{"id":93014,"date":"2022-03-02T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/porsche-550-spyder\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T08:00:36","slug":"porsche-550-spyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/porsche-550-spyder\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche 550 Spyder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Racing sports cars from the Porsche brand are known worldwide for their motorsport successes. Whether it’s the 917, 936, 956, 962 or 919 Hybrid, they’ve all taken overall victories at Le Mans. But this success story once began small and with little power. The company from Zuffenhausen made its first racing appearances with the 356, but it quickly became clear that a thoroughbred race car would be more suitable. In retrospect, Walter Gl\u00f6ckler is considered to have given the idea. He actually sold Volkswagen and Porsche cars in Frankfurt, Germany. In his spare time, however, he took trips to race tracks from 1950 onwards and had his own designs built in his workshop for this purpose. The technicians used components from VW and Porsche, but moved the four-cylinder boxer engines to the center directly behind the driver. A total of seven of these one-offs were built, known today as the Gl\u00f6ckler-Porsches. In Zuffenhausen, an in-house design was created in 1953, which was given the design number 550.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.5-liter mid-engine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As with the very first 356, Porsche engineers designed a mid-engine vehicle. Ernst Fuhrmann developed the 1.5-liter light-alloy engine. Initially, 81 kW\/110 hp and 121 Nm of torque were available. The clutch followed behind the engine and a fully synchronized four-speed gearbox behind the rear axle. To prevent spinning wheels in tight corners, a limited-slip differential from ZF was used. A box frame welded together from tubes formed the flat base for the 550. The bodies of the first examples came from Karosseriewerke Weinsberg. Porsche commissioned both Spyders and a few Coup\u00e9s there. In 1955, the order for body construction of the car, which was now only available as a Spyder, was shifted to Wendler in Reutlingen. These cars were visually distinguished from the earlier examples by different headlights and a modified rear end.<\/p>\n\n\n

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