Amazing barn find and a journey of discovery

[willbrown]

Jo Siffert ...

The Oracle strikes again

[rvzz]

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.

[hot66]

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

[964RS]

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

[Ian Gunney]

There are some pics of his dealership (with some 911s) in the Siffert book by Ed Heuvink p88

Loving this story....

[210bhp]

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?!,

[pht9]

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 ?

[KS]

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?!,

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...

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.

Keith

[chfs911]

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.

[brembo]

This just keeps getting better and better.
22 pages in 5 days,slow it down a bit lads
Regards,

[964RS]

This just keeps getting better and better.
22 pages in 5 days,slow it down a bit lads
Regards,

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....

[milou]

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.....

[210bhp]

Milou

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

[KS]

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...

[andy888]

mike we need a summary of everything to this point!