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PORSCHE 911 901 SPORT COUPE'
1/18 CMC (m067)
Year/Anno :1964
Color : Dark Blue/ Bali Blue
My rating/Mio Voto : 93/100
Materiale: Die-cast
Prezzo Originale: 290/320 euro
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Nel settembre 1963 alla IAA di Francoforte, Porsche presentò al pubblico la Porsche 901 come l'erede della Porsche 356.La produzione in serie della 901 iniziò nel settembre 1964. Quando nell'ottobre dello stesso anno Porsche presentò la vettura al salone dell'automobile di Parigi, la denominazione del modello destò l'attenzione della casa automobilistica francese Peugeot che protestò in quanto aveva fatto registrare i diritti per una denominazione composta da tre cifre con uno zero nel mezzo.Porsche rinominò dunque la 901 in 911. Questa combinazione numerica corrispondeva al numero delle emergenze negli USA e per questo motivo divenne subito ben nota su questo mercato molto importante per Porsche. Fino al cambio di nome vennero prodotte in totale 82 esemplari della 901.
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Porsche 901 was the name originally intended for the Porsche 911.
By the early 1960s, Porsche project design numbers had reached into the 800s. For instance, Porsche's 1962 F1 model was called Porsche 804.
At the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (Frankfurt Motor Show) in Frankfurt in September 1963, Porsche presented its successor to the Porsche 356 as the 901. It took several more months until the cars were manufactured for sale to customers. Between 14 September and 16 November 1964, 82 cars were built and the 901 was presented in October at the 1964 Paris Auto Salon. There, French car maker Peugeot objected to Porsche using any three digit number where the middle number was 0, asserting ownership of the naming rights in key markets, and having already sold many models with that scheme.
So, Porsche simply replaced the middle 0 with a 1, and called the car Porsche 911. Officially the 901s already constructed were used for testing and for exhibitions, and Porsche sold none to private customers. Nevertheless, several of the cars retained by Porsche at that time appear to have made it to private ownership subsequently: in 1988 number 20 was discovered and completely restored by Kurt Schneider and his wife, Lori.[2] Then in 2010 it was reported that car number 37 was owned by a Porsche specialist named Alois Ruf.
Also, other Porsche models were affected, which were primarily intended for racing but also sold as road legal cars. Here, Porsche kept the internal part number of 90x, but sold the car with a name, like
Porsche 904 as Carrera GTS
Porsche 906 as Carrera 6
Porsche enthusiasts continue to refer to these cars by their three digit design numbers.
Later, Porsche introduced pure racing cars which were not sold for road use, so not competing with any road-going Peugeot. These carried the design numbers
Porsche 907
Porsche 908
Porsche 909
Additionally, the 901 number is used among Porsche enthusiasts as shorthand to identify the aluminum five-speed transmission used in early 911s, the part number for these transmissions used an 11 digit code that began with 901 as did many other parts on the early cars. Later 911s from 1969 used a different magnesium case and a part number beginning with 911.
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Edited by xJORDANx - 18/3/2020, 00:45
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