Editing Ferdinand Porsche (section)

==Return to Stuttgart==
The Porsche family returned to Stuttgart in 1949 not knowing how to restart their business. While the banks would not give them credit, as the company's plant was still under American embargo and could not serve as collateral, they did still possess considerable resources. So Ferry Porsche took one of the limited series 356 models from Gmünd and visited Volkswagen dealers to raise some orders. He asked the dealers to pay for the ordered cars in advance.<ref>[http://auto.howstuffworks.com/porsche-356-history3.htm Howstuffworks "Porsche Takes Root"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

The series production version made in Stuttgart had a [[steel]] body, welded to the central-tube platform chassis, instead of the [[aluminium]] body used in the initial limited Gmünd-made series. When Ferry Porsche resurrected the company he counted on series production figures of about 1,500. More than 78,000 Porsche 356s were manufactured in the following 17 years.

Porsche was later contracted by Volkswagen for additional consulting work and received a [[royalties|royalty]] on every [[Volkswagen Beetle]] manufactured. This provided Porsche with a comfortable income as more than 20 million Type I were built.

In November 1950, Porsche visited the Wolfsburg Volkswagen factory for the first time since the end of World War II. Porsche spent his visit chatting with Volkswagen president [[Heinrich Nordhoff]] about the future of VW Beetles, which were already being produced in large numbers.

A few weeks later, Porsche suffered a [[stroke]]. He did not fully recover, and died on 30 January 1951.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.porsche.com/middle-east/_uae_/accessoriesandservice/classic/philosophyandclassicworld/world/tradition/ferdinand/ |title=Ferdinand Porsche - Porsche Tradition - Classic World - Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG |publisher=Porsche.com |access-date=29 May 2014}}</ref>

In 1996, Porsche was inducted into the [[International Motorsports Hall of Fame]] and in 1999 posthumously won the award of [[Car Engineer of the Century]].