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Article #140: With a Porsche Classic, You Can Be Sure that People Will Turn Their Heads

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For sports car enthusiasts all over the beginning no more than 500 were expected
world, and in particular for Porsche fans to sell.
all over the world the numbers 356 hold a This was a happy mistake on the part of
special meaning. The reason for this lies the "father" of the Porsche classic car,
in the chronicles of history, and a date Ferry Porsche, because by March of 1954
that would forever live on in the memory ten times the initial estimated amount of
of all Porsche fans. The year was 1948 356 Porsche classic cars had been sold.
and the date was the 8th of June. This The discontinuation of the 365 line
was the birth year of the Porsche classic however was not the end of the Porsche
Type 356 sports car. name or the car. A new concept Porsche
It weighed in at a modest 650kg, had a classic was in the makings and by 1963 -
1.1 liter capacity center engine and had two years before the 356 was discontinued
an immodest (at the time) 40HP under its - the Porsche classic 911 had become a
hood. Difficult to even find one of these reality.
original Porsche classic cars, if you do This Porsche classic was the foundation
across them you will not be surprised to for many a sports car to come and indeed
learn that they are considered priceless. still lives on to this day. On June 15th
With all good reason of course. of 1996, Porsche reached another
Besides being the first ever Porsche milestone and the one millionth Porsche
classic cars to come into existence there was delivered from the assembly line.
were only a total of 50 made and they And when all is said and done, the
were all without exception hand built, Porsche classic still lives on in the
and that's saying a lot. These classic Porsche design and logo, and if
penultimate Porsche classic cars were the you own a Porsche classic, you can be
harbingers of the 356 that we can still sure that people will turn their heads to
see today. look you. Even in this day and age of
Unfortunately for all concerned the 356 sports supercars a classic lives on.
Porsche classic car line was discontinued Muna wa Wanjiru is a web administrator
after 17 years in April of 1965. To that and has been researching and reporting on
date just over 81,000 356 Porsche classic internet marketing for years.
cars had left the assembly line. In the






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