The third 911 ever built is also still out there (1964)

[kouwenhoven]

This will shake up the ranking a little bit. Porsche 911 with VIN number 300003 is also out there. It is owned by mr. Freisinger in Germany. I'm not sure if he wanted 1,5 or 2,5 million for it, or maybe the price is a rumor and he doesn't want to sell at all. Did not see the car yet, but it was confirmed by two well informed people.

Would be nice to see a picture of this car, so if anyone has one, please post.

Erik

[Joost Hermes]

Nice one Erik, since #300001 and #300002 are ( considered) prototypes, is this the first production 901? ( lowest number anyway) i believe #300007 was the first one finished?

So what is the real first 901?

[moito]

.....or maybe the price is a rumor and he doesn't want to sell at all....
Erik

for the right €€€€ freisinger sells everything ....
unless he does not like you...

[LiveFromNY]

Very cool, Erik. I sure wish I had the contacts you do...

[Jsottile]

Hi Erik,

It was nice meeting you in person at RRV.

#300003 is a prototype cabriolet, not production. Interesting to note, the first two prototype cabriolets were once owned by Mr. Freisinger, 300003 and 13360.

Jay
300005

[kouwenhoven]

Hello Jay

Nice meeting you too. Very good that you drove your car to RRV instead of turning it into a trailer queen.
It's an interesting discussion which cars were prototypes and which were production cars. According to Lewandowski, who based his book on Porsche-info, there were 13 prototypes, all starting with VIN number '13'. And then there were two series cars, number 300001 and 300002. Maybe you or Bob have better info, because Lewandowski's book is somewhat off on a few other subjects too and I trust Bob more on this subject. If so, please let us know.

Erik

[911T1971]

According to Lewandowski, who based his book on Porsche-info

wrong. All infos Lewandowski wrote in his 901 book are based on Aichele's book, which first came out in 1993.
Lewandowsky copy-pasted Aichele's detailed infos about the prototyps for his newer coffee-table book, with Aichele's OK.
Aichele's book was the first one being based entirely on Porsche-Archiv infos. He was still able to interview Bott, Hanstein and Ferry, which died in 94, 96 and 98, respectively. He also talked with Falk, Hensler and Mezger for his book.
Years ago I translated these once hard-to-get (back then available in german language only) infos about the prototyps from Aichele's book for Bob and thats how Bob initially got the infos for the US.

BTW Jay is right. According to Aichele, there were several 300xxx which were prototyps, even they had 300xxx numbers, and not 13xxx. They were also more 13xxx produced then the currently 13+1 expl. known and documented. As we all know, of all 13xxx only 13327 and 13360 are currently alive. 300001 and 300002 are prototyps and do exists on photos and had plates S-UN 478 and S-UN 476. Both were sold by the factory, 001 in early 1966 and 002 in mid-1968. 300003 was probably noted as a prototyp and so 300007 the first produced 901. At least this is my guess while studying the infos and production timeline.

[CA lover]

you are right money talks if you deal with mr freisinger

[Cliff]

Hope this does it

[Cliff]

I find this interesting too