FROM MY REVIEWS IN THE 356 REGISTRY:

ENCICLOPEDIA PORSCHE (yes, it's really spelled that way) is an Italian, in Italian, 92-page magazine which says 5000 lire on the spine (about $5.00) but costs $12.00 here. Fair volume of color, some old factory black and white, all poorly reproduced - almost nothing new. Except a picture of von Frankenburg in a 550 Spyder with Liege Rome Liege Rally plates. The car is obviously one of the first 4 preproduction Spyders built in 1953. Most likely not 550-01 or 550-02 because the rear corners of the front hood are square and most likely not 550-04 since the turn signals are not off set. Therefore it should be 550-03. But I was totally unaware that this, or any of

the prototype Spyders ran that Rally. The caption claims this was the 1953 Rally and that the car had a 4 cam. 550-03 WAS the first 550 to have a 4 cam but it was supposedly built with a 1500s

pushrod engine and sent immediately to the US to run at an obscure race in Georgia and on to the Carrera Pan America. Prescott Kelly recently owned the car -- perhaps he can add some

enlightenment.

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