What coupe is this?

Modified early Gmund coupe ?

Yep 1949 Gmund

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Pretty cool.  Gmund outlaw.  6 bucks.  Did you buy it?

An episode of Comedians in cars Getting Coffee featured Jerry and Jay driving around in a 1949 Gmund coupe.  I found a link to the video on the PCA website.

http://comediansincarsgettingc...s-a-concealed-weapon

Just read the book PORSCHE Origin of the Species.  This car is on the cover.  There is a chapter about its past and restoration.  When Jerry got the car it was right wheel drive.  A former owner had lost his right arm in a car race.  So he converted it to right wheel drive so he could shift with his left arm.  He did not race the Gmund, but used it to tow other small VW powered race cars.  Jerry converted it back to left wheel drive but went to great lengths to maintain the originality and patina of the car.

Interesting as this pic is hanging on the wall of an antiques store.

If that is #40, here is some more info to support Phil's info:

This vehicle, chassis number 356/2-040, was built in the spring of 1949, and is the oldest original condition Porsche in the world. It is one of less than 50 hand built all aluminum cars produced in Porsche's first 'factory' - a converted sawmill in Gmund, Austria (hence its name). Subsequently, manufacturing was transferred to Stuttgart, Germany, where it remains to this day.

Immediately, chassis #040 was put into service by Porsche as a highly documented development car, and was used as a rolling 'testbed' for factory experiments with aerodynamics and mechanical components, many of which were later used in the very successful 356 SL racecars at LeMans. Special racing features incorporated into this vehicle as a stronger aluminum engine (the standard cars used magnesium), raised shift linkage, and the first use of hydraulic brakes in a Porsche.

Sold in 1953 by Louisa Piech (Ferdinand Porsche's daughter and the sister of Ferry Porsche) to Otto Mathe, the well known 'one-armed' racer from Innsbruck, Austria. In 1996, after Mr. Mathe's passing, it was sold to Austrian enthusiast, Franz Rathkolb. It was purchased by Jerry Seinfeld in 2003.

Since Mr. Seinfeld became the owner of #0040, the services of Paul Russell and Company were retained to return the car to the perfect mechanical and running condition without disturbing any of its stunning originality. The car is now regularly driven on all the best sports car roads of California and New York, as was intended by its manufacturer.

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 Here's another one for you w/ "odd" rear lights.  Seems like they could not figure out how to do this, and kept dickin' around w/ it.  This car is an early '50s model I saw in Seattle a while back.

Some early pre-A's had lights & reflectors set up like that. See March's Panorama for "new" barn find for such an example. I think it was a 1953.

Correction, it is the February issue of Panorama.