<VV> '63 911 - '63 Vair

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<Well, maybe Porsche had a problem with their center cylinders on their  
development 6 cylinder engines, but the 911 came out in '63. First US 
models  
were delivered in '65, the last year of their 356.>
 
Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the matter:
 
 <The new car [i.e. the Porsche 911] made its public debut at the  1963 
_Frankfurt Motor Show_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Motor_Show)  
(_German_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language) : Internationale  
Automobil-Ausstellung).   The car presented at  the auto show had a 
non-operational mockup of the 901 engine, receiving a  working one in February 1964.>
 
In any case, I think we can safely say that when the Corvair was introduced 
 on October 2, 1959 its flat six engine was NOT "Porsche-inspired" and that 
 when the 1963 Corvair (the subject of the Mecum auction in question) was  
introduced in the fall of 1962 Porsche was still not producing a car with a 
flat  six engine.
 
~Bill Stanley