Porsche Typ 64 & Tatra T87

CAR STREAMLINING FANS GATHER TOGETHER IN HAMBURG Hamburg, Germany has a new Porsche oriented museum called Prototyp (www.prototyp-hamburg.de). The owner/curator is Martin Schröder, an expert on Auto Union pre-war Grand Prix cars and Porsche cars. The permanent collection includes many early 356s, 356 prototypes and specials and Porsche memorabilia all in an open and well lighted display that allows close encounters and close inspection. A special exhibition on streamlined cars started on January 24th and runs till March 25th 2009. A number of cars were never shown before. The Prototyp museum is very proud to show the Porsche Typ 64 (VW Typ 60 K 10) built purposely for the Berlin-Rome long distance rally of 1939. Its Italian rival, the Lancia Aprilia Aerodinamica, developed in the wind channel of the Torino University, is also put on show Cars presented: Adler Autobahn (1938) Greenpeace SMILE – Small, Intelligent, Light, Efficient – 1996 Kamm K3 (1938) Lancia Aprilia Aerodinamica (Mille Miglia 1938, designed by Battista Pininfarina) Mercedes W196 F1 Streamline Reims (1954) Mercedes C111/3 Nardo (1973) Porsche Typ 64 Berlin-Rom-Wagen (1939) Tatra T 87 (1947) Trippel SG6 (1942) Veritas Avus Stromlinie (1952) Wanderer W25 Stromlinie Lüttich-Rom-Lüttich (1938) Apart from the cars, several models and photos were shown. Ralf Kieselbach explaining Jaray streamlining principles On the occasion of the opening the special exhibition, a symposium on streamlining cars was organized. Attended by some 200 people, the symposium saw a wide variety of speakers giving their view on car streamlining. Malte Jürgens discussed the struggle against the winds, Ralf Kieselbach, author of several books on car streamlining, described the the way streamlining on cars developed in the twenties and thirties, K.M. Hoffmann gave his view on the art-deco streamlining on Adler’s Autobahn, Dr Wickern of Auto-Union explained the effect of their air-brake on the streamlined Auto-Union record car of the thirties, Siegfried Loose explained how to make the winds around a car viewable and Wolfgang Lohbeck declared the thinking behind Greepeace’s Smile car. If you’re ever in the Hamburg area, you may want to spend a few hours in Prototyp absorbing the aura of the early Porsche era. All the staff speaks English and many of the display cards are in English too. More photos and German text: http://forum.oldtimer-info.de/showmessages.afp?!_2KG15Y7IKtempid=BB57EB33-D18B-4E9D-B40A-186DF88318BD&login=1&fromsearch=1&xid=971634#971634 http://www.die-topnews.de/ausstellung-stromlinie-mit-seltenen-exponaten-in-hamburg-333124 http://www.classicdriver.com/de/magazine/3700.asp?id=4704 http://www.prototyp-hamburg.de/new/frame.php?page=41&lang=1&id=750