550 Spyder 550-07 Wendler Factory Metallic Paint

That is the one with two chassis numbers, 550-07 and 550-0043, and wore at least three or four different bodies at different times. Exhibit A in the argument for always saying "approximately" when discussing the number of original 550 Spyders produced.

Funny, I always thought it was French Blue as outfitted for Annie Bousquet.

I'd read the hell out of an Bousquet biography.

What a cool history.

Thanx for sharing.

Michael

The aerodynamic details on this car are really nice. Based on the crash history these must have been refined/rebuilt a few times.

Based on the number of times it did crash, there wasn't much left of any of the bodies!

Here is the time trial crash at Montlhery where it ran into the guard rail

and the fatal crash at Reims

After it was bought by Blendl who got the factory to restore it again, but he crashed it during a hill climb race

and these are just the crashes when it had the Wendler body!

Based on reading Annie’s story on your website, I decided to paint my vintage license plate frame French Racing Blue instead of the original Royal Blue.

Chuck Peterson was the VW dealer here BITD and the first place I ever saw a Porsche.

Great licence plate combo - I was lucky enough to secure this one - I just need to find the perfect frame!

I don't know, keeping it frameless and simple is what the car is about. People always want to add more when less is more.

When I was building model cars, I'd put every detail to make them look real, but on my full sized cars, I remove as much as possible to make them look like toys. I guess it's just me.

I wish our plates were as simple as yours. The US is all about more more more and we end up with cluttered plates. It can get to the point of making them hard to read.

I just used some screen spline cut down the middle to border my plate. I also took the liberty of contouring it a bit to fit.

Carlos like yours mine lives in the mountains. So I thought this was appropriate.

@dlearl476 posted:

Your plate is crooked. It's offset to the right. It looks a little low on the right, but that may be an optical illusion.

I don’t know that guy ^^

@Gordon Nichols posted:

I don’t know that guy ^^

I know him. He came to my house and straightened all the pictures.

right top corner up 1/4 to 5/16"

@DannyP posted:

Your plate is crooked. It's offset to the right. It looks a little low on the right, but that may be an optical illusion.

I wasn't going to say anything. But it bothers me, too...