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Byline: J.P. VETTRAINO
His name was Jim, we're fairly certain. Jim was an AutoWeek subscriber, an engineer by trade, an autocrosser and loyal Porsche owner by passion.
It was somewhere about the mid-1990s, and Jim was pitching a story. Circumstances allowed him to own only one car, that being a 911, and with some thinking and a handful of two-by-fours, he'd developed a simple, inexpensive rack that allowed his 911 to haul sheets of plywood and sundry building materials. Jim figured other 911 owners would find his invention useful, and he was willing to share.
For some reason, Jim popped to mind as we sat in the rear seat of a 2003 Porsche ...
Source: HighBeam Research, EasyStreet; Porsche gets into the truck business.(News)(Porache...