1960 Porsche 356 Zagato Coupe
In 1957, French gentleman-racer Claude Storez commissioned Zagato to build an aerodynamic aluminum body on his Porsche 356 Speedster. He was killed in a racing accident in 1959; the car was destroyed and never seen again. Nearly 60 years later, Zagato discovered a 1959 sketch for a closed coupe version of that car while digitizing its archives, and built nine of them with Porsche's blessing, calling the program "Sanction Lost" since the original had disappeared. This is the seventh of those nine coupes. Built on a 1960 Porsche 356 B sourced from New York and shipped to Milan, it wears a handcrafted lightweight aluminum body faithful to that 1959 drawing, sitting on a fully restored original chassis. The 1.5-liter Super 90 flat-four has been rebuilt and uprated to 125 hp, with Technomagnesio magnesium wheels rounding out the period-correct spec. Its previous owners, Spike Feresten, the writer behind Seinfeld, Letterman, and SNL, and collecting partner Paul Zuckerman, spent an additional $100,000 at celebrated 356 specialist John Willhoit in Long Beach, describing the result as the best-sorted of all nine.
