914 history

[Mark J. Besso]

PD was -at one time- run by one of Ferry's sons, not brother.  For what it's
worth, my father wore PD prescription glasses for 20+ years until the frames
could no longer have lens' ground to fit them or they wore out. (Can't
remember which)

~Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: LL - NY
Subject: Re: 914 history

Porsche design is run by Ferry Porsche's brother, with some kind of
agreement to connect the two. And FWIW, as I recall (I wear prescription,
so I never had a pair of the Porsche Design Sunglasses, and wouldn't
pay for any of their other stuff) the stuff was actually pretty nice,
although
I'm not sure if it was worth the price they asked. Never checked it out.

LL - NY

On 11/29/06, TWFAUST at aol.com <TWFAUST at aol.com> wrote:
>
> " Those were the days when porsche was run by engineers.  They  took
> > on  all
> > > sorts of technical projects for other  companies.  Now they are run
> > > by  bean
> > >  counters and marketing a#$holes.  SUVs and cupholders are
> >  more  important."
>
> "run by engineers" Oh sure, and am I the only one who remembers "Porsche
> Design" sunglasses?
>
> "marketing a#$holes"? Nothing new there! It is too bad that Dr. Porsche
> never lived to see the "Porsche Family Crest". That was invented by their
> U.S.
> distributor. Max Hoffman was it? The same guy who put the tool kits in the
> trunks of BMW's, he thought that would impress Americans too. That was
> back in
> the 50's and 60's.
>
> I had one of those "hand built", "signed engine" 356's when it was
> new.  When
> I can't sleep, I count the number of times I replaced the window crank
> mechanism.
>
> Tom Faust
>
>
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