VRYALT3R3D

Hi everyone. By chance does anyone have any photos of Heimrath Porsche from Scarborough? I know they folded in the 90s.

Any information on the dealer would be appreciated.

Bacura

I bought my 1992 964 from Ludwig but I didn't take any pictures.

theiceman

yeah I used to buy some parts there time to time. Rumour has it the dealership was pulled from Heimrath so he had to change the name of the place.

funny story . I bought some rotors off the parts guy and was bringing them back .. Ludwig walks up and says why are you returning these ? you should be paying 20% restocking fee If you ordered the wrong ones !. parts guy pipes up and says , "no it was my mistake" , he looked at the microfiche and ordered the wrong ones.
I said to Ludwig, well since it was YOUR mistake do I get a 20% discount since I had to drive back from Cambridge because of your mistake ?
he just laughed turned and walked away ..

typical.

Bacura

Yep. His parts/service manager said his nickname was "nasty". Not a pleasant fellow. I was told,and this is rumour, that he would modify cars and put it through as warranty work. That is why Porsche ended his dealership. But that may just be urban legend. Way more choices today. With his attitude toward customers no way he would stay in business. Never enjoyed talking to him. He made you feel that he was doing you a favour just letting you in. He and Downtown were the only dealers in Toronto. You had to go to Pfaff in Newmarket or Performance Cars in St.Catherines for other options. Times have certainly changed.

Adamant1971

Not sure who it was but 2 or 3 years ago at the UCR Concourse an older guy was making negative comments about my 928 and then he said "you don't remember Heimrath Porsche do you, I ran it". I said no, but no wonder it's out of business and I walked away. Guy was a total *** hat. LOL My 87 came from Performance cars.

VRYALT3R3D

I have an article from 2001 about his dealership that discusses how in 1995 Porsche cancelled his franchise agreement. There was a gag order that prevented him, supposedly, from talking about it.

The reason I am interested is my neighbor is considering selling his 930, black on black, and the car originally came from there. It didn't run in years but I can get it for a sweet deal. No photos yet. I will post the article I have later.

gbuff

Funny, as I drive with him all the time at the EA track days @ Mosport--very nice fellow. Maybe age has mellowed him, I think he's like 84 y.o......but he still drives the crap out of that GT2

Gary

VRYALT3R3D

JimV8

steam_mill

VRYALT3R3D

I actually just come across photos of the dealership.

DDzPorsche

My Doctor told me he used to race against him back in the day

Stethoscope

What an epic photo. Cool find. The article is interesting...I'm sure age has blunted his edges...I can only imagine the breadth of his Porsche knowledge.

wildcat077

Back when he was racing in the Canadian 944 Turbo Cup series , there were rumors of some teams having a second DME hidden behind the dash, that they would somehow switch
on after tech inspection ... the Spenard team apparently was one of them ... wouldn't be surprised if old Ludwig did the same ... lol

I was a flagger in those days and it was a real blast to marshall their races at Tremblant !

Turbodan

I heard rumours that the dme was controlled by the mirror switch