Touring the PORSCHE Museum

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Last week during the holidays I went down to Stuttgart to see the Christmas Market Stuttgart puts on as well as see the PORSCHE Museum the following day. Whew, the Stuttgart Christmas Market is huge! It was never ending. Everywhere you walked/turned, more too see. Plenty of great food and trinkets to enjoy.

The next day we took off to see the Museum. There was no shortage of Mercedes and PORSCHE's driving around Stuttgart. The hometown of these two manufacturer's.

This is the Museum.



This is a PORSCHE Dealer located right next to the Museum.



Looking out right in front of the Museum.





It wouldn't be the start of the Museum without the original Beetle. This is where PORSCHE first branched out.





The paint sure needed some love...





The 356 Roadster!!











356 Coupe





Professor Ferdinand




Much better shape than the Beetle



356 America's Roadster







356 Speedster











 
PORSCHE Tractor!





356 B Carrera





The original 911 that has been driven around the world





912 Coupe





911 Targa





911 RSR 2.8L



911 Carrera RS 2.7L Coupe





911 Turbo #1





911 Carrera RSR 3.0





935





911 Safari





911 Turbo 3.0





924 Carrera GT Studie



911 Carrera SC RS



 
PORSCHE 959









One Millionth 911. 911 Carrera Coupe "Polizei"



911 Carrera RS 3.8L Clubsport





911 GT1 Streetcar





911 Sally Carrera



911 GT2





911 Turbo's







PORSCHE Carrera GT







911 Carrera GT3 RS





Cayman S Sport



911 Speedster



 
Nice pics, glad you enjoyed your trip. Now you have to get back to Stuttgart for the Retro-Classic at the Messe in March. Biggest car show I have been
 
Great pics, thanks for taking the time to share this with us!
 
Nice pics! I was there, too - Also, went to the Mercedes museum; also in Stuttgart IIR...

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David Fermani said:
Great pics of some really amazing Porsches!!

One question though.....How sure are you that the GT1 you post above was actually a Street Version (Strassenversion)? From the body work it really looks to be a race car modified for street use.
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Thanks David!



In the above picture (arm and leg) that is a private tour guide giving a group of people a private tour (more than just the museum) that was spoken in english. As I walked around the group of people to get to the cars in front of it, I heard the guide telling the group that the car is indeed a Straßenversion that is fully road legal and registered with that plate. He mentioned the car could be fired up and taken out to a car meeting as well as grabbing a cappuccino.

Now that you brought it up I looked into it a bit (wikipedia) and found out that 25 had to be made in order to meet homologation purposes.

"The Porsche 911 GT1 was a car designed for competition in the GT1 class of sportscar racing, which also required a street legal version for homologation purposes. The limited-production street-legal version was labeled the 911 GT1 Straßenversion (Street version)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/####/Porsche_911_GT1
 
swanicyouth said:
Nice pics! I was there, too - Also, went to the Mercedes museum; also in Stuttgart IIR...
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Thanks Steve!

I didn't make it over to the Mercedes museum as we ran out of time. A good friend of mine works in the Mercedes truck plant that manufactures the Mercedes Actros line of trucks said he can get me in to the to Museum free. I will get with him at another date and go with him to see the Mercedes Museum.
 
Mike@DedicatedPerfection said:
Thanks David!



In the above picture (arm and leg) that is a private tour guide giving a group of people a private tour (more than just the museum) that was spoken in english. As I walked around the group of people to get to the cars in front of it, I heard the guide telling the group that the car is indeed a Straßenversion that is fully road legal and registered with that plate. He mentioned the car could be fired up and taken out to a car meeting as well as grabbing a cappuccino.

Now that you brought it up I looked into it a bit (wikipedia) and found out that 25 had to be made in order to meet homologation purposes.

"The Porsche 911 GT1 was a car designed for competition in the GT1 class of sportscar racing, which also required a street legal version for homologation purposes. The limited-production street-legal version was labeled the 911 GT1 Straßenversion (Street version)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/####/Porsche_911_GT1
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Thank you for the follow up. Correct, but the body work on this one appears indicative of a race car and not a street car. (quite a big variance) Many retired race cars were modified to become street legal, but it is unclear what their correct designation would be considered after this alteration in a purist sense?
 
David Fermani said:
Thank you for the follow up. Correct, but the body work on this one appears indicative of a race car and not a street car. (quite a big variance) Many retired race cars were modified to become street legal, but it is unclear what their correct designation would be considered after this alteration in a purist sense?
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That much I don't have the answer to. I see what your saying but unfortunately cant provide anything further as I don't know. Perhaps this particular example is just as you mentioned. I just remember hearing the tour guide saying it is fully road legal and can be driven on the street.

After doing a bit more research on this particular car, (googling the license plate) it was built as a road going street car.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/porsche-911-996-gt1-98-straßenversion-1998.331235/

1998 Porsche 911 GT1 ?98 Straßenversion - Supercars.net
 
Thank you so much for taking the time to post this up!!!! On my bucket list!
 
Great pics Mike! Man you are definitely having a blast there.

Thanks for sharing.
 
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