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Porsche 550 – The Story

By the early fifties Porsche found that modified production cars would no longer win races. The 550 was the answer. The original giant killer had arrived.

Porsche 645 Spyder (1953)

Planned as a successor to the Porsche 550, the car was discontinued in favor of the revised 550A and the Porsche 718. Single example was destroyed in a spectacular crash.

Porsche 904 – The Story

Porsche’s Type 904, officially called the Carrera GTS because Porsche and Peugeot were in dispute over numeric designations with “0” in them, succeeded the RSK Type 718 as the last sports-racing iteration of the 356 series.

Porsche 906 Spyder (1965)

The 906 Spyder was the first Porsche racing car built under Ferdinand Piëch's orders and there could be only a person as determined as Piëch to use Lotus parts on a Porsche.