Various racing Porsches

The sixth Goodwood Festival of Speed, held in June 1998, celebrated Porsche's 50 years of racing supremacy. Among the more than 70 famous Porsches racing up the drive past Goodwood House were the 356 Gmund Coupé 1.1 litre and the 1938 1 litre Typ 64K10.

Chassis 356/2-052 - lightweight alloy aerodyne - one of the first prototype batch built at Ferry Porsche's former sawmill at Gmund, Austria, before they returned to Germany.

The Type 64K10 was the first competition Porsche ever had.

From the Porsche museum site: "In 1951 the aluminium coupés manufactured in Gmünd became the basis for Porsche's entry into the world of automotiveracing. Naturally, it was specially modified. The tank capacity was increased to 78 litres by moving it further forward and shaping it to fit around the spare tyre. In order to accelerate refuelling, the filler neck protruded in the centre through the front lid. On its very first outing, at the Le Mans 24 Hour race, the Porsche importer in France at the time Auguste Veuillet, with Edmonde Mouche as co-pilot, drove the aluminium coupé straight to a class victory at an average speed of 140 km/h. The speed and reliability of the Porsche Coupé was demonstrated during a record-breaking drive lasting 72 hours in 1951 in Monthléry. During this race an aluminium coupé from Gmünd with the new 1.5 litre engine with over 70 bhp covered almost 11,000 kilometres, which corresponds to an overall average of 152.35 km/h. By the mid 1950s, the aluminium coupé with a 1,500 cc engine and now also, as was already a feature of the series 356, with the single-piece windscreen, was successful all over Europe, predominantly at rally events. This was the case in 1952 with a class win in Monza, in 1953 at the Sestriere rally, at the Belgrade Grand Prix and the Alpine Rally, in 1954 at the long-distance Liege-Rome-Liege rally and in 1955 at the ice race in Zell am See."

all photos this page by Phil Seed © 1998-2000