Our trip departure date centered around the availability of the special Porsche factory tour. There are two tours a day with a max of 15 each so I was pretty excited when they confirmed our tour a few months ago.
I got up early to make sure that we would get to the factory on time. We had to leave by 8am anyhow as our neighborhood requires paid parking after 8am. Good thing we left early as Stuttgart has a lot of traffic!
The factory tour was excellent! They took us to the production floor and we were right next to the workers. It's amazing how close we were. I could have grabbed parts off the cart and messed up the assembly station. We walked all over the factory in two hours. The only areas we didn't see were the initial body/frame welding and the paint.
After the tour we had lunch in the museum cafeteria. It was a sit down affair with good food. They also have a separate 4-star restaurant in the museum but I didn't feel like paying 4 star prices.
After lunch we went back to the museum to look at the cars. The museum had examples of most Porsches that were important in the companys history. Ian is seen admiring Porsche #1.
Very cool...that car looks like yours (to me, anyway). Where to next?
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Awesome! Now you can check that off your bucket list.
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