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
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In December 1955, the first issue of Panorama
appeared, basically a newsletter of 12 pages. The cover
photo is credited to the Washington Post.
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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
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Count Wolfgang von Trips takes the "new and different"
Formula II prototype out for testing. Panorama logo
ran sideways in 1959.
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A reproduction of the Aspen Times on the August 1960
cover reports on the Aspen Porsche Parade.
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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.
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A momentous announcement on the cover of the October
1963 Panorama signals the arrival of the 911, then
known as the 901.
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The Porsche factory entries at Sebring: two Le Mans
Carreras and the eight-cylinder prototype known as
Grossmutter grace the May 1964 cover.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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