ANNIVERSARY BOOKS

 
TITLE         Celebration (50 years Great Britain)

   ENGLISH

AUTHOR   COMPILATION

ISBN 10     no ISBN 10

ISBN 13     no ISBN 13

PRICE           $75.00  


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TITLE PORSCHE IN AUSTRALIA -- THE FIRST 50 YEARS  ENGLISH AUTHOR COMPILATION ISBN 10 0958043116 (soft) ISBN 10 0958043108 (hard) ISBN 13 NO ISBN 13 PRICE $50.00 soft PRICE $125.00 hard bound OUT OF PRINT -- AVAILABLE @ BLOCKS BOOKS MY REVIEWS IN THE 356 REGISTRY: First came the Porsche 50-year anniversary book Moments. Now come the 50 anniversary books of the major importers. New this year are Porsche und die Schweiz 50 Jahre Porsche-Import durch die AMAG 195-2001 from the Swiss importer AMAG and Porsche in Australia -- The First 50 Years from the Australian importer Hamilton. Unlike the embarrassing lack of mention of the 356 in Moments, about half of each of these two books devotes itself to the 356. The Hamilton book is middle sized (11 inches square, 95 pages) and primarily photographs. Whether for convenience sake of with a nod to nostalgia, the old Porsche trick of partially hand tinted black and white photographs is employed. In a historical book this works fabulously well. People look at the pages with enjoyment even beyond that of never seen vintage photographs, suddenly: Those are black and white photographs! The artistic values work extraordinarily well with black & whites, black & whites as sepia tones, black and whites entirely colored, black & whites with one or two background cars colored and original color photographs. About 40 pages are devoted to the 356 period. The story starts in the summer of 1951, when Norman Hamilton encountered a 356 on the Grossglockner. He followed it back to the factory (more likely to Porsche Austria in Salzburg) and became Australia’s Porsche importer. By July -- tells you something about the flexibility of Porsche back then -- Hamilton and a friend had picked up the first two production (as distinct from the Great Britain show car) right-hand drive 356s: a Fish Silver cabriolet and a Maroon Coupe. These driven across the Alps to Genoa and then shipped to Austria. Fortunately, Hamilton was on vacation and carried a camera. The cars were presented at a cocktail party in South Melbourne and then campaigned in hill climbs and speed trials. A radium green coupe was the third car early in 1952. But that was it for a while, since the Australian quota system pegged Porsche sales at 2.5 cars per year. So all Porsche activity fell to three cars -- no more could be imported until 1954. Three cars accounted for magazine covers and road tests. The radium green third car, even ran the first ‘Round Australia’ RedeX Trial. Clearly not suited for this type of off road racing, it suffered 14 flats and a close encounter with a kangaroo, but it finished. This led to a decade of VW off road domination. But a Porsche was first. James Dean’s Spyder 550-055 lead a short life but its littermate 550-0056 was a successful race car in Australia. Again the esthetics of the production are wonder, with a fully colorized photograph of the Spyder overlaid by 550 blueprints. 550-0056 was so successful that other drivers boycotted it at the Gnoo blas circuit. Philip Schudmack received a byline as contributor – so you can be sure the 356 facts are correct. Frankly no one in the US will buy this book as a historical document. Rather it is truly a classy celebration, right down to its silver cover on the soft bound with embossed Porsche serial plate. The hard bound is black with a depressed silver Porsche serial plate. The books are a limited edition.
TITLE         Porsche und die Schweiz

50 Jahre Porsche-Import durch die AMAG 1951-2001

AUTHOR   COMPILATION

    GERMAN

ISBN 10     no ISBN 10

ISBN 13     no ISBN 10

PRICE           $50.00 


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FROM MY REVIEWS IN THE 356 REGISTRY

The other 50 year anniversary book are Porsche und die Schweiz 50 Jahre Porsche-Import durch die AMAG 195-2001 is available as a hard back.  As with the Australian book, about 50% is devoted to the 356.  Starting a little before the AMAG time are two photos of a Gmund coupe with a folding sunroof are present from 1949 when it was shown at the Geneva salon in 1949 to 1962.  I figure that if the car made it to 1962 it should have made it to the present time.  Anyone know anything about a light green 1100 cc Swiss registered Gmund S0-7237?  The Senger period is covered briefly.  The meat of the book starts with a superb photo of a body bumper vee windshield Porsche.  Christophorus photos, Swiss ads, road tests are reprinted.  Unfortunately, unlike recent 356 Swedish Treffin, they are not in English.  Especially charming is a bill of sale for #11081, a radium green, 1.1 P*10135* liter, car with several interesting options.  Again, I wonder if this car has survived.  An additional two-page spread covers a factory delivery in 1954, complete with photos of werks 1.  As you might expect the Swiss Beutlers are shown.  Unfortunately, my ability to read German is embarrassing small, so most of what I gain is by looking at the pictures.  Uwe Biegner, who supplied this book, says it is also available in French.  Since I read French, perhaps soon I can tell you more.  In any event it is a lovely promotional book, which I think goes for $25 - $30.



TITLE         Porsche et la Suisse

Depuis 50 ans,
l'AMAG importe Porsche 1951-2001

AUTHOR   COMPILATION

    FRENCH

ISBN 10     no ISBN 10

ISBN 13     no ISBN 10

PRICE           $50.00 

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TITLE         Moments

    ENGLISH

AUTHOR    Vann

ISBN 10     3613018934

ISBN 13     no ISBN 13

PRICE           $100.00  

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TITLE         Fantastic Porsche

    ENGLISH

AUTHOR    Vann

ISBN 10     0760306419

ISBN 13     no ISBN 13

PRICE           $50.00  

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FROM MY REVIEWS IN THE 356 REGISTRY:

Moments is a lovely book, which Porsche made available for the 50th anniversary in 1999.  Interestingly, it was authored by “Vann and the authors” meaning photographs by Vann and chapters by individual writers.  A less expensive version, Fantastic Porsche, without the slip cover, but otherwise identical, was published by MBI at $39.95 instead of $75.00 to $90.00.

 
TITLE         20 jaar Porsche 356 Club Nederland

AUTHOR   COMPILATION

  Dutsch

ISBN 10     no ISBN 10

ISBN 13     no ISBN 13


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TITLE   PORSCHE 356 XVIII MEETING INTERNATIONAL FRANCE - 1993


AUTHOR     Gosselin,
Colleu

ISBN 10        2950808204

ISBN 13         no ISBN 13

French/English

PRICE           $75.00


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FROM MY REVIEWS IN THE 356 REGISTRY:

PORSCHE 356 XVIIIeme MEETING INTERNATIONAL FRANCE - 1993

Pierre Gosselin and Philippe Colleu / 356 Club of France

144 pages, almost entirely composed of color photographs


You may remember a nice 356 book published commemorating the tenth and last meeting of the 356 EUROCLUB.  As near as I can understand, 356 EUROCLUB no longer exists, having been replaced by multiple national registries; however, the annual meetings still continue under a slightly different name.  Hence we now have the 18th international meeting (or XVIII MEETING INTERNATIONAL FRANCE for those of you more comfortable in early metric units).  The new book tries a new approach. Porsche 356 history is illustrated by superb color photographs of the cars attending the meet. There is even a list in the back of who attended, arranged by country.  Of universal interest is the placing of first in open class by Anspach and Frick with a 1957 black convertible D.  Almost as interesting is the entry by Marie-Claire van Bruystegem and her ex-Peter Geiger red 356A coupe.  This car was a well known concours car in the Michigan area and was invited to the Meadowbrook concours several years ago. I had met Marie-Claire at the Gmünd meet in 1991 and my wife Patty told her we could find her a great car - and Bill Rohrer and I did!  I am delighted to see she is having fun with it. Of almost no interest is a  Don Fowler look-a-like in what looks like Dennis Frick's SC cab. Warren Eads and his 550 Spyder, the Gummows, but managed to avoid being photographed.  Since no Gmünd cars made the event, the history starts with an Belgium entered '51 pre-A coupe, which won best of show.  Incidentally, the editors did an excellent job with the captions and note when a part is not correct, such as the pre-A's carburetor air filters.  There really must be something about the quality of the light in Belgium and France; the photographs are sharp and in focus but give that dreamy feeling that came with the first Impressionists.  By the way the text is in both French and English.

 
TITLE         Registro Italiano Porsche 356 1982-2007

                    25 anni di passione

AUTHOR   Bordogna

      Italian

ISBN 10     no ISBN 10

ISBN 13     no ISBN 13


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TITLE         First 40 Years Porsche Club Great Britian

AUTHOR   Drogen, Hampton, Hearn, Mummery

      ENGLISH

ISBN 10     no ISBN 10

ISBN 13     no ISBN 13


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TITLE         150 Jahre Strahle 1827-1977

AUTHOR   none

  GERMAN

ISBN 10     no ISBN 10

ISBN 13     no ISBN 13


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