS, beautiful A7, A8L and R8 Audis, a nice 991 GTS (albeit a ragtop), and the Caddy CTS-V was cool in metallic black... that's about it. Thought there might be a VW Golf R there (I'm a VW fan), but no dice.
Forgot the camera, so pardon the crappy resolution:
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The Model T and Henry Ford created the automobile industry and the auto culture as we know it today. Made cars available and affordable thru mass production and low prices. No other car comes close to being so influential. For that alone it is the car of the Century, the other listed are just foot notes, and the Delorean is simply absurd. Very nice 928 GT but still did little to advance or influence design of the automobile.
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The Model T and Henry Ford created the automobile industry and the auto culture as we know it today. Made cars available and affordable thru mass production and low prices. No other car comes close to being so influential. For that alone it is the car of the Century, the other listed are just foot notes, and the Delorean is simply absurd. Very nice 928 GT but still did little to advance or influence design of the automobile.
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The Model T and Henry Ford created the automobile industry and the auto culture as we know it today. Made cars available and affordable thru mass production and low prices. No other car comes close to being so influential. For that alone it is the car of the Century, the other listed are just foot notes, and the Delorean is simply absurd. Very nice 928 GT but still did little to advance or influence design of the automobile.
Agree with you on the Delorean. It's certainly an iconic vehicle, but from a practical standpoint as a performance car it leaves a tremendous amount to be desired.
Oh, and yes the Model T should win by default.
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The contest has little to do with history and everything to do with popularity and which cars folks identify with.
I'm relying on the 70s/80s teenagers who saw Risky Business, Scarface, lusted after the 928 and rooted for the black "bad guy" 928S that chased Magnum PI in a 1982 episode.
Recognition of history is nice, but the winner gets $1500....
I'm relying on the 70s/80s teenagers who saw Risky Business, Scarface, lusted after the 928 and rooted for the black "bad guy" 928S that chased Magnum PI in a 1982 episode.
Recognition of history is nice, but the winner gets $1500....
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The majority of voters aren't true car enthusiasts, rather casual spectators with no clue about the history of any of the cars additional to the brief descriptions provided. For them, it's all about which car is the most striking. When I was there today, I saw a small crowd infront of your 928...hopefully they voted for it. It looks awesome!
The only car with more people standing infront of it (the MG), appeared to have a small ant infestation problem...
The only car with more people standing infront of it (the MG), appeared to have a small ant infestation problem...
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Harlely Earl created fifties iconic designs with GM, still sought after today with huge interest.
Tony Lapine was mentored under Earl's leadership, then was asked by Porsche to create a modern design, which exhibited longevity and timelessness.
He created a design which lept off the pages of the 70's, during that same time of de-tuned Mustangs and Firebirds.
Do you understand this impact this car had on the public? The impact on Porsche was huge as well, elevating them as a serious sports car market player, outside of club race circuits. Sure they had the 911RSR, but this was something completely different, to everybody.
Couple that with the fledgling, but well primed German Weissach engineers, created a synthesis which elevated this car 20 years beyond what anyone else was doing with productions autos at the time.
Step back in time and think back a ways.... 1973. Step back a decade prior and look at where the automobile were.
The 928 was a huge step forward! I won't get into the details. Read project 928. Read Karl Ludgivsen's Excellence was Expected.
Please don't get me wrong, but when I read what you wrote, it's clear to me you just don't get it.
Excerpt from Excellent was Expected, published 1977
"What's it like?"
The first journalist, who posed the question, expected a factual
answer from the second journalist, who had just returned from a
drive of several hours through southern France in a new Porsche
928. Instead, he heard a flat statement that he could not believe:
"It makes all other Porsches old-fashioned"
All other Porsches? How could that be? thought the first
journalist, who loved the lusty 911's and the velvet-gloved
mailed fist that was the Turbo. He had not driven the 928,
but he could hardly imagine that is might outclass the 911 in its
finest form. Later, he too drove the 928, and he too was asked,
"What is it like?"
He heard himself give an oblique answer:
It's as if all other Porsches have been just practice exercises
for the men who designed this car"
Such were the impressions the 928 made on some of the first
non-Porsche people to drive it at the end of February 1977. Fine
though the 911 was and still would be, the 928 clearly
represented a doorway through which Porsche would drive into a
new era. The car possessed an astonishing clarity of conception
and execution, from its superb engine to its ingenious suspension.
Invested in the 928 were all of Porsche's experiences with the road
and racing cars the company had designed and built since it was
established in 1930. And the Porsche engineers were able to put
that experience to work in the 928 for one surprising reason: the
928 was the first production car in Porsche's history that the
company had been able to design completely from scratch.
The first journalist, who posed the question, expected a factual
answer from the second journalist, who had just returned from a
drive of several hours through southern France in a new Porsche
928. Instead, he heard a flat statement that he could not believe:
"It makes all other Porsches old-fashioned"
All other Porsches? How could that be? thought the first
journalist, who loved the lusty 911's and the velvet-gloved
mailed fist that was the Turbo. He had not driven the 928,
but he could hardly imagine that is might outclass the 911 in its
finest form. Later, he too drove the 928, and he too was asked,
"What is it like?"
He heard himself give an oblique answer:
It's as if all other Porsches have been just practice exercises
for the men who designed this car"
Such were the impressions the 928 made on some of the first
non-Porsche people to drive it at the end of February 1977. Fine
though the 911 was and still would be, the 928 clearly
represented a doorway through which Porsche would drive into a
new era. The car possessed an astonishing clarity of conception
and execution, from its superb engine to its ingenious suspension.
Invested in the 928 were all of Porsche's experiences with the road
and racing cars the company had designed and built since it was
established in 1930. And the Porsche engineers were able to put
that experience to work in the 928 for one surprising reason: the
928 was the first production car in Porsche's history that the
company had been able to design completely from scratch.
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The contest has little to do with history and everything to do with popularity and which cars folks identify with.
I'm relying on the 70s/80s teenagers who saw Risky Business, Scarface, lusted after the 928 and rooted for the black "bad guy" 928S that chased Magnum PI in a 1982 episode.
Recognition of history is nice, but the winner gets $1500....
I'm relying on the 70s/80s teenagers who saw Risky Business, Scarface, lusted after the 928 and rooted for the black "bad guy" 928S that chased Magnum PI in a 1982 episode.
Recognition of history is nice, but the winner gets $1500....
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The majority of voters aren't true car enthusiasts, rather casual spectators with no clue about the history of any of the cars additional to the brief descriptions provided. For them, it's all about which car is the most striking. When I was there today, I saw a small crowd infront of your 928...hopefully they voted for it. It looks awesome!
The only car with more people standing infront of it appeared to have a small ant infestation problem...
The only car with more people standing infront of it appeared to have a small ant infestation problem...
I vote for the Model T!
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However, if I had a DMC12, I'd travel back in time and suggest John Delorean to watch out for the 'big dogs' and tax men.
But then by doing so, may cause harm to myself, which erases me from pictures, eliminating me from my present future.
That is, if you subscribe to the whole paradoxal sort of thing.
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The contest has little to do with history and everything to do with popularity and which cars folks identify with.
I'm relying on the 70s/80s teenagers who saw Risky Business, Scarface, lusted after the 928 and rooted for the black "bad guy" 928S that chased Magnum PI in a 1982 episode.
Recognition of history is nice, but the winner gets $1500....
I'm relying on the 70s/80s teenagers who saw Risky Business, Scarface, lusted after the 928 and rooted for the black "bad guy" 928S that chased Magnum PI in a 1982 episode.
Recognition of history is nice, but the winner gets $1500....
I have seen this, after following George on a long road trip, folks really look at his car, mine, well not so much.
And this is not to say my car is not nice, or is ugly, but George's car is just a color that makes folks love it, I know I sure do.