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Porsche's Holy Grail, the 1939 Type 64, heads to auction

Viknesh Vijayenthiran  VIKNESH VIJAYENTHIRAN  MAY 13, 2019  5 COMMENTS

This year's Monterey Car Week scheduled for mid-August will be one for the ages, as the granddaddy of all Porsches will go under the hammer.

1939 Porsche Type 64 - Image via RM Sotheby's

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1939~40년제 '타입64'. 낙찰가격 약 238억원 이상(소더비 제공)

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Auction house RM Sotheby’s used Saturday's Luftgekühlt Porsche enthusiast meet in Los Angeles to announce the sale of the 1939 Porsche Type 64 at its Monterey Car Week auction, which runs August 15-17 in Monterey, California.

Porsche's history is a long and complicated one. The first true Porsche is quite a hard thing to pin down, since Ferdinand Porsche founded Porsche as an engineering firm and designed numerous vehicles long before his son Ferry Porsche built and registered the first Porsche 356 sports car in Gmünd, Austria.

That first 356 was built in 1948, but it wasn't actually the first car to carry the Porsche name. That honor goes to the Type 64, of which just three were built from 1939-1940. The one going up for sale is the third built and the sole surviving example.

Known officially as the Type 64 60K10, the cars were endurance racers originally designed to compete in the 1939 Berlin-Rome race, which was canceled due to the onset of World War II. This particular Type 64 was raced quite successfully after the war, though, with Austrian Otto Mathé typically behind the wheel.

 

1939 Porsche Type 64 - Image via RM Sotheby's

The Type 64 was derived from the KdF-Wagen, the precursor to the Volkswagen Beetle, and it was designed by the same people who would later design the Porsche 356, including Ferry Porsche. They used aluminum and aircraft construction techniques for the body to keep weight down, and they also looked to aviation for the aerodynamics, resulting in the streamlined shape. Even the wheels came with removable alloy panels.

    

The first Type 64, chassis number 38/41, was built in 1939 before the war but damaged in an accident while being driven by Bodo Lafferentz, Volkswagen's boss at the time. A second Type 64, chassis no. 38/42, was competed in late 1939, and then the chassis of the first Type 64 that crashed was rebuilt into the car you see here in 1940. Both Type 64s were retained by the Porsche family during the war, though the second Type 64 was kept in storage most of the time while the third car was extensively used by Ferry Porsche and his father.

At the end of the war, American troops found the car kept in storage. They chopped the roof off and drove the car until it broke down, at which point it was scrapped. A number of components from the scrapped car were retained and used for a recreated version that now sits in the Petersen Museum.

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