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Porsche 356A Speedster White AUTOart 1:18

Porsche 356A Speedster White AUTOart 1:18
Current price: £270.83

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Specifications
Car Brand
Porsche
Model Manufacturer
AUTOart
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
77862
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About the Porsche 356A Speedster White AUTOart 1:18

TL;DR: AUTOart's 1:18 diecast Porsche 356A Speedster recreates the stripped-down early roadster in white, doors opening on the metal shell. Used example, box showing traces of storage. Porsche built the Speedster with a lower windscreen and reduced trim specifically for the American market.

Everything Porsche is known for today, the lightweight focus, the rear-engine layout, the racing pedigree, traces back to cars like this Speedster, which makes it essential rather than merely early.

AUTOart's Casting of the Original Speedster

The zinc alloy body carries genuine weight, and AUTOart's tooling holds the 356A's simple, rounded bodywork with real fidelity, a shape defined by its lack of ornamentation rather than sharp styling flourishes. White paint suits the Speedster's honest, purposeful character, holding an even gloss across the smoothly curved bonnet and rear engine cover. Doors open with hinge resistance that feels deliberate, revealing the deliberately basic cabin the Speedster specification favoured, with a lower windscreen and reduced trim compared to standard 356 variants. Shutlines stay tight along the rounded flanks, and the stance sits low and simple, true to the car's stripped-down brief. Storage wear is confined to the box.

Founding Porsche's American Reputation

Porsche developed the Speedster specifically for American buyers who wanted a lighter, more affordable, more overtly sporting version of the 356, and the resulting car sold well enough to establish Porsche's early reputation in the crucial US market. That commercial success gave Porsche the foundation to build everything that followed, including the 911. On a shelf tracing Porsche's evolution from its earliest cars, the 356A Speedster belongs right at the beginning, the point where the brand's identity first took recognisable shape.

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