Porsche literature collectors thread
#31
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Pity indeed! I wish the gift shop had a web site for ordering. One would think that with Porsche being so very good at marketing that they would seize an opportunity like this. It's not like everyone can go to Germany all the time in order to buy some of the wonderful items that the gift shop has.
Sorry for the rant and enjoy the upcoming festivities.
Sorry for the rant and enjoy the upcoming festivities.
#32
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http://www.muenchen-tv.de/livestream.html
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#35
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To get back to Porsche books, hereīs another one that I like a lot. This book by Jerry Pantis is packed with great pictures of the 904, 906 & 910 in racing and seems to be quite rare. I found it through an online bookseller in France last year and can fully recommend it:
#37
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#38
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A nice print-on-demand picture book on the Rennsport Reunion IV can be found here:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2779328
Very nice photography and itīs great to finally have a book on this great event, especially as all the magazine articles were way too short and I wanted to see much more!
Only small criticism is that the pictures are sometimes printed in a slightly less than perfect quality, but otherwise the book is very nice to have and well recommended to anyone who couldnīt visit Rennsport Reunion and take lots of pictures himself (like me).
Ciao,
Lars
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2779328
Very nice photography and itīs great to finally have a book on this great event, especially as all the magazine articles were way too short and I wanted to see much more!
Only small criticism is that the pictures are sometimes printed in a slightly less than perfect quality, but otherwise the book is very nice to have and well recommended to anyone who couldnīt visit Rennsport Reunion and take lots of pictures himself (like me).
Ciao,
Lars
#39
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My favorite so far in the collection of small but great books issued by the Porsche Museum: "Porsche Exclusive". Full of interesting stories and lots of pics of the cars made by the "special wishes" department. A must-have and cheap too, at just 15 Euros!
#40
I'm the sales & marketing manager for Bentley Publishers. I've mostly been posting about our new 996 manual but it's also worth noting that we've just published the new Karl Ludvigsen book on the early years of the 356.
If anyone has any questions about Porsche - Origin of the Species, feel free to post them here and I can try and answer them!
If anyone has any questions about Porsche - Origin of the Species, feel free to post them here and I can try and answer them!
#41
Does it cover the Gmund cars and the difficulty in sourcing parts/materials? I have always found it interesting how much the cars changed from one to the other dependent on what they could get.
I'm sure it's an excellent book.
I'm sure it's an excellent book.
#42
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I'm the sales & marketing manager for Bentley Publishers. I've mostly been posting about our new 996 manual but it's also worth noting that we've just published the new Karl Ludvigsen book on the early years of the 356.
If anyone has any questions about Porsche - Origin of the Species, feel free to post them here and I can try and answer them!
If anyone has any questions about Porsche - Origin of the Species, feel free to post them here and I can try and answer them!
Itīs on my "to buy" list as well. It just got a very good review ("book of the month") in U.K. magazine "Classic & Sports Car".
Ciao,
Lars T.
#43
Very much so, in fact the early struggles that Porsche had in Gmund are a big part of the story, especially in Chapter 7: Miracle of Production.
#45
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Pity indeed! I wish the gift shop had a web site for ordering. One would think that with Porsche being so very good at marketing that they would seize an opportunity like this. It's not like everyone can go to Germany all the time in order to buy some of the wonderful items that the gift shop has.
Sorry for the rant and enjoy the upcoming festivities.
Sorry for the rant and enjoy the upcoming festivities.