jivemutha

Mickster--thank you! After some googling it appears that your impression--that there are private functions held in which participants can view Ingram's collection but it is not a regular museum where the public can pay their way in--appears to fit with all I've found.

If any readers are interested in the Gemünd coupe, it had a rear-mounted VW engine goosed to 40 hp, a total of 52 were made between 1948 and '50 (when Porsche presumably returned to Stuttgart), and none were exported at that time to the U.S. The whole thing weighed less than 1500 lbs. These data come from the "Porsche Data Book" (p13). The easiest way to spot one from a photo is to notice that the split windshield is oddly taller than the early 1950s split-windshield 356s that were exported to the U.S. and elsewhere. Gemünd is not in Germany--it's in Austria.

jivemutha

P356GT: I retried the URL and this time it worked. Great museum! You've been there? If so are the signs also in English?

Thanks for clarifying about the one original type 64 and for that photo of the very car under discussion.

P356GT

Yes, I have been to Prototyp :-)
I have 4,5 hrs drive to Hamburg and have friends down there so I try to look what the guys are displaying.

By the way Gmünd is spelled like this no extra E ;-)

If you go to Austria, Gmünd to the sawmill you can see my face and car in the Club house/Mill :-)
There is also a Porsche museum in town to visit when there.
So maybe you should plan a trip!

I went with the Swedish 356 Club on a 10 day trip in Ferdinand Porsches footprints.
It covered the places that Porsche had lived, worked etc one of my bests trips ever we were about 20 356 running down the roads in the Alps

XR4Tim

The Ingram collection is not open to the public, and no photos are allowed, but it is an amazing experience. In addition to Robert Ingram's '49 Gmünd coupe, Jerry Seinfeld also has one. Those are the only two I know of in the US.

P356GT

We got 15 of the batch and some as made their way over to the US....so you got more than two!

RJT

Our friend Jeff Zwart has driven his Gmund coupe to Cars & Coffee in Irvine a few times!

P356GT

Nice video and to see the Gmünd being used and not only static displayed somewhere......

Randy V

Seinfeld drives one with Leno in Comedians Getting Coffee (Let the commercial play):

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee....ncealed-weapon

Check Jerry's shoes.

jivemutha

Thanks, everybody! Great photos and videos. And what a treat to see Leno and Seinfeld in a Gemünd coupe--Perhaps America's 2 greatest living comedians and both Porsche freaks like the rest of us. What a treat.