The Porsche 64 had a flat four engine which managed to produce a massive fifty brake horse power which gave it a whopping 140mph top speed and back then when it was first built this was some serious power.
The body of the 64 was designed by Porsche Burro and this was only because they had already done wind tunnel tests on the Type 114 which was a V10 performance car but it never made it to production. Dr. Porsche had hoped of entering the 64 in the Berlin to Rome race in 1939.
The company who produced the bodywork who went by the name of Reutter had produced three cars in aluminium this made it very light and best of all it would be resistant against the dreaded rust that seems to haunt many older classic car. The trouble was that one of them was crashed by a Volkswagen bureaucrat in the early part of World War II. The other two 64 Porsche's where used by the family but soon after that they heard that the one had been crashed they decided to put one of the two remaining cars in to storage and decided just to use the third one as their daily run around. When the Porsche family put the second 64 into storage they did not hide it particularly well as American troops discovered it and they butchered the roof off which is bad enough as it is but they then decided to joy ride for just short of four weeks until they managed to knacker the engine and then they scrapped it.
Pinin Farina decided that with the last one remaining they should try and preserve it and so in 1947 it underwent a thorough restoration and it was then passed on to Ferry Porsche. But the story doesn't end there Otto Matte saw it and decided that he would take it to the Alpine Rally and in 1950 he won. So right from the start you can see that Porsche was set to make history on and off the track. The 64 was not officially the car to go into production that was the 356 but definitely the Porsche 64 should have been produced on a much bigger scale.
The body of the 64 was designed by Porsche Burro and this was only because they had already done wind tunnel tests on the Type 114 which was a V10 performance car but it never made it to production. Dr. Porsche had hoped of entering the 64 in the Berlin to Rome race in 1939.
The company who produced the bodywork who went by the name of Reutter had produced three cars in aluminium this made it very light and best of all it would be resistant against the dreaded rust that seems to haunt many older classic car. The trouble was that one of them was crashed by a Volkswagen bureaucrat in the early part of World War II. The other two 64 Porsche's where used by the family but soon after that they heard that the one had been crashed they decided to put one of the two remaining cars in to storage and decided just to use the third one as their daily run around. When the Porsche family put the second 64 into storage they did not hide it particularly well as American troops discovered it and they butchered the roof off which is bad enough as it is but they then decided to joy ride for just short of four weeks until they managed to knacker the engine and then they scrapped it.
Pinin Farina decided that with the last one remaining they should try and preserve it and so in 1947 it underwent a thorough restoration and it was then passed on to Ferry Porsche. But the story doesn't end there Otto Matte saw it and decided that he would take it to the Alpine Rally and in 1950 he won. So right from the start you can see that Porsche was set to make history on and off the track. The 64 was not officially the car to go into production that was the 356 but definitely the Porsche 64 should have been produced on a much bigger scale.
