Porsche 911 (901 Nr. 57)

When the successor of the Porsche 356 was unveiled at the Frankfort International Motor Show, it was still named Porsche 901. However, just a few weeks after starting production in autumn 1964, the coupé had to be renamed due to a trademark dispute, and from then on bore the name 911. The Porsche Museum’s oldest representative of this time was finished on October 22, 1964, with chassis number 300.057 – about five weeks after the production of the sports car had started. Porsche delivered the signal-red car as 911 on the 27 November 1964, and from then on all traces were lost. A production team of Germany’s TV show “The Junk Troop” found the rusty remains of the sports car classic in a shed close to Brandenburg, southwest of Berlin. Experts from the Porsche Museum checked numbers in the body, the dashboard and even handwritten scribbles in chalk on the inside of the door panels and declared the car to be genuine. The restoration took a good three years and was done as authentically and as true to the original as possible. Body, engine, transmission, electrics and interior were all repaired using genuine parts.