Type 64: The $20 million Nazi Porsche that may not be a Porsche at all

Along with its tiny, two-seat interior, split-window windshield, and wide, black steering wheel, the car originally consisted of VW parts and special components made by Porsche himself

In mid-August, during the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the world’s most prestigious car show, a vehicle that RM Sotheby’s is calling the Porsche Type 64 is expected to sell for about $20 million. It promises to be the most controversial sale of the year.

Price isn’t the issue. The auction estimate from RM Sotheby’s is far shy of the record $48.4 million paid for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. The Type 64’s price would still qualify as rarefied, like that of the 1963 Aston Martin DP215, which sold for $21.45 million last year.

It isn’t the car’s design, either, that’s prompted public