Ep 195 Chuck Beck builder of the Beck 550 Spyder
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English - December 09, 2022 05:15 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsAutomotive Leisure Education automotive bus bug cartalk classicvw ghia volkswagen volkswagon Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Chuck Beck loved racing, he was building tube frame cars while in the SE Pacific testing Atom bombs. When he got out of the air force he built a one good VW out of a 46' & 53 wrecked beetle. He would build whatever he could. He liked racing so he bought a Devon kit car and started that build. He made a chevy powered racecar. His first car he started making a mold from was a Porsche 910 before he could build one he came across a 550 car that his customer let him make a mold from. That began the legend known today as the Beck 550 Spyder. While he was building the first one, a magazine photographer comes to his shop and takes pictures of his 550 replica. From there the rest is history. His current 904 Porsche is quite a legend itself at 1500lbs and 450hp . Its a great story of a man who went from Air Force to building cars in his garage to working for Shelby as a fabricator. Leaving Shelby to founding partner in FUNCO the company that builds sand cars. Hes done it all.