Early Porsche Prototypes
 

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:
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/201..._2_540x359.jpg

Final version:
http://www.instablogsimages.com/imag...1_ZbGqM_69.jpg

Porsche Type 69
http://cs10065.vk.com/u2322706/151408279/x_6bf6aadf.jpg
Sponson-type front wheel covers... Ferdinand tried 'em!

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/201..._1_540x359.jpg

DesignApplause | Porsche 356 aluminum car.

Porsche body Type 64, 1939
http://www.sportscardigest.com/wp-co...1/d3s_1423.jpg

http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/picturesu/d1.jpg

http://www.smcars.net/forums/attachm...1-3-seater.jpg

Porsche factory reproduction:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog....he-type-64.jpg
High Museum Of Art — Luxist

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly...w9xho1_500.jpg

Cool, some of these are new to me.

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