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January 2005

Each month, Panorama magazine brings you the best from the world
of Porsche. Races, vintage car shows, technical articles, we cover it all!

At Panorama, we never have room for all the pictures we'd like to
share with our readers. Here are some photos that just wouldn't fit
into the magazine this month.

This month we begin the celebration of PCA and Panorama's 50th anniversary year with Lucy Communale's chilling diary of a Treffen trip into the heart of the Soviet Union, a retrospective story from the December 1966 issue. That put us in mind of the wide variety of cover treatments Panorama underwent before it became the familiar magazine you know today. For this month's gallery, we present covers from Panorama's first ten years.

We refer you to the magazine for even more articles. How do you get your copy? Join PCA, Porsche Panorama is a prime benefit of membership!

In December 1955, the first issue of Panorama appeared, basically a newsletter of 12 pages. The cover photo is credited to the Washington Post.












Cheesecake on the cover of Panorama? That's the way it was in July of 1958 when Pat Gould was named Miss Denny Hill of 1958

 








Count Wolfgang von Trips takes the "new and different" Formula II prototype out for testing. Panorama logo ran sideways in 1959.

 






A reproduction of the Aspen Times on the August 1960 cover reports on the Aspen Porsche Parade.

 

Yet another new logo style for Panorama covers and a report on the sixth Porsche Parade at Jug End in the Berkshires for the July 1961 issue.

A momentous announcement on the cover of the October 1963 Panorama signals the arrival of the 911, then known as the 901.

The Porsche factory entries at Sebring: two Le Mans Carreras and the eight-cylinder prototype known as Grossmutter grace the May 1964 cover.

Artist Hank Godfredson, who today remains an active member of PCA, contributed the winter ski scene for the cover art of the January 1965 issue.


 

Lucy's description of the journey of 13 Porsches from Stuttgart to Moscow appeared in the December 1966 issue, a two-color, 32-page magazine.






Check out the January issue for Lucy's Russian Diary; a salon feature on Moscow Red, a 911 that made the Kremlin trip; a report on a three day tour through Colorado; the first look at Porsche's new 997 Carrera cabriolets and all the scoop on PCA's 50th anniversary programs.