The long and successful cooperation between Porsche and the Stuttgarter Karosseriewerk Reutter & Co. GmbH has always been more than just a marriage of convenience. In 1931 the Reutter coachwork company started building prototypes of what would later be known as Volkswagen on behalf of the Porsche engineering office. In 1949 Porsche gave the order to Reutter to produce 500 bodies for the Porsche sports car, and by Easter 1950 the first Porsche 356 ever to be constructed in Germany was finished. Besides those vehicles made by hand in serial-production Porsche 356 presents many prototypes and special cars made for Porsche up to the point of collective evolution of the later called Porsche type 911.The book's focus is on the description of the development of a Porsche 356-body, colourfully illustrated and detailed as never before. Much of the material used was taken from the Reutter-family archive. Previously unpublished documents and pictures were found in several institutional and private archives, especially the archive of Porsche itself.