I believe this is privately owned and going up for auction soon.
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That sure would slip thru the air - would make a great commuter car with an 18 hp Briggs and Stratton. Save your aluminum beer cans and pound one out.
THAT'S SO FREAKIN COOL!!!!
Needs a five-speed.
Sacto Mitch posted:
Needs a five-speed.
And a dual port 1385 (big bore 1200) with dual 36 mm Dellortos or Webers... 
And holes drilled in everything...
I can't see the picture here at work, but there was a hand-made aluminum replica of the 64 at Kiawah this year. I have a bunch of pictures of it somewhere. the workmanship was incredible and IIRC the guy had finished it the day before the show.
"the guy had finished it the day before the show."
Was his last name "Anderson" by any chance? 
Nope. Some guy in North Carolina. Took him 5 years to fabricate the body and 2 more to make it a roadworthy car. It's pretty spectacular. You can do a search on "kiawah" and find the 2019 show that has a link to my flickr album. I just can't get into flickr at work.
Do you think there is any difficulty turning it?
https://www.carsonkiawah.com/2019-awards
Wow - someone flash a mold of that car! Make out of fiberglass and chrome metallic wrap it! Fits on a VW T1 pan too.
Looking at this, it maybe confirms that the Speedster and pre-A coupe were the sweet spot in Porsche design - between too ‘swoopy’ and too angular.
Has anybody yet scanned a 356 or other classic with the intention of using the scan to make an exact mold.
Sacto Mitch posted:Looking at this, it maybe confirms that the Speedster and pre-A coupe were the sweet spot in Porsche design - between too ‘swoopy’ and too angular.
You are very kind, Mitch.
I’ll say it: aside from the historical significance of this car, everything about it is hideous to my eye.
Todd M posted:Has anybody yet scanned a 356 or other classic with the intention of using the scan to make an exact mold.
IM for sure has done it
Stan Galat posted:Sacto Mitch posted:Looking at this, it maybe confirms that the Speedster and pre-A coupe were the sweet spot in Porsche design - between too ‘swoopy’ and too angular.
You are very kind, Mitch.
I’ll say it: aside from the historical significance of this car, everything about it is hideous to my eye.
Too harsh. It obviously influenced the beautiful car in Woody Allen's movie Sleeper!
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Stan Galat posted:Sacto Mitch posted:Looking at this, it maybe confirms that the Speedster and pre-A coupe were the sweet spot in Porsche design - between too ‘swoopy’ and too angular.
You are very kind, Mitch.
I’ll say it: aside from the historical significance of this car, everything about it is hideous to my eye.
Do the term "Butt Ugly" come to mind?!
mppickett posted:Too harsh. It obviously influenced the beautiful car in Woody Allen's movie Sleeper!
Clearly.
For a moment there, I thought that was ‘Benton Harbor’, aka “Chicken Man”
"Buck-buck-buck-buuuuuck......."
"Chicken-mannnn!"
"He's everywhere! He's everywhere!"
It’s like listening to SEA Armed Forces Radio all over again!
Awww come one guys, the Type 34 was created back 1934 …. Eighty Four years ago....
What were things like back then, Alan? :-)
mppickett posted:What were things like back then, Alan? :-)
Ok, this wins Post if the Day! 🤣
And the Type 64 appeared in 1939. WW 2 sure got in its way. When other cars looked like this:
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WOLFGANG posted:And the Type 64 appeared in 1939. WW 2 sure got in its way. When other cars looked like this:
You mean, attractive?
I have to agree with Stan. The 64 was obviously designed for aerodynamics, as they were understood at the time, not beauty. Pretty much all of the views are awkward. That said, I was still gobsmacked by the replica.
Sorry but the Type 64 is a stellar piece of rolling art, way ahead of it's time ...sure there are the 2 1/2 ton Neo Classics but this was pure creativity.
Which would win a land speed record? Not even mirrors to get in the smooth flow. Love that it premiered the headlights used on the Beetle til 1967!
It is a nice car, very amoeba like 
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Is it the prettiest girl at the dance? No. Was it a really unique and successful purpose-built speeder? Maybe. Would I build and/or own one? Definitely not. But it's still a historical and cool thing. I like it.
From the beginning, Porsche's shapes were 80 per cent engineering and 20 per cent styling. This looks like it does because it came from an engineer and not a styling division.
The later shapes are probably easier on the eyes more because the engineering led them in that direction than for any other reason. The cabin on the Type 34 would have to be wider because the early design was just too cramped.
And who knew you'd end up with the prettiest convertible ever if you cut the windshield off a cab and threw away the windows and bulky top to save some bucks?
Lucky us.
The Spyder is the prettiest open car ever. The Speedster is a very close second. The best looking coupe is a 904. All designed and built in a ten to fifteen year period, a long, long time ago. Not so long for some of us.......
"The cabin on the Type 34 would have to be wider because the early design was just too cramped."
The seats in the replica were staggered, and I have to think the real one was the same.
Lane Anderson posted:"The cabin on the Type 34 would have to be wider because the early design was just too cramped."
The seats in the replica were staggered, and I have to think the real one was the same.
Yes. The driver's seat was moved forward, as the battery was right behind it. That caused quite a weird driving position, where the driver's leg were shifted right. There is a Chris Harris video on YouTube of a test drive in the car.
Fantastic presentation by Chris Harris. You can tell he truly feels the emotion of the car, the history, the marquee, etc.
My favorite line, "If it wasn't worth north of ten million quid I'd skid it about but that would be rude.". Made me chuckle.
I got to breathe on this car today. It’s not often you can have the chance to witness the product that essentially started things we commonly know today.
I was overwhelmed with a sense of awe. Similar to what I felt standing in the great Cathedrals in Italy. The Type 64 is raw. It’s unapologetic. It’s strikingly beautiful and yet ugly at the same time. And I loved it.
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"It’s unapologetic. It’s strikingly beautiful and yet ugly at the same time. And I loved it."
Very well said, Kevin!
Just ran across this interesting tidbit: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/1...-isnt-a-porsche.html
So it's really a Volkswagen with a Porsche badge.
Maybe Sotheby's is selling it because the ad got pulled from eBay.
@Kevin - Bay Area wrote- "The Type 64 is raw. It’s unapologetic. It’s strikingly beautiful and yet ugly at the same time. And I loved it."
When you look at car design from that time- lots of swoopy, big flowing curves (the 1930's and into '40's really was the art deco period of car design) it's easy to see, in a time of great experimentation, the influences and where the Type 64 comes from. Dr. Porsche was a 'push the envelope' kind of guy!
Quite often I agree with the (somewhat) more staid, and even curmudgeonly opinions expressed here but I've always loved this car because it was 'so (almost too) out there'.
What Kevin said x 3- you hit the nail on the head, dude!
Sacto Mitch posted:
So it's really a Volkswagen with a Porsche badge.
Maybe Sotheby's is selling it because the ad got pulled from eBay.
Ok, Mitch, that was the laugh of the day!
In retrospect, our cars are a lot like the Type 64, at least mine a 2005 VS, a Volkswagen with a Porsche badge.