Vehicle Description
1990 Uwe Gemballa 911 - 964 Slant-Nose Cabriolet RARE - AUTHENTIC -
ORIGINAL Manual Transmission Power Windows Power Top Sound System
and,, Of Course,,, Gemballa's Performance and Cosmetic Touches. You
may go your entire life and never see another. This is a One of One
bild as Gemaballas typically were very individual builds and
limited to a few produced by the famed builder. Defining refining
Since 1981, the name GEMBALLA has been synonymous with bespoke
tuned cars based on Porsche vehicles. Prior to that, the firm
worked on a small handful of other premium brands by special
request. In the ensuing years, innovative milestones were laid down
by GEMBALLA, whose visionary ideas set the tone for the burgeoning
luxury car personalisation industry. No other name is so strongly
linked to the early days of aftermarket tuning, particularly
working on Porsche vehicles. 1989 Developing programmes for the
Porsche 964 and 965 model lines Development and production of the
first 964 'Turbo-look' cars, leading to the complete GEMBALLA
aerodynamic and technology programmes for the 964 and 965 models.
Special requests from specific countries, especially the United
Arab Emirates, resulted in GEMBALLA carrying out development work
on uprated air conditioning systems, and the bespoke installation
of multi-media systems, fax machines and other specialist
equipment. During the 40-year history of GEMBALLA, the standard for
an entire industry was in many ways set by this company,
particularly in the areas of design, aerodynamics and performance.
Latterly, new model designations like MISTRALE, TORNADO, AERO, and
GT have joined the legendary AVALANCHE and MIRAGE, and are also
instantly recognised by car enthusiasts all over the world. Their
common bond is GEMBALLA, and their birthplace is the town of
Leonberg, near Stuttgart. Gemballa - A Brief History So who are
Gemballa? What do they do? And what the hell does the Marsien have
to do with anything? Well that's what we're here to explain... Uwe
the top Gemballa was founded by Uwe Gemballa in 1981 in Germany's
automotive heartland; Stuttgart. Or rather in Leonberg, just
outside the city. Home to Porsche, amongst other world-renowned
car-makers, Gemballa Automobiltechnik (Gmbh) was established when
Uwe was in his mid-twenties, his history prior to that very much
under-wraps (seriously, Google Uwe Gemballa and see what you get).
The remit of the company, as far as we can see, was to offer
upgrades to cars that went far beyond a simple re-tune. Focussing
on wealthy, oft-eccentric clientele, the early years were dominated
by one-off custom works for Porsche & Mercedes-Benz owners. Yet
Gemballa were just getting started. 1985 brought two rather more
eccentric conversions to the world's attention, the Gemballa BMW
635CSi... and the Gemballa Avalanche. The former, in near-Canary
yellow form, was purchased by someone in the UAE and was later
discovered in the palace of Uday Hussein, one of Saddam Hussein's
two sons. With bodywork more-representative of what would soon
become a Gemballa signature, featuring hugely inflated rear arches,
aggressive intakes, new lights and bumpers - front and back - and a
lavishly revamped interior, it was everything the BMW wasn't;
extravagant, unapologetic to the point of garishness, it was a car
for standing out, for drawing attention. But it was nothing in
comparison to the Avalanche. "Mainstream" There is nothing about
Gemballa, past or present, that's mainstream, let's be clear about
that. However, with the launch of the Avalanche, an evolution - if
we can call it that - of the Porsche 930 Flachbau (Flatnose),
already an evolution of the Porsche 911 Turbo, and a production run
that produced 15 of the beasts, Gemballa had announced themselves
on the world stage. Though they also produced the Cyrrus, a
non-turbo convertible variant, it was the $500,000 (more than $1
million in modern money) Avalanche, with it's huge rear haunches,
wild intakes
