The very first (pre-356) Porsche car !!
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Originally Posted by zicoramone
Doc:
It's not as simple as that, I'm afraid. For Porsche, AG the Porsche Nr. 1 it's 1948 356 Roadster chassis-No. 356-001 engine-No. 356-2-034969 made of aluminum at Gmünd. In the first day of December of 1930 (a date we all should celebrate
) Porsche created for the first time the «Porsche company» at the time with the complicated name of Porsche Konstruktionsburo fur Motoren Fahrzeug Luftfahrzeug und Wasserfahrzeugbau - only for a few months because the company became «Dr.Ing.h.c.F.Porsche KG» in 6.03.1931.
I doubt that the type 64 was the first car to hold Porsche's name on its body as you said - because that was not suppose to happen. Originally Type 64 didn't had the Porsche tag, so Porsche nr.1 will always be the Gmund prototype cars.
The converted sawmill in Gmund, Austria produced less than 50 hand built aluminum cars prior to move to Stuttgart.
The 356 chassis number 356/2-040, was built in 1949, and is consider to be the oldest original condition Porsche in the world by Porsche AG (not the type 64) . This chassis 040 incorporated an aluminum engine rather than magnesium and is the first use of hydraulic brakes in a Porsche.
Chassis 040 was sold in 1953 by Louise Piech (Ferdinand Porsche's daughter) to Otto Mathe. In 1996, after Mathe died, it was sold to Austrian Porsche enthusiast, Franz Rathkolb. And then in 2003 it was purchased by...cough cough...Jerry Seinfeld.
It's not as simple as that, I'm afraid. For Porsche, AG the Porsche Nr. 1 it's 1948 356 Roadster chassis-No. 356-001 engine-No. 356-2-034969 made of aluminum at Gmünd. In the first day of December of 1930 (a date we all should celebrate
) Porsche created for the first time the «Porsche company» at the time with the complicated name of Porsche Konstruktionsburo fur Motoren Fahrzeug Luftfahrzeug und Wasserfahrzeugbau - only for a few months because the company became «Dr.Ing.h.c.F.Porsche KG» in 6.03.1931.I doubt that the type 64 was the first car to hold Porsche's name on its body as you said - because that was not suppose to happen. Originally Type 64 didn't had the Porsche tag, so Porsche nr.1 will always be the Gmund prototype cars.
The converted sawmill in Gmund, Austria produced less than 50 hand built aluminum cars prior to move to Stuttgart.
The 356 chassis number 356/2-040, was built in 1949, and is consider to be the oldest original condition Porsche in the world by Porsche AG (not the type 64) . This chassis 040 incorporated an aluminum engine rather than magnesium and is the first use of hydraulic brakes in a Porsche.
Chassis 040 was sold in 1953 by Louise Piech (Ferdinand Porsche's daughter) to Otto Mathe. In 1996, after Mathe died, it was sold to Austrian Porsche enthusiast, Franz Rathkolb. And then in 2003 it was purchased by...cough cough...Jerry Seinfeld.
. That is an excellent lesson of Porsche history.But, the question is still valid, why Porsche company keeps ignoring type 64?
And if you can clearly see in the first photo that Porsche name is on the grill of type 64!! I don't believe it was put later by Otto Mathe
. Isn't it?Cheers.
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07-21-2007, 09:45 AM
Originally Posted by doc911
I am sorry, I can't see the photo.