Raise a glass to Ferdinand Anton Ernst "Ferry" Porsche, born this day in 1909 (interestingly, while his father, Ferdinand, was at the wheel of the Austro-Daimler racing car he had built himself, scoring a class victory in the Semmering Hillclimb Race).

From its humble beginnings in an Austrian sawmill, Ferry presided over the creation of Porsche as we know it, overseeing the development of both the 356 and the 911 in his lifetime.

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