The X---- Porsche cars

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Another typ 64 exist also to day at the Hambourg Prototyp museum
Again this car is a reconstruction

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Otto Mathe engine and speedometer


Typ 64

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Hambourg Prototyp Museum car engine

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[S.J.Szabo]

If I may be so bold as to interrupt, I would offer a short bit of backtracking...

64/3 was indeed in attendance at the '98 Laguna event, tho I cannot recall just who brought it around for the occasion. And as there was some speculation that after getting the car back, he might decide to be buried in it, I was half surprised that Mr.Mathe was not stuffed and mounted behind the wheel. All in all, it was quite a do that year.

That event looms large for me, as the wife and I made The Big Loop thru 12 states to the Coast and back to No.Indiana in the Trusty Coupe for the occasion. Trouble-free until it blew a carelessly snugged spark plug from the stopover in Cupertino the day before, as we were leaving the condos to put it on the grass for display, bugs and all.

A day later in a stall of the condo garages, Mr.Kinst and I pulled the engine and helicoiled the wounded hole and had it back in again in three hours, using only the tool kit (including a small hyd.jack) that I brought with me, tho the jackstands were borrowed. It was, dare I say, fun.

But the '82 event in which both car and driver appeared was nothing to sneeze at either. As I recall (an iffy proposition, to be sure), Mr.Babow hosted a small dinner with Mr.Mathe the nite before his appearance.

When I saw the pictures after Mr.Babow's trip in '81, they included the Aprilla and another car as well, but the Reg. was not interested. From the stories, it was clear he had a fine time.

Those were the days, indeed.

We return you now to Mssr.de Roffignac's always interesting discourse.

[Impi]

Hi
The typ 64 recreation. it is one of those cars that probably falls squarely in the debate as to what is real and what is replica. I believe there should be a special term coined for these type of cars.
there is a growing tendency of almost cloning an original whilst using as much of the original as possible. Prototyp used all the salvaged parts from one of the Berlin Rome Cars (Porsche stripped all the salvageable parts from the wrecked car and sold those to Otto with the running car as spares.) which belonged to Otto Mathe. I followed this restoration and must say that very little on that car can be considered as not original. The amount of original and period correct parts that was found for this project is mind boggling. The chassis is the correct one as is most of the other parts. I am blown away with this.
Armand

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Some more pics of Otto Mathe Typ 64 before to start the chapter dedicated to Otto Mathe and his 356

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Imagine driving a MG TC and seeing that spaceship in the rear-view mirror before it passed you.

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The post war DKW 3=6 was also inspired by this design

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Mercedes Benz was also inspired by this streamline design first for their 1938 speed record car
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and for their sport and racing cars in the 50's

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