This Sunday passed away Ferdinand Karl Piëch, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche. A controversial figure in the motorsport industry, Ferdinand Piëch was at the helm of Volkswagen and Audi for many years. He is credited for saving VW from bankruptcy in the early 90’s and transforming Audi in a premium brand.
But to me, though, he will always be remembered as the father of the Porsche 917.
Ferdinand Karl Piëch
*04/17/1937
+08/25/2019
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Handmade with silver, gold, platinum and diamonds, this little jewel is going on auction next month. Looks like bidding with start at US$ 90.000,00, so start saving those dimes and nickles.
A couple of days ago WordPress decided to do an upgrade on their software. Oh yes, upgrades are always nice, right? Well, they also upgraded their editor, so that meant a change to the layout. Nothing big, but I spent at least some 4 hours changing stuff to the new layout.
Looks like things are working alright, and I have to admit it did clean up a bit the looks of the pages. But I can’t insert an image (emoticon) inside a text anymore, so there was a trade off.
Anyone remotely interested in scale cars and dioramas has seen Michael Paul Smith’s photos. He’s basically synonymous to scale car dioramas, and his models, dioramas and photography were absolutely gorgeous.
He passed away on November 19th, and many say he has finally moved to Elgin Park.
He will be missed.
Since yesterday Photobucket’s hosting service has been crappy AGAIN. Some photos are loading and some aren’t 
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Yep. Again .
Hard to post new content this way.
And, we’re back!
Since yesterday night. Which means half the blogs on the planet are without pics. And yes, W–143 is in the same boat
Yay…
