After three years of restoration, the Porsche Museum will finally present one of the newest additions to its collection - and the oldest 911 that it holds - at the special exhibition '911 (901 No. 57) - A legend takes off' from 14^th December 2017 to 8^th April 2018.

The red coupe was built in October 1964 as one of the first series-production models of the sports car known back then as the 901.

Almost exactly 50 years later, the Porsche Museum happened to find this rare item and decided to buy it with a view to restoring it back to its original state.

Porsche originally developed and presented the successor to the 356 under the type designation 901.

However, just a few weeks after starting production in the autumn of 1964, the coupe had to be renamed due to a trademark dispute, and from then on bore the name 911.

All of the customer vehicles produced up to that point were manufactured as 901 vehicles, but sold as 911 vehicles. The Porsche factory collection had lacked one of these rarities for 50 years.