The German Giant Killer An Original Porsche 550A Spyder
The first Porsche 550 Spyder prototypes were powered by the Type 528 engine, a flat-four unit taken from the 356 1500 S road car, and a direct derivative of the VW Beetle engine.
1955 Porsche 550 Spyder by Wendler Paris 2016 RM Sotheby's
The Porsche 550 was a sports car produced by Porsche from 1953-1956. The 550 Spyder, which took its name because it was the 550th design project undertaken by the Porsche company, made its international debut in October 1953 at the Paris Motor Show.
Thunder Ranch Porsche 550 Spyder Replica for sale on BaT Auctions sold for 43,000 on November
The Porsche 550 Spyder - the first-ever Porsche Spyder The one where it all began. One of the greatest Porsche models of all time, the Porsche 550 Spyder made its debut at the 1953 Paris Motor Show. Stylish, aerodynamic and astonishingly fast for its time, it was the first Porsche model purposely built with the racetrack in mind.
Historic Porsche 550A Spyder race car slated for Bonhams’ Scottsdale auction
The Porsche came with a partially completed aluminum body to replace the original, which had been destroyed in a fire. After three years of fruitless efforts to sell the car, fate intervened: A customer and friend, Joel Horvitz, realized his longtime dream of buying a genuine 550 Spyder, chassis number 60 ("Giant Killer," HS&EC #18, February.
1956 Porsche 550 RS Spyder by Wendler Paris 2019 RM Sotheby's
The Porsche 550 Spyder was a 1950s two-door racing car that came with a 1.5-liter flat-four engine, RMR layout, and the options of a four- or five-speed manual. In total, ninety Porsche 550s were produced, including coupé and spyder editions.
The Porsche 550 Spyder Is a Lot More Than Just James Dean's Last Ride
Model Tested: 550 Spyder by Chamonix - $60,880 (RRP) View 62 images. James Dean immortalised the Porsche 550 Spyder when his slammed into a Ford Coupe, driven by Donald Turnipseed, on his way to.
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The 550 was created in 1953 with the first 15 builds exclusively for Porsche KG to test and race. 550-01 and 550-02 were built as coupe with a removable hard top which was designed to increase aerodynamics when racing against the goliaths of '50s motor racing, the D-types and 300 SLRs and the class favourites the Osca coupes, in the day. In.
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The grass-root racing of the 1950s saw the Porsche 550 dominate both endurance and short course racing around the world. From the paddocks surrounding airforce bases and local tracks to the restoration, display and racing of these spyders today, this site will pay homage through this unique journey.
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Home round with two of the purest roadsters: Factory driver Mark Webber at the wheel of the brand-new Boxster Spyder and the legendary 550 Spyder. The road from Mark Webber's house, just outside Aylesbury, some 70 kilometers northwest of London, to the Silverstone racetrack is rather dull.
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Porsche 550 Spyder. In 1954, the first Porsche built especially for racing is a mid-engine sports car with an aluminum body. It swiftly becomes a stand-out by earning a class victory and a third-place overall ranking in the Carrera Panamericana against higher-capacity competitors. Another event that boosts this car's fame occurs at the Mille.
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The 550 was the answer. The original giant killer had arrived. 1955. 550 Spyders in the Porsche yard in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. © Porsche Porsche 550 (1953-1956) Introduction Porsche needed a race car to compete in the roadster class, and that's just what the 550 Spyder did at a time when production cars could no longer win.
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Penned by Erwin Komenda, and built around Ernst Fuhrmann's revolutionary quad-cam flat-four, the mid-engined, aluminium-bodied 550 RS Spyder was Porsche's first true race car. Light, agile and deceptively quick, the robust little two-seater was everything Ferry Porsche thought a race car should be.
AluminumBodied Porsche 550 Spyder ReCreation for sale on BaT Auctions closed on November 3
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Porsche 550 Spyder Download the full media package (photos, press releases, media coverage, brochures, advertisements and Christophorus articles). Download ZIP | 31.52 MB Boxster models: Combined fuel consumption 10.1 - 8.6 l/100 km; Combined CO 2 emissions 253 - 197 g/km
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We shared the story of one of those cars in March: a rare 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder that Old Crow Speed Shop owner Bobby Green uncovered in a storage container high atop a hill in a remote area of Orange County, California. And no, that Porsche—one of only 90 aluminum-bodied 550s built—wasn't in any traditional sense a "barn find.".
