Reaching into the My Car Quest Wayback Machine I came up with this interesting story from February 2017. I hope you all enjoy it again, or for the first time Mike Gulett, Editor. by Wallace Wyss - He’s gone now, but I have the … [Read more...]
Our Resident Historian Reveals An Obsession With Porsche “Turtle “ Cars
April 9, 2017 By 3 Comments
by Richard Bartholomew - "I suspect Ferdinand Porsche, as a boy in the 1800s, had a pet turtle," says Wallace Wyss, writer, who is presently hip-deep in research for the reprinting of the revised Porsche 356 Photo Album book. “The first … [Read more...]
The Porsche 356 Speedster Carrera
January 4, 2017 By 1 Comment
The rarest of the rare by Wallace Wyss - Already the Porsche Speedster, with only a little over 4,000 made from ’55 through ’58, is a hot collectable. But this article is about the crème-de-le-crème Speedster, the Porsche 356 Speedster … [Read more...]
The Speedster Sale That Shook The Collector Car World
December 6, 2016 By 5 Comments
by Wallace Wyss and David Lawrence Silver - When word filtered out that a 1957 356A Porsche Speedster had sold for $660,000 at auction, it was assumed by many that, ho hum, that had to be one of the rare 4-cam Carrera Speedsters. … [Read more...]
The Immortal Porsche Speedster
November 11, 2016 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - In the beginning, there was the Porsche family, over there in Germany, and there was Maximillian Hoffman, an immigrant who had come to America before the war, who was in New York trying to tell them what to make. Now even … [Read more...]
The Porsche America Roadster: Think Of It As The Predecessor To The Speedster
October 25, 2016 By Leave a Comment
by Wallace Wyss - When Porsche first began to import cars to America, they had a very knowledgeable Austrian living in America, Max Hoffman, who tried to direct them to American’s taste and needs. For instance Hoffman imported a Glockner … [Read more...]
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