My own fascination with aircooled Porsches dates back a few years. I don’t have one of those stories about a grandfather/uncle/neighbor owning one, but I do recall a time when ordinary folks used them for ordinary commutes. I had a summer job (between years of college) working at a Porsche repair/restoration shop down in San […]
Checkout this 1969 Porsche 912 with 3.0 liter 911 flat-6 here on eBay bidding for $11,100 with auction ending today (Wednesday) at 12:23PM PST.
I never thought I’d see the day where a hacked up Porsche 912 offered for something less than $20k would be a good deal…but then I never thought that kids would snort cinnamon and listen to Nickelback, so there are a lot of things that I’ll never understand, but need to accept. Find this 1966 […]
The Porsche 912 was the skinny kid in high school, you know, the one who was ridiculed for being powered by a flat-4 and not a 911? Imagine a world in which that skinny kid joined a gym, got addicted to anabolic steroids, and hit the gym everyday for a decade. Now he is back […]
The Porsche 912, a car that a few years ago was the laughing stock of the air cooled world, but got a massive injection of cool when early 911 prices went full Super Saiyan and the flat-4 little brother 912 just rode the fireball to previously unknown price heights. Suddenly these unloved 90 horsepower slow […]
The Porsche 912 was introduced in 1965 as an entry level companion to the Porsche 911. To save costs, it used an updated version of the pushrod flat-4 type 616 engine from the Porsche 356 SC. For years the little brother of the 911 was very affordable, but in the past decade the prices have […]
If the rusty Porsche 912 we posted yesterday left you feeling less than thrilled, perhaps today’s clean and rust free example will get you going. Yesterday’s example may have lulled you in with its pristine interior before revealing some hideous rot underneath, but this one bludgeons you straight in the face with big fender flares, […]
The Porsche 912 was the entry level offering from Porsche before the 914 was released and used a flat-4 engine similar to what powered the old bathtub shaped 356. A few years ago the 912 market was in the dumps, but somebody figured out that they were cheaper to run than a vintage 911 and […]
An interesting advertisement appeared on SF Bay Area craigslist yesterday for a lot of 8 classic automobiles. The full list is: 1969 Porsche 912, 1968 Porsche 912 targa, 1967 912 targa, 1963 Mercedes-Benz 230 SL W113, 1973 BMW 2002 , 1961 VW Type 1, 1962 VW Type 1, 1963 VW Type 1 and the seller […]
If you think of the Porsche 912 as a slow 911 it seems pointless, but define it as a prettier 914 and suddenly things get better. You could even call it a good-looking well-built Beetle or a 356 with better handling if you really want to mix things up…but don’t get your sweater-vest in a […]