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Amazing barn find and a journey of discovery
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Wow..Jo Siffert .
There's a new book out on him , supposed to be good .
You never know it might contain a pic of the car .
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jo-Siffert-Swis ... 3927458481
Cheers.
There's a new book out on him , supposed to be good .
You never know it might contain a pic of the car .
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jo-Siffert-Swis ... 3927458481
Cheers.
Russ...
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details are all gettign a bit lost here ... so is this correct :
Robs Lamplough had ways of buying ( possibly cheap & surplus ) Porsche via the back door via John Adlington, owner of AFN ?
Rob bought a surplus prototype that was going cheap with 'cash from winings ' & got it converted at the factory to RHD.
Rob imported it & straight away sold it to Paddy McNally & thus got his 'clean' undeclared cash back
Paddy McNally kept it for a year & then sold it to Jo Siffert
Is this right ?
Wondering why Jo bought it when he had his own dealership in Switzerland
Robs Lamplough had ways of buying ( possibly cheap & surplus ) Porsche via the back door via John Adlington, owner of AFN ?
Rob bought a surplus prototype that was going cheap with 'cash from winings ' & got it converted at the factory to RHD.
Rob imported it & straight away sold it to Paddy McNally & thus got his 'clean' undeclared cash back
Paddy McNally kept it for a year & then sold it to Jo Siffert
Is this right ?
Wondering why Jo bought it when he had his own dealership in Switzerland
James
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That's right James, this car has been laundered...HM Customs are on their way now to do some teeth pulling at a dentists just west of Glasgow
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There are some pics of his dealership (with some 911s) in the Siffert book by Ed Heuvink p88
Loving this story....
Loving this story....
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964RS wrote:That's right James, this car has been laundered...HM Customs are on their way now to do some teeth pulling at a dentists just west of Glasgow
They can only go back six years can't they?!,
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Very interesting story chaps, I hope that you can piece all the history, amazing how it ended up neglected in a Barn, did I miss this detail, or did the farmer advise how it came to reside there ?
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Sadly, you can only go back seven years, I believe, but they can go back as far as necessary to get their hands on a Porsche...210bhp wrote:964RS wrote:That's right James, this car has been laundered...HM Customs are on their way now to do some teeth pulling at a dentists just west of Glasgow
They can only go back six years can't they?!,
Re: your comment about this thread and Delwyn's 356, don't even think about saying sory. Crazy idea.
As for the archives connection, PM me with a concise version of what you need to find out and I'll see what I can do.
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Excellent thread Mike. I must write up my own barn find thread when you finish yours. Good ending too!
It took 3 years to piece together the info but never wrote it up. Look forward to seeing the car.
Charles.
It took 3 years to piece together the info but never wrote it up. Look forward to seeing the car.
Charles.
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This just keeps getting better and better.
22 pages in 5 days,slow it down a bit lads
Regards,
22 pages in 5 days,slow it down a bit lads
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Regards,
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To be fair after 22 pages he's still in 1969....by my reckoning we will be in 2013 before we get back to the farmer....brembo wrote:This just keeps getting better and better.
22 pages in 5 days,slow it down a bit lads
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What an amazing story....I discovered a similar car a few years ago, a factory prototype gifted to Jo Siffert in April 1971:
http://www.early911sregistry.org/forums ... ht=siffert
I wrote to Dieter Landenberger at the Porsche Museum and got a reply relatively quickly providing me with copies of their registry. Perhaps you should call him or send him an email?
Amazing.....
http://www.early911sregistry.org/forums ... ht=siffert
I wrote to Dieter Landenberger at the Porsche Museum and got a reply relatively quickly providing me with copies of their registry. Perhaps you should call him or send him an email?
Amazing.....
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I have emailed Mr Landenberger several times over the last few weeks (after you sent me his details in our recent correspondence) and I have not received any kind of response whasoever.
Regards
Mike
I have emailed Mr Landenberger several times over the last few weeks (after you sent me his details in our recent correspondence) and I have not received any kind of response whasoever.
Regards
Mike
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67 S
Mint T (Sold)
996 Turbo (Sold)
73 2.4E (home after 25 years) and Sold again
73T targa (signal yellow project)
1953 Vauxhall Velox
914/6
1963 356B
https://www.mybespokeroom.com/
73 RS (Sold)
67 S
Mint T (Sold)
996 Turbo (Sold)
73 2.4E (home after 25 years) and Sold again
73T targa (signal yellow project)
1953 Vauxhall Velox
914/6
1963 356B
https://www.mybespokeroom.com/
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I've also written to my friend Dieter at the archive, but he is on holiday until 28th of this month, so we must be even more patient...
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mike we need a summary of everything to this point!