Porsche "64" - the first 3 P-Cars?

[daepp]

[gatotom]

Thanks daepp for this history lesson.

Hope your wife is fine and your daughter is keeping Navy in line.

[ckissick]

Is it a Porsche or a Volkswagen?

[kach22i]

Thanks for posting this.

[shadowjack1]

Who knew. That was good. Thanks for posting.

[Laneco]

VERY cool - thanks for sharing!

angela

[kach22i]

This got me thinking, was Erwin Komenda involved with the Type-64?

Who designed the 911?
Who designed the 911?

I went ahead and Googled it, found the below.

KdF Berlin-Rome race car (Porsche type 64)
https://www.stuttcars.com/porsche-models/64/

For the 1939 race, in September 1938 a project was started to create KdF's Berlin-Rome competition car. It was a car using type 60 KdF-Wagen's mechanicals with design from Porsche 114 project. The KdF Berlin-Rome car was called as type 64. Its body design project number was 60 K10. K10 meant it was the 10th body (Karosserie 10) for the type 60 chassis. The type 64 cars were built using 1938 KdF VW38 chassis and the chassis numbers therefore begun with 38. The side view of the 'on paper only' type 114 and the type 64 was very similar. There were many body version of the 114 and the type 64 got its front look from the narrow cockpit 114. Having the powerless engine, the type 64 had to be as aerodynamic as possible. And the narrow cockpit made it look very cool. These aluminium-bodied cars were designed by Erwin Komenda.

Nice article the above is, more of it below.

The Berlin-Rome road rally had been postponed from 1938 to 1939, then to 1940 and 1941, but never happened. In 1940 Japan had joined the military alliance of Germany and Italy, and a Berlin-Rome-Tokyo road rally was thought of, but didn't happen.

[kach22i]

Scrolling to the bottom of that last link.

https://www.stuttcars.com/porsche-models/64/

The wider front fenders and the windscreen angle are the giveaways of the replica

[Por_sha911]

From the 2010 High Museum exhibit in Atl

[daepp]

Thanks for asking Tom. She's doing much better - thanks. And my Ensign is actually loving deployment. Who new???

[gatotom]

ahhh, you knew it in your genes, is she out stationed out west or along the atlantic?

My son is now working for FEMA in DC, getting pretty tight with a lady from Montana, liking his job but hating the big city, wanting to move west but needs to be patient for the opportunity to present itself.

If in the PNW, the offer still stands on that sail.