1957 Cabriolet soon to be auctioned.....nice video

I saw this on Youtube and it caught my eye. I had no idea that so few '57 Cabriolet model 356's were built. The price that this guy is looking for is up in the Speedster category and I think a little unreasonable. Made me feel good just the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEddHNZMv_o

Didja watch the the rest of it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf7wJky0RRE&NR=1

Johnny, I believe there were indeed quite a few more Cabriolets built than 192 but I think he is talking about year and T1 versus T2 configuration. My reference shows:

1957 - T1 (393) T2 (149)

Total T1 Cabriolets (892)

1958 - T2 (1382)

1959 - T2 (944) T5 (468)

Total T2 Cabriolets (2475)

John:

How much is he asking for the car? If everything he says is accurate then it really is a gem.

Andres D.

So he reverses without looking back and drives on the wrong side of the road.... NICE!!!

Andres, I think I saw somewhere in his information that he was looking for 109K for the Cabrio. Pretty steep IMHO. That's up there with the restored Speedsters that usually fetch much higher prices than Cabrios.

Mike, this looks like a nice quiet (read retirement) neighborhood that probably does not have a lot of traffic. I'm hoping that the person holding the camera was watching to make sure this "gem" didn't wind up having to make an unscheduled trip to the body shop. That would certainly make it less worthy of the presumed high asking price. ;-)