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Johnny von Neumann's Bertone 911 Cabriolet

Discussion in 'Porsche' started by bitzman, Dec 24, 2013.

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  1. bitzman

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    I saw this car decades ago. Johnny was the Porsche distributor for the West Coast or maybe partners with Otto Zipper in that regard. It resembles in some ways the Fiat 850 spyder. I think Giugiaro designed it while he was still at Bertone before jumping ship for Ghia. Randy Leffingwell has more recent pictures of it all cleaned up, in black, inone of his Porsche books. It had hidden headlights and looks awful with the headlights showing. Reportedly Von Neumann was worried Porsche wasn't going to make an open car when they unveiled the 911 so he commissioned it himself (wonder what it cost? $50L $100K) But then Porsche announced the targa and they didn't need his design and I think Porsche was a little miffed at the Italians from the Abarth deal where Abarth couldn't seem to make any of the 20-21 cars exactly alike. I'd be curious to know back when this was just a used car in Calif. what is was offered for? I think I was offered it, but after 40 years or so my brain is running out of hard drive memory. I haven't seen it at any concours, maybe it was among the Porsches at Pebble this year but I didn't get over to that area, much to my regret.

    Here's one site with pictures: Bertone's Gorgeous 1966 Porsche 911 Roadster
     

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