{"id":38564,"date":"2018-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/porsche-356-a-training-chassis\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:46:38","slug":"porsche-356-a-training-chassis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/porsche-356-a-training-chassis\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche 356 A Training Chassis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exerciser for US Porsche mechanics.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nowadays, newly trained car mechanics, automotive mechatronics and technicians gain insights into technical components during their training – in Germany for example at professional schools alongside the practical training in the respective workshops. Although today often only parts and components are exchanged after the failures are read out from the internal computer systems, basics are laid. But that has not always been the case. When the first Porsche sports cars arrived in the US, local mechanics did not immediately know which components could be reached via  the interior best and how to maintain engine, gearbox and suspension.

But Porsche had a very capable man in the US, who not only asked the sports car brand from Zuffenhausen for an importer contract for the American market, but also many other European manufacturers. Of course we are talking about the legendary Mr Max Hoffman from New York. He asked Porsche for a cheaper entry level model, which became the 356 Speedster and in 1956 ordered a bare working chassis of the 356 A for his mechanics. At this chassis, different parts and components then could be disassembled, reassembled and screwed back in place to internalize workshop processes. In addition, the suspension components on both sides of the vehicle differ in order to increase the teaching value. While the left side shows thrusted ball bearings from VW, on the right it wears reinforced tapered roll bearings, as found in later 356 models. Hoffman on the one hand wanted to train also his VW mechanics and on the other hand show, that they shouldn’t just use VW spare parts for Porsche 356s after a certain production date.<\/p>\n\n\n

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