- 34,132
- Barre, MA
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- ebay.com
Super attention to detail and highly optioned spyder. It's been 60 years since 24-year old james dean met his demise on a lonely stretch of route 466 in cholame, california. Could this be james deans’ 550 spyder?!?! Ask jerry seinfeld, who recently sold his for $5,350,000. That’s usd folks, yikes. The most valuable car in his collection. This is an early production beck built spyder. This is not a ‘kit’ car by any definition, but an actual professionally manufactured homage to the porsche 550 of 1955. This car accurately represents and is genuinely titled a 1955 porsche 550 spyder. The only recreation of these cars that would be any closer to original than an early beck, might be a hand built aluminum car, and those are well into the six figures themselves! That said the driving experience would be entirely the same and this example can be owned for ten’s of thousands less. There is significance to finding an ‘early beck’ which this one is, and newer ones are a tremendous waiting list and commend north of $50k when done. See their website for details and a back story on the company and consideration to accuracy they dedicate their work to. There is literally no other car like it for the money out there. This car is a tasteful professionally hand built recreation, with a modern tubular chassis and an extremely reliable appropriate mid mounted air-cooled flat 4 drive train. The car weighs something like 1400 pounds after all. As mentioned, title clear in hand, car runs excellent, all electronics work as they should, no issue get in a go win the show classic car. Comes with correct tonneau snap cover (so cool when driving solo!!), racing windscreen as on jams dean’s car, and removable racing-style fairing headrest (removed in some pictures). All decals are removable. Paint is in excellent like new condition all around. Rims are perfect as are tires and hub caps. I’m selling the car because i am unfortunately losing the space i had and it’s this or my 911 in the garage. I don’t have the heart (or the funds to be frank!) to keep both with one off site. Wife, and kids dictate the 4 seater stays of the two. Car is being sold as-is, and is listed locally and on forums etc. I reserve the right to end the auction early in light of any deal made offline. That said please feel free to reach out to make an offer directly. This listing is a no reserve auction and the car will go to the highest offer inside for 7 days. Please feel free to see my reviews as well as classic cars, air-cooled especially, is a passion of mine and so i’ve bought my fair share of them out of state in the past. Wire typically the easiest/fastest otherwise check must clear before car leaves. Cash is always king. As mentioned, i am losing storage space and therefor i can only hold the car for up to 3 weeks following the end of auction. Any later than that will incur a storage fee of $100 a week. At the end of the day i am a super straight forward reasonable guy so just keep me in the loop and i’m sure we’ll make this easy as can be. Thanks for reading, brando on jul-26-17 at 20:14:08 pdt, seller added the following information:550 link to pictures.
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