{"id":22488,"date":"2011-09-07T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T11:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22488"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:54:08","slug":"porsche-factory-c1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/porsche-factory-c1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Factory c1972"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s no secret that we’re ambivalent about the 911. Until we drove a couple, we were a little sneery ourselves. You just see so many of the things that contempt is bound to arise through so much familiarity.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, it is of course the ultimate, usable supercar. Most people stumbling upon this blog will have at one point or another fanstasised about being a 911 owner.<\/p>\n

They are incredible cars and the formula has been honed to a fine edge at Stuttgart all the way from 1963. And aficionados insist that each Evolution of the rear engined wunderkind is simply better than the previous.<\/p>\n

In their stripped down GT and RS guises the 911 is a pure race-bred monsters. The Turbos have retained their hooligan chic amid the bug eyed ubiquity and even bog-standard spec-levels of the contemporary Carrera can be tweaked easily to create a unique, reliable, usable daily drive of style, speed and panache.<\/p>\n

On the other, of course, the Porsche 911 is an over-refined evolution of the Beetle format, the impulse buy of the bonus jockey and mainstay of high-earning yummie mummies in the Waitrose carpark.<\/p>\n

It’s testament to the brilliant longevity of the idea <\/em>that is the 911 that each part of this broad spectrum holds more than a grain of truth.<\/p>\n

We when we stumbled upon this set of amateur snaps from a factory tour some time, we reckon, in the early seventies, you realise that there was a raw artisan element to Porsche’s of that early period that laid the foundations of the brand and facilitated all those technical evolutions.<\/p>\n

Nostalgia again – for a time we barely knew. We’d like a 1972 RS Coup\u00e9. In orange with blue rims. Please.<\/p>\n

Photos via Cinelli Guy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t