The only surviving pre-production Porsche is going up for auction later this year and early expectations are for the 1940 Type 64 to hit US$20,000,000!
The car for sale is the third Type 64 that Ferry Porsche, the son of Ferdinand Porsche, built in 1939 using the bones of a very early Volkswagen Beetle (which was designed by Ferdinand Porsche), with a streamlined aluminium body and hopped up 32hp flat-four engine.
It has survived since the end of World War 2 as a treasured piece of history, with its stunning provenance for any fan of the Porsche brand of 20th Century automotive history. It will go under the hammer at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale later this year.
Currently, the most expensive Porsche to sell publicly is the 917K race car used in the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, which commanded a US$14,000,000 result in 2017.
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Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.
For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.
Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions.
Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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