Flachbau Cabriolet
We’re pretty sure that many Total 911 readers had at least one Porsche photo or poster on their walls as kids. I know I did. There, against the woodchip paper of my 1980s bedroom, in pride of place next to various scantily clad ladies and band posters, was a stunning image of a Guards red Flatnose Cabriolet sitting on top of a cloud of dry ice. Could it have been any more right for the time?
It was the stuff of mere fantasy to 10-year-old me. The sensually sloping visage of these Stuttgart exotics represented everything wonderful about the period. The additional wing vents, the pop-up headlamps, the deep rear-quarter intakes. It was almost a roofless 935 for posing, and if you’re old enough to remember the 1980s, you’ll already know that there was a great deal of that going on at the time.
Fast forward to the present day, and despite several scale-models cluttering my desk, I’d pretty much given up on the idea of ever owning one for real. A
