Porsche Museum Road Trip

I post this here because there are two many off topic cars involved.
This weekend I went on a day trip with a friend to visit two museums founded by 2 members of the Porsche family.
We were an odd couple as I've been driving my 50 Merc and my friend, who is into vintage Alfa Romeo sports cars, rode his 1969 Alfa GT 1300 Junior.






On the way we followed a 1950s Mercedes Bus while on the opposite lane a war-time Opel Blitz fire engine was coming along.



The first museum we went was founded by a grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the designer of the Porsche 356. It has a unique collection of pre-war Austro-Daimler (race) cars, some of which were designed by Porsche in the 1920s.
All cars are registered and driven frequently.

 

Nice Merc and I really like that style of Alpha Romero. I had a 1960 356 Coupe 25 years ago... I should have kept that car as well as the 51 Mercury I had back in the early '70s.

 

Nice Merc, thanks for the pics.

 

Here's part2:

I guess not everybody knows that Porsche built tractors between 1957 and 1963. In the basement of the museum they had one nice example of nearly every model ever built. The signature of the Porsche tractors was the bright red colour. Here are some:





Then we left for the next museum, which is located across the border from Austria to Bavaria.




This museum is owned by another grandson of Ferdinand and son of Ferry Porsche, the designer of the Porsche 911. It has one of the largest and most valuable collection of 19th and early 20th century German tin toys with some Porsche cars in between.

For example: The Gauge 0 Märklin US presidential train under attack from pewter indians. Super rare toy from 1900.





Some of the cars inside:

 

As it happens there was also a big Porsche meeting outside the museum.
We were a bit late and it looked like rain so many cars had already left but there were still some nice ones:


There was a funny moment when we arrived and I wanted to park my Mercury in the visitor's area when one from the organizers came over and asked me to park my car between the Porsches and other supercars because "you have definitely the coolest car I' ve seen today."
Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the scene.

 

Ferrari also made tractors for a few years.

 

Thanks for taking the time to share your pics!!

 

The elite Dutch freeway/autobahn cops here used Porsche from 1962 to 1996. The blue light was on a telescopic pole.

 

Austrian police had them as well, first 356s and then 911s.

 

Cool, thanks for sharing.