Porsche Factory Pictures September 1971

Sumner,

Lovely colour pics and beautiful variety of paint colours !
One of the old buildings looks like the canteen where I scored a few free lunches in 1974 !
Salad days indeed before the regulators and the oil crises took hold.
Eric,sadly we can't go back .... :(

Cheers,
Dennis. :)

Thanks a lot for sharing!!!

Would you be willing to upload them to a photo-sharing site so some of us could order prints? If so, you should watermark them with a copyright so they can be enjoyed by enthusiasts but not otherwise reproduced without your permission.

Just a thought since you're in a sharing mood. :)

Cheers,
Mike

Thanks so much for sharing such an unexpected find. To have these in color adds to the treat.

Awesome. I wouldn't be surprised if the Porsche factory itself may be interested in shots like these.

Great pics, I also have some factory tour pics and they are very useful as reference pics for our restorations. Thanks very much for posting these. Would it be possible to obtain some of the prints?

Alan

Wow! Thanks. Great photos, makes me smile to see see all of the colors together. The photo of the two guys working on engines, outside, under a lean to, is something we probably won't be seeing in any new factory photos..... :D

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Originally Posted by edmayo

Isn't it interesting to see what a relatively quaint little factory it was then, compared to the present one! And I don't think pictures are allowed on tours anymore!

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Quaint and downright primitive. Can't imagine a plant today have roaming assemblers muscling production around on dollies. Great historical Pictures!

Absolutely Wonderful!

Particularly meaningful to me since my car's production completion date was Septmber 23, 1971...just two days after these pictures were taken!

Thanks for sharing!

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Thanks. The one thing I wonder when I see those kind of photos, is where those cars are. Most reduced to iron oxide I suppose. Great pics.

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Very interesting and much appreciated post.

Speculating on the earlier comments in quotes above. Is there any educated estimate of what percentage of car are still on the road? I suspect it higher than almost any other marque except the likes of Ferrari, ... hmm there are probably one or two others but I can't think who I would also put in that group.