Nick

That certainly isn't the case today. Why not put the ignition back where it belongs? I know; it has become a Porsche trademark.

As for me, I have enough problems spelling Porsche. Also, the pronunciation of Porsche is a constant irritant.

Mike in CA

I guess the point was that regardless of material it took less of it to wire the ignition circuit from the left side. Porsche started out as a tiny company making a handful of cars. I suppose those kind of economies were significant in the early days, and then it became a tradition. Anyway, this was the story from the guide at the Porsche Museum and I would like to think he knows what he's talking about!

Z356

Zulu - And here I thought you were an electrical engineer all along! I am very disappointed.

Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel

sunnyr

Nice, I have had numerous Porsche sales people give me the Le Mans spin on the ignition placement, can't wait for the next one...

Thanks Mike.

promocop

..."When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. ...

Fadi1

https://m.facebook.com/CallasRennsport/posts/592340504129038
That's the google answer I found. Fun. Do this more often

Mike in CA

Well, that posting is close, but not exact. Porsche's "Weissach" facility actually is partly within the limits of the village Weissach and partly within the limits of the adjacent village Flacht. The part in Flacht is where the race cars are built, but the name Flacht usually doesn't get mentioned, unless it shows up in that logo.

Zulu Alpha

I work in Polymer trading my friend. I leave the Copper & Aluminum trading to the more skilled individuals within the company

Jimmy-D

^ You in the polyolefin business??

Guest89

Someone print up some "Made in Flacht" stickers and make a killing.

Zulu Alpha

PM sent Jimmy

Zulu Alpha

That would be a cool sticker to have

mqandil

This is some awesome trivia Mike. Really interesting. I really wish we have this type of pride here in America, where towns residents work at their local manufacturing companies all of their lives along with their kids and grand kids, building quality innovative products and taking pride of building something special and taking pride while competing with the next village.
I guess we had some of that here back in the old days and especially in the Midwest, but all is gone now where corporate America has decided this honor should go the Chinese villages, but with one big difference.... There is no pride or honor unfortunately, not for the Chinese villages and certainly not for us or our kids or our grand kids! Really sad. Mark

Tacet-Conundrum

I dunno about the Mundane explanation as for the location of the the ignition!

What are we looking at 12 - 18 inches of double copper wires at what ever gauge is needed to get the circuit to work properply, sorry don't wan't fancy a guess besides AWG is different than what is used in Europe. I just can't imagine Senior Porsche stress over the T account for copper wiring and saying "we really need to watch our manufacturing consumable"! Though I can understand copper being an expensive post war item in the late 40's and early 50's in Europe"

After writing all that it makes more sense as for the mundane explanation and deficiencies of what would have been strategic materials during the war.

silverrules

Not sure what the volume of these cars were back then but in High Volume MFG (HVM) every penny counts. It really does.