911 long and short front horn grills...
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:30 pm
...does anybody know why the grills are two different lengths?
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911 long and short front horn grills...
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:55 pm
- do you mean apart from the fact that the longer ones are for swb cars & the shorter ones for lwb models ?
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:14 pm
Because the indicators are different lengths.
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 7:16 am
Andy, exactly, is it because the SWB cars had the side light in the headlamp? - then why move it for the LWB and shorten the grill?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 7:46 am
The SWB cars had the sidelight in the indicator housing
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:18 am
The tendency with car manufacturers over the years (especially in the '60's) has been to continually increase the size of the front & rear lamps.
Porsche altered the size of these lamps when they increased the wheelbase in '68 with the introduction of the 'lwb' models - there was a fixed distance between the front edge of the wheelarch & the bonnet so by increasing the size of the indicator/sidelight meant there needed to be a corresponding decrease in the size of the horn grilles.
Porsche altered the size of these lamps when they increased the wheelbase in '68 with the introduction of the 'lwb' models - there was a fixed distance between the front edge of the wheelarch & the bonnet so by increasing the size of the indicator/sidelight meant there needed to be a corresponding decrease in the size of the horn grilles.
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:33 am
Thats the answer! - I can see now, as Porsche rarely did anything with out a very good reason, especially when re tooling was concerned.