Article: An afternoon at the museum with Gregster Part 1of3: Porsche Museum Stuttgart,Germany

Gregster

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I was very recently in Germany (trip report is coming soon) and toured the museums of Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BMW sorry no VW.. This will be part 1 of a 3 part series.

The Porsche Museum is located at "PorschePlatz" basically you have the museum, Porsche factory and Porsche Zentrum dealership. Cost of entry is 8euro and parking is 4euro. Traveling time from Munich is about 2 hours as there is some major construction on Autobahn 8.


This is the exterior that you are greeted with
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Porsche Zentrum, factory and me posing because pics or didn't happen right?
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Once you enter the parking garage you are bound to find good stuff...
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Take the aufzug upstairs to the lobby, don't forget to bring your parking stub with you because parking needs to be paid for at the front desk.. Don't pull a Gregster and leave it in the car.. I asked for a map in German because why not?

Once you purchase a ticket head upstairs on the escalator to the gallery. This is looking down towards the restoration center which can be viewed while eating some food or drinking a beer.
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Once you get off the escalator... this is what greets you...
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Do you remember the scene from "Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory" when Wonka opened the doors to the candy room and the kids jaws hit the ground? Well when I saw those cars it was the same reaction. Car's I once read about in a book or article were before me. To be honest though I was more shocked to find how open everything was, my friend and I commented that if this were in Montreal some ti counes would be trying to steal something off the cars. In Germany though there is a very high level of respect and order.. Besides you may end up in ze cooler for 20 days :D

After I picked my jaw off the ground and cleaned up my drool it was time to wander around.

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4cam engine
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935
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911 Carrera RS 2.7
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again no ropes or barriers...

Again this place felt like being in an art gallery..
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911 3.0 RSR
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924 Cup
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Cutaway of a flat 12 engine
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911 Type 964 3.6L Turbo
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It was so nice seeing this 962 in Rothman's Livery
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2708 IndyCar
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959 rally car lurking
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944 Turbo Cup
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936
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Again the layout...
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C2 Cup
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The holy GT1.. I should have licked it
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GT1 road car
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911 Type 993 3.6L Turbo
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997 RSR
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Penske-Porsche RS Spyder
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They didn't want to let me take it home.. Look at those seats!!!!
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I couldn't make love to this one...
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What a porker.. Oink Oink Oink
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918 test mule
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GT
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Minty Fresh!
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I'll admit it.. When I was looking at the cars I did see most of them in a dissembled form on a parts fiche or service manual :(

As I mentioned before I was impressed with how open everything was, they were scared showing off some valuable items.. If you are anywhere near this place it's a must see. The gift shop has a bunch of cool stuff including die-casts of pretty much every Porsche made, they also give away free posters in a big pile just outside.

Next up BMW Museum and BMW Welt.
 
Get ready for the BMW museum, it is something else... I'm certain a fair number of visitor don't give a crap about car, they just pay to stroll inside and look at the way things are exhibited...
 
Get ready for the BMW museum, it is something else... I'm certain a fair number of visitor don't give a crap about car, they just pay to stroll inside and look at the way things are exhibited...
BMW was the best "experience" out of the 3 I visited but I am biased lol.
 
one day one day...

euro delivery BMW + BMW / Porsche / Benz museum + autobahn + Ring.... next Italy: Pagani shop tour + Ferrari Museum

etc...


One day :p
 
I must go this is a must-see! Been dreaming of going ever since my bro brought back the catalogue a couple years back...


BTW the midnight blue 964T is a 3.3l no?
Sweet coverage cant wait to see the BMW & MBZ museums *tu*
 
Yeah the 3.6 had the 3pc whells tho in addidtion to the bump in displacement... Id take that yellow one anyway, probably the only yellow car Id rock, with the pastel yellow 850R...

What was great is how small a 964 is compared to the 991 or even 996..
 
yeah the good ol pre-safe days when boost still lagged & then kicked your ass...

Say, did they have a 964 3.8RSR & a 968 Turbo S, or that would be part of the hidden gems outside the public eye? I dream of seeing those irl...
 
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