But they did not realise at the time that they had bought into the history of the remaining Type 64 parts. There was a road accident with the car in around 1941. So, Porsche family had to give up the idea of their sportscar using Volkswagen components. When the American forces occupied the area at the end of the war, they confiscated Sports Car 2 and put it to use on their local base. The Porsche family were allowed to keep Sports Car 3 which they used as personal transport right up until 1949. The type 64 cars were built using 1938 KdF VW38 chassis and the chassis numbers therefore begun with 38. It was also the first Porsche vehicle to be campaigned in a motorsport event. After giving the car a real thrashing, with the engine seized and the body a mess, it was simply left where it stopped and later scrapped, which was effectively the end of Sports Car 2. Three of the drivers for the event were to have been Ferry Porsche, his cousin Herbert Kaes and Hans Klauser. Otto Mathé died in 1995 at the age of 88. The body was stamped with 38/42, although it has nothing to do with the original 38/42. The Type 64 is an early example of one of Porsche's chief design innovations: placing the engine in the back of the car rather than the front. The Volkswagen Type 1 was given the designation Type 60 internally at Porsche. It was at this time that, with the war now over and plans to develop the 356 into a really competitive sports car in the market, that the old Type 64 became redundant to Porsche. The car also had an antenna. The Porsche Type 64 Berlin-Rome race car (registration: III A – 0701), parked in front of Werk 1, Stuttgart ca. Mathé then registered the car in the district of Tyrol near Innsbruck, which accounts for the ‘T’ in its registration number T2222. In Austria the car got a local license plate 'K 45-240' where K standed for Kärnten (Carinthia, a state of Austria). At the time that the Prototyp Museum Hamburg acquired the Otto Mathé cars, they filled almost two lorries with parts, together with the Fetzenflieger (literally translated means ‘Scrap-flyer’). (Picture courtesy RM Sotheby’s). The Type 64 is the oldest surviving and, according to RM Sotheby’s, the ‘most historically significant’ Porsche in the world. The second car has been built up from the spares that Mathé bought from Porsche, and before the purists raise their hands and say that can’t be, consider the following. He did everything to go fast. If you take it exactly as I say it, that’s correct.” He even used the Gmuend car to arrive at the $20 million auction estimate. The Porsche Type 64, or Porsche 64, or Type 60K10 is perhaps one of the most iconic cars in the world. The car got new grille, was fitted with two windscreen wipers under the windscreens and was painted silver. It's the only surviving example. They had come to see Lot No. It wasn’t long though before he had a rather serious accident in the car, no doubt due to the high-performance capability of the car compared with other contemporary machinery. One of the door handles we found in a box full of aluminium ski bindings, and so we also had many other parts for the car, but not the body.”. The three chassis numbers allocated to the race cars, also referred to as the KdF-Rekordwagen, was 38/41, 38/42 and 38/43. Others, including the man who inspected the car for RM Sotheby’s before it went to sale, were careful to note that the Type 64 is not technically a “Porsche.” … Today this reminder of Porsche’s roots stands proudly in the new Museum. Please contact us if you would like to discuss advertising opportunities on Porsche Road & Race. Great strides were taken in motor car performance during the 1920s and 1930s, a development that actively fed the motorsport industry, which in turn grew in popularity at an astonishing rate. However, the plans for Porsche’s own sports car were already on the drawing board in 1947 and the first of the new 356 models was officially registered in June 1948. The fastest vehicles at the rally were the motorcycles over 250 cc. The location of the windscreen wiper, the window frames and rear lamps suggest the car is mimicking car no.1. For the 1939 race, in September 1938 a project was started to create KdF's Berlin-Rome competition car. Building on the success that he had achieved with the Auto Union, the intended KdF-Wagen sports version would be based on the production model and Porsche hoped that the state might help with financing the project. The Munich Agreement was signed, accepting the immediate occupation of the Sudetenland. The Porsche type 64 KdF Berlin-Rome car is acknowledged as the original ancestor of all the subsequent Porsche sports cars to follow. Both countries had been very poor and this had helped the leaders to become dictators. The Berlin-Rome road rally had been postponed from 1938 to 1939, then to 1940 and 1941, but never happened. The third car was completed in summer of 1940. Porsche Type 64. However, between the years of 1940-1945, for reasons unrecorded, the body of Sports Car 3 was fitted to the chassis of Sports Car 1 (chassis 38/41), this being the accident-damaged Lafferentz car. Having the powerless engine, the type 64 had to be as aerodynamic as possible. The body and wheels were painted black. As the Porsche design office had moved to Gmünd, Carinthia in Austria in 1944, naturally so did no. Porsche 911 RSR Type 991 N° 91 2nd LMGTE Pro Class Le Mans 2019 1/64 Spark Y140 $10.99 New Porsche 911 Type 991 RSR N° 91 24h Le Mans 2018 Style Rothmans 1/64 Spark Y121 1939 Porsche Type 64 It was beautiful, dynamic and fast – and it quickly became Ferdinand Porsche’s great passion: Although this unique sports car built for the Berlin-Rome long-distance race bore nothing but the simple model designation “Type 64”, it is acknowledged as the “original Porsche”, the“great-grandfather” of all Porsches to follow. So, when he bought the type 64 from Ferry Porsche, he converted it into right-hand-drive because he could use only his left hand to operate the gear lever. By increasing the compression ratio, power output was raised to 32bhp at 3500rpm. Even if the dirty windscreen of the type 64 or the later 356 had to be kicked out for better vision. The VW Type 60K10 -- commonly referred to as the Porsche Type 64 -- was developed for a prewar race between Berlin and Rome that never happened, but remains the unmistakable link in the chain between Volkswagen and Porsche. Given that this silver Type 64 is the only known vehicle left that Ferdinand Porsche actually drove, it's hard to understand just why the company is now distancing themselves from their unsavory past. When the car was repaired after the accident, the old-school semaphores were removed and PORSCHE-lettering was fixed on the nose. In 1948, Porsche debuted its first car, the 356, and during an early appearance in Austria, Type 64 #3 was at its side. It had longer semaphores than the earlier cars. With the event no longer happening, Sports Car 1 (chassis 38/41) was given to Bodo Lafferentz, a member not only of Germany’s national trade union, but he was also a board member of the newly formed Volkswagenwerk. Ferdinand Porsche, a relentless and visionary auto engineer who was also a member of the Nazi Party, started making cars in 1931. Sports Car 3 led a more measured life, becoming the personal transport of Ferdinand Porsche. They've mentioned it as a Porsche in press releases, and they've also mentioned it being a part of their permanent display. “We say Type 64 is the oldest car to wear a Porsche badge. The car was finished in May 2014. The Porsche 64, also known as the VW Aerocoupe, Type 64 and Type 64K10, is considered by many to be the first automobile from Porsche. The cars were built at Reutter Works in Zuffenhausen and had aluminum bodies with wheels covered to reduce air resistance. Think about it…, Written by: Glen Smale Images by: Porsche, Prototyp Museum & Glen Smale, Categories: Featured, Race Cars, Yesteryear Tags: Ferdinand Porsche, Mathé, Porsche, Type 64. The strikingly unusual Porsche Type 64 was built in 1939, when Porsche was a designer for Volkswagen, as a commission from the National Socialist Motor Corps. The three Berlin-Rome racing cars therefore were designated as Type 60 and fitted with the new body style which was Type K10 (the “K” … Standing at the front of the car is Porsche worker Eugen Schlichter The 64 was to have an aluminium body, and the wheels were fully covered with removable alloy panels. SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE and be the first to receive new articles directly into your inbox: The history of Porsche sportscars is peppered with iconic models that stand out as special, from the, A Spanish noun, ‘carrera’ can mean road, track or race and since the 1970s ‘Carrera’ has been a, Clearly it isn’t a Porsche, but it must rank as one of the best looking sports cars of its era. The car was created on order of the Hamburg Prototyp Museum (www.prototyp-hamburg.de) and finished in 2011. The rear lamps looked like the ones on the 38/42, but were positioned a bit differently. Thanks to the streamlined body, the small 4-cylinder aircooled 1100 cc flat engine was capable of achieving more than 80 mph/130 km/h average speed on drives between Stuttgart and Berlin. In 1940 Japan had joined the military alliance of Germany and Italy, and a Berlin-Rome-Tokyo road rally was thought of, but didn't happen. Because of the Sudeten Crisis, the 1938 Berlin-Rome race did not happen, but as the event was planned as a new tradition, the race was scheduled also for 1939. Although this car is today in private ownership, it can be seen at the Prototyp Museum Hamburg and other venues. Fortunately, the Swiss racing driver Otto Mathé had shown an interest in acquiring the Type 64, otherwise this crucially important piece of Porsche history may well have gone the way of its two siblings, and been scrapped. It is arguably the world's first Porsche Porsche … Your favourite online journal covering Porsche's rich motorsport heritage, 14th December 2016 by: Glen Smale | Leave a Comment. Unfortunately, with only the one car being completed prior to the commencement of hostilities, the planned Berlin-Rome race never took place as all motor sport activities in Germany were cancelled. Some of the remains were later sold to Otto Mathé together with car no. In addition to the many motorcycle classes, cars were divided into 8 classes, which meant there were very few cars in each class. We welcome your questions, comments and feedback. No longer needed at the smaller Porsche manufacturing facility, the two cars, Sports Car 2 and 3 were later kept at the family home in the picturesque and beautiful lakeside town of Zell-am-See in Austria. Its body design project number was 60 K10. NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps, National Socialist Motor Corps), a paramilitary organization of the German Nazi Party, started to organize the Berlin-Rome road rally to happen on September 27, 1938. It could have also been the most expensive one to … And the narrow cockpit made it look very cool. As a result, Porsche was forced to relocate their plant and equipment to a remote site in Gmünd, Southern Austria, which became the home of Porsche from 1944 to 1948. On permanent display at the Prototyp Museum, today this car shows the correct war-time black-out headlamps, as well as the single overhead-mounted, driver-side windscreen wiper. Ferry Porsche had the car rewamped in 1947, supposedly at Carozzeria Pininfarina in Italy. Between 1949 and 1953, Mathé competed with the Porsche in around eighteen different events including the Coppa Dolomiti in Northern Italy, Österreichische Alpenfahrt, Stella Alpina, Straßenrennen Meran and Korneuburg, Krems, Linz, Gmünd, Innsbruck, Eifelrennen, as well as several circuit races. 3. In the meantime Volkswagen was getting ready for production and was renamed as KdF-Wagen in 1938. 1940/41. Some original 38/42 parts were used. Most observers consider the first capital-P Porsche to be the 1948 356 Gmuend coupe. Please turn on Javascript in your browser to fully enjoy the Stuttcars.com experience. It is not uncommon to replace bodywork or even an engine on a race car during the course of its life, and so in the same way 38/42 has been given a new body and engine. The Porsche Type 64 One of just three copies ever made, the Porsche Type 64 or Porsche 60K10 is considered the first vehicle of what was to become the Porsche company. With the fuel tank now protruding into the passenger area, this resulted in that seat being moved towards the centre of the car and 30cm further back than the driver’s seat, in a staggered formation. Although Porsche design office was huge, very successful and had a large number of customer projects going on, Porsche's own sports car, and now with 10-cylinder engine, was too much to handle. Certain improvements were made to the car and the engine capacity was increased, and it was even driven to Italy for its bodywork to be ‘revived’ by Pinin Farina. 362, the much-heralded Porsche Type 64, a swooping Nazi-era car that was built by the automaker Ferdinand Porsche nine years before he … During the 1930s, Hitler wanted to provide a car for the masses, a car that the workers could afford to buy with the savings that the national labour organisation was busy setting up for them. 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