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Chassis No.

60077



Five hundred cars.

In the spring of 1950, as Porsche prepared to return production to Stuttgart, those within the fledgling company predicted they could find customers for around 500 356s in total-"certainly not more than 500 cars in the first two years," according to Richard von Frankenberg.

Incredibly, the 500th German-built 356 was completed on 21 March 1951, and by 1956, 10,000 Porsches had left Stuttgart.

Among the earliest of these German-built 356s were the Pre-A models, which evolved from the original two-piece "split window" into the distinctive Knickscheibe, or "bent window," configuration introduced for the 1952 model year.

This 1953 356 Pre-A 1500 Cabriolet represents this formative period in Porsche history, when the company's modest sports car was rapidly establishing itself as an icon.



This Pre-A Cabriolet was completed in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen on 4 April 1953.

A digital copy of its Porsche-issued Kardex wa...