Over the years Porsche skipped many numbers in the sequence. Sometimes the omissions were accidental, for Karl Rabe, the keeper of the numbers, was anything but methodical in their allotment. And sometimes the omissions were deliberate, as when the men of Porsche decided to begin with No. 7, so that their first customer, the Wanderer Werke, would not think that they were a bunch of novices.
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