Porsche 64

The Porsche 64, also called the Type 64 and the Type 60K10, is considered by many to be the first automobile from what became the Porsche company and a true design precursor of the post-war production cars. It was built mainly from the drawings of the Type 64 record car, with most mechanical parts from the Volkswagen prototype VW 38, a strongly reinforced chassis and a reworked flat-four of around 40 horsepower that gave a top speed of about 160 km/h. Three cars with aluminium bodies by Reutter were completed for the planned 1939 Berlin-Rome race, which was never run. One was destroyed early in the war, one was scrapped after American troops used it in 1945, and one survives in private hands.