Happy 50th birthday 911

[MineFewer]

Any one have a story about a 911 to share, or a pic of your 911?

 

How the 911 was saved from extinction over 30 years ago!  http://www.roadandtrack.com/features/magazine/features-magazine-features-porsche-911-memories-the-suit

 

 

 

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 A lovely car to drive Drove in Germany a Porsche 911 Carrera S4 built 2005 Was great fun!

[=IRFC=Jorri]

Wow that guy is full of himself

 

Beautiful car, though.

Edited May 31, 2013 by hq_Jorri

[MineFewer]

Heh "It's hard to be humble, when you're great in every way!"

 

Anyway, mine's buried in this mob, silver C2 far right.  Going on 8 years and it's still runs as strong as the 1st day I drove it.

 

 

 

 

[MineFewer]

Porsche 901 was the name originally intended for the Porsche 911. By the early 1960s, Porsche project design numbers had reached into the 800s. For instance, Porsche's 1962 F1 model was called Porsche 804.

At the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (Frankfurt Motor Show) in Frankfurt in September 1963, Porsche presented its successor to the Porsche 356 as the Porsche 901. It took several more months until the cars was sold to customers. In late 1964, after having sold about 82 cars, the Porsche 901 was presented at the Paris Auto Salon. There, French car maker Peugeot objected to Porsche using any three digit number where the middle number was 0, owning the naming rights and having already sold many models with that scheme.

So, Porsche simply replaced the middle 0 with a 1, and called the car Porsche 911.

 

http://www.netcarshow.com/porsche/1963-901/

[MineFewer]

Meet the world-dominating GT class 911 team.

#92 First in GTE-Pro

#91 Second in GTE-Pro

 

Nice way to mark 50 years