Total 911 recounts the story behind a famous picture from Porsche’s past…

In spring 1975 a customer is inspecting the new Porsche 930 that, thanks to its turbocharger, was probably the most sensational car you could buy. And it attracted the rich and famous like no car since Jaguar’s E-Type.

Here in centre shot, the renowned conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan is at Porsche, surveying the new 911 with a critical eye, although another from the series of photographs taken that day shows him grinning like a schoolboy as he climbs into the 930 on the Weissach track. And who could blame him for such a reaction?