Porsche Factory - Day 1, '72 MY Production

Photographed in August, 1971

updated, 1/2/03

These images were a result of a letter requesting a tour of the factory during a trip in the summer of 1971, a year before the infamous Munich Olympics. This is the Porsche manufacturing plant at Zuffenhausen, a suburb of Stuttgart. According to sources on that day, it was the first day of production for the 1972 model year. At some point in time thereafter, the factory disallowed photography inside the assembly plants. Thus, these are rare historical images of early 911s in various stages of manufacture.

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Technical Details
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35mm High Speed Ektachrome ISO200 color transparency

Nikkormat 35mm camera w/ Nikkor 50mm f1.4 lens.

Transparencies were commercially scanned at high resolution and burned into a Kodak PhotoCD format. The resultant images were retouched in Adobe Photoshop for general cleanup and color correction, then optimized and sized for print reproduction.

Digital photos are printed on Fujicolor Crystal Archive, resin-based photographic paper using Fuji chemicals.

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