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The Porsche 550 is a mid-engine car with an air-cooled four-cylinder engine, following the precedent of the 1948 Porsche 356/1 prototype designed by Ferry Porsche. The mid-engine racing design was further developed with Porsche's 718 model; its advantages led to it becoming the dominant design for top-level racing cars by the mid-1960s.
The Porsche factory sent Wütherich to the United States as a field engineer for Johnny von Neumann's Competition Motors in Los Angeles, where the new 550 Spyder racing cars were being distributed. He arrived in April 1955 and met actor James Dean, a Porsche Speedster racer, at the Bakersfield races. He befriended Dean and began to work on Dean ...
Hollywood actor James Dean was killed at the age of 24 in an auto accident on September 30, 1955, near Cholame, California.He had previously competed in several auto racing events, and was traveling to a sports car racing competition when he was involved in a car crash at the junction of U.S. Route 466 (US 466, now State Route 46 [SR 46]) and SR 41.
The Haunted Farm: Every Friday and Saturday in October, the Haunted Farm in Pleasantville will have tours beginning at 7:30 p.m. with the last tour departing at 11 p.m. – each 30 minutes long ...
Longing to return to the "liberating prospects" of motor racing, Dean traded in his Speedster for a new, more powerful, and faster 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder and entered the upcoming Salinas Road Race event scheduled for October 1–2, 1955. [89]
Adams Grove Presbyterian Church in Dallas County The Dr. John R. Drish House in Tuscaloosa Sweetwater Mansion in Florence, during 1934. The Boyington Oak in Mobile is a Southern live oak that reportedly grew from the grave of Charles Boyington in the potter's field just outside the walls of Church Street Graveyard.
Irv Oslin travels to Beaver Creek State Park for a camping trip in East Liverpool. In all, I hiked nearly 10 miles Friday and Friday night.
Porsche 550 RS Spyder 1.241 2 S 5.0: 6 Jaguar Cars Ltd. Mike Hawthorn Ivor Bueb: Jaguar D-Type: 1.232 3 S 3.0: 23 Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd Peter Collins Paul Frère: Aston Martin DB3S: 1.228 4 S 1.5 66 Reserve: Ecurie Belge / Gustave Olivier Wolfgang Seidel Olivier Gendebien: Porsche 550 RS Spyder 1.204 5 S 1.5 62 Porsche KG: Helmut Glöckler ...