• Matching numbers and colours • Continuous history from new • Multiple concours class-winning example • Mille Miglia Eligible • Only a handful delivered new in Belgium • Believed to be the fourth production 1600 engine! • Swiss registration document Although Ferdinand Porsche had established his automotive design consultancy in the early 1930s, his name would not appear on a car until 1949.

When it did, it graced one of the all-time great sports cars: the Porsche 356.

Having commenced manufacture with a short run of aluminium-bodied cars built at Gmünd, Porsche began volume production of the steel-bodied 356 coupe at its old base in Stuttgart.

The work of Ferry Porsche, the 356 was based on the Volkswagen designed by his father.

Like the immortal 'Beetle', the 356 employed a platform-type chassis with rear-mounted air-cooled engine and torsion bar all-independent suspension.

In 1951 a works car finished first in the 1,100cc class at the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, thus beginning the ma...