The X---- Porsche cars

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This car has also been entered by the ENB at the 1957 Le Mans 24 hours with as drivers Dubois/Harris

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Claude Dubois (2nd from the left) with Paul Frere at the arrivazl of the 1956 Liege Rome Liege race that he finish 3rd overall, also race this 550 in many local Belgian races



La Roche hillclimb

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Edmond Pery bought the 2 cars for a small price
No body know what he did with the formula 1


but what's sure is that he gave a new life to the 550

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When he arrived at the Blegines APAL plant the 550 needed a good refreshing
The aluminium body with many dents was taken off the chassis and throw away in the factory waste bean with other metallic scaps
The Fuhrmann engine was sent to a specialist for rebuilding and the chassis completely refresh
A polyester body was then adapted to the ex-550 chassis
I believe this body had to be specially made for this car as, as you know, the 550 entraxle is smaller by 26 centimeters than the VW chassis for which the APAL body was designed
Anyway as you may see on the below pic, this car was different from the other
In particular he had louvers on the back window like the Lamborghini Miura

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Edmond Pery gave this car to drive to Pierre Bonvoisin a young and talented Belgian pilot
Quickly the louvers were found dangerous and taken off
Pierre Bonvoisin drove the cars in several occasion in great races as the 1963 Liege Rome Liege and the 1964 Liege Sofia Liege
His best result was a 5th overall and a first in class in the 1964 Huy 12 Hours
race

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Despite that the APAL Porsche 550 car still exist to day in a great German car collector collection, somebody claim he owe 550-082


Who has said fake !

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Tour de Belgique 2013 revival

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Technoclassica Essen 2015

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The white car is an original APAL Porsche







VW type 4 x 125 wheel attachment


replaced by 5 x 205 Porsche type on CSP disc brakes



Standard VW type 1 engine replaced by a prepared 914 type 4 engine with a 911 cooling turbine

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Sorry I have been busy in Paris these last few days moving off my Paris flat for another one up the same road
I finish the APAL Porsche GT chapter before to continue on the Edmond Pery story
As most of the hand built cars there is big differences between APAL GT
As you may see on this pic where 3 car are assembled, 2 have a flat back and one a round one

idem with the front boot door


I am not very sure why this difference
This old pic showing one of the first car built show a round back

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Most of the cars on the road to day have been heavily restored
Some have even take advantage of the restoration to redesign the body