• Original right-hand drive model • Matching engine and chassis numbers • Professionally restored in the 2000s • All restoration bills and photographs available • Only circa 6,000 miles since restoration • Excellent condition throughout Although Ferdinand Porsche had established his independent 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.

The work of Ferry Porsche, the Type 356 was based on the Volkswagen designed by his father, Ferdinand, and like the immortal 'Beetle' employed a platform-type chassis with rear-mounted air-cooled engine and all-independent torsion bar suspension.

Having commenced manufacture with a short run of aluminium-bodied cars built at Gmünd, Porsche began volume production of the steel-bodied 356 coupé at its old base in Stuttgart, at first in premises shared with coachbuilders Reutter and then (from 1955) in its original factory...