If you like rare collectible cars, unique vehicles with a high value, you are in luck because next March 5 in Amelia Island (Florida, United States) you have the opportunity to add a rare specimen to your collection. It’s regarding this rare 1960 Porsche 356 Carrera Zagato Speedster up for auctiona replica like the original model with which Porsche driver Claude Storez raced.
Storez commissioned Zagato the manufacture of an aerodynamic body for your Porsche 356 Carrera Speedster the 1957. The body left the coachbuilder’s workshops in Milan in the second half of 1958 and was sent to Stuttgart for Porsche to fine-tune the mechanics. The bodywork was finished in white, with a one-piece curved windshield and red-painted rear wings.
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Tom Gidden | RM Sotheby’s
The first appearance of Porsche-Zagato de Storez took place in the Reims stage of the Tour de France Automobile in September 1958. It is believed that in that race he finished second behind the Ferrari 250 GT TdF by Olivier Gendebien. Unfortunately, Storez would lose his life in an accident in France in February 1959 and the car would be lost forever when the wreckage was removed from the track. It has never been seen since.
Some years ago, an American collector asked Zagato if he might recreating the 356 Speedster by Claude Storez, to which the coachbuilder accepted. The resulting vehicle was presented on the occasion of the Porsche 60th Anniversary as a manufacturer. Andrea Zagato confirmed that nine copies of the Speedster would be built, even if demand was higher. Some time later, another nine units of the Porsche-Zagato Coupé would be announced.
Up for auction this rare 1960 Porsche 356 Carrera Zagato Speedster
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Tom Gidden | RM Sotheby’s
The 18 Porsche vehicles with Zagato bodywork were built on the basis of 356 originals, and only one Speedster and two Coupés were fitted with Carrera engines. The vehicle leaving auction next month is precisely this unique and rare Porsche 356 Carrera Zagato Speedster from 1960, built on a donor car that left the factory in Stuttgart on October 21, 1960.
When the Porsche-Zagato program, the car was sent to the Italian coachbuilder, where they removed the original bodywork and replaced it with a Speedster-type body made by Zagato. The Carrera engine was supplied by well-known specialist Peter Iversen, and features a bodywork finished in Bianco Gardenia (only the Speedster and one of the Coupés are painted in this color) with red highlights on the rear wings and a red leather-trimmed interior. .
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Tom Gidden | RM Sotheby’s
The 1960 Porsche 356 Carrera Zagato Speedster will go on sale auction next October 5 by the hand of RM Sotheby’s. The British auction house will try to find a buyer for him on Amelia Island. The appraisers have set an estimated sale price of between 395,000 and 485,000 euros.
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