http://bringatrailer.com/listi...peedster-recreation/
Love it or hate it, it's makes for some "interesting" conversation in the comments section. I wasn't aware that Porsche was a full fledged Nazi.....some people shouldn't be allowed on the internet.
Hope it sells for a bundle.
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Business is business, just because one designs cars and tanks for a Nazi, doesn't necessarily make one a Nazi.
Porsche designed the Volkswagen bug for Hitler. Later, when he wanted to put the 356 into production, he came to the states and talked to Ford about his assembly line idea. Then every one thought Ford was a Nazi.
People are idiots.
If Porsche was in fact a Nazi, then he's my one and only favorite Nazi.
In depth clarification:
Ferdinand (the father) an Austrian, did not belong to the Nazi party. But it was the Third Reich that was handing out the engineering contracts which he was after.
Ferry by contrast was a very early Nazi... and enthusiastic one at that.
Apologist's would have us believe that his party membership wasn't a political/policy endorsement, but rather to facilitate priority consideration when the contracts were handed out. He was released from French imprisonment on Ferdinand's bogus testimony that his son was but a 'drawing board' engineer and had no factory/production responsibilities...Far from the truth... and the French knew it. Ferry's release was predicated on his agreement to do engineering design work for Peugot as retribution.
In reference to Carlo's comment:
Obviously Ford's management wasn't a hot bed of Nazis.
But Henry Ford himself was a virulent anti-Semite and Ford Motor's management reflected that underlying sentiment throughout Henry Ford's lifetime.
In depth clarification:
...Ferry's release was predicated on his agreement to do engineering design work for Peugot as retribution.
But many Frenchmen never forgave him. To even the score, they continue to sell Peugeots in Germany to this day.
Porsche and the French may not have liked each other but Porsche sure liked their design because that car is pure Art Deco.
I'm no Gmund-aphile, but somebody here is and they have done an exquisite job with this replica. It will turn some heads, no doubt about it, as in: "WTF is that!!!?"
$52.5K.
Wow.
