The Moment Before Porsche Became Porsche By the closing months of 1947, the Porsche name had already traveled farther—and carried...
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A historically significant 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder by Wendler is set to cross the block at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction...
The Car That Taught Porsche How to Win 1954 Porsche 550 Spyder (Image credit: Petersen Auto Museum) There is a...
The Porsche 550 was the brand’s first production racing car, designed to be both street legal and track-ready, allowing drivers...
By 1953, Porsche had been successful racing its 356, but understood that a purpose-built race car would be needed to...
A 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder was the definite star of the recently concluded Bonhams Amelia Island Auction after achieving a...
Porsche 550 Prototype Spyder Specifications In late 1953, Porsche showcased a more definitive version of the 550 with a quad-cam...
Porsche 550 Prototype Spyder Pictures Porsche 550 Prototype Spyder Pictures ...
Porsche Unseen by Jan Karl Baedeker & Stefan Bogner – © Delius Klasing Verlag Consider what it would be like...
The winning drivers from Porsche’s first Le Mans 24 Hour victory on 14 June 1970 (from L-R) Hans Herrmann and...
Porsche 356 Cabriolet competing at an aerodrome race in the USA, ca. 1952/1953 America has for decades been Porsche’s biggest...
Mid-Atlantic American Sports Car Races 1953-1962: by Terry O’Neil © Dalton Watson Fine Books This is the beginning of a...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 31 May-1 June 1986: Start of the race – Porsches dominate the lead group In Part...
Le Mans 24 Hours, 23-24 June 1951: In the foreground of the workshop at Teloché is the #46 Porsche 356...
Porsche Carrera 4-cam 4-cylinder racing engine – © Franzis Verlag GmbH Last year we reviewed the Porsche 911 flat-six boxer...
Ian Fraser-Jones – ‘Out’ after a one mile push, the car having stopped due to a gearbox failure, the car’s...
A busy GK Lindsay workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, ca.1958 Porsche used its racing exploits around the world to not...
In 1953 Porsche created a series of 550 prototypes and 550-03 became the most important car in Porsche history by winning the 1954 Carrera Panamerica with Hans Herrmann at the wheel. This singular victory lent the Carrera nameplate to future models and also marked the first international victory of a mid-engine car. Only 15 prototypes were made until regular production began in 1954 of the Porsche RS Spyder.
