A Porsche-built Beetle, Michael Schumacher’s first F1 car, and one infamous 911 are just the start.
Every so often you stumble across a car museum that’s entirely unexpected , both in terms of where it is and what it contains. The Automuseum Prototyp in Hamburg, Germany, is one of them. The privately-owned collection is tucked away in one of the lovely old brick industrial buildings that survived the fierce World War II bombing of Hamburg, a city that has been a major trading port for more than 830 years. It’s a small grouping—roughly 50 cars—that’s almost exclusively focused on post-war vehicles, but the Prototyp includes some rare German production car prototypes, as well as a selection of German-built racing cars. Here are some of the highlights.