Spyder 550 550A

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Thanks for the correction Andrew. Is the picture of the field correct at 1955 or was it also the 1956 race?
~Vance

[Type550]

#66 is 550-0045 crashed at the 1956 Nurburgring

[356]

Nurburgring 1955

[356]

Boy, if you didn't know better that could fool alot of people. Thanks for keeping us all straight Andrew.
~Vance

[Type550]

Would you trust any of these photos...?

Someone has been very creative with photoshop!

[JTR70]

WOW! Thank you for sharing these! Several of those I have never seen before; the last one on the left in particular. It looks legit enough to me?

Your lead photo is a reenactment so I wouldn't worry about chasing a better shot of that one. I agree, the last bottom photo on the right has had the background photo shopped perhaps? I believe this is the Annie Bousque wreck and not the Dean car. Dean's drivers side rocker area was far more mangled and encroached in on. You can also just make out the strip on the tail fender and it appears yellow or white in color. I'm sure Andrew or Gerard can give better confirmation on that wreck than I can.
Justin

[oldman]

What do you think about this?
Where can I find these pics with higher resolution?

Officer Otie Hunter?




The pics below I believe they may be fake.
In the first 6 pics, the shirts colors do not close with the known pics, and the fence seems different to me.
In the rear photo, the grilles are in place and look small
In the last photo the side of the car is very whole

[Type550]

Warren Eads does own the frame 550-0043, but there is now more to the story! 550-07 did not have an allocated frame and as Wendler had already made the first batch of customer frames (up to 0043), 0043 was actually a spare frame. This was used on 550-07, originally as the Buckelwagen, then as the fixed rear (like 550-05) and then as the Wendler bodied car which Annie crashed in. Previously I have referred to Annie's car as 550-0043, but in actual fact it was still designated as 550-07, hence why the high km readings when Annie's mother took it in for service - this is also known as a 'continuance' of a car when there has been significant body changes.

Following the crash, 550-07 returned to the factory for repairs, then it was sold to Blendl who also crashed it in a hill climb. At this point the car was not repaired but parted to different people. The frame was never used on another car until its current restoration.

There are reports that the Drogo Spyder was built on the frame of 550-0043, but this is incorrect as we now have the complete purchase and sale history of the frame up until the current owner.

I have recently been invited to the US to document and help in the assembly of the complete Wendler designed body on 550-07. It will be an exciting week at the end of November!

[Blechquäler]

Didn't we see, in an earlier post of Andrew, Warren Eads together with that Chassis #43?

[Porschinelle]

and then was sold to a Portuguese pilot




Does this car still exist

[Type550]

Joaquin Felipe Nogueira first owned 550-0039 and raced it up to 1956

550-0038 was owned and raced by Jose Correira de Oliveiras followed by Fernando Mascarenhas and Jose Manuel Simoes. It was Jorge Moura Pinheiro who raced it with the rally style windscreen in the 1960 Tour of Portugal (Volta a Portugal).

Here is 550-0038 new

[Porschinelle]

Hi Andrew
Another question for you
While working on the life of the Portuguese pilot Joaquim Filip Nogueira for another topic of this forum, I discover that this pilot was the first owner of 550-038

Could you please confirm that the second white spyder is 550-039 whose first owner was Fernando Mascarenhas ?


On your site you show a pic of 550-038 and another spyder taken several years after (1960) when these 2 now old race cars have been changed into rallye cars with funny windscreens and soft tops



Could you confirm that the second car is again 550-039 ?

[Porschinelle]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpzyqioub3g

and this one 550.05 (Hans Stcuck Interlagos)

[Type550]

It has taken a very long time to come to this conclusion, but 550-05 and 550-07 both had the same fixed rear body. Analysing heaps of photos in detail show small but significant differences between both builds. 550-07 was originally a lift rear buckelwagen before it was changed to the fixed rear body and sold to Veuillet.

One photo which always threw me was the photo of a 550 being tested on the Autobahn. Originally thought to be 550-07 with a low lift back rear is in fact 550-08 being tested before the Mille Miglia.



The first clue which lead me to seeing there were two fixed rear 550s, was the position of the lock on the glove box - such a small difference, but enough to realise it was not the same car. It is one thing which would not change on a car when there were body updates done.

550-05 at the 1953 Paris car show



550-07 at the Porsche Factory



You can also see how the firewall has been cut down from when it was a buckelwagen.

I now have race entry documentation from Veuillet racing identifying the car as 550-07. The evidence is now building...

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Can't get enough of this stuff you guys.
~Vance