550-05 was completed in September 1953 and displayed on the Porsche stand at the 1953 Paris car show the following month, which revealed the first of the Fuhrmann Type 547 quad-cam engines in a Porsche. The roadster represented Porsche’s vision of a customer sports car. As a fixed back rear 550, it was a unique design with a single middle grill plus a bulge in top of the engine bay door to clear the new engine fan shroud of 547-02. Bodied by Stuttgart’s Weinsberg, 550-05 was designed very much with the customer in mind with luxuries such as a glove box and side windows.

By January 1954, 550-05 was shipped down to Brazil with a Porsche push rod 1500 engine fitted. Porsche factory driver Hans Stuck raced 550-05 on behalf of Porsche in the Rio de Janeiro GP and Sao Paulo GP races.

Chassis #550-05 has a documented race and ownership history that has been researched and verified through primary sources. Accurate provenance information for this car is available upon enquiry through the contact page.