Spyder 550 550A

[Type550]

Troy McHenry in 550-0029 at Santa Maria in July 1956

[356]

Thank you Andrew, I knew it had a "Mc" in it.

[356]

Von Newmanns car by the large air pockets?
~Vance

[Type550]

Actually 550-03 at Giant's Despair in 1954 driven by James Graham

[Type550]

It is all swings and roundabouts with these cars! I had an email from Adam Wright who recently scored some photo albums from Jim Barrington featuring some of the 550s he had owned during his life.

One car I instantly recognised was the 550 with the holes behind the doors which was owned by William Edgar and raced by Suzy Deitrich. The Carerra book always had it listed as 550-0077 - the old Dunkel spyder, but the holes and the race dates never matched up and even when challenging Steve, he wouldn't budge! (probably because he had done the provenance of the car when it went to auction!)

Well, it has been identified as 550-0063, which moves some more of these races around. The races that are currently linked to 0063 have already been moved to 550-0023 and agreed to, but now a lot of the 0077 races will need to be moved and not sure yet what they will be replaced with!

[356]

What an exciting new discovery that somewhat rewrites the record books Andrew. It is a shame that Steve isn't here to share in it.
~Vance

[356]

Those two could easily have passed for a pair of dashing Hollywood types.

[356]

Andrews probably seen this one already but maybe I'll run across a new one for him.
~Vance

[Porschinelle]

Andrew extracted from this video

hyttps://youtube.com/watch?v=rkrGrJ_CX7M

some pics of an early 550 painted in the Swiss color (red body + white helmet)








Any idea of the chassis number ?

[Porschinelle]

I retry the video

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rkrGrJ_CX7M

[Porschinelle]

Just nclick on the link and its work
Fantastic video presumably filmed by end 1953 in Salzburg
In addition to the red + white spyder have you noticed this fantastic blue cab with wire rudge wheels

[Type550]

The spyder is 550-0028. There was another spyder in the Swiss racing team which was 550-0079, but I have also found 2 other spyders repainted with the same colour scheme.

[Type550]

Hi Vance,

Sam Weiss taping up the front headlights of 550A-0119 at Pomona Los Angeles County Fairgrounds on 27th July 1957. Sam finished 2nd in the race behind Jack McAfee also in a 550A. The white 356 Carrera Speedster #318 is Gary Nelson's who finished 4th in the following Production Race

Andrew

[356]

Thanks Andrew

[Type550]

Carel Godin de Beaufort at Int. Auto Flugplatzrennen Wien-Aspern in Austria in May 1958 driving 550A-0145