Spyder 550 550A

[356]

[Type550]

[GT3]

[gerrymc547]

Regarding 27873, I doubt that this is -12, as, when I oversaw an extensive body restoration in 1997-8, the '54 LeMans nose, with recessed driving lamps, was very much intact. The car did come to my shop, I was told, out of Argentina, via a rather circuitous route. We need to ask which later prototype had that nose, and may have found it's way to Argentina?

[356]

[Type550]

Gerry,

The only one of the later prototypes that did not have the fitted lights was 550-09, but I doubt it was this one. As the race was much later, it is hard to figure out the whereabouts of these cars. I found the photo from a reliable source who was supposedly with the car at the time and identified it as 550-12. Here is a later image of 550-09

Regarding 27873, I doubt that this is -12, as, when I oversaw an extensive body restoration in 1997-8, the '54 LeMans nose, with recessed driving lamps, was very much intact. The car did come to my shop, I was told, out of Argentina, via a rather circuitous route. We need to ask which later prototype had that nose, and may have found it's way to Argentina?

[356]

[JG]

[Porschinelle]

[Type550]

1955 LeMans

[356]

[Type550]

[Carrera GT]

[quote="Type550" post=28265]

Andrew,

Who's the Babe sitting on the cowl of no. 58?

Michael

[Type550]

one of the grid girls

[356]

No girl in this one. Same car, same race Andrew?