{"id":322,"date":"2018-06-15T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werner.med.br\/w143\/?page_id=322"},"modified":"2025-03-21T18:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T21:28:03","slug":"porsche-550-rs-spyder-65-brumm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/porsche-550-rs-spyder-65-brumm\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche 550 RS Spyder #65 – Brumm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"550<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
1955 Porsche 550 RS Spyder<\/strong> 
Pilots: G. Olivier, J. Jeser 
Team: Gustave Olivier<\/em> 
Race: 18th overall (7th in S 1.5 class) at Le Mans in 1955 
Brumm - R263 (feces) <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 05\/13\/17<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With only 78 ever built, the 550<\/a> was Porsche\u2019s first purebred racing car. The engine was a very reliable 1498 cm\u00b3 flat-4 with 16 valves, DOHC and a 110 hp output. The car debuted at Le Mans in 1953 as a coupe, and on its first year scored a class win. In 1954 the RS Spyder was developed, and once again Porsche scored another class win at La Sarthe.<\/p>\n\n\n
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WTF? Where are the friggin’ headlights?!?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
The next year, with six cars among privateers plus the works team, the 550 scored one last class win. For 1956 the much improved 550A replaced it. This 550 RS Spyder #65 (chassis #550-0016) was one of the last 550 to race at La Sarthe. Unfortunately, it only managed a 7th place in its class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This 550 RS Spyder surprised me. Definitively the worse 1:43 I ever saw in my life. I knew it was bad – in fact, Brumm has pictures of it on their site, with missing headlights and all. But the level of crappiness blew me away. The paint job is horrendous, could only have been worse if done with a mop, and the chrome is terrible. It\u2019s an absolute turd. So I would say there are bad 1:43s and then there\u2019s this 550 – hors concours<\/em>. If James Dean called his car \u201cLittle Bastard\u201d this model is the \u201cLittle Turd\u201d. Certainly the only thing missing is the smell. I\u2019m really impressed, to the point I would like to display it in a transparent acrylic chamber pot, but alas, so far I only found those normal enameled metal ones. Pity, it deserved a proper display venue so that it’s crappiness could be better appreciated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Worse of all is the fact that Brumm can do some REALLY nice<\/a> models. So I guess they really wanted this 550 to be turd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UPDATE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Published 01\/16\/20<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"550
Can you believe that the 550 #65 has a spare tire AND engine under the bonnet?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Being honest, I thought about throwing this model in the trash. At least five times. Not only does it suck moose balls, I was kind of mislead when I bought it. So every time I looked at it I had these negative urges. But I thought to myself “Self, what if we make it less hideous?”<\/em>. And that (DEFINITIVELY) meant putting headlights on it, of course. So I got a donator (a “Lil’ Bastard”<\/em> 550 pw model), took both apart and removed the headlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"550
Boogers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The problem was that the darn thing didn’t fit in the #65 \ud83d\ude23. The solution would be to trim down the headlight housing until only the rim was left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"550
Now it fits.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
So with a sharp knife I basically carved the lip off the chrome headlight assembly. In about five minutes I had only the rim of the headlight, ready to install.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 If only I had tried this method on the first one… <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
For the second one I got smart and cut the rim while the lens and stem were still in there. That sped up the process considerably, and this one took me just about two minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Ready for gluing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
With both cut it was gluing time. Cyanoacrylate glues (superglue) can fog-up clear parts and even paint, so it’s dicey to use. So instead I used modeler’s clear glue (Testors<\/a>), the one used for windshields and aircraft canopies. I first glued the lenses to the rims and then glued the whole headlight in each socket.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This 550 RS is still a turd but doesn’t stink so bad now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
And here’s the final result. Have I made a nice model from a turd? Hell no! My base material was a turd. Turds will always be turds, no matter how you try to make ’em pretty. To really fix a turd you would need high level sorcery and a good Philosopher’s Stone (very <\/em>hard to find on eBay). However, it looks a little less bad now. The model is still terrible, but now at least it’s not too offensive to look at. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, maybe (maybe!<\/em>) it won’t end up in the trash bin \ud83d\ude44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UPDATE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Published 03\/21\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s going to the trash. Oh yes, I had enough of this turd on display. I just received a beautiful class-winner 550 RS from Spark, so I can’t justify keeping this piece of crap taking up display space. I won’t delete this page, however it won’t be listed anymore. You can reach it through links in a few of my reviews but that’s it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I’m serious: I just literally dumped it in the trash bin. 
Should have done this long ago! \ud83e\udd2e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1955 Porsche 550 RS Spyder Pilots: G. Olivier, J. Jeser Team: Gustave Olivier Race: 18th overall (7th in S 1.5 class) at Le Mans in 1955 Brumm – R263 (feces) Published 05\/13\/17 With only 78 ever built, the 550 was Porsche\u2019s first purebred racing car. The engine was a very reliable 1498 cm\u00b3 flat-4 with … Continue reading “Porsche 550 RS Spyder #65 – Brumm”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18325,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions\/18325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}