Arthur Smid

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VINTAGE PORSCHE
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In the black and white era I was born just too
early, on 6/11. The passion for Porsche was
administered to me with the porridge spoon.



          My name is Arthur Smid and I am obsessed by classic Porsches from the sixties and seventies,
          the most interesting period in the automotive history and my time, in which I gained my drivers
          licence in a VW Beetle and dreamed of a Porsche. Nowadays we have a cellphone on our 8th
          birthday, a moped with 16 years and a car when you get 18. But in the sixties the ownership of
          a car was not so self-evident as the air that we breath. And a Porsche? Not an option at all! But
          dreams can come true if you show enough patience and percerverance. It took 30 years before
          I collected the money for my dream. But then I really had something: one of the firstly produced
          specimen of my great love. Built in the last months of 1964, the period in which my picture in the
          center was made and a 901 (that was how it was namend initially) brochure was over my bed.



          Do you want to see what my life was like in this period in Rotterdam South (happiness was
          so ordinary then...          ) Click here. My passion for noise and smoke? My passion for flying ?

          Some 30 years later, in 1993, we discovered my cherished primal 911 by coincidence in a dusty
          American barn, like the sleeping beauty. Meanwhile we have kissed this unique car awake. You
          can find the story under the chapter The barn find of a '64 911. My centerpiece is 47 years old now.

          This website with useful and senseless information about classic Porsches was purely made for
          entertainment. I hope that you will read it with the same joy that I felt when making it. The picture
          below is from the period that I was able to score my first Porsche. Still with hair and moustache...

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