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Vasek Polak story
What's the story for Vasek Polak? Did he sold all the collection and dealership all together? Is the dealer call Pacific Porsche now?
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05-21-2003, 01:06 PM
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AFAIK he was killed in a car accident in Germany and his assests liquidated.
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05-21-2003, 01:11 PM
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the family liquidated when he died, as far as i know. several of his new old stock 930 engines went thru my shop during the sell-off.
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05-21-2003, 01:13 PM
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Wayne has some pictures of the "Garage sale" here:
http://www.pelicanparts.com/swapmeet_pics/vasek_garage.htm Some amazing stuff in there. Tom |
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05-21-2003, 01:56 PM
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No kidding! I'll probably never forget that photo of the 12-cylinder 917 engines stacked like so much cordwood.
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I thought I had more digitized articles about him, but can't find them at the moment. Here is his obituary from Autoweek.
http://www.nosubstitute.org/articles/Vasek_Polak/VasekPolakObitAutoweek-s1.jpg He was a great man in the history of the Porsche marque. Some folks say that he was a real SOB to work for, but he clearly knew his business and enjoyed his life to the fullest.
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05-21-2003, 10:13 PM
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The current issue of Excellence, (June '03), has an interesting article about Jack McAfee in which V. Polak figures prominently.
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