The Major's Porsche

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Today the neighboring village raised their maypole.

Of course the major had to be there.
He arrived in style with a Porsche:





A 1958 Porsche Junior 4, 1Cylinder, 14HP, 20Km/h.

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[CS]

Great post, and a total surprise! 

[Akira]

Looks cool!

The streamlined design doesn't seem to be necessary to the vehicle whose fastest speed is 20km/h.  But it should make the wash easier. 

[Hugh_3170]

Neat images.

Back when this machine was designed there were a number of single cylinder diesel tractors such as the German Lanz Bulldogs and the English Field Marshall single cylinder diesel wheel tractors and the odd track layer / crawler farm tractor around.  The noise and vibration from a single cylinder diesel tractor has got to experienced to be believed.  Tough on the drivers. Twin cylinder engines such as those used by John Deere were not uncommon either.

[MFloyd]

Hereunder, a brief history (in English) of the Porsche tractors:

http://www.porsche-diesel.com/history.aspx

[timh]

Learn something new every day! Thanks for sharing.

[Peter Connan]

Lovely photos of a very interesting machine!

[Thomas Stellwag]

buying a Porsche tractors is still the cheapest way to tell others, you´re driving a Porsche speedster 

[Mongo]

Interesting images and story but not too surprising. Remember that Lamborghini virtually started off making tractors

[Hugh_3170]

Good point Mongo.

David Brown tractors also gave rise to the Aston Marton sports car - James Bonds choice IIRC. 

Harry Fergusson also build a successful F1 4WD car and plenty of car engines were used in his tractors (notably Standard Vanguard petrol engines went into Fergusson tractors for a long while).

Interesting images and story but not too surprising. Remember that Lamborghini virtually started off making tractors

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Interesting images and story but not too surprising. Remember that Lamborghini virtually started off making tractors

Now finding a Lambo tractor in Germany, that would be a thing!

Like the Porsche tractor they found in South America (wish I would remember the details).

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[MFloyd]

Nice advertising around the Porsche tractor:

https://youtu.be/a_L-TZARjVs

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Nice ;-)

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[Akira]

Nice advertising around the Porsche tractor:

https://youtu.be/a_L-TZARjVs

Love it!  Thank you for sharing!