914 history

[LL - NY]

Thanks for the correction.

Bah, it's all in the family. And I always wondered what happened if old
frames kept surviving. Now I know. That reminds me, I "won" a pair of
Serenghetti sunglasses long ago, of course not prescription. Wonder if
they're worth anything ;-).

LL - NY

On 11/30/06, Mark J. Besso <mbspeed at maxboostracing.com> wrote:
>
> 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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