Some Porsche Weirdness

"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich) 11/01/2019 at 17:44 • Filed to: None

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I recently was at the Porsche and Mercedes-Benz Museums in Stuttgart. I’m going to start sharing some of the more interesting/unusual things I came across.

Let’s start with this:

Looks like a 1st gen 911, right? Now let’s have a look at the back:

Not a Porsche 911.

What this actually is, is a 1959 Porsche Type 754 T7 prototype. And it has a 1966cc 4 cylinder engine. This is a notchback study that predates the 911.

But what this really is, is Porsche’s initial thoughts in 1959 about what might come after the 356.

Also, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! says it was built in 1961. But the plaque in front of the car says it was built in 1959.

And I’ll post other things I found interesting from these two museums in the coming days rather than doing the usual photo dump.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 11/01/2019 at 18:11

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That thing must be virtually priceless. Thanks for sharing it. Super neat.

E90M3 > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: 11/01/2019 at 18:36

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You think that until you post it on CL and people only offer you $5k so you're forced to crush it. 

facw > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 11/01/2019 at 21:42

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My favorite obscure Porsche is the 932:

Built at the same time time as the 989 as a possible alternative design for a 4-door Porsche, it’s amazingly bland.

It’s also apparently mostly a Porchefied version of the SEAT Proto TL concept, which went on to become the SEAT Toledo.

IIRC Porsche has it there in Stuttgart, but doesn’t have it on display in the museum.