Skoda destroys Porsche (house)

[new2ford]

Porsche fans are up in arms because Ferdinand Porsche's birthplace in Vratislavice, Czech Republic has been largely demolished in a "reconstruction-restoration" by its owner Skoda Auto which is creating a museum celebrating the Czech car industry (Porsche was Czech).

http://www.visitliberec.eu/en/aktual...eho-rodny-dum/

That's before. The photos here show how it's going!

http://liberec.idnes.cz/bourani-rodn...erec-zpravy_tm

(hopefully the auto translate will work for you)

The claim is that the front of the building was a later modification and it's being reconstructed to how it looked when Porsche was born there - even if it becomes mostly new in the process.

Mind you, how many "historic" car restorations involve majority replacement of original material so maybe it's not inappropriate for the industry!

Porsche later went to Germany where he plagiarised a Czech Tatra design to create the Beetle that started the VW empire, so maybe it's an appropriate form of Czech payback!