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 Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 5:00 pm Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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Silver open 356 racing, YouTube "Watkins Glen racing history- 25 years at speed" about the famous race track Watkins Glen in central New York state.
Dual-grill 356 B or C in background, movie "The killer has a thousand eyes" (1974). With the large rear window size, could it be a Karmann hardtop coupe?
Front of a 356 B or C, YouTube video "The making of Funeral in Berlin" (1966).
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2025 8:04 pm Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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Red 356 C Cabrio, German movie "Alter Kahn, junge Liebe" (1973), translated "Old Kahn, young love".
Black 356 Speedster, movie "Go ask Alice" (1973).
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2025 6:00 am Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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Triple composite of dual-grille 356 B Coupe accompanying a 1930's Auto Union mid-engine Grand Prix racer, YouTube "Edelweiss Bergpreis Rossfeld" (2024). The Rossfeld Panorama Road is a scenic toll road in southeastern Germany near Berchtesgaden. The magnificent mid-engined racer was designed by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche. This car with its dual rear wheels was set up for hillclimbs in the mid-to late 1930's. The dual rear tires helped bring the power to the ground for better traction, from the V16 supercharged watercooled engine (!). Hans Stuck (Sr.) was one of the few drivers who mastered the handling on sharp curves on hillclimbs in that era. The racer (an original, not replica) is from Audi's museum collection in Ingolstadt.
Composite of 356 B dual-grill Coupe in background, German TV crime drama show "Strassenfeger" ep. 14.
Red 356 Coupe at right on street, YouTube video "1972 Southern California Catalina, LA, and more".
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Rome
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2025 4:18 am Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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356 Coupes racing at the German Nuerburgring during the 1000 Km race in 1958. From Motorsport Images. In the first photo, the slender Nuerburg castle can be seen along the top of one of the hills in center background.
Ivory 356 B Coupe parked at left, TV show "The streets of San Francisco" episode "Superstar" season 4 ep. 21 (1976).
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Rome
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2025 3:55 pm Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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Seen in visitor photos of the Murphy Auto Museum in Oxnard, CA (I hope these images work; preview does not show them):
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Rome
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2025 8:04 am Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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Have any of you seen photos of the award-winning '60 356 B custom built by Tim Franklin, or possibly even been to the SEMA show in Las Vegas earlier this month? "Battle of the builders".
Coverage starts at 1:59: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6R4Zq1s-U |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 5:16 am Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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356 Coupes racing at the German Nuerburgring during the 1000 Km race in 1958. From Motorsport Images. In the first photo, the slender Nuerburg castle can be seen along the top of one of the hills in center background.
Ivory 356 B Coupe parked at left, TV show "The streets of San Francisco" episode "Superstar" season 4 ep. 21 (1976).
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1955 Nurburgring race, Porsche 356 and more:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/swr-retro-sport-...zIxNTUzOTI |
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Rome
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 7:49 am Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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An excellent resource, wagen! Are you able to take screen shots, prepare them, and post them here? There are many races covered in this video; all are from the German Touring Car Championship in 1955, with the first one shown being production sports cars- a field full of Porsche 356 in 2 batches- 1500 cc and the 2nd one at 1300 cc. 
Is that a young Graham Hill at lower right @ 0:43? |
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wagen19
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 9:42 am Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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| Rome wrote: |
An excellent resource, wagen! Are you able to take screen shots, prepare them, and post them here? There are many races covered in this video; all are from the German Touring Car Championship in 1955, with the first one shown being production sports cars- a field full of Porsche 356 in 2 batches- 1500 cc and the 2nd one at 1300 cc.
Is that a young Graham Hill at lower right @ 0:43? |
Hello dear Rome,
I think, you have the better possibilities for making screen shots and posting them.
Up to now I did no search for for more info about that race at Nurburgring late May of 1955, only here:
https://www.racingsportscars.com/results/Nurburgring-1955-05-29.html
At "ARD Mediathek" (german TV), with some luck, we can find some more good material. |
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wagen19
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2025 1:26 am Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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| Rome wrote: |
An excellent resource, wagen! Are you able to take screen shots, prepare them, and post them here? There are many races covered in this video; all are from the German Touring Car Championship in 1955, with the first one shown being production sports cars- a field full of Porsche 356 in 2 batches- 1500 cc and the 2nd one at 1300 cc.
Is that a young Graham Hill at lower right @ 0:43? |
OK, it seems quite possible, that he is it with 26 years.
Among the Porsche 356 drivers are some interesting names along VW and Porsche motorsport history, such as Walter Hampel (VLK), Paul-Ernst Strahle, Victor Spingler, Max Nathan and more.
It was planned as a big party with some show events, stimulating sales.
https://www.racingsportscars.com/results/Nurburgring-1955-05-29a.html
Interesting would be, if there were 356 cars with early Carrera engines in the field.
Goetze is a factory that made piston rings and much more. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:28 pm Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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Hello dear Rome,
I think, you have the better possibilities for making screen shots and posting them. |
wagen, I took some screen shots of 356 Coupes from the 1955 Eifelrennen and will load them to my gallery soon.
Brown 356 cabrio in background behind "Terry the toad" actor Charles Martin Smith, YT video "The making of American Graffiti" (1973 movie).
Silver 356 Coupe, TV show "CHiPs" S3E22.
Quad composite of light-colored 356 A Cabrio. German TV 1960's crime drama show "Strassenfeger" ep. 6. Another 356 Cabrio driving past in the upper shots, a Ghia Coupe in the lower left shot, and an oval-window Beetle at lower right.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 6:00 am Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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Hello dear Rome,
I think, you have the better possibilities for making screen shots and posting them. |
wagen, I took some screen shots of 356 Coupes from the 1955 Eifelrennen and will load them to my gallery soon.
Brown 356 cabrio in background behind "Terry the toad" actor Charles Martin Smith, YT video "The making of American Graffiti" (1973 movie).
Silver 356 Coupe, TV show "CHiPs" S3E22.
Quad composite of light-colored 356 A Cabrio. German TV 1960's crime drama show "Strassenfeger" ep. 6. Another 356 Cabrio driving past in the upper shots, a Ghia Coupe in the lower left shot, and an oval-window Beetle at lower right.
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Thanks Rome, ep. 6 is my favorite of "Die fünfte Kolonne". The junkjards in some episodes are also pretty interesting. Ep. 2, 5, 11 and 21 imo are also very cool. And of course, the western spies had allways won.
There are more old german TV-criminal and spy-series with some interesting cars and so on, such as:
Stahlnetz, Das Kriminalmuseum (ep. 14: 3 356A and 5 356 B police convertibles) and more for children, Cliff Dexter, Percy Stuart.
Also to mention is "Die Olsenbande" from Denmark. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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Here you go, wagen-
Per the above link- Porsche 356 race before start. The Nuerburg castle's tower is visible in the background. Just below the bottom edge of the photo was the video's "progress bar" which I was not able to work around. Rather than have it distract from the overall shot, I cropped the photo to just above it. Nearly all cars have license plates; thereby likely all driven to the race.
Composite of 356 at the start-
In the "Caroussel" left-banked turn-
And a group going into a right turn-
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Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2025 10:32 am Post subject: Re: 356 in Kill Bill and other media |
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I’m pretty sure this is just a photo shoot. Mariah doesn’t drive. She’s driven.
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2 red Porsche 356s parked; French racing driver Jean Behra in foreground. YouTube video of the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix, Riverside International Raceway, California 1958.
From the same event- Red Porsche 356 Coupe at right, ivory 356 Coupe parked at left in background.
Blue 356 Coupe parked along Sunset Blvd, Pacific Palisades, California. TV show "CHiPs", S2E5. Exact location is on the northbound side, between Monument and Carey Streets. Diagonally across the street from the elementary school which I attended in the mid '60's. Looking at GoogleMaps street view now, you only see near-empty lots due to the buildings being burned in the enormous Palisades fire last Feb. 
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