Probing the South African connection
Article by John Bentley
The story of the South African-built 356s is shrouded in mystery.
John Bentley sketches the scenario-but admits it is not the final word on the saga.
‘A Porsche model built in South Africa?’ The small group of Zuffenhausen middle management brass looked at me in disbelief. I knew it had happened back in the early ‘60s. South African importers Lindsay Saker had assembled a series of 356B ‘hardtops’ in Johannesburg. More than that I was unable to tell. How I wished, on that visit to Stuttgart back in 1985, that I had had the facts at my fingertips. For it is a story known by few, if any, of the modern generation at Dr. ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG.
