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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 ...
The RS Spyder (Type 9R6) is a racing car designed by Porsche in conjunction with Penske to compete in Le Mans Prototype Class 2 (LMP2) racing. [2] The car takes its name from the legendary Porsche 550 Spyder of the 1950s (combined with Porsche's common "RennSport" (lit.: racing sports) designation).
Porsche-Schmid synchronized gearbox for a Volvo sports car 689 Porsche-Schmid synchronized gearbox for a Fröhlich sports car 690: 1958: Five-speed tunnel-case transmission for Type 718 691 1956 Porsche 550 RS Spyder 692: 1958: Improved four-camshaft engine for Carrera: 692/0: 1958: 1.5-liter Type 692 with roller-bearing crankshaft 692/1: 1958
Porsche 718 Cayman S Porsche 718 Boxster S (rear view) With the new 982-generation, the marketing designation of the Boxster and Cayman was changed to Porsche 718, a nod to Porsche's racing heritage that won the Targa Florio race in 1959 and 1960. Because the 718 Cayman / Boxster has lost two cylinders, going from a naturally aspirated flat-6 ...
For buyers, the site offers listings of new and used vehicles for sale from dealers and private sellers. [ 3 ] [ 16 ] It can search for cars through categories: make and model, price range, style, drive type ( automatic or manual ), engine type, color (exterior and interior), mileage and number of doors.
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