AUTHOR Upietz, Cotton, Zentgraph

        ENGLISH/GERMAN

ISBN 10     3928540289

ISBN 13     NO ISBN 13

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From my reviews in the 356 REGISTRY:

For almost a decade Ulrich Upietz has turned out large books essentially composed of marvelously sharp color photographs.  Every year there is a new Porsche Sport – the last five years, aka My Big Color Book of the 911 Carrera GT3.  Previously there was Porsche Sieg LeMans – unfortunately Porsche hasn’t won at LeMans in a while; hence no Porsche Sieg LeMans for a few years.  Upietz has teamed with the English journeyman Porsche writer Michael Cotton and a German journalist Ekkehard Zentgraf to bring out the definitive history: Porsche in LeMans.  Out of more than 360 pages, the 60 cover the 356 period.  No new sources of color photographs have been untapped – but there are some black and white unfamiliar to me at least.  After the Gmund cars very few 356s ran LeMans, and none, other than the Carrera Abarth are pictured.  However, the Spyder period is extremely well covered.  Almost all of cars are identified as to serial number.  A most unfortunate exception is the 1956 Carrera 1500, which isn’t.  The last 356 bodied Porsche to run LeMans #83203 ran in 1957.  Heinz Heinrich, 904 expert, looked over the book at the LAX Lit meet and says they got the 904s wrong and that a car shown as practiced under the number 33 but it is not the same car which ran.  I hope I got that right; I was simultaneously selling books and Heinz is off to Europe so I can not confirm with him.  In the back of the book are year by year lists of all Porsches by drivers, entrants, model & serial number, class, position, laps, km covered, km/h and reason if retired. Perusal of the chart for 1963 shows Barth and Linge taking eight in number 28, a 718/8-047.  However, a photograph in the body shows the number 34 Carrera Abarth and the caption claims Barth and Linge drove it.  Earlier the 2000 GS/GT, whose front end presaged the 904, is not only misidentified as a type 695 and mistakenly said to have a steel body, but the chart has Linge and Pon took tenth in a Carrera Abarth.  In other captions the Abarth is identified as a 1600 GS, but is properly a GTL.  The photographs are fabulous, the text authoritative – if not always entirely accurate.  The chart in the back seems reliable.  Worthy, expensive at $89.95, Porsche in LeMans is worth considering, especially since used copies of Pascal’s Porsche at LeMans are even more expensive. 

AUTHOR     Upietz

   ENGLISH/GERMAN

ISBN 10          3928540440

ISBN 13          9783928540440

OUT OF PRINT -- NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE @ BLOCKS BOOKS