Porsche will unveil at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the Porsche No. 1, the first two-seat sports ever built by Porsche. This legendary sports car and the lynchpin of Porsche's design philosophy began life in June 1947 as engineering project Type 356 in the Porsche design office in Gmünd, Austria. Officially known as Type 356-001, Ferry Porsche's design concept took shape through the leadership of Karl Rabe, Porsche's talented chief designer who worked alongside Ferry's father to (...)

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