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Originally posted by beachbaker
Tac, Star of the West was referring to the early model designation of 356 as being the early "bath tub" style. These were the models built up until 1965 after which the air cooled porsches became the 912 (4 cylinder) and 911 (6 cylinder) series. I keep one of both around just to have fun in. Thanks, Curt
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Dear Sir - you, being a comparative [and most welcome] newcomer to this site, are probably not aware that I am WELL aware of the type designator of the Porsche 356. As a Porsche owner for some fifteen years, I cannot help but know what a Type 356 is, thank you.
I am known on this forum for my somewhat eccentric application of what is known over here as literary irony, something for which we are rightly famed. And here in UK, my comment would have been readily understood as what we call a literary pun or allusion and not taken as a measure of my ignorance on matters automotive.
If you read my posts very carefully, and with a degree of tongue in cheek necessarily applied, you will find that they are, in fact, mostly plays on words, puns, or use the words of the poster's original text in what, over here, is generally held to be an amusing format in repartee.
If any of my posts do not appeal to you, or offend your sense of correctness, please feel free, as most do, to ignore them. You can, however, rest assured that I rarely make mistakes on matters automotive or technical in general, but enjoy playing with words as a matter of course.
You are indeed fortunate to have a couple of Porsches 'hanging around just to have fun in'. Like many American millionaires, it probably shares your car-barn with a brace of Deusenburgs, Cords and a slack handful of the rarer Ferraris, as well as your collection of forty or fifty vintage warplanes.
Sadly, in my reduced circumstances, and living in an Eastern English countryside prone to floods, I am forced to rely for my daily transport on my Mercedes-Benz AMG ML430, and for such fun as I am able to avail myself of, in these troublesome and penurious times, on my poor old Mercedes-Benz 380SL.
Sad times indeed.
tac