Porsche Museum

While I was down in southern Deutschland (Germany) - on 23.05.10, with an overnight stay in Stuttgart, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take in the Porsche Museum.

-Porscheplatz - It has it's own train station . . . . . what, don't all the people that go to the museum just arrive in a Porsche?

-Museum Entrance - I guess at Porsche they aren't about understated

-Electric hub motor - one of the first things you see in the museum, dating from way back in the day

-Porsche jig/mold - That's a crazy way to have to build a prototype

-All about cross sections - done before CAD

-VW Beetle - the original, done by Ferdinand Porsche

-Original details - have to appreciate the details on the original designs, such as this door handle

-Beetle rear - so shiny and black

-the 356/2 Coupé and Gmünd Cabriolet - the Coupé, quite possibly my favorite car ever

-356/2 Coupé - perfection (even the colour)

-Coupé profile - love the lines, the details (note door handle), just everything.... beautiful

-details on the 356/2 Coupé

-rear 3/4 view

-front 3/4 view

-classic wheels - love the hub caps on black rims

-front details

-interior

-356/2 Gmünd Cabriolet - I'm not a big fan of convertibles, but this one is still pretty sweet (note how it's really meant to be driven with the top down, since there is no A pillar between the windscreen and the side windows)

-rear 3/4 of the Gmünd Cabriolet

-up close on the side

-356 Nr. 1 Roadster - also beautiful

-details on the roadster

-more details

-roadster interior

-959 racer - I do like the 959, it was a pretty unique Porsche and wicked fast

-LeMans racer - I think (there were a lot of racers, and I didn't take down all the info, as I kinda went fast-ish through the museum)

-Carrera GT - rear 3/4

-rear section of the Carrera GT

-front section of the Carrera GT

-Carrera GT interior

-front 3/4 of the Carrera GT

-the 911 family - a really impressive display, showing the generations of 911 all in a row, on turn tables, all moving in sinc, allowing you to really visualize the evolution of the infamous 911

-evolution of the rear flank

-evolution of the face of the 911

-museum view1 - a really nice, clean (German) museum

-museum view 2

-German Polizei - back in the day, the German police would blitz down the autobahn in convertible Porsche's, and matching helmets (in the Netherlands too from what I hear)

-Porsche Schlepper (tractor?) "Standard 218" - yup, they also tried their hand in the lucrative field of tractors (initial designs from the 30's, and apparently Porsche made tractors until 1963)

All in all, a really nice museum, and I'd say if you're in the area, worth the trip.