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July 2008

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.

In the July issue we celebrate 60 years of Porsche cars with a feature called “The Road to Gmünd,” a trip through time back to Zell am See and Gmünd, Austria, where the first Porsche was born on June 8, 1948.  For this month’s Gallery, we offer Leonard Turner’s photo-documentation of the journey. 

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On the Gross Glockner hochalpenstrasse five vintage cars from the Porsche Museum explore the mountain road that was a natural test track for Porsche in its earliest days.

 

Journalists could choose from a 1958 356A Speedster, 1954 bent windshield coupe, 1963  356B coupe, 1962 356B Carrera 2 cabriolet, and a 1988 911 Speedster.

On display at the Gaisberg hillclimb course was the most famous Spyder of all, the W-RS “Grossmutter (foreground).  Behind the W-RS is the RS-60 that scored Porsche’s first major overall victory—at Sebring in 1960.

Legendary Porsche race engineer Peter Falk comes down the mountain in the 1964 911 coupe that he and Herbert Linge drove to a class win at Monte Carlo in 1965.

Herbert Linge at the wheel of the Carrera Abarth coupe with which he won his class at the 1962 Targa Florio.  Linge has just celebrated his 80th birthday.

Checkpoint in the Alps:  Klaus Bischof, Porsche’s museum boss of many years, gives instructions to the team in the Carrera 2 cabriolet.

In Zell am See, Austria, a Gmünd coupe sits outside the Schüttgut, the home of the Porsche family for three generations.

The grandeur of the Austrian Alps dwarfs the 1958 1600S 356A Speedster on the Gross Glockner high alpine road.
935 Interior

Porsches arrive at Helmut Pfeifhofer’s Porsche Automuseum in the village of Gmünd, Austria.
Blitzen Benz

Pfeifhofer was a boy when the first Porsches were built in his home town and the love affair has endured to this day.
935 Interior

Inside the Pfortnerhaus at Gmünd, a bulletin board documents the Porsche Club of America’s 1988 donation to the restoration of the site where the Porsche brand was born.
Blitzen Benz

All that remains of the sawmill complex where the first Porsches were built is this little building known as the Pfortnerhaus.

 

Check out the July Issue for the full story of the journey to Gmünd, read the first details on the 2009 911 Carrera, and enjoy an excerpt from Karl Ludvigsen’s new book, Ferdinand Porsche: Genesis of Genius.  You will also find an update on the construction of Porsche’s new museum in Zuffenhausen, along with Jim Schrager’s article on how to buy a 911SC, today’s ultimate Porsche “hobby” car.  Along with all our usual columns, you’ll find the story of three Florida regions and their Sunrise to Sunset Rally.  All great reading in the July issue of Panorama.