Postcards 1965/1966 911/912 2x 1970 (?) 911S Coupe, T Targa, 1974 Carrera

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Originally Posted by mshaver51

if it matters, based on the door handles, i'd guess that the red, organe and green targa depictions were '68 or '69.
thank you.

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Keeping this thread up but to add:

- for literature, Porsche photographed cars in spring even it was for the following new MY i.e august.
Which means literature commonly used older MY in their prints.
Some photos got retouched, others pics simply left as they are even they have been older MY models, as on this postcards.
For brand-new models they showed pre-production cars from the factory production in spring announcing the new model line-up produced starting in august.
In one instance (1970 2.2l catalogue) they even showed a model never to be sold/marketed (911S base).

Some lterature got printed twice to adjust prices for the new year (most pricelists) and/or changing photos with the now the real production MY model. (some catalogues).

... In one instance (1970 2.2l catalogue) they even showed a model never to be sold/marketed (911S base) ....

Karim,

This is why I jumped on this card of the tangerine 911.
It is one of the few pictures of a lightweight 2.2 S.
The first appears on the '3 white 911s' 2.2 brochure on the RHS and inside .
The second - red - is in the Brian Long '63 to '71 book p 154 in a similar background to the card - same pic shoot ?
Another red car - yellow headlights - appears in Phil Raby's (mis)Identification book on p 40.
According to the German brochure the lw weighed 930 kg and had a 110 litre tank.
This lw was obviously for the rally 2.2 or track with a 2.3 motor and was a forerunner of the '73 RS lw.
One wonders how many ,if any, were road sold - no wonder the sales department had the jitters when the lw RS came along in '73 ! :D.

Cheers,
Dennis. :)

keeping this ad up, here is the story of the 1970 S lightweight/base:

http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...d-73RS-concept

This is his interior:
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/.../dsc02325g.jpg
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/...1/dsc02326.jpg

Mark,

pm sent re: targa and single grill 356 cards, per our exchange. my "sent" box is a bit wacky, so i'm not sure you got the response.

thank you.

ms

I didn't know that about factory photos, but it makes sense. Thanks!

The door handles are definitely the non-trigger types from 1968-69, but given that the company would send publicity photos for the next MY, I doubt that most would notice the difference in door handles between '69 and '70, so they probably are representing '70s.

It's pretty cool when conflicting evidence gets reconciled by a group discussion (at least to me).