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Porsche 550 Spyder - KensRedZed - 25th-Oct-20

This car is very similar to the car James Dean owned at one time. I am not fond of silver, so I went hunting for something different on a website called https://www.racingsportscars.com/

I found this beautiful blue Spyder.

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Tamiya light metallic blue seems to be close.

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Test fitting the body to the chassis. This is a small body.  Is there room for an interior and driver with a flat-6?

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Thank you very kindly for looking.

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RE: Porsche 550 Spyder - JasonB - 25th-Oct-20

Great  job, and lovely to see a porsche in a different colour.

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RE: Porsche 550 Spyder - KensRedZed - 25th-Oct-20

Thank you very kindly, Jason.

It runs like a blue bullet with a Slot.It flat-6.

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RE: Porsche 550 Spyder - Mitch58 - 26th-Oct-20

Great Little cars to fiddle with.

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RE: Porsche 550 Spyder - KensRedZed - 26th-Oct-20

They sure are Mitch58. Yours looks nice in traditional colours.

We have a bunch of 550's in our club. All the others are silver. Mine is the only one in blue.

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RE: Porsche 550 Spyder - chrisguyw - 26th-Oct-20

I did a 550 for the "The Last Open Road"  proxy a few years back...........typical boring silver 

Cheers
Chris Walker

It started life as a Ninco "Clamshell"........the front and rear valences were cut off the chassis and glued  to the top half, before painting. A new drivers head, and a few other bits/pieces made, and it runs on a scratchbuilt wire/brass "flexi-board" chassis.

This is a pic. of the car after it was returned,.....a few minor  chips/scrapes.

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RE: Porsche 550 Spyder - KensRedZed - 26th-Oct-20

Chris. Beautiful looking Porsche! 

It's interesting in that Ninco has laid back head lights, and bullet tail lights like the higher serial numbers (550-0016).

The blue body is modelled after serial numbers 550-12 and/or 550-13.

Everything you ever wanted to know about all the Porsche 550 Spyders by serial number, below.

http://type550.com/

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RE: Porsche 550 Spyder - type550 - 5th-Nov-25

The original blue 550 you based this on is 550-07. The difference with this car is that the rear didn't fully lift up like the later models - it had a engine door to access in the top of the rear. Great job on the car - the colour really suits it!

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RE: Porsche 550 Spyder - KensRedZed - 5th-Nov-25

I humbly thank you for your kind words, Type550. It's a fun car to race.

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RE: Porsche 550 Spyder - Kevan - 5th-Nov-25

These are wonderful builds 

...this is what I bought off an ex-club member 3-4 years ago... I wasn't expecting this mess so got a nasty shock when I opened it up at home!

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It's still in this state but these builds have reminded me it's desperately in need of rescuing.

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