In the 8th issue 2018 of Oldtimer Markt, we encounter the history of Ferdinand Porsche and his cars, a special Paige Larchmont, a duel between the Triumph TR2 and the Austin-Healey 100/4 and many other exciting car-related stories.
Family album
June 8, 1948, when the first 356 was registered for road use, marks the birth of the Porsche brand. Although the open-top two-seater had a mid-engine instead of a rear engine, it could already be described as a typical Porsche in terms of design...
Hut magic
Rancho means hut in Spanish. And that's exactly what the Simca 1100-based recreational vehicle was originally - a barren box. Until the Matra guys took it on and paved the way for the SUV genre with a bit of hut magic...
Luftikus
Paige was one of the first car manufacturers to offer cars with electric lighting and electric starters. The marketing was even more creative...
Duel in the 100 MPH Club
British, open, both built in the mid-fifties and with 91 hp ex works. As much as they differ in new price and design, you can tell that Donald Healey was first chief engineer at Triumph before he went into business for himself...
Come un Violino
If you're looking for a rare Alfa Romeo 2600 Spider, you can't be choosy. Uli Stanciu knowingly bought a made-up corpse, directed a Note 1 restoration and visited the Italian first owner. Here he tells his story...
The winning formula/motorcycle 750cc class
The three-quarter-liter displacement burned itself into the collective memory like charcoal into the piston groove. At the end of the swinging sixties, as new guests kept pouring in, the 750 party was heading for its unforgettable climax...
Lord of the bearings
Radical cure: With patented precision bearings and meticulous machining of the bearing seats, the Swabian "bearing guru" Emil Schwarz has been tackling the unstable steering head bearings of classic wobble candidates for decades...
Who has one of these?
Rainer Berkenhoff collects and repairs everything that has four wheels or delivers sound & vision. Whether broken or alive. He finds it in bulky waste, at the parts market or in the attics of the Republic. The portrait of a life in the wake of the throwaway society...
