Volkswagen-Prototyp W30: This car already had an all-steel body, steel running-gear components and the familiar flat-four four-stroke engine.
Ferdinand Porsche standing next to the 356 Gmünd Coupé in 1950
Ferdinand Porsche (left) with Karl Rabe (1895-1968), Porsche company's chief designer from the establishment of the Dr. Porsche GmbH company in 1931 until his retirement at the end of 1965.
Portrait of Ferdinand Porsche (1950) with his signature below
Ferry Porsche at a gymkhana in 1921, pictured in his "toy car" that had a two-cylinder four-stroke engine and twin gears.
Ferry Porsche and his wife Dorothea in the second Volkswagen prototype (V2), 1935
Ferry Porsche on the "Bremen" during his journey to the USA in 1937, on which he accompanied his father.
Ferry Porsche (bottom right) with his father Ferdinand Porsche (with his hand on the drawing board) and engine constructor Leopold Jäntschke in Porsche's construction offices at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen in 1950.
(Left to right) Crown Prince Joachim of Fürstenberg, Ferry Porsche, Constantin Count of Berckheim, Prince Fritzi of Fürstenberg and Count Günther of Hardenberg after the 1950 Midnight Sun Rally.
Ferry Porsche with his closest working colleagues in 1951: (front, l-to-r) Erwin Komenda, Ferry Porsche, Karl Rabe, Franz Xaver Reimspieß; (back, l-to-r) Franz Sieberer, Emil Soukup, Leopold Schmidt, Leopold Jäntschke and Egon Forst
(Left to right) Ferry Porsche in conversation with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Prof. Dr. Heinrich Nordhoff, general manager of the Volkswagen works, at the 34th International Motor Show in Frankfurt, 1951.
Ferry Porsche (right) with Fritz Huschke von Hanstein at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1953.
Ferry Porsche in the yard of No. 2 plant at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, aged 45 (1954).
Ferry Porsche's sons in 1954: (l-to-r) Hans-Peter (b. 1940), Ferdinand Alexander (b. 1935), Gerhard (b. 1938) and Wolfgang (b. 1943) in a Spider Porsche Type 550 Spider.
Ferry Porsche in 1995 in a 1956 Porsche 356A cabriolet at the unveiling of a bust of his father Ferdinand Porsche at the VW plant in Wolfsburg.
(From l-to-r) Ferry Porsche with his colleagues of many years Karl Rabe and Erwin Komenda in 1956.
Ferry Porsche in 1968 with a Porsche 911.
The Targa Florio, 1969: (l-to-r) Umberto Maglioli, Dick Attwood, Brian Redman, Ferry Porsche, Hans Herrmann, Udo Schütz, Rolf Stommelen (with glasses), Vic Elford, Rudi Lins, Gérard Larrousse. Gerhard Mitter is at the wheel of the Porsche 908/02, with race number 266.
Ferry Porsche on his 70th birthday in 1979 with his wife Dorothea and sons (l-to-r) Gerhard (b. 1938), Hans-Peter (b. 1940), Ferdinand Alexander (b. 1935) and Wolfgang (b. 1943).
Ferry Porsche in 1984 in his office at the number one plant in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, in front of a picture of his father Ferdinand Porsche.