Porsche 356: 75th Anniversary

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Porsche 356: 75th Anniversary chronicles the full story of Porsche’s original sports car, from Porsche No. 1, to the first Gmünd coupes, to today’s prized Porsche collector cars.

But the story told here actually begins when the seeds of the Porsche 356 were sown decades before the car’s actual genesis in the late Forties.

Patriarch Ferdinand Porsche always dreamt of a compact sports car — in contrast to the large cars in vogue early in his automotive engineering career — that he was never able to create on his own.

This, despite the fact that Prof. Porsche was a brilliant engineer who, prior to World War II, had been involved in a variety of significant automotive engineering developments, including his invention and creation of the first hybrid-drive vehicles.

Curiously, in contrast, the Typ 356 was developed much later by Ferdinand’s son, Ferry Porsche, and introduced in 1948.

We witness how the Porsche 356 evolved over its 17-year lifespan through four distinct series:  pre-A, A, B, and C, with coupes, cabriolets, Speedsters, hardtops, and roadsters among its many body variations.

The book includes a cast of fascinating characters, from those engineers who designed the cars, to the race drivers who helped create the “giant-killer” mystique, to owners like James Dean and Janis Joplin who fell in love with the little bathtub-shaped sports cars.

Porsche 356: 75th Anniversary tells this in-depth story and is a must-have book for both Porsche and 356 enthusiasts, as well as sports-car history buffs.

The book’s publication date of April 11, 2023 — during Porsche’s own 75th Anniversary as a company — should be reason enough to purchase the book for yourself, or as a gift for any Porsche enthusiasts in your life.

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