Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: Ferdinand Porsche's Amazing Half Century
Chapter 2: An Austrian Interlude
Chapter 3: Home to Zuffenhausen
Chapter 4: Building Cars, Building a Name
Chapter 5: The Speedster Expands The Line
Chapter 6: Glocklers to Grandmother: The Competition Porsches
Chapter 7: The A Series
Chapter 8: The 356B and C
Chapter 9: The Other Porsches
Chapter 10: The 356, A Car For The Ages
Acknowledgements
Photo Credits
Index
Gordon Maltby has owned 31 Porsches over 50 years, doing most
maintenance and restoration himself. He wrote the highly regarded
Motorbooks title Porsche 356 and RS Spyders and has co-authored and
edited several Porsche technical, historical, and buying guide
books in the years since. He was editor of the Porsche 356 Registry
bi-monthly magazine for 28 years, evolving it into a 76-page
full-color publication. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and a
cobalt blue Boxster.
Grant Larson was born in Billings, Montana and grew up in
Wisconsin. A passion for cars led to studies at the Milwaukee
Institute of Art & Design, then at ArtCenter College of Design in
Pasadena. After three years at Audi in Munich, he joined Porsche as
an exterior designer in 1989. He was lead designer for the Boxster
prototype, as well as the Carrera GT show car, the Panamera,
various 911s and special editions, race cars and most recently, the
935. He is currently Director of Special Projects at the Porsche
Weissach studios
"...essential acquisition for all genuine Porschephiles..."
*PANDO Magazine*
"Gordon Maltby spent 26 years editing the Porsche
356 Registry, peering into all corners of the Porsche garage:
the cars, the
family, the designers, the production process, the side projects,
the racing, the history, the sales, the trends, and the
drivers. His new
book, Porsche 356: 75th Anniversary, reflects that deep and
wide experience in a way that no book by a first-time author
ever could."
*Porsche 356 Registry*
"...tells the in-depth story and is a must-have book for anyone
that loves Porsche and sports car history."
*StuttCars.com*
Let’s get this out of the way first: Porsche 356: 75th
Anniversary Is the best book about cars I have ever
read. Period. Part of the reason may be that the book focuses
on a single model and follows its evolution from creation to
perfection but the truth is that every aspect of this book has been
produced with the highest quality.
*JoeFarace.com*
"The entire history of the 356 is well-told and
well-illustrated covering every facet from design to
engineering as well as Porsche company history."
*AVANTI Magazine*
Unlike most recent Porsche titles, 356 doesn't merely tell of
engineering specifics, it shows them, too, reproducing factory
schematics, drawings, and cu-aways."
*AACA.org*
“Gordon Maltby has owned 31 Porsches over 50 years, doing most
maintenance and restoration himself.” See? Total gearhead. He’s one
of us, and he can write a stellar book too!
*Automoblog*
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