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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 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.
1957 Porsche 550 Spyder Replica sold at RM Sotheby's Open Roads, April (2021)
The original used-car ad for the Porsche read "minus engine," and Les Gunnerson bought the 550 for $1200—about $10,300 today. He eventually tracked down the original four-cam, flat-four engine (no. 0075) and made the car whole again. Gunnerson's family threw out a price that Green knew he couldn't afford, but he figured he could.
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550-0054 Engine No. KD P90048 Documents US Registration Catalogue Addendum: Please note the title for this lot is in transit. A 4-6 week delay is expected. You may also like: 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder for sale at RM Sotheby's Monterey
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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.
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The Porsche 550 is a mid-engine car with an air-cooled four-cylinder engine, following the precedent of the 1948 Porsche 356/1 prototype designed by Ferry Porsche. The mid-engine racing design was further developed with Porsche's 718 model; its advantages led to it becoming the dominant design for top-level racing cars by the mid-1960s.
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The 550 Spyder is just one of 90 examples produced by Porsche between 1953 and 1956, and this particular vehicle is one of the very last, rolling off the production line on 2 February 1956 as.
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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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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.
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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.
The Porsche 550 Spyder Is a Lot More Than Just James Dean's Last Ride
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.".
Thunder Ranch Porsche 550 Spyder Replica for sale on BaT Auctions sold for 43,000 on November
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.
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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 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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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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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.