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pwd72s 04-03-2021 11:13 AM
550 Spyder found?
 
No, not the missing James Dean Crash car... but I think an elaborate hoax...anybody here heard of it?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/find-century-rare-1955-porsche-550-spyder-found-shipping-container

island911 04-03-2021 11:21 AM
That shipping container is how old? 30 years tops?

porsche4life 04-03-2021 11:47 AM
Ya, they certainly knew it was there. It may have been stashed away, but I got the feeling the family has known they had it all along.

varmint 04-03-2021 11:59 AM
definitely seems staged.

don't know the line between staged and a hoax though.

Gogar 04-03-2021 02:02 PM
That's not much dust on there. Not even close.

rusnak 04-03-2021 02:54 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by porsche4life (Post 11283632)
Ya, they certainly knew it was there. It may have been stashed away, but I got the feeling the family has known they had it all along.
It was last registered in '94 with "retro" plates.

So someone bought a 550, so what?

Por_sha911 04-03-2021 04:32 PM
Jimmy Dean's 550 found in storage container? Was Jimmy Hoffa's remains in the trunk?

porsche930dude 04-03-2021 04:42 PM
some history of the car
#550-0069 - Type 550

Sooner or later 04-03-2021 04:42 PM
Hagerty article

https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/rare-1955-porsche-550-spyder-uncovered-in-california-shipping-container/

HobieMarty 04-03-2021 04:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gogar (Post 11283773)
That's not much dust on there. Not even close.
Exactly what I was thinking, way too clean to have been in that container for so many years. I call BS on that one.

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MRM 04-03-2021 04:57 PM
The article was in Zero Hedge. What are the odds that it was all on the up and up?

pwd72s 04-03-2021 04:59 PM
At first I thought it might be an April fools joke...you know, a fiberglass replica paraded as the real thing.

Evidently, it's the real deal...just that it wasn't really lost.

Sooner or later 04-03-2021 05:12 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by MRM (Post 11284014)
The article was in Zero Hedge. What are the odds that it was all on the up and up?
That is what I thought. Hagerty seems to verify.

Danimal16 10-04-2022 05:56 PM
“and to find one that’s been lost to time in a container … Well, that’s like finding a unicorn with bigfoot riding it.”

Great Quote.

Bill Douglas 10-04-2022 06:04 PM
Yeah, has to be lost in the first place to be "found". Mind you the term certainly gets peoples little hearts racing.


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