Porsche's first automobile was the Porsche 64 (also known as the VW Aerocoupe, Type 64, and Type 64K10). The model number comes from the fact that it was primarily constructed from Model 64 VW Beetle parts. It had a flat-four engine that produced 50 horsepower and a top speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
Porsche Burro created the body after wind tunnel tests for the Type 114, a V10 sports car that was never produced. In 1939, Dr. Porsche planned to race the car in the Berlin-Rome race. Three shaped aluminum cars were created by the bodywork company Reutter. A Kraft durch Freude (Volkswagen) bureaucrat destroyed one of the three in early WWII. The Porsches made use of the two remaining. They later stored one of them and only used one.
American troops discovered it in May 1945, removed the roof, and used it for joyriding for a few weeks before the engine failed and it was scrapped. Ferry Porsche owned and drove the last Porsche 64, which Pinin Farina restored in 1947. Otto Matte, an Austrian racer, bought it in 1949 and used it to win the Alpine Rally the following year.
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