1956 Porsche 550 Spyder Barn Find Hits Auction Block

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Someone is going to pony up big for this classic…

Many times in this industry when we’re talking about a barn find car, what we’re really talking about is a car in barn find condition, not that it was actually found hidden away in a barn. Then there’s this 1956 Porsche 550 Spyder – it was actually found in a barn in the countryside of Switzerland. And now the very rare classic is heading to the Gooding & Company London Auction in September, generating quite the buzz.

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Per the auction house, back in the 1960s someone swapped out the four-cam flat-four engine and the aluminum body (which weighed a mere 1,200 lbs.) as they tried making this classic Porsche a race car. They replaced those with a new factory engine and an alloy RS60 body. That’s too bad, because the aluminum-bodied 550 Spyders are incredibly rare.