The vintage car, a Type 64, is set to go on auction in August
The rarest and oldest Porsche of them all will go sale in August, expecting to fetch about $20 million at auction.....MUCH MORE
The 1939 Porsche Type 64 was the personal vehicle of German car designer and manufacturer Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche.
It's currently on display as part of a press preview at Sotheby's auction house in London. This is the only surviving example of the Type 64 and was the genesis of the marque.
"Without the Type 64, there would be no Porsche 356, no 550, no 911,” says Marcus Gorig, Car Specialist, RM Sotheby’s.
“This is Porsche’s origin story....
I love how auction house people speak. Just as family offices are the apex of the butler class auctioneers are the tippy-top of the sales biz.
Well them and arms dealers.
