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.
April's cover story is an account of PCA's Treffen to Europe,
reported by Cam Warren and Su Kemper. Here are more images, shot
by Su Kemper, of the trip that included Porsche in Zuffenhausen,
Weissach, and Leipzig, then ventured in Austria with visits to
the iconic Porsche landmarks at Zell am See and Gmünd.
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Zuffenhausen landmark:
Porsche Werk II.
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Towns along the Mosel River have beckoned tourists
to this serene setting for centuries.
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Le Mans prototypes on display at Porsche Leipzig
include the 911 GT1 raced by the factory at Le Mans
in 1997 and later sold to Champion Racing, the Dauer
Racing 962 which scored an upset victory at Le Mans
in 1994, and the Jules Porsche 936 that claimed
the famed 24-hour race in 1981 with Jacky Ickx and
Derek Bell.
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The Alte Burg broods over the town
of Gmünd in Austria, where the first Porsche sports
cars were built in 1948.
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Built in 1935, the Grossglockner Road leads to the
summit of the Edelweisspitze as well as the terrace
of the Franz-Josephs-Höhe and its view of the highest
point of the Austrian Alps. It was an early testing
venue for Dr. Porsche.
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Cam Warren and Su Kemper were the lucky PCAers who
picked up a new car on Treffen
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The Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen is small, but
the cars are spectacular. In the foreground is the
917/20 "Truffeljäger;" the red and white 917K in the
rear represents Porsches first overall win at Le Mans.
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An array of 356s in the Pfeifhofer Museum which
includes not only beautiful old Porsches, but the
wooden body bucks on which the first 356s and the
Cisitalia Grand Prix car were made.
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Cam Warren and Su Kemper at the Edelweisspitze
summit. You can read about their Treffen trip in
the April issue of Panorama.
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Treffeners gather outside Helmut Pfeifhofer's Porsche
Museum in Gmünd. Note the lower doorway arch.
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The Daimler-Benz Automobile Museum in Unterturkheim,
larger and more elaborate than the Porsche Museum,
contains several of Professor Porsche's designs.
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The Porta Nigra gateway in Trier is said to be the
finest Roman artifact in Germany.
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Wining and dining in Stuttgart--and a brand new
Porsche silk scarf.
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Check out the April Panorama for the full account of PCA's
European adventure, read the story of what happens when
an F-16 pilot and a Porsche racer swap seats, catch the
Panorama Profile on Joe Buzzetta and a Firsthand File on
the 928 GTS. All that plus plenty of Technical Q & A and
Allan Caldwell's discussion of oxygen sensors.
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