I've owned for some time the plate that graced the second 911 to ever be registered in Australia, and the first 911 ever registered in Victoria, being JGL-911.
I'll let Michael Browning explain :
A nice '911' number, but with the added heritage and kudos of being the 1st in Vic.....
Offered here first, for $3,500.
I'll let Michael Browning explain :
Alan remembers Norman Hamilton & Co’s first 911 demonstrator – very well.
“I was staying right on the old Solitude Ring circuit on the outskirts of Stuttgart and every morning I’d get up early and put in a couple of quick laps,” he recalled. “It sounded magnificent through the forest!”
Within the week he was off to Austria in the car to pick up his father, who had taken on the inaugural Qantas flight to Vienna and on the way back they stumbled across one of the original 46 Gmund-built aluminium 356 Coupes in a farmer’s yard in the German Alps.
“It was chassis No 5,” said Alan “and the farmer was looking for someone to take off his hands! We didn’t have the money there and then, but we referred him to the factory. It was one of the great lost opportunities.”
Back in Australia, the Slate Grey coupe with its chrome-plated wheels, red luggage straps and Blaupunkt ‘Vienna’ radio, was registered JGL-911 and served as the Porsche company demonstrator before being sold to a Sydney customer.
A nice '911' number, but with the added heritage and kudos of being the 1st in Vic.....
Offered here first, for $3,500.
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