{"id":1188257,"date":"2023-10-03T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188257"},"modified":"2023-10-03T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T17:42:49","slug":"driving-a-priceless-historic-porsche-meet-the-very-first-356-from-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188257","title":{"rendered":"Driving a priceless, historic Porsche: Meet the very first 356 from 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20230927-b-6650-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two people drive in a silver open-top car by the sea with a big tree in the background\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20230927-b-6650-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1440\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> It meant spending most of the week on the road, but who would say no to a chance to drive Porsche&#8217;s very first car? Not I.  (credit: Tangent Vector\/Porsche)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"pullbox sidebar fullwidth\">Porsche provided flights from Washington, DC, to San Jose, California, and four nights in a hotel so we could attend Rennsport Reunion 7 at Laguna Seca. Ars does not accept paid editorial content.<\/aside>\n<p>CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif.\u2014Every few years, Porsche holds a big celebration of its racing heritage at the Laguna Seca racetrack in Monterey, California. Called Rennsport Reunion, it&#8217;s a big deal, drawing a far bigger attendance than when racing series like IndyCar or IMSA visit. And attendees are a passionate crowd, prepared to wait in line for an hour or more just to visit the official merch store.<\/p>\n<p>Rennsport Reunion 7 took place last week, and it was a special one, as this year is Porsche&#8217;s 75th anniversary. Among the cars brought over from the company museum was the very first to ever bear the Porsche name, the prototype 356\/1 roadster.<\/p>\n<p>And Porsche let us drive this priceless artifact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1972841#p3\">Read 20 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1972841&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1972841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Driving a priceless, historic Porsche: Meet the very first 356 from 1948<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ It meant spending most of the week on the road, but who would say no to a chance to drive Porsche&#8217;s very first car? Not I. (credit: Tangent Vector\/Porsche) Porsche provided flights from Washington, DC, to San Jose, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1188257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}