911s flooding the Essen show.

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Let's first state that Porsche 911s are incredible, awesome cars. They are so much loved and so well known in every aspect that we didn't feel the need to show you one. They bring 200 percent of German perfection in every detail and even washer. A switch is a switch and a gauge is a gauge that will perform without surprises. The cars are amazing in performance, in breaking, in steering. And there's little dramatic to report in the area of maintenance. They don't rust, they don't break, they don't desintegrate. They just stay forever and their numbers only grow.  So they have everything in them not to become a classic. They're just too good to become rare or really desirable like a true classic is.  
Still, no matter how you think of the tail engined products of Zuffenhausen....yes, they became classics. Despite being all over the place and not rare at all. Despite the fact that they saw little to no changes in design over more than half a century the Porsche buying half of the world adores them and will empty their pockets, go red on their plastic and pay a fortune too much to get one of the used 9.11 million nine elevens ever produced (of all pre-1990 911s roughly 150,000(!) are still on the road according to Wikipedia).  We didn't count them but the Techno Classica had more of these on show than an average MacDonald's will spit burgers on an average Friday night between 5 and six. But not at a Dollar a piece. More like 300,000 a piece. Will this go on forever, will those prices continue their hillclimb competition? At one of the stiff upperlip stands (in a German sense) where prices start not before writing down 6 zeros first, we saw this. It's the kind of stand where no explanantion comes with the cars and no pricing.

The numbers that count are discussed behind palmtrees and cardboard expo walls. Still something had changed there by Friday night. The arrogantly parked cars suddenly showed white A4 papers on their windshields with black marker text added in the girlie handwriting of one of the hostesses. A fearsome expensive looking track-911 now showed on the window "Restored By Factory". It seemed as if this high end dealer had landed and suddenly remembered the times when he still was a used car dealer. It seems that the old story may be true:  a 911 can break as fast as it can accelerate.

(showing above is no 911 of course but a truly rare and ultimately desirable post-war classic, a bit like our new logo as shown above. Do you know what it is?  We will raffle three PostWarClassic T-shirts among the senders between now and Saturday morning April 15, 2016. Mentioning Make, Year and Type is enough to participate.)

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