Ferdinand Porsche

[365DaysofMotoring]

65 years ago today (30 January) Ferdinand Porsche, the legendary Austrian-German automotive engineer, died in Stuttgart, Germany aged 75. http://bit.ly/1OWnijp

[Experianced2]

I fell for the talk that Porsche and the german 'design' was somehow better.

The new Porsche 912 I bought in 1966 had a 4 cylinder engine with more torque than a lawnmower.

It had a 5 speed stick shift! The ball on the end of the shift handle wore through the steel thing that held it. I could not drive the junk for weeks. My late dad who was a tool & die maker made a new part and brazed it to the cars bracket and then I could drive it.

The engine failed. I had to wait months for a replacement.

[Experianced2]

While waiting for months for the replacement part that failed on my Porsche 912 I bought an old Chevrolet Impala. It was a 'gold' color 6 cyl auto sedan.

I wanted a car anyway as I was working on my new to me place in Vermont.

The big old chevy had a good trunk to put building materials and it was reliable.

Here is a picture of the pathetic porsche part that my late dad fixed. That dumb design by the krauts was so thin, weak and poorly lubricated that the ball on the end of the shift handle wore thru it. It popped out and could not pull the cables to shift weak weak part.

http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/w...rtin29/912.jpg