Behold: the weird and wonderful 1939 Porsche Type 64 Coupe – built for the 1,500-kilometer Berlin-Rome race, which never happened.
Regarded as the missing link between the Mk1 Beetle (whose engine it shares) and the post-WWII Porsche 356, only three were ever made and this is the third – kept by Professor Ferdinand Porsche himself as a family car.
Up for auction at Monterey this August.
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love it
(a friend of mine has an identically shaped sex toy | she seems pleased with it)
What??
Oh, shaped…
Though you said sized…
“the weird and wonderful 1939 Porsche Type 64 Coupe – built for the 1,500-kilometer Berlin-Rome race, which never happened.”
Ah no, why not?
I can’t think of any reason that something might be cancelled involving 1939 germany
I’m pretty sure that it was replaced with a 1939 Berlin – Warsaw race.
He can’t cut and paste a thought, you know! He’s the human Xerox.
A cartoon car made flesh…well OK…metal.
If I only had the engine-bay pic to go on, I would indeed have assumed it was a Beetle.
That picture second from the bottom, I could swear that is Eamon de Valera conversing with Prince Philip…
They might have enjoyed the political climate in 1939 Germany.
You can see the basic design for the 911 in this car.
I’ve often been struck by the many similarities between the Porsche (later VW) flat four aircooled engine, and the flat four light aircraft engines of the era.
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In fact, the aircooled VW engine was itself used in several designs of light aircraft post WW2 with a few minor modifications (ignition system chiefly).
That was interesting Mickey, thanks for the info.
Half car half submarine
very Roger rabbit
It is! Or as BB says above, similar to a Rampant Rabbit
I wouldn’t know anything about that kinda thing now
if you don’t, you should
you’d swallow anything..bum bum tchsse
Just based on the photos, I reckon that driver’s side front wheel needed changing a lot…