Solved: NEH 32 - VW Special Sport Cabriolet by Hans Waibel

[Carnut]

What's this?  A point if you can tell me:

[Carnut]

Let's give the Experts a go then.

[João]

1948 Porsche WAIBEL Custom Sports Cabriolet Prototype

[Carnut]

It is indeed (despite the Morris Minor grille!)
Well done!

[Wendax]

Some facts have to be put straight here. The builder's name is Hans Waibel, nor Weibel as in the header. Furthermore it is not a Porsche, but a rebodied 1948 VW Export (chassis number 1-085552) which had overturned, so that the body couldn't be used anymore. The car was sold to Alfred Debrunner who let the VW engine be replaced by a Porsche 1500 unit with 55 instead of the VW's 25 hp. In a Swiss Classics article the car is called VW Special Sport Cabriolet.

[Carnut]

Thanks.
Of course working with the information available in 2009 things can always change as more is either found out or appears in other places, esp. magazines.
I'll change the title.

[Wendax]

The Porsche prototype myth came up when the car changed owners in the US. 

[Wendax]

The car is in Argentina right now and up for sale, again falsely labelled, this time as a "1948 Waible / Porsche 356 Cabriolet".