Bob Morris's first recollection of Porsche tractors was an ad offering examples of a boatload of 180 that came to Ontario BOB ENGLISH From Thursday's Globe and Mail Porsche is venerated among sports car enthusiasts as the maker of agile machines that can go very fast, but there's another group, just as keenly devoted, who revere the brand for doing just the opposite. Collectors of the former might daydream about lifting a dusty tarp in an old garage and finding a pristine 1950s 356 Speedster underneath, but for the latter, a barn-find Volksschlepper would be the ultimate fantasy. Volksschlepper? It's well known that industry pioneer and company founder Prof. Dr. Ing h.c. Ferdinand Porsche designed the "people's car" Volkswagen in the 1930s, and that it served as the starting point for the sports cars that followed after the...
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