Every P-car ever built descended from this roadster.
At dinner the night before the drive, I was sat across from Kuno Werner, lead mechanic at the Porsche Museum. "Are you nervous to have us all drive your car?" I asked. Werner scanned the table of eager journalists and responded, "Yes."
I probably should have been more nervous to be handed the keys. It's hard to put a price on a car like the 356/1, but the Porsche Museum curator placed its value at nine figures. So I did feel some responsibility to keep the little bathtub in one piece, but mostly I was just thrilled. It's so pretty and sweet, all dapper in silver and red. Its tires are barely bigger than those on an e-bike, its seats are about the size of the pull-down jump seats in a '90s pickup truck.
The roadster went to Switzerland where it went through a series of owners over the next decade. Each made changes, from retrofitting the dash with a multi-gauge cluster from the 550 Spyder when that came out in the mid-fifties to redesigning the bodywork after a collision with a goat and an Opel.
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