FLOATING ON AIR
As much as the clothes we wear and the haircuts we favour (well, not me, obviously), trends in automotive styling serve future generations as an insight into what life looked like years beforehand. It’s a funny thing — though the appearance of old buildings rarely changes, archive footage of the places we know can seem surreal, depicted as they are with the shape of once commonplace four-wheelers long forgotten or seldom seen. But wait! Rolling into shot is the unmistakable shape of an air-cooled 911. Few manufacturers have succeeded in achieving vehicle design standing the test of time, but Ferdinand ‘Butzi’ Porsche’s coachwork for the 356’s successor is as popular today as it ever was, not only through the way the curves drawn from his pen almost sixty years ago…
