A racing driver named Alfred Neubauer, would soon follow ferdinand Porsche to the Daimler factory in Germany, where he would become legendary in the Thirties as Daimler Benz racing manager. Interestingly, Perry Porsche, then only 12, helped his father break in one of the Saschas which his father had recently designed. Still, there was no getting around the dissention and decline then setting in at Austro-Daimler, which was still wedded to luxus automobiles and wealthy clients. In 1922, the board decided to withdraw from racing, ostensibly after an A-D driver was killed in an accident. But the real reason was money, or rather, the lack of it. A-D’s foreign exchange earnings were being converted into rapidly devaluing Austrian schillings, and the resulting need to economize prompted the board to cut off development funds for a Porsche designed 2.0-liter racing Sascha capable of 106 mph. Never one to suffer fools gladly, Porsche hurled a gold cigarette lighter at the directors and stormed out. Given his small-car dreams, and the board’s opposition, he was probably right to do so. Though Karl Rabe, later Porsche’s righthand man, when he was manufacturing a whole range of new Porsche for sale, replaced him at Austro-Daimler, the firm would be out of business within 10 years. Porsche, meantime, had gone to Germany, where he became technical director and a board member at Daimler in Stuttgart. It was another timely move.