09-03-2019, 06:59 AM
(08-03-2019, 11:22 PM)Austin in the Shed Wrote:Will look it up, thanks. I am still reading the last lot of books recommended to me on here (about William Grover-Williams) and thoroughly enjoying them.(08-03-2019, 08:27 PM)jansens Wrote:I'd read Porsche 911,A tribute of development over design.(08-03-2019, 10:34 AM)Hugh Barnes Wrote: In saying that, I knew people who drove early Beetles who would put a couple of paving slabs in the front end so they would go round corners!
Early Porsche 911s had that built in from the factory, cast iron weights hidden in the front bumper to help make the car more stable apparently.
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