Rare option?

[elfer]

Here’s a picture that was recently discussed on the Stockholm early 911 forum. Notice the headlight washers. I've never seen that on an early car before.

The picture is apparently the first ever paparazzi photograph taken in Sweden, showing a then 27-year old Crown Prince Carl Gustaf and Silvia Sommerlath (now King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia) on the island of Öland in the summer of 1973.

The king has maintained his great taste in cars ever since.

[gulf908]

Elfer,
I believe that there were local regulations for some Scandanavian countries that were interesting 'one offs"
I was at Werks 1 having something done to my tourist delivery 911S in 1974 and I was looking at the cars parked in the surrounding courtyards(try doing that today!!) when in drove a similar 1973(?)car to the Kings with the same headlight wipers.
At the time I thought that the wipers were a test for maybe next years options list.About the same time I noticed a G series 911 with the next years headlight washer system on.It was an awful pink colour !
What you see when you dont have a camera !!
Both however could have been Scandinavian cars.
I also understand that mud flaps were mandatory on Scandy cars but I dont know from what year.
OT - I made good friends with the Tour guide at the time (1974)who was a Norman Rosenkrantz from Florida.His father lectured Psychology at Miami Uni.
Anyone heard from him these days ?

Cheers,
Dennis.

[70SATMan]

Do I see dual antennas?

[barenstam]

Do I see 100 octane fuel.

[nick-moss]

And a right Durrant mirror. Wasn't Sweden a RHD market in those days?

BTW I used to work at Ford AVO in the mid seventies when they were building the Escort RS2000. They built a blue car with yellow side stripes as a one off and were amazed when they got a load of orders for the colour scheme from Sweden as they hadn't realisd it was the national flag colours

[Bummler]

And a right Durrant mirror. Wasn't Sweden a RHD market in those days?

BTW I used to work at Ford AVO in the mid seventies when they were building the Escort RS2000. They built a blue car with yellow side stripes as a one off and were amazed when they got a load of orders for the colour scheme from Sweden as they hadn't realisd it was the national flag colours

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_Sweden

Sweden had left-hand traffic (Vänstertrafik in Swedish) from approximately 1736 and continued to do so well into the 20th century. Despite this virtually all cars in Sweden were actually left-hand drive and the neighbouring Nordic countries already drove on the right, leading to some confusion at border crossings. The Swedish voters rejected a change to driving on the right in a referendum held in 1955.

Nevertheless, in 1963 the Riksdag passed legislation ordering the switch to right-hand traffic. The changeover took place on a Sunday morning at 5am on September 3, 1967, which was known in Swedish as Dagen H (H-Day), the 'H' being for Högertrafik or right-hand traffic.

Since Swedish cars were left-hand drive, experts had suggested that changing to driving on the right would reduce accidents, because drivers would have a better view of the road ahead. Indeed, fatal car-to-car and car-to-pedestrian accidents dropped sharply as a result.

[elfer]

The extra antenna is probably for radio contact with the police (bodyguards).

I know that Sweden-delivered cars came with dual mirrors but I also hear the Swedish guys complaining that it's impossible to see anything in either of them.

[Biancaneve]

Here’s a picture that was recently discussed on the Stockholm early 911 forum. Notice the headlight washers. I've never seen that on an early car before.

The picture is apparently the first ever paparazzi photograph taken in Sweden, showing a then 27-year old Crown Prince Carl Gustaf and Silvia Sommerlath (now King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia) on the island of Öland in the summer of 1973.

The king has maintained his great taste in cars ever since.

I've just found the original Porsche press kit of the visit of King Carl Gustaf to Porsche werk in March 1979 ... will digitalise it and translate the content soon.

[uai]

The car is in german ownership (at least it was in 2002 when I got a ride in it)

[Thomas lundeval]

Photos from 1973 on the Swedish king's 911 T Targa in 1973 and when he received a 911 T Targa as a gift on his birthday when he turned 50 in 1996. Not sure it was the original Porsche he got back.