The Assembly Line: circa 1972

[CurtEgerer]

These photos were taken by Bill Wagenblatt during a tour of the factory in 1972:

[rngpc]

Those are really neat photos. It is so interesting to see how these cars were constructed - these are similar to the video clips of the assembly line which were posted last week. Do you have any more you can post? Thanks.

[erick72pors]

Nice pictures! These seem to be post-1973 911s being built.

Erick

[Chuck Miller]

What are you seeing that I'm not Eric...

[John Fusco]

Dig those sideburns ! Were those a factory requirement ?
Very cool Le mans poster too.

Thanks for those Curt.

John

[fryardds]

Yep looks basically hand built to me. Thanks for sharing.

Looks like '73 model year cars (no external oil door and 'E' model engine on stand with MFI).

[JimR]

Looks like '73 model year cars (no external oil door and 'E' model engine on stand with MFI).

Hey, that's my engine!

Thanks for the great pics, Curt!

[911scfanatic]

Those would make incredible posters for the garage! Are they good enough quality to blow up? Curt, any chance you could get me quality copies to enlarge? This would be great inspiration to have in my garage as I restore my '72!

...and I do see the oil door opening next to the worker's right hand (the guy leaning on the car).

[CurtEgerer]

Bill - what you see is what I've got. I may be able to contact the photographer and see if he's got high-res versions. I love that last one with the posters on the wall, being that those are contemporaneous posters right after Porsche won the World Championship. Must have been a great time to work at the factory.

[Paul Schooley]

Here's my plan. Save them all for destop pictures and they'll be in your face every time you fire up the ol electronic terror...errr... computer. I'm suspect those pics wouldn't blow up enough to be a really nice poster, but who knows with some of the digital skills out there now.