Porsche-Gordini: Motorsport’s Little Frankenstein

Delfosse: The Man Behind The Idea

Before discussing the car itself, special mention must be made of the creator of this strange machine, and that was Curt Delfosse. Curt, just one of the many figures in the fascinating world of post-war motorsports, was the eldest son of a line of mechanics and engineers from Cologne, whose most prominent figure was Curt’s father, who had been a small-time assembler of mopeds and airplanes in the early 1900s.

Curt, true to his family lineage, followed the same path, and by the late 1940s, the German had already established a small operation in Düsseldorf, building speedboats equipped with Volkswagen engines, as well as ‘Kleinstrennwagen,’ small single-seater racing cars equipped with 500cc engines.