The Maverick Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 6, June 1965 Page: 2 of 2
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A READY SPARES SOURCE
Sears, Roebuck and Company offer a special free catalog of foreign auto parts and accessories.
It is a nicely arranged catalog with easy-to-read tables for carburetor gasket sets, fuel
pumps and kits, bearings (suspension and engine), brake linings, brake wheel cylinders and
kits, master cylinder kits, and many more. Porsche parts are listed in most of these tables
and the prices are a fraction of dealer prices, with a choice of imported parts or U.S. made
parts in most cases.
You may obtain one of these catalogs by sending a coupon from the Sears Spring and Summer '65
catalog (page 1027) or, probably, by sending a request on a postcard to: Sears, Roebuck and
Company, 1409 S. Lamar Street, Dallas, Texas 75202.
I have not made use of the catalog as yet, so I can make no evaluation of the quality of the
parts; however, the imported parts listed have names of familiar European manufacturers
(e.g., Mahle pistons) who make parts for the Porsche factory in Stuttgart. (Roger Chaney).
PORSCHE TYPE 912
ROAD 4 TRACK, July 1965, contains a brief article and several photographs concerning the
latest model from Stuttgart. According to Gunther Molter, the author, the Type 912 will
replace the Type 356 (both C and SC) at the end of 1965. To date, nothing to confirm this
announcement has been received from the Porsche factory, POAC, or PCA, but rumors have been
circulating which do seem to bear it out. It appears that after 16 years of production,
the Porsche 356 has evidently been superseded!
PRESSE-MITTEILUNG
ADAC 1,000 kIn Race on Nuerburgring: A GREAT DAY FOR PORSCHE
All Porsches entered reach the finish line; Surtees/Scarfiotti win in front of Parkes/Guichet,
both Ferrari Prototypes; Joakim Bonnier/Jochen Rindt take excellent 3rd position overall
after magnificent driving and win Prototype class 2000cc; Porsche GTS 904 wins GT class 2000cc
and 14.4 points for the World Manufacturer's Championship; 5th, 6th and 9th position overall
captured by the Porsche 6 cylinder cars.
Germany's greatest racing day belongs to the past: The ADAC 1000 kIn race, finished at 3:45 pm,
Sunday, May 23rd, and it was John Surtees on a Ferrari 4 liter prototype, who saw the chequered
flag first and won the race together with his copilot, Lodovico Scarfiotti, at an average
speed of 145.9 kIn/h. On second place, we find another 400 horsepower Ferrari, driven by the
English/French team, Parkes/Guichet. The two GP aces, Joakim Bonnier and Jochen Rindt, in
the Porsche 2 liter 8 cylinder, did a great job and crossed the finish line on third place,
enthusiastically applauded by an immense crowd of 300,000 spectators, who had been witnessing
the hard duel between the monster cars of Ferrari and Ford and the 2 liter cars from
Zuffenhausen. The 8 cylinder Porsche thus won the Prototype class up to 2000cc.
From the 64 cars which had been on the starting grid on Sunday morning, only 38 survived the
heavy battle on the difficult circuit, among them, all Porsches entered; whereas, the Ford
Prototypes and Ford Cobras, with two exceptions, fell out due to engine trouble, fuel
starvation, etc. The fifth and sixth place overall was captured by the Porsche 6 cylinder
Prototypes of Maglioli/Linge and Nocker/Klass. The fourth position was taken by a new car
from Italy which appeared for the first time on a German circuit, the Ferrari "Dino", named
after the late son of Enzo Ferrari. This 1600cc Prototype, built on the basis of the Ferrari
Grand Prix car, with a maximum speed of 270 km/h, showed a very good performance on the Eifel
course and one should have an eye on it in future races.
The GT class up to 2000cc was comfortably lead by Ben Pon/Gerhard Koch with the Porsche GTS
904. They set up a new GT lap record in the first half of the race. However, bad luck didn't
exempt them and due to defective shock absorbers, they had to go into the pits where they lost
one lap. The GT class was then won by the two German drivers, Schutz/Fischhaber on a privately
entered Porsche Carrera 904. This class victory brings again 14.4 GT World Championship
points to Porsche.
* * * .* *
EDGAR BARTH, one of Germany's best racing drivers and the Captain of the Porsche racing team,
died on May 20th, 1965 at the age of 48, after a lengthy illness. A few days before the ADAC
1000 km Race on the Nuerburgring, where he won so many times on his Porsche, he closed his
eyes forever. With the death of Edgar Barth, the German and international motorsport loses
a sportsman of high qualities and capabilities, whose kind and modest behavior won the hearts
of the public; our factory loses its most successful driver and a very good friend.
(The preceding extracted from Porsche factory bulletins)
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