 Porsche Tapiro, seeking facts about its history, Lots of rumors, which are true |
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| HistoryBuff |
 Nov 12 2013, 12:21 PM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 12-November 13 From: Ontario Member No.: 16,635 Region Association: None  |
I am a history buff researching various cars. I saw a picture of Giorgetto Giugiaro and son looking at the burned out hulk of the 1970 show car the Tapiro. I heard two rumors, back in 1970 I heard when it was shown in mexico the president of Mexico appropriated it. But I have never seen pictures of him with the car so I'll go with Rumor No. 2 that a Spanish industrialist owned it and it caught fire.
So what I want to know is: who is the industrialist? What was the name of his company? Was the car firebombed, or a bomb put in it? Was the owner injured? What did he pay for the car when he bought it? What was the wreck sold for back to the Giugiaros? I am never clear on if VW owns Porsche or the other way around but theGiugiaros work for VW now but that doesn't mean VW would pay for the restoration of a car badged Porsche. Does any 914 owner want to estimate what it would cost to restore it? I'm guessing $400,000. The only saving grace I can say is that the Aston Marin DB4GT done by Giugiaro sold for $5 million at auction but that was a rare chassis even without the Giugiaro designed one off body. Like to hear opinions and some facts on the flame in Spain. Photojournalistpro@gmail.com |
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| bulitt |
Nov 12 2013, 04:15 PM
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Achtzylinder Group: Members Posts: 4,188 Joined: 2-October 11 Member No.: 13,632 Region Association: South East States |
Looks like a DeLorean?
Is this it? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/25.media.tumblr.com-13632-1384294727.1.jpg) |
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| Gustl |
Nov 12 2013, 04:30 PM
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914 enthusiast & historian Group: Members Posts: 11,507 Joined: 16-June 04 From: TIROL / Austria Member No.: 2,212 Region Association: Austria  |
QUOTE(HistoryBuff @ Nov 12 2013, 07:21 PM)  Was the owner injured? a couple of years back I read a note, that the bomb attak failed, because the owner wasn't in the car, the moment it detonated can't remember where I read this - and of course can't guarantee if correct ... |
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| SirAndy |
Nov 12 2013, 04:34 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,649 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(HistoryBuff @ Nov 12 2013, 10:21 AM) seeking facts The search here does work ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=Search&f=2 Type in "Tapiro" as the keyword (without the quotes), select "All Forums" under "Search Where" and hit the "Perform the search" button. Plenty of threads to read through ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) |
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