wc11

https://driving.ca/porsche/auto-news...-auctioned-off

Freakhead

What a magnificent car & one I was completely unaware of, thanks for sharing.

Bets on who will buy it? Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, David McNeal, some rennlister?

BTW this line in the article made me chuckle: "After the war, some rotten Americans got hold of the second car..."

Ronan

Three were built. One was destroyed in a bombing in Berlin. This one here has the original body but has lost its original engine. A second one, which I have seen , was crashed and ultimately cnnibalized for parts by Otto Mathé, an amateur racing driver. The guys at Museum Prototype got all of the racer specials he had built using the parts and recovered the engine, chassis, running gear, wheels and instruments. everything but the body, They built a new body by measuring the above car and very carefully comparing photographs of the two cars which were slightly different. Took ten years.

Ronan

Here are a few pics of the two cars...( very few exist) , the earliest being 1941.....

Ronan

Ronan

Ronan

Racing after the war:

Ronan

A pic I took in Hamburg in the Fall of 2015:

Turbodan

Cool story and cars. Ronan: I didn't realize you were photographing Porsches back in 1941

Ronan

It was in my Kodak Brownie days when I was 29

Torontoworker

$50M my guess and that Porsche will bid.

wc11

I think Ronan should buy it and bring it out to Car's 'n' Coffee

Ronan

What? Without AC,WiFi,ApplePlay and LED lights??
Perish the thought

Freakhead

Great additional pics & information Ronan; thanks for posting!

theiceman

What a coincidence , Ronan and I were just talking about this car at artisanos a couple weeks back.

great pics .. does that plate say KIA ? lol