Porsche 356 C: 75 horsepower, a cloth top, and a legacy that led to the iconic 911. 60 years ago, a family purchased a Porsche 356 C for around $4,810 when it was brand new. However, unlike so many ...

Porsche’s earliest mainstream model, the 356, enjoyed heavy representation at ... Thanks to its lightweight fiberglass body, this elegant race car could reach 160 mph despite only producing ...

"You could say that the 356 consists of 100 per cent original parts," says Hagen today ... in expert help when they hit their own limitations. To repair the body damage, for example, Porsche ...

Gregory saved weight with a flat-four engine borrowed from the Porsche 356. He even engineered the vehicle’s channeled frame rails to double as its exhaust pipes to reduce the number of parts. In 1951 ...

The racing car that Porsche designed for that Italian company used Fiat parts as its ... Karl Rabe. The 356 used a tubular space frame chassis with an elegant roadster body designed by Erwin ...

The only reason the 912 ever came about, was thanks to the 356 in ... have many parts in common. The 912 will however always owe its existence solely to the 356Cs and their original owner’s staunch ...

The car is a 356 of the A 1600 Speedster variety. Its body was made by Porsche partner in this field ... As far as we understand, all of its original parts are there, including the air-cooled ...

$300,000-plus for a Porsche 356 Speedster ... Auto in Melbourne. Most 356 recreations – and there are many produced around the world – use a fibreglass body and a VW Beetle platform.

Porsche's first sports cars had aluminum body panels, but it was nature's own lightweight material that made their iconic shape possible. The Porsche 356 had bodywork that where the panels were ...

The car’s iconic bathtub-shaped body was composed using period-correct parts, in a colour treatment I can only ... Take a walk around, in the images, of the Porsche 356 ‘Bonsai’ below. Following 6 ...

Porsche celebrates 75 years in 2023, so we can expect plenty of very special cars over the coming 12 months. Especially as this year also marks 60 years of the 911 and 100 years of Le Mans, the ...