Enthusiast's tractor brings Porsche back to its roots
What do Porsche and Lamborghini have in common? Well, a lot. To begin with, both make highly desirable sports cars, and after the former bought up a serious stake in Volkswagen, which in turn had bought the latter, both are now under common ownership. Both have produced insanely powerful sport-utilities and both have built tractors. Lamborghini started out making tractors before Ferruccio's infamous run-in with Enzo Ferrari, after which he started making sportscars. The rest, as they say, is history. Porsche, on the other hand, started out in the opposite direction, producing sportscars before eventually moving on to sport-utes. But back in the 1950's, Porsche made a series of tractors as well. Now one enthusiast has brought it around full swing with this unique Porsche tractor.
The machine started out as a 14.5hp Partner lawn mower before its owner went to town, taking apart the engine and painting it yellow, fitting a custom stainless-steel exhaust, a fire extinguisher and a tachometer crafted from a 911 oil filter, then painting the body "Grand Prix Weiss" with "Idischrot" red accents. The result? Well, it won't be setting any Nürburgring lap records, but we'd be happy to see it face off against an old Porsche Diesel Super tractor to see which could mow The Green Hell fastest.
[Source: The Car Connection]
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CORVETTE ZR1 5:49PM (7/08/2008)
WTF ok... so... dose it have Turbo ?
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4agze 5:57PM (7/08/2008)
lol thats so true, very nice thou
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drmoomoo 5:58PM (7/08/2008)
Wake me up when somebody actually puts a Porsche engine in a tractor instead of giving a Lawn Boy a paint job.
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Kitko 6:05PM (7/08/2008)
Actually, there's one more common denominator. Both companies have or had an ugly off-road car in their repspetive model lists. Porsche, of course, the Cayenne, and Lambo the (in)famous LM002.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_LM002
BTW, ask a Ferrari enthusiast to list car companies in North Italy and you'll find out that Lamborghini is being referred to as a "tractor factory"
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havoc 6:40PM (7/08/2008)
The LM was a fantastic vehicle, on paper at least as i have never seen one in person...
evidently the US military blew one up that belonged to saddam's boys, as a demonstration as to an IED.
erikcantu 6:56PM (7/08/2008)
uh dude, he did mention that
"produced insanely powerful sport-utilities "
if you're going to be clever, you'd better be right.
993C4S 6:14PM (7/08/2008)
Any options with that? PSM? Ceramic Brakes?
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joystick 6:29PM (7/08/2008)
finally, something in common between porsche and honda...
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Gary Watts 6:51PM (7/08/2008)
I think I prefer the origional.
http://www.transeum.com/trucks/my-other-tractor-is-a-porsche.html
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HotRodzNKustoms 6:59PM (7/08/2008)
I have a friend with a real Porsche tractor. It's just a collectible now but very cool.
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Dan 9:00PM (7/08/2008)
I thought Porsche's roots were in making Panzers.
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DCragtop 10:15AM (7/10/2008)
bet it can't lap the 'Ring in under 8mins though. POS.
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