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  1. Porsche 550 Spyder. Erwin Komenda (6 April 1904 - 22 August 1966) was an Austrian automobile designer and Porsche employee, and a lead contributor to the design of the bodies for the VW Beetle and various Porsche sports cars . Erwin Komenda was born on 6 April 1904 in Jauern am Semmering.

  2. Sep 22, 2022 · The family of former chief designer Erwin Komenda would like a word The Porsche 911 is an automotive icon that has actually earned that overused honorific. The German sports car — which debuted as a prototype in 1963, hit the market a year later and has been in production ever since — has transcended the vehicular plane to achieve greatness ...

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  4. Sep 23, 2018 · As an engineer and metallurgist, Komenda reached deep into the creation of any number of hugely important 20th century automobiles, and his legacy of design remains formidable close to a half-century after his passing. In essence, Komenda was Porsche's chief engineer in charge of body structure design, a personal alliance that presented ...

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  5. Here was a project that advanced the thinking of the Porsche team in general and Erwin Komenda in particular on the subject of high-performance sports cars. The racing Type 370 was a more muscular and purposeful interpretation of the concept that had shaped the Berlin-Rome Volkswagen.

  6. Apr 6, 2023 · Among his employees was Erwin Komenda, who first met Porsche while employed as a designer at Steyr in the late 1920s. When Porsche left Steyr and began his own automotive engineering and consultuation firm, Komenda followed him. He became the head of the the bodywork design department, a position he would hold until his death in 1966.

  7. Oct 3, 2023 · Rennsport Reunion 7 took place last week, and it was a special one, as this year is Porsche's 75th anniversary. Among the cars brought over from the company museum was the very first to ever bear ...

  8. Aug 7, 2020 · Back in 1951, Erwin Komenda had designed a four-seater version of the 356. In a somewhat brutal fashion, he extended the wheelbase of the delicate sports car by 30cm (12in.) and exchanged the ...

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