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YOUR RESEARCHWho Painted your Porsche?
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first time he'd seen my car
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I was trying to explain the exhaust layout to my father-in-law last night as it was the first time he'd seen my car.
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Did anyone check under their headlights for "Schwantz"?
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Did you know that a tradition for Porsche manufacturing is that every body is signed by the person that painted it?
It has traditionally been either on the right side of the dashboard, or in the rear right taillight housing.
I pulled off my taillight and sure enough, there it was!
If I decode this correctly, the Painter was named Arsch (or was one...), the body was painted in Zuffahausen ("Z), and it was painted during the 2nd (B) shift.
Anyone else got pictures of their cars paint signature they can post?
Did Earl Scheib used to work there... man I think he got ahold of mine..........there are a couple areas I wish I would have looked at better before making the purchase
You know, I had my rear tailights out at least 3 times and never saw the sigs.
I had a bad wire loom that required me to take them out to get that little bastard 144 bulb (I think thats the number?) working.
Too bad they're not doing that anymore. Kind of a cool tradtion. On the other hand, maybe they've just been told to quit writing rude messages to the North Americans.....
Rumor has it with some of the older models items such as beer labels and handwritten notes were found behind door panels since the workers would place them there and forget about them before sealing things up.
As long as it doesn't rattle, I think it would be a cool find.
Doesn't
everyone
partially disassemble their cars to clean them?
I saved a few
Stuttgarter Bier
caps to toss under a few 911 seats during full concours events here in the States...
I'm still in awe with the amount of "stuff" that is crammed into the back of our cars. I was trying to explain the exhaust layout to my father-in-law last night as it was the first time he'd seen my car. He was pretty intrigued by the packaging of all the engine components.
When you look at it all, it's a wonder how it even fits!
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