Rarity - original poster - special edition of the Reutter Archives - limited to 100 pieces and numbered by hand!
The motif shows the final inspection, in the former Reutter plant 2 in Zuffenhausen (today's Porsche plant 2)
Format: DIN-A-2 420 x 594 mm
Information on the history:
The long and successful cooperation between Porsche and the „Stuttgarter Karosseriewerk Reutter & Co. GmbH“ was right from its beginning more than only a marriage of convenience. It was based on mutual sympathy of two unique companies within the automotive industry.
Already in 1931 the Reutter coachwork company, founded in 1906, started building first prototypes of the later called Volkswagen on behalf of the Porsche engineering office. In 1949 Porsche gave order to Reutter to produce 500 bodies for the Porsche sports car and around Easter time 1950 the first Porsche 356 ever being constructed in Germany was finished in Reutter’s factory I, located in Stuttgart, Augustenstrasse 82. Porsche bought ground from Reutter within the plot of its factory II in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, in order to build a new construction site for manufacturing motors. In autumn 1953 Reutter moved the complete bodywork, until then produced in factory I, to factory II in Zuffenhausen and from that moment most of the legendary Porsche 356 were manufactured in intensive cooperation and side by side. Besides those vehicles made by hand in serial-production the book presents a lot of prototypes and special cars made for Porsche up to the point of collective evolution of the later called Porsche type 911 (901 / T8)
