914 history

[Ed Kellock]

Given the digression of this discussion to ridiculously expensive
Porsche Design lifestyle items, no one should have any trouble
understanding the existence of the Cayenne.

Ed

On 11/30/06, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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