Bracq's Porsche Exercise, 1961.

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I received an email from a friend this morning, with a photo of what appears to be a Porsche 911 with a Pagoda roof, he says.  It looks like some concept model.  It may be a non-traditional 911 roof, but it sure doesn't look like a Pagoda roof to my eyes--I don't see the requisite dip in the center. I understand this to be the Porsche 695, a/k/a T7 prototype) made in 1961.

This had me looking in my Bracq collection, and sure enough I found one of his Porsche design exercises from November, 1961.  Looks like a 911 in the front, a W113 at the rear, and maybe a 190SL in the middle?  As he was employed at MB at the time, my guess is this was just a free-thinking exercise.  The 911 had not yet been introduced, and neither was the Pagoda--but I suspect some designs were well underway (with the first Pagoda sketches appearing in 1959).

Today, there is NO WAY that a competing designer/stylist would have been offered the opportunity to see development projects at another maker.  That being said, the Bracq sketch sure as a strong appearance on the front to what would be the 911...

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This is not a Pagoda roof, it is not concave shaped.

I am by no means educated in Porsche things (sadly) but the green real one on the photo looks to me as one of the attempts/trials by Porsche to develop a real 4 seater of the (then new) Porsche 901 rather than a 2+2, which they always attempted along the long development and production time of the 911 in the past 50 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_911


This eventually resulted in the today's Panamera. 
Although that one is a completely different car (front motor, etc.)


Achim
(no Porsche expert)