Pagoda SL Group
Off Topic => Other cars => Topic started by: mdsalemi on February 13, 2013, 12:32:45
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I received an email from a friend this morning, with a photo of what appears to be a Porsche 911 with a Pagoda roof, he says. It looks like some concept model. It may be a non-traditional 911 roof, but it sure doesn't look like a Pagoda roof to my eyes--I don't see the requisite dip in the center. I understand this to be the Porsche 695, a/k/a T7 prototype) made in 1961.
This had me looking in my Bracq collection, and sure enough I found one of his Porsche design exercises from November, 1961. Looks like a 911 in the front, a W113 at the rear, and maybe a 190SL in the middle? As he was employed at MB at the time, my guess is this was just a free-thinking exercise. The 911 had not yet been introduced, and neither was the Pagoda--but I suspect some designs were well underway (with the first Pagoda sketches appearing in 1959).
Today, there is NO WAY that a competing designer/stylist would have been offered the opportunity to see development projects at another maker. That being said, the Bracq sketch sure as a strong appearance on the front to what would be the 911...
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This is not a Pagoda roof, it is not concave shaped. :D
I am by no means educated in Porsche things (sadly) but the green real one on the photo looks to me as one of the attempts/trials by Porsche to develop a real 4 seater of the (then new) Porsche 901 rather than a 2+2, which they always attempted along the long development and production time of the 911 in the past 50 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_911
This eventually resulted in the today's Panamera. ;)
Although that one is a completely different car (front motor, etc.)
Achim
(no Porsche expert)