1959 356A Super GT Speedster

The 356A Super GT Speedster represents one of the most competition-focused variants of Porsche’s early sports car. Built in extremely limited numbers during the 1958 and 1959 model years, it combined the lightweight Speedster body with either the 1600 Super pushrod engine or Porsche’s exotic four-cam Carrera powerplant. Cars equipped with the GT package were stripped of unnecessary trim and sound deadening to save weight and often featured larger carburetors, lightweight wheels, and competition exhausts. The result was a purpose-built machine that blurred the line between road car and race car, helping establish Porsche’s reputation on circuits around the world.

This 1959 356A 1600 Super GT Speedster is one of an estimated seven examples built for the U.S. market in lightweight GT competition specification with the 1.6-liter pushrod engine. It came finished in Silver Metallic with a Black soft top and featured a roll bar, mesh headlight guards, and gold 1600 Super badging. Inside were fixed-back Speedster bucket seats trimmed in Black vinyl, while under the rear decklid sat the numbers-matching engine and transaxle. A great example of one of the rarest and most desirable pushrod-powered Speedsters Porsche ever produced.

Over the past few years, Super GT Speedster appearances at auction have been few and far between. We’ve seen this particular example before, first failing to sell at a final bid of $750,000 in Monterey 2025 and then again at $1,000,000 during Mecum’s Kissimmee sale this January. This time around, it failed to sell at a final bid of $896,000. I hate to use the phrase “the market has spoken,” but with this result landing squarely between the previous bids, I’d say it probably has.