VW type 60 K 10
| VW / Porsche | |
|---|---|
Berlin-Rome car in 1981 on the Nürburgring |
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| Berlin-Rome car | |
| Presentation year: | 1939 |
| Vehicle fair: | |
| Class : | race car |
| Body shape : | Coupe |
| Engine: |
Otto engine : 1.1 liters (40 hp) |
| Length: | approx. 4150 mm |
| Wheelbase: | 2400 mm |
| Empty weight: | 525 kg |
| Production model: | none |
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The Berlin-Rome VW Type 60 K 10 or Porsche Type 64 was a sports car that Ferdinand Porsche's design office developed in the spring of 1939 according to earlier plans based on the KdF car ( Volkswagen ). The occasion was the long-distance journey from Berlin to Rome planned for autumn 1939, a counterpart to the popular Liège – Rome – Liège rally.
general description
Outwardly, the Berlin-Rome car differed from the KdF car, later the VW Beetle , in that it had a streamlined body made of aluminum (length approx. 4.15 m). Erwin Komenda drew the draft , while the construction of the body was largely the work of Porsche's mathematician Josef Mickl . In order to enable a narrow roof structure, the driver's seat was almost in the middle of the vehicle, so that only an emergency seat was left for the front passenger. All four wheel openings were covered. The front covers had rollers on the inside so that they could be pushed outwards by the wheels when the steering wheel was strong. In the front of the vehicle were two spare wheels, one behind the other; As with the VW Beetle, the engine was installed as a rear engine behind the rear axle.
The time to be at low air resistance with a c w value of 0.385 and the low weight allowed the final drive with a long gear ratio or long ratio and the later uprated of initially 35 hp to 40 hp motor has a maximum speed of 173.5 km / h at 4000 rpm. However, this is a theoretical value since the acceleration for a race would have been too low with such a design with a four-speed transmission. The actual maximum speed in practice should have been around 145 km / h.
Technical specifications
| Type 60 K 10 | Dates (1939) |
|---|---|
| Engine: | 4-cylinder - four cycle - boxer engine in the rear |
| Motor control: | central lower camshaft ( OHV ) |
| Cooling: | Air (blower) |
| Displacement: | 985 cc |
| Power: | 35 hp at 3600 rpm |
| Mixture preparation: | 2 Solex downdraft carburettors |
| Transmission: | 4-speed, not synchronized |
| Front suspension: | Crank trailing arm |
| Rear suspension: | Swing axle |
| Suspension: | Torsion bars |
| Wheelbase: | 2400 mm |
| Track width front / rear: | 1290/1250 mm |
| Tires: | 4.50 × 16 in |
| Empty weight without driver: | 535 kg |
| Top speed: | 160 km / h |
History
Before the date of the long-distance journey from Berlin to Rome, the Second World War broke out on September 1, 1939 , so that the Type 60 K 10 was not used.
KdF manager Bodo Lafferentz broke one of the three vehicles as early as 1939, one was used by Ferdinand Porsche as a courier vehicle and after the war in Austria by American soldiers and, like the third, was badly damaged. The battered vehicles were used for the restoration of the Berlin-Rome car no. 3, the on Dr. Ing.F. Porsche was approved. This vehicle and the remaining elements of car no. 2 were bought in 1949 by the Austrian Otto Mathé , who used car no. 3 in motorsport until 1951. The highlight of Mathé's career as a racing driver was victory in the 1950 Alpine Cup, in which the Berlin-Rome car was the fastest sports car in its class. In the early 1980s, Mathé moved his Berlin-Rome car at several classic car events. After Otto Mathé's death in 1995, Dr. Thomas Gruber took the car and had it restored by Michael Barbach. In 2009, the car changed to the Schörghuber Group . In 2019 the car will be auctioned at RM Sotheby's. From Otto Mathé's estate, the owners of the Prototype automobile museum acquired the original parts of car no. 2 that were still in existence and reconstructed it. Since 2008 it has been part of the permanent exhibition in Hamburg's HafenCity.
literature
- Rüdiger Etzold: The Beetle - A Documentation - II. Motor Book , Stuttgart 1984. ISBN 3-7168-1613-2 .
- Lothar Boschen, Jürgen Barth: The big book of Porsche types. Motorbuch, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-613-01284-7 .
- Chris Barber: The Beetle. Ferdinand Porsche and the development of the Volkswagen. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-7688-1582-X .
Remarks
- ↑ In VW Beetle , Volume 2, Rüdiger Etzold mentions a "Beetle engine bored out to 1100 cm³ with larger valves and modified carburettor system" and an output of "almost 40 hp" at 3800 rpm.
- ↑ Porsche is said to have measured more than 160 km / h during test drives.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Blaube: Electricity bill . In: Oldtimer Markt , VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz, issue 2/2010, pp. 10-19.
- ↑ Rüdiger Etzold: The Beetle . Volume 2, 1st edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7168-1613-2 , pp. 94-97.
- ↑ Drawing K 3466. In: The great book of the Porsche types . 1st edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-454-9 , p. 20.
- ↑ Motor Klassik , Issue 3/1987, p. 38
- ↑ a b Malte Juergens: Berlin-Rome carriage . In: Motor Klassik , Motor Presse Stuttgart, issue 2/2012, pp. 156–161.
- ↑ Volkswagen or Porsche - The Berlin-Rome Car
- ↑ homepage Barbach ( Memento of 5 June 2013 Internet Archive )
- ↑ Oldtimer-tv.com
- ↑ RM | Sotheby's - MONTEREY 15-17 AUGUST 2019
