Porsche 356A group GT (1956)

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Source

356A model with one piece curved front window

Specifications

Production numbers
Speedster: 4854 units built
Carrera Speedster: 152 units built
Carrera 1500 GS: 2921 units built

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547/1 engine
1498 cc
128 HP
DOHC

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Results in WSCC

1956

Season

1500 cc engine

Car entry, chassis number	Car number/ result
	Buenos Aires	Sebring	Mille Miglia	Nurburgring	Sverige
Team	1000km	12h	1600km	1000km	GP
Sepp Greger (1300 Super)			#037, 23rd	#77, 22nd
Max Nathan/ Gert Kaiser, 55000 (Carrera GS Coupe)			#248, 22nd	#61, 9th
Ludwig Blendl/ Dieter Lissmann			#249, dnf	#62, wheel
Jean-Pierre Schild/ Jean Aumas (Carrera GS)			#250, dnf
Dieter Lissmann			#251, 41st
Olle Persson, 56063 (Carrera GS Coupe)			#255, 18th	#68, in entry list	#67, 7th
Hans-Georg Plaut/ Helmut Zick (1500)			#257, dnf	#63, 15th
H. W. Herold			#302, in entry list
Wilhelm Wittmann/ Walter Hampel (1600 S)				#64, 20th
Helmut Schulze/ Joaquim Felipe Nogueira				#65, 10th
Rolf-Friedrich Götze/ Heinrich Sauter				#60, in entry list
Ernst Seiler/ Hans Wirz				#66, in entry list
Harry Bengtsson, 55818 (Carrera GS Coupe)					#63, 9th
Carl-Gunnar Hammarlund, 56044 (Carrera GS Coupe)					#64, 6th
Total points 10				3	7
Statistics
Works Starts/finishes 13/9			7/4	6/5
Drivers	Team entries and car number
Sepp Greger
Sepp Greger			037	77
Paul Ernst Strähle			037
Harald von Saucken				77
Olle Persson
Olle Persson			255	68	67
Gunnar Blomqvist			255
Harald Kronegard				68

1957

Season

1500 cc engine

Car entry, chassis number	Car number/ result
	Buenos Aires	Sebring	Mille Miglia	Nurburgring	Le Mans	Sverige	Venezuela
Team	1000km	12h	1600km	1000km	24h	GP	GP
Porsche Company (Carrera 1.6)		#40, 31st
Carmelo Vitaliti/ G. Pianetti			#215, 156th
Hans Walter/ R. Reinhold			#217, 18th
Ludwig Blendl/ Joachim Springer			#219, dnf	#62, 31st
Henri Perrond/ Roberto Vincent			#221, 56th
Christian Poirot			#222, 84th
Günter Besier/ Dieter Lissmann			#224, 17th	#64, 29th
Paul Ernst Strähle			#225, 14th	#59, 24th
Olof Persson, 56063 (Carrera GS Coupe)			#227, dnf	#61, 26th
Helmut Zick/ Hans-Georg Plaut			#228, 106th	#58, 28th
Carel Godin de Beaufort			#230, 41st
Harald von Saucken/ Georg Bialas			#216, in entry list	#50, 30th
Hartmuth Oesterle/ Siegfried Günther			#218, in entry list
Paul Souchou/ J. Ambrogi			#220, in entry list
Sepp Greger/ Wolfgang Bieling				#51, disqual ified
Rolf Appel/ Fred Albrecht, 58938 (Carrera GT T1)				#52, dnf
Hanns Roth/ Ludwig Fischer				#53, dnf
Rolf-Friedrich Götze/ Ernst Vogel				#55, 25th
Richard Trenkel/ Siegfried Günther				#66, 32nd
Helmut Duetenberg/ Heinz-Gerd Jäger				#67, 37th
Fred Block/ Rod Carveth				#68, 39th
Don Dickey/ Hains Christian				#69, dnf
Werner Krause/ Lothar Bender				#70, 27th
Karl Falk/ Wolfgang Niessen (1300)				#83, 38th
Helmut Busch/ K. H. Zimmerman (1300)				#84, dnf
Harry Merkel/ Hans Knippel (1300)				#85, 42nd
Ecurie Maarsbergen (1300)				#92, 43rd
Ecurie Maarsbergen				#60, in entry list
Bruno Runte/ Hermann Kühne				#54, in entry list
Aloys Kiendl/ Manfred Hönig				#63, in entry list
Michel Slotine/ Roland Bourel, 83203					#36, piston
Carl-Gunnar Hammarlund, 100566 (Carrera GT)						#51, 5th
Gert Kaiser, 100469 (Carrera GT)						#52, 6th
Egon Wohlin (Carrera)						7th
Statistics
Works Starts/finishes 31/23		1/1	10/8	19/14	1/0
Drivers	Team entries and car number
Porsche Company
Huschke von Hanstein		40
Herbert Linge		40	225	61
Paul Ernst Strähle
Paul Ernst Strähle			225	59
Paul Denk				59
Olof Persson
Gunnar Blomqvist			227
Hans Walter			217	61
Ecurie Maarsbergen
Mathieu Hezemans				60, 92
Hubert Oebels				60, 92

1958

Season

Carrera 1500 cc engine

Car entry, chassis number	Car number/ result
	Buenos Aires	Sebring	Targa Florio	Nurburgring	Le Mans	Tourist Trophy
Team	1000km	12h		1000km	24h
Porsche K.G., 12303 (Carrera GS Coupe)		#43, 10th	#26, 6th
Porsche K.G. (Carrera GT 1600 group S)				#90, 13th
Alfonso Thiele			#76, dns
Harald von Saucken/ Georg Bialas (Speedster group S)				#30, 14th
Paul Ernst Strähle/ Hans Walter				#50, 16th
Sepp Greger/ Paul Denk				#51, dnf
Fritz Hahnl, Jr/ Helmut Zick				#52, 17th
William Wilbourne/ Bill Wuesthoff (Speedster)				#53, 25th
Helmut Busch/ Antonio Pucci (Speedster)				#54, 19th
Bruno Runte				#55, 22nd
Bruno Runte				#56, dns
Helmut Deutenberg/ Wim in der Elst				#57, 18th
Arne Lindberg/ Ake Lindqvist				#58, dns
Hans Harzheim/ Christian Heins				#61, dns
Fred Albrecht/ Rolf Appel				#62, dnf
Ecurie Monte Carlo Louis Chiron				#63, dns
Ludwig Blendl/ Siegfried Günther				#65, dns
Total points 6		1	5
Statistics
Works Starts/finishes 18/10		1/1	2/1	15/8
Porsche K.G.
Huschke von Hanstein		43
Herbert Linge		43	26	90
John Cuevas		43
Antonio Pucci			26
Walfried Winkler				90
Bruno Runte
Bruno Runte				55
Hans Hartzheim				55
Jim Clark				56
Wolfgang Niessen				56
Ecurie Monte Carlo Louis Chiron
André Testut				63
Jean Sibile				63

1959Season

Car entry, chassis number	Car number/ result
	Sebring	Targa Florio	Nurburgring	Le Mans	Tourist Trophy
Team	12h		1000km	24h
Porsche Auto Co, 12303 (Carrera GT 1600)	#33, 11th
Porsche Auto Co (Carrera 1600)		#96, 4th
Porsche Auto Co (Carrera 1600)		#102, 3rd
Porsche Auto Co (Carrera 1600group S)			#24, 17th
Quiver Motors (Carrera GT 1500)	#74, reserve
Emil Pardee/ Peter Talbot (Carrera 1600)			#65, 15th
Hans-Joachim Walter (Carrera 1500)			#67, 10th
Helmut Busch/ Christian Heins, 0660 (Carrera 1500)			#68, 11th
Horst Muellges/ Hans-August Stausberg (Super 75 1600)			#69, dnf
Emile-Claude Clemens/ Paul Nokin (Carrera 1600)			#70, dns
Gerhard Koch/ Werner Lindermann (Carrera 1500)			#71, 20th
Siegfried Günther/ Helmut Zick (Carrera 1500)			#72, 12th
Hellmuth Gerhards/ Harald Gerhards (Carrera 1600)			#73, 36th
Hans Hartzheim/ Heinz Hartzheim (Carrera 1600)			#74, 24th
Bruno Runte/ Günther Selbach (Carrera 1500)			#75, 35th
Frank Kalkuhl/ Egon Evertz (Carrera 1500)			#76, 22nd
Sepp Greger/ Peter Ruby (Carrera 1500)			#77, 18th
Paul Frere/ Nadege Ferrier (Carrera 1500)			#78, 21st
Total points 16		15	1
Statistics
Works Starts/finishes 17/15	1/1	2/2	14/12
Drivers	Team entries and car number
Porsche Auto Co
Huschke von Hanstein	33	102
Carel Godin de Beaufort	33
Paul Ernst Strähle		96	67
Herbert Linge		96	24
Eberhard Mahle		96
Antonio Pucci		102	24
Hans-Joachim Walter
Hans-Joachim Walter			67
Quiver Motors
John Cuevas	74
Burdette Martin	74

1960Season

Car entry, chassis number	Car number/ result
	Buenos Aires	Sebring	Targa Florio	Nurburgring	Le Mans
Team	1000km	12h		1000km	24h
Quiver Enterprises (356A Carrera GS GT Speedster 1600)		#41, broken crank shaft
Camoradi USA (Carrera 1500)		#72, 9th
Count Karel de Beaufort/ Jan Bootz, 107 763 (Carrera 1600)		#80, 11th
Total points 2		2
Statistics
Works Starts/finishes 3/2		3/2
Drivers	Team entries and car number
Quiver Enterprises
John Cuevas		41
Ulf Norinder		41
Camoradi USA
Dick Dungan		72
Joe Sheppard		72

1961Season

Car entry, chassis number	Car number/ result
	Sebring	Targa Florio	Nurburgring	Le Mans	Pescara
Team	12h		1000km	24h	4h
Bruno Runte/ Werner Lindermann (Speedster 1.6 group S)			#33, 24th
Statistics
Works Starts/finishes 1/1			1/1

1962Season races for GT 1.0+

Car entry, chassis number	Car number/ result
	Dayt	Sebring	Targa Florio	Nurb	Le Man	d' Auvergne	Tourist Trophy	Bridgeh	Paris
Team	3h	12h		1000km	24h			400km	1000km
Harry Merkel/ Frank Kalkuhl/ Hans Otto Kreft (Cabrio 1600)				#83, 20th
Statistics
Works Starts/finishes 1/1				1/1

1963Season races for GT 1.0+

Car entry, chassis number	Car number/ result
	Dayt	Sebring	Targa Florio	Spa	Nurb	Cons uma	Ross feld	Le Man	Wies baden	d' Auve rgne	Freiburg	Tourist Trophy	Ollon	Inter Europa	TdF	Bridgeh
Team	3h	12h		500km	1000km	Hill climb	Hill climb	24h	rally		Hill climb		Hill climb			500km
Puerto Rico Racing Team (Carrera GT 1500)		#46, 20th
Joe Buzzetta (Speedster 1.6)																#9, 7th
Total points 4																4
Statistics
Starts/finishes 2/2		1/1														1/1
Drivers	Team entries and car number
Puerto Rico Racing Team
Victor Merino		46
Rafael Rosales		46

1964Season races for GT 2.0-

Car entry, chassis number	Car number/ result
	Dayt	Sebring	Targa Florio	Spa	Consuma	Nurb	Rossfeld	Le Man	Reims	Freiburg	Cita di Enna	Tourist Trophy	Sierra Montagna	Inter Europa	TdF	Brigde Hampton	Paris
Team	2000km	12h		500km	Hill climb	1000km	Hill climb	24h	12h	Hill climb			Hill climb			500km	1000km
Karl Federhofer							#42, 19th
Statistics
Works Starts/finishes 1/1							1/1

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Source
GS Carrera 1600 '58
Source
Speedster