The good old days

[Chris Pomares]

Pete,
My favorite issue yet! So many great articles. But then I'm biased toward beautiful 67 Bahama Yellow Porsche's. Ben yours is a real beauty! Pete my renewal will be in this week.

As I grew up a 10 minute walk to the beach in SoCal for the first 20 years of my life, I wear sandals 12 months a year here in Colorado. Even in the snow if it's not too deep.

[911TES]

...just remember “these are the good old days”

[smedley]

Love those crates!

I'm going to back up on the strap now knowing it's an Oct '66 pic.

Good thing I was only betting my ant farm.

My car, 306572, was an Oct '66 production...black enameled strap.

Several other photos of '67 MY production line posted on this site show black straps.

[Frank Beck]

...just remember “these are the good old days”

Easy to forget this dose of reality. Thanks Bill.
Scary to think about.

[Rick Cabell]

Good info Mark.
Frank......you all are right.

[911T1971]

Even if this a bit off topic. I think in the 60s there was an occasional Blue Collar Worker @Porsche from Turkey. Most immigrants/ Gastarbeiter in germany in the 50s and 60s were from Italy. And the handwriting you see on Kardexes and Dashes is pretty much what I call "old" and german. It's not Sütterlin which was forbidden 1941, it's the way you learnt writing in the 30s 40s and 50s. You can still today figure if somebody is german, french, english or US just by the way they write.
Perhaps a good question for Frank Jung how the percentage of Gastarbeiter at the production Line was in those years. My guesstimate for 1960-1970 <15%.
Cheers
Uli

Re workers from Turkey, I read this somewhere in a period Christophorus.
Agree, Italian and Spain too, in Switzerland a lot also from Jugoslavia.
Porsche had quite advanced working benefits, blue collar workers included.

[patrick911]

Not sure if the same in Germany, because I believe the (coal-) mines were further north than Stuttgart, but in the Netherlands, the DAF-factory for example was built as a replacement for workers that no longer had a job once the mines closed mid sixties. The thing was though that those ex mine-workers didn't want the factory jobs, so the factories had to get immigrants instead, there mostly from Turkey and Morocco.

The only thing a Daf car - who here even remembers them? - and a 911 have is common is the big 1968 London to Sydney marathon; they both participated, with Zasada in his 911S finishing in 4th and the Dutch Racing team Daf 55 coming in at #17.

[geneulm]

Gastarbeiter. Non citizen guest worker.

[michaelaiellosr]

Can't comment on the factory workers, but I can tell you that a mechanic at a private shop who worked on my 356 in Munich in 1968 had an SS blood type tattoo on his arm (inside above the elbow)

[stout]

Pete,
Socks would make me look like a hipster... 'cept I'm too old.

However I am looking forward to being one of those crazy old coots who wears compression stockings with sandals and fart whenever and wherever I want.


I quit subscribing to printed publications during the Clinton Admin but I guess it may be time to pony up if you're going to post pics like that. Bravo.

^ Got a good laugh out of me (bolded).

000 isn't print as you knew it (on the way out) or really much like print of old, either. Something different, mainly because we were crazy enough to want to do a "magazine" without all of the ad pages and thus have the space to explore the subject and supersize the pics that usually get short shrift. We get to work with some pretty neat folks, as well—which is to say at least as nutty as we are. Nobody in Birkenstocks and socks so far, however.

I suggest maybe trying one issue and see if it's up your alley. Given what you like (or at least, what I think you might like), perhaps Issue 001 is that issue? There are "contents" lists with each back issue if you want to make your own call.

Best,

pete