{"id":34385,"date":"2020-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/70-years-of-porsche-factory-collection\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:54:29","slug":"70-years-of-porsche-factory-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/70-years-of-porsche-factory-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"70 Years of Porsche factory collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you click through the new car configurator on the Porsche website, shortly before the virtual car is finished you will come to a point that many German car manufacturers offer: factory collection. At Porsche, this is possible either at the main plant in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen or at the branch plant in Leipzig. What has become a matter of course service for many customers today has a long tradition. This tradition began 70 years ago. Porsche had returned to Stuttgart from Gm\u00fcnd, Austria, at the end of 1949 and had set up the new production facility for the 356 in halls next to the Reutter body construction company. In addition, there were departments for repairs, development and construction. On Maundy Thursday in 1950, the first 356 from Stuttgart rolled into the open air. A little later, on 26 May, the first factory collection by Dr. Ottomar Domnick finally took place.

One of the first apprentices of the company in 1943 was Herbert Linge, who appears twice in our picture gallery and who is still happy to report on the early days of the company today. He went to Gm\u00fcnd during the war and returned to Zuffenhausen as one of the first employees to make preparations for the start of series production of the company’s own sports car. “I started at the age of 14 in Porsche’s first training workshop. At that time, we were six mechanics and two technical draftsmen. Ferdinand Porsche often walked past our workshop with important guests. Each time he kept his guests waiting briefly and greeted us. I will never forget that,” said Linge, who still remembers every factory collection. “Domnick really celebrated the handover of his Porsche 356. But he came by every day before that anyway, to see how far we had come with the work. Ferry Porsche also stopped by briefly when the doctor picked up his sports car.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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