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This Is The Only Glöckler-Porsche 356 Carrera 1500 Coupe Ever Built

This is the only Glöckler-Porsche 356 Carrera 1500 that was ever made, it’s a hand-built car sitting on a Porsche 356 platform and powered by the celebrated Ernst Fuhrmann-designed four-cam “vertical shaft” flat-four Porsche engine.

The open-topped Glöckler-Porsches that came before this car are now acknowledged as the inspiration for the Porsche 550 Spyder, and it’s well understood that the influence the little-known Glöckler-Porsches had on Porsche’s history are immense.

Fast Facts

✱ This car was developed by Walter Glöckler and Hermann Ramelow, it was the 7th car the two men developed and it was intended to race in the 1954 Mille Miglia.

✱ Walter Glöckler started out racing motorcycles before switching to cars, he won a slew of races over his career, and he won the 1100cc class in the German Sports Car Championship in 1950 driving a car he had designed himself.

✱ Seven Glöckler cars were built in total, they proved remarkably successful and the first car from 1948 won its first race with Glöckler himself at the wheel.

The Glöckler-Porsches

Walter Glöckler was an avid German racing driver who had started out piloting motorcycles in small local races, he proved to have a talent both for racing and for engineering, which resulted in him becoming one of those rare people who drove cars they designed and built themselves to major race victories.

Above Image: The car has an unusually wide rear window offering excellent rearward visibility to monitor pursing cars.

Glöckler enjoyed a few race victories before the outbreak of WWII with both motorcycles and cars, after the war he wasted no time getting back into racing, developing a Hanomag-based sports car in which he won a number of events including the 1949 Schauinsland hill climb.

The most prolific period for Glöckler was between the years of 1948 and 1954, he worked closely with Hermann Ramelow designing and building seven sports cars one after the other.

The design of the cars evolved quickly based on lessons learned in competition, their second design won the 1100cc class in the German Sports Car Championship three times in a row in 1950, 1951, and 1952 – Walter himself was driving in 1950.

The sixth car the two men built was the Glöckler-Porsche 1500 Super, this is the vehicle that was a direct influence on engineers at Porsche who developed the Porsche 550 Spyder following in its footsteps.

The Glöckler Coupe

The car you see here is the seventh and final car built, the Glöckler-Porsche 356 Carrera Coupe which is often just called the Glöckler Coupe. It has a fascinating history, it was developed for the Mille Miglia in 1954 and unlike many of the other competitors it was given a fixed hard top which offered between aerodynamics and better protection from the elements.

Unlike many of the earlier Glöckler-Porsches, the Glöckler-Porsche 356 Carrera 1500 Coupe used the platform of the Porsche 356 rather than a tubular steel chassis. A lightweight, low-slung alloy body was formed with upright headlights and an unusually wide rear window offering almost 180º views of any pursuing cars.

Above Image: The Glöckler Coupe is powered by the famous 1.5 liter Porsche four cam engine designed by Ernst Fuhrmann.

The car also has unusual roof cut-outs for the doors ease entry and exit while wearing a helmet and five lights up front for racing at night and in low light conditions, there are two headlights, a central spotlight and two other driving lights mounted inboard from the headlights.

The Glöckler Coupe was powered by one of the most famous Porsche racing engines of all time, the Ernst Fuhrmann-designed four-cam, a 1.5 liter flat-four engine famed for both its power output and its incredible complexity.

The Mille Miglia And The Liège–Rome–Liège Rally

Sadly this car wouldn’t be completed in time to compete in the 1954 Mille Miglia, it was instead raced in the Liège–Rome–Liège road rally. It was Walter Glöckler’s cousin, Helm Glöckler, and Max Nathan who drove the car however they suffered an oil starvation issue with the engine which hobbled their chances of winning – they did finish the race however.

The life of the car becomes a little more mysterious after this, it spent some time at the Porsche factory before being sold to a new owner in the United States. This period in the cars history is largely unknown, though we do know that it appeared in Rudi Klein’s famous sports and luxury car salvage yard near Los Angeles in the 1970s.

In 2005 the car was returned to Germany and a comprehensive restoration was undertaken, the completed Glöckler Coupe is now due to roll across the auction block in mid-August and at the time of writing there’s no price guide.

If you’d like to read more about this car or register to bid you can click here to visit the listing on RM Sotheby’s.

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The Jensen 541R: A Rare British GT Classic

This is the Jensen 541R and if you’ve never seen one before that’s probably because just 193 of them were made between 1957 and 1960, and very few were exported out of Britain.

The elegant design of the 541 series of Jensens has been winning them fans for over half a century now, the most popular feature is the front grill covering which can be raised or lowered by the driver from inside the car.

Over the course of the company’s history, Jensen built everything from trucks to advanced all-wheel drive sports cars. The 541R was built during Jensen’s booming post-WWII period, and it was one of the first British cars with a composite body (fiberglass).

Fast Facts

✱ The Jensen 541 was first shown to the public in 1953 as a prototype, the model number stands for 1954, 1st car.

✱ Sales of the first 541 started in 1954 and the model was sold over three major generations between 1954 and 1963 – the 541, 541R, and 541S.

✱ The Jensen 541 was one of the fastest four seat cars in the world when it was introduced, with a top speed of over 115 mph.

✱ In 1956 the 541 Deluxe was fitted with Dunlop disc brakes front and rear as standard, the first British four seat automobile to offer them.

The Jensen 541R

The Jensen 541R was the new and upgraded version of the Jensen 541 introduced in 1957. Like its forebear the 541R had a steel chassis, a lightweight fiberglass body, independent front suspension, a live axle rear, and it was powered by the 4.0 liter straight-six engine from the Austin Sheerline.

Above Image: The grill can be opened and closed by the driver from his seat inside the car, this unusual feature wouldn’t make it to the next car in the 541 model line.

The 541 was designed by Eric Neale using contemporary design cues with perhaps a little inspiration from the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. Period magazine reviews of the 541R and its siblings were typically glowing, the cars were fast, they handled well, and the interiors were luxurious with leather upholstery, front bucket seats, and plenty of trunk space.

Jensen Motors wasn’t a big automobile marque and as a result it turned out far fewer cars than many of its fellow manufacturers. The company had originally started out when brothers Alan and Richard Jensen began designing and building car bodies for chassis made by other companies, like Austin and Wolseley.

By the mid-1930s they had made quite a name for themselves, in 1934 they were commissioned by American A-list movie star Clark Gable to design and build a car for him based on a Ford V8 chassis. This design won them accolades on both sides of the Atlantic and resulted in a deal with Ford to produce a run of Jensen-Fords with Jensen bodywork on a Ford chassis.

In 1939 all of this was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, the Jensen factory turned to making equipment for the war effort, including tank turrets as well as specialised ambulances and fire engines.

After the war they returned to their true passion, automobile manufacturing. The first post-WWII car from Jensen was the Jensen PW, followed by the first Jensen Interceptor – not related to the later Jensen Interceptors introduced in the 1960s.

This is the point at which the first Jensen 541 first appeared, it shocked much of the British motoring establishment with its use of a new state-of-the-art material called “fiberglass” which allowed for the quick created of complex car bodies using just a mould.

Above Image: The interior was very well appointed by the standards of the era, with leather upholstery, plush carpeting, and a well appointed dashboard.

With its 4.0 liter straight-six producing 150 hp at 4,100 rpm and 210 lb ft of torque it could reach a top speed of 127.5 mph, that’s over 205 km/h, a remarkable feat for a car in the late 1950s with seating for four adults.

It’s not known exactly how many examples of the Jensen 541 remain, there are owners clubs that do a great job of cataloguing the surviving cars and helping owners to network and source parts.

The 1959 Jensen 541R Shown Here

The 541R you see here is from the penultimate year of production for the model, 1959, and it was given a full restoration in 2010. It’s presenting today in good shape throughout however it hasn’t been driven since 2017 and so recommissioning is recommended prior to returning the car to active use.

This car was originally supplied new by Charles Follet Ltd finished in silver with a burgundy roof and a burgundy leather interior, with burgundy steel wheels to match.

It’s due to roll across the auction block with Bonhams on the 17th of July with a price guide of £45,000 to £ 55,000, which works out to approximately $62,250 to $76,100 USD. If you’d like to read more or register to bid you can click here to visit the listing.

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ADV:Overland At The Petersen Museum – Curated By Paul d’Orléans

The all-new ADV:Overland kicked off at the beginning of July at the Petersen Automotive Museum, it’s made up of 23 machines including record-setting motorcycles, Hollywood sci-fi vehicles, and spacecraft models on loan from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

“This exciting, first-ever collection of Round-the-World, overland racing, and off-world overland vehicles is the perfect pandemic escape hatch. Most of these extraordinary machines have never been publicly displayed, and absolutely radiate the spirit of adventure: some even retain their original accessories, 90 years later. These are must-see vehicles, on display in the best motoring museum on the planet.” – Paul d’Orléans, ADV:Overland Exhibit Curator

Above Image: This 1969 Honda N600 Baja that was Honda’s first factory race car in the USA.

Motorcycles on display include an example of the 1903 California that was the first motorized vehicle to travel coast to coast; a 1912 Henderson Four as used in the first motorcycle trip around the world; a 1915 Harley-Davidson 11-F with sidecar as used by Effie and Avie Hotchkiss became the first women to drive across the United States; the 1932 Douglas “Mastiff” which inspired Robert Edison Fulton Jr.’s novel “One Man Caravan”; the 1933 Puch 250SL that was the first motor vehicle to overland from Europe to India; and a 1964 Honda CL72 Baja Scrambler homage to Dave Ekins’ first timed run down Baja.

Off-road racing vehicles on display include the 1969 Ford Bronco “Big Oly” in which Parnelli Jones dominated Baja racing in the 1970s; a 1906/2019 Contal Mototri veteran of the Peking to Paris rally, and the 1969 Honda N600 Baja that was Honda’s first factory race car in the USA.

Adventure motorcycles in the exhibit will include a 1974 BMW R60/6 which inspired the book “Lone Rider” by Elspeth Beard; a 2021 Harley-Davidson Pan America; a 2007 KTM 690 Rally Factory ridden and raced around the world by Lyndon Poskitt; a 2019 Harley-Davidson Livewire from the “Long Way Up” television series; a 1948 Indian 348 Chief and 1962 Harley-Davidson Panhead Chopper ridden round the world by ‘RTW Doug’; a 2002 BMW 1150GS around the world bike, and the 1966 Triumph T120 that won the Baja 1000.

Above Image: This is the 1969 Ford Bronco “Big Oly” in which Parnelli Jones dominated Baja racing in the 1970s

Real and imaginary space vehicles on display include a 2021 Tardigrade concept electric Lunar motorcycle; a replica of the 1965 chariot from the “Lost in Space” television series; a chariot from the 2018 remake of the “Lost in Space” television series; a model of the Opportunity MER-1 rover, the robotic spacecraft that holds the long-distance record in off-world overlanding, and a model of the 1996 Sojourner rover.

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Petersen Automotive Museum and the Motorcycle Arts Foundation, and it’s curated by Paul d’Orléans of The Vintagent – a name you’re almost certainly already familiar with.

The Petersen Museum is located at 6060 Wilshire Blvd. (at Fairfax) in Los Angeles, California and tickets are available either at the museum or in advance courtesy of this link.