Early Porsche Prototypes

[Rokeby]

These cars may have appeared in threads before, but here for you appreciation/discussion are the best pix I have been able to find.

First Porsche hybrid, 1900

Prototype:


Final version:


Porsche Type 69

Sponson-type front wheel covers... Ferdinand tried 'em!



DesignApplause | Porsche 356 aluminum car.

Porsche body Type 64, 1939






Porsche factory reproduction:

High Museum Of Art — Luxist

[kach22i]

Cool, some of these are new to me.

[some_other_dave]

The first is the "Lohner Chaise", designed by Ferdinand Porsche for Lohner. Gasoline-electric series hybrid; the front wheels have hub motors but they are powered by a gasoline motor.

The second is one of the early-production Gmund coupes (the first ~50 Porsches were hand-hammered out of aluminum in a town named Gmund in Austria) modified for racing at Le Mans. I think it won the 1100cc GT class when it ran in ~1951 or so.

The third, Type 60, is a car built for the Rome-Liege rally with a special body built on standard VW mechanicals. The rally never happened (a little thing called WWII got in the way), but the cars were used during the war as high-speed couriers and personal transports. IIRC, two were built. One was wrecked just after the war, the other has disappeared, and the ones we see today are reproductions.

-soD