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Porsche - Origin of the Species - by Karl Ludvigsen - Table of Contents

Foreword by Jerry Seinfeld

1. The Species Porsche
• Sidebar: Freeman Thomas "The Legacy of Erwin Komenda".
2. Automaking Ambitions
• The Porsche Firm"s early years in Zuffenhausen
• The Type 64: A "VW-Sport"
• Sports Racing Aerodynamic Trends
• The Type 114: Imagining a Pure Porsche Sports Car
• Advanced Aerodynamic Bodywork for the F-wagen
• Type 60K10: The Berlin-Rome Volkswagen
• Sidebar: 1939 Porsche Org Chart
• Sidebar: The Auto Union Sports Car
3. Turbulent War Years
• Wartime Improvements to the VW Engine
• Shifting from Racing Cars to Tanks
• New Quarters in Austrian Farm Country
• Engineering Work Commences at Gmünd
• Ferry Porsche in Charge at Gmünd
• Sidebar: Gmünd in Carinthia
• Sidebar: Petermax Müller"s Opportunistic Racers
4. Sawmill Survival
• Questioning by British and American Allied Forces
• The French Intervene
• Roles of Louise Piëch and Ghislaine Kaes
• Struggling to Survive in Gmünd
• A Plenitude of Products and Ideas
• Protecting Porsche"s Assets
• Uncertain Relations With Volkswagen
• Sidebar: Ghislaine Kaes and his Diaries
5. Italy to the Rescue
• Radical Space Frames for the First Cisitalias
• Cisitalia Goes Grand Prix Racing
• Porsche Contracted by Cisitalia
• The Cisitalia Grand Prix Car
• Designing the Type 370, an Ambitious Sports Car
• Karl Rabe Travels to Turin
• Sidebar: Miles Collier "The Art of Restoration"
6. A Volkswagen Sports Car
• Beginnings with the Type 352
• The Type 356 Roadster Chassis
• Simplicity: The 356 Roadster Body
• Road Testing the 356 Roadster
• Sidebar: The Private Life of 356-001
• Sidebar: Robert Cumberford "Thoughts on the First Porsche 356"
7. Miracle of Production
• Creating a Coupe Chassis: The Type 356/2
• Scavenging Parts for Production
• The Iconic Porsche Takes Shape
• Marketing the Porsche Cars
• Growing Pains in Gmünd
• Sidebar: Type 356 Sports Leicht
8. Saga of a Gmünd Porsche
• 356/2-040 Provenance
• The Nuts and Bolts of Preserving 356/2-040
• West Coast Tune-Up
• Sidebar: Alex Finigan "My Experience with 356/2-040"
• Sidebar: Adrian Gand "Appreciating the Missing Link"
• Sidebar: The Otto Mathé Story
9. Why Porsche?
• Returning to Stuttgart
• Saying Farewell to Gmünd and to the Porsche Patriarch
• Other Postwar VW-Based Sports Cars
• Sidebar: Grant Larson "The Gmünd Porsches"
• Sidebar: Tony Hatter "Thoughts on Porsche Design"
10. Origin of the Species
• The Porsche Formsprache
• Evolution of the Essential Genus Porsche
• Sidebar: Peter W. Schutz "The Power of Porsche"s DNA"

Appendix 1: Factory Documentation for Porsche 356/2-040

Appendix 2: 1949 Porsche 356 Owner"s Manual