Porsche, like each different large-scale producer, makes use of plenty of robots to construct its automobiles. But it did not at all times was that means. For the vast majority of its existence, Porsche hand-built its machines the old style means. Let this selfmade video from an American visiting Germany in 1986 offer you a glance inside how Porsche constructed the 911 and the 928 almost 40 years in the past.

This video, revealed to YouTube again in 2022, comes from person tasturbo86, who purchased a 911 Turbo new again within the day and selected the European supply possibility. That means they acquired to fly to Germany to see their automobile for the primary time, and take a complimentary tour of Porsche’s amenities. And we get to tag alongside.

The video is sort of 20 minutes of insider footage displaying the personnel-heavy manufacturing course of, from constructing flat-six and V8 engines to physique meeting, dyno testing, and extra. It’s an enchanting take a look at how Porsche put collectively its automobiles utilizing principally individuals, not machines.

This course of carried by way of to the 993-generation 911 within the late Nineties. While having a hand-made automobile made for a very good promoting level at dealerships, the excessive prices related to this manufacturing technique contributed to the corporate’s brush with chapter throughout that point. In the change to the 996-generation 911 and automobiles just like the Boxster and Cayenne, extra machines had been used, driving prices down.