ORIGINAL: DSCBoy Crikey, that Belgian lad doesn't pull his punches does he??? "Stamps of official Porsche dealers do never look like that and there is a stamp from “Porsche†at … Motors on the Torhoutssteenweg 575. That can only be in Belgium and I can tell you there is no Porsche dealer or an independent specialist here on that address and there never was!!!"
Mm. As a fellow Belgian, there is a bit of nuance to add I think. D'ieteren, the local Porsche importer, is also the importer for VW/Audi/Seat/ and other VAG group vehicles. Guy Steen, the poster on Pistonheads, is right in that there is no porsche specialist on any such address in Ostend. However, In Ostend (Oostende) there is Ostend Motors, Official Audi/VW dealer, on the Torhoutsesteenweg 575.
When we look closely at the stamp, there is indeed something unusual about it as it says "porsche" with a space- suggesting the company name is missing-and then PVBA. Belgian legislation changed in 1986 where limited private companies (PVBA) where changed into BVBA (Limited private companies with restricted capital), thus making this stamp somewhat out of date for 1997. I hazard a guess that a former owner, perhaps one associated with D'ieteren through a VAG dealership, maintained it in their (local) VAG dealership. Often, a spannermen in there were known to work on various aircooled Porsches. Anyway, Des...
OSTEND MOTORS Torhoutsesteenweg, 575 8400 OOSTENDE 059/55.20.10
info@ostend.vw-audi.be; Perhaps someone, somewhere remembers a story about it. Regards, Bert
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