Part 3: The 991RS big adventure

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RDMcG wrote: Wed Sep 27, 2023 1:50 pm What seems to be a little obscure was the Porsche got a 1% royalty from VW on all sales for quite a while into the fifties which certainly financed the very rapid transition from a sawmill in Gmund to a manufacturing facility in Stuttgart and of course used a lot of VW tech . (Evidently Ferdinand Porsche had overseen the development in the first place).....
The little I've read about Ferdinand Porsche indicates to me that he was a self-taught and incredibly capable genius in rarefied air, possibly several levels above mere "normal" geniuses.
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