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    SPYDER MAN

    Feb 06, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS PHOTOSSTEVE NALLY

    When we last caught up with Brian Tanti he had begun an ambitious new project to hand-build exact reproductions of the rare Porsche 550 Spyder sports car, constructing them the way Porsche would have done in the 1950s. A lot has happened for the master coach builder and restorer since then. After 30 years at the Fox Museum in Melbourne, where he won worldwide acclaim for his ground-up restorations of Mercedes-Benz 300SLs (and a 550 Spyder, incidentally), he relocated to Sydney and set up Brian Tanti’s workshop, a place to work full-time on his own projects like the 550 and hold functions for enthusiasts and car clubs. But first a quick recap.

    Porsche made only 90 of the lightweight 550 Spyders from

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