The X---- Porsche cars

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One more for you Gerard
~Vance

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Hi Vance

Interesting find : This car is a one off shot of a Swiss coachworker named Hans Waibel
I heard of this car several years ago, but never write on it as this car built in 1948 by Hans

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Hi Vance

Interesting find : This car is a one off shot of a Swiss coachworker named Hans Waibel
I heard of this car several years ago, but never write on it as this car built in 1948 by Hans

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This car was built with an aluminium body, on a straight forward VW beetle chassis by Hans Waibel a Swiss coachworker at the request of Rupprecht Von Singer a rich Swiss Industrial who was the first Porsche importator for Switzerland




Rupprecht von Singer is the guy who exhibited 3 off 356 Gmund built by another Swiss coachbuilder named Beutler at the 1948 Geneva car show

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Rupprecht von Singer kept this car for five years who then desappeard for around 30 years
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This car surfaced in the US by end of the 90's


It was restaured at high expenses to the status it is to day




and the owner decided to sell it

In order to try to obtain a high price the owner pretend that this c

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The restaured Waibel cab was displayed at the 2002 Peeble beach concours and then offer for sale at auction
The owner in order to make the price rise pretend that this car was in fact one of the 5 prototypes of the 356 which is completely untrue
The car sold for 32.000 USD less than the restauration costs

The real story is as follows

Indeed Hans W

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The real story is as follows :
Hans Waibel established as a reknowned coachworker before the 2nd WW, wa

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Hans Waibel already well known in Switzerland before the 2nd WW

was contacted by Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche in order to built one of the first prototypes of the 356
Unfortunately Hans W

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Hans Waibel already well known in Switzerland before the 2nd WW

was contacted by Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche in order to built one of the first prototypes of the 356
Unfortunately Hans W

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Hans Waibel already well known in Switzerland before the 2nd WW

was contacted by Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche in order to built one of the first prototypes of the 356
Unfortunately Hans W

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Problems continue
Hans Waibel was a good coachworker but also a good "drinker" which did not help him being able to deliver in time
Seing nothing arriving Ferdinand order the prototypes to Beutler and subsequently stop his collaboration with Waibel
Therefore the W

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Therefore the Waibel cab a

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Therefore the Waibel cab as known to day has nothing to see with Porsche, except that the US owner who tried to sell it put a second hand Porsche 356 engine in it
In fact the story Porsche/Waibel did not finish as in the 60's the Swiss Police ask Waibel to tune for them some Porsche cabs


Some years later Waibel became one of the larger Swiss dealer for VW

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To day the story of another one off car, but this time a real X......Porsche
The Hirondelle Porsche

This story will allow us to discover several actors of the Dutch car racing scenes

First Henk van Zalinge (born 1922/death 2006) the guy who design and built the Hirondelle Porsche and thereafter built several other sport or race Hirondelles powered by a DKW 3 cylinders two stroke engine

Secondely Henk van Zalinge friends
Ben Pon (born 1936 still alive)
Carel Godin de Beaufort (born in 1934, killed himself in 1964 on the Nurburgring race track at the age of 30 at the wheel of a Porsche 718 formula 2 race car
Rob Slotemaker (born 1929 and who also killed himself in 1979 on the Zandvoort race track)
and the place where they all meet and race the Zandvoort race track built in the sand dunes of the shore of the Dutch North sea




The Zandvoort race track wa

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Three actors of this story may be seen on the below pic

Fromleft to right
Rob Slotemaker
Ben Pon
Henk van Zalinge
the 4th guy is the prince of Holland Bernhardt