Spyder 550 550A

[Blechquäler]

Based on the main difference, the longer front nose section, it's a 550A.

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Hello Gerard,

Do you have more information on Marshall Motors in Florida? They seemed to be very much involved with the Porsche Werkes team at Sebring in 1957-58 .. maybe longer.

Michael Doyle

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Hi Michael

I am afraid not
Marshall Motors based in Brooksville still exist to day
Why not contact them, may be somebody still remember
What surprise me is that Bob Holbert has always entered his Porsches under his own name except for this race
For the Sebring 12 Hours 1958 he was sharing the wheel with Charles Wallace and Skip Hudson
May be Marshall Motors was their sponsor

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Doing some search on the net about Huschke vonn HansteinI found that pic of him at the wheel of a 356 Carrera GT taken by August 15th 1958 during the Gaisberg hill climb race in Austria near Saltzburg

and on from that find I discover that this hill climb was quite fabulous because :
It is beautifully documented in pictures
3 off 718 RSK + 8 off 550 took part at this race + a large number (I did not count them all but certainly more than 15 off) of Porsche 356 of all types

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I then realized that one of the 550 pilot Heini Walter was the hero of my first post 3 years ago in the X....Porsche topic




I also found that that race was discussed 4 years ago in this 550 topic in between Andrew and the regretted Steve H

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So even if some of the pics I you are going to discover now were already posted 4 years ago, I really think you will enjoy

To complete what Andrew wrote 4 years ago the exact classification of the 14th first competitors out of the 140 starters is


As you may see the competition was ferous in between the 3 off bright new factory RSK driven by Wolfgang von Trips, Edgar Barth and the french pilot Jean Behra who achieved a 1-4-5 and the 3 off Borgward of Hans Hermann and Joachim Bonnier and an Italian pilot who did 2-3 and 6

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To start with Wolfgang von Trips with his RSK race number 114

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Edgar Barth with RSK race number 115

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Jean Behra with RSK race number 112

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In addition to these 3 off Factory RSK 8 off 550 compete
Out off these 8 I have identified 7
only one, race number 101 is missing

From these 8 550, the best performance was achieved by the Swiss pilot Heini Walter with 550 race number 104 who was 6th overall
Indeed I made a mistake as the 3rd Borgward driven nby the Italain pilot Giulio Cabianca finish 7 overall and not 6 as I said before

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At the 8th place we find the Austrian pilot Ernst Vogele with car race number 105 on this pic queuing for the start behind Heini Walter 104

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In 9th position we find Richard von Frankenberg on 550 race number 98
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At the 10th place another 550 race number 108 driven by the Yugoslavian pilot Milivoj Bozic

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At the 11th place, the first 356 the same Carrera GT race number 75, than the one drivenn by Huschke von Hanstei in the hands of the Deutch pilot Sepp Greger

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At the 12th place a second 356 race number 82 driven nbyn the German pilot Siegfried Gunther

At the 13th place Wolfgang Seidel who was making infidelity to Porsche with a Ferrari race number 94