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Porsche Carrera Abarth GTL
Serial :#1003

The Carrera Abarth was an aluminum-bodied car built on a Porsche 356B chassis. These cars were built and assembled in the early-1960 to the early-1961 time period. As Bill Ousler points out in his book Porsche Racing Cars, the Abarth came into being as a result of an FIA rules loophole. These rules defined a car on the basis on its chassis and the running gear, rather than basing the definition on the body. Thus Porsche could use the 356B chassis and running gear, with a four-cam Carrera engine, and could and did use a specially-designed light weight aluminum body instead of the production steel body. The Carrera Abarths are one of the rarest Porsche models, with a production run of cars from serial number 1001 to 1021.

Abarth 1003 was delivered through Nordrheim in Dusseldorf, Germany in May, 1960. The original owner is listed on the Kardex as being Gerhard Koch.

Gerhard Koch is known to have raced the Abarth a number of times in 1960 and 1961. Koch was second in the 1600 GT class held at the Gran Prix of Spa in Belgium on May 29, 1960. Koch was first in the GT 2000 cc class at the Grand Prix de Rouen-les Essarts at Frankreich. At the July 30, 1960 Grand Prix of Germany at Nurburgring he finished third in the GT 2000 cc class.

Koch entered the May 22, 1960 Nurburgring 1000 kms race with Hans-August Stausberg of Germany as co-driver (the entrant for the car was Scuderia Colonia). They finished third in the Grand Touring Group, 2000 cc class, and 13th overall. On September 2.5, 1960 Koch was second in the Coupes des Paris at Frankreich.

He took a second in the GT class at the Flugplatzrennen in Innsbruck, Austria. On October 16, 1960 Koch took first in the 1600 cc GT class at the HMSC-Rennen at Nurburgring.