Air & Auto Classic, Virginia Beach

A few more pictures from the show, including some detail shots of that beautiful 904 (Special Editions' #35).

That looks like a boatload of fun, Paul.  I really like those models.  Do they fly or are they static?

All the models fly. Pretty cool to see them in the air. 

Wow.  Wish I would have known about the show.  In my own back yard.  I think my car could have given yours some competition.  Congrats.  I did spend this past glorious weekend cruising the mountains around Charlottesville with my son Sam doing some wine tasting.  He had not driven the car since my new cam with ECU reflash, front 320i brakes, new exhaust system and CSP shifter.  He said it felt like a completely different car.  Didn't mean to go off on tangent.  Cool show.  I need to put it on to do list for next year.  Let me know if you are coming.

Phil IM356D posted:

... front 320i brakes, new exhaust system and CSP shifter.  He said it felt like a completely different car...  

Are you still happy with the new calipers, Phil?

Fire Power HEMI?

Phil IM356D posted:

 front 320i brakes, new exhaust system and CSP shifter.  He said it felt like a completely different car.  Didn't mean to go off on tangent.

Phil...could you pls. start a new thread on your front brakes ?   I might re-do mine this winter and could use a few pointers. Thanks...

David and Al.  I am very happy with the performance.  Much less effort with lots of pedal feedback.  I stop with much more confidence.  I actually finding myself braking much later.  They are starting to squeak a bit.  I might try the "quiet" Bosch brake pads.  They are like $26 for a set.

My son is 28.  The 356 was the first unassisted braking car he had ever driven.  Last time he said the brakes were horrible and even scary.  He loved driving the car this weekend.

David there is a very lengthy discussion by me with references back when I did the up grade. 

crhemi (Bill) poboiinhawaii posted:

Fire Power HEMI?

Yes. I believe it's a first generation, 331 ci.

Here's an article on a similar unit: 

http://www.rodauthority.com/ne...r-will-light-you-up/

Great pics, thx for sharing and congrats on the big win.

Every club member that stopped to talk about my IM Roadster went way impressed. Well, except for one guy who ran his fingers under the front wheel well, and walked away shaking his head. Hey, who said you could just grope my Porsche?

Paul, your car is AWESOME in EVERY aspect! A well deserved award (for you & Henry Reisner) for sure!

There is alway some dick that has to showboat their 'Porsche' expertise by demonstrably feeling the wheel well. That is such an amateurish maneuver. Anybody who really has Porsche chops can determine the car is a replica by visual inspection.

I totally take the wind-out-of-the-sail of Porsche showboaters' with this placard I put in the windshield at EVERY event I attend.

I know I've posted this several times before, but I hate a-holes that showboat...

"Well, except for one guy who ran his fingers under the front wheel well, and walked away shaking his head."

The guy probably felt stupid because he thought it was a 'genuwyne Porsha', until  he discovered it was fibreglass, by feeling the fender edges.  Then, to cover his stupidity, he tried to make himself look 'better than a replica owner' by shaking his head in feigned disgust.

Nothing better than an embarrassed Porsche snob...

I don't make much of it. The fender feeler was the only one who acted that way

I was speaking with a couple members of the local PCA club when the gentleman did his thing. One of them asked what that was all about. When I explained it, they too shook their heads. At his actions. Not the car! 

Lol, I had a guy start to walk over to my car all excited while I was doing some testing. He was asking questions about it's year etc...half way there I yelled out that it was a replica of a 57, he stopped turned and walked back to what he was doing.

F em, I wasn't in the mood to talk and glad he walk away.

Phil, you should come next year. Also, all y'all: I been trying to get you to come to this for like the past four years. Do a search.

This really is a nice destination car show.  10 minutes from the VA Beach beaches.  A short ferry ride from the Outer Banks of NC.  Lots of great restaurants and things to do.  Places on the Atlantic Ocean are very reasonable this time of year.  Roads are kind of flat and uninteresting unless you are by the water.  And for you guys up north coming over the Bay Bridge Tunnel at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay is pretty cool. 

Dave.  Here is the link.  But this upgrade only applies to folks with 914 4 bolt rotors and 3 inch bolt spacing. 

https://www.speedsterowners.com...brake-upgrade?page=1

I think I'll "fender-feel" a real speedster at the next car show and complement the owner on what a perfect replica he put together !........Bruce

aircooled posted:

I think I'll "fender-feel" a real speedster at the next car show and complement the owner on what a perfect replica he put together !........Bruce

That's called "Trumping" it...

Bruce - Fender feel a real 356...that is pretty funny! 

This isn't "trumped Up" either.....Los Angeles County still has some air raid sirens with 331 Hemi Chryslers to turn them. They quit testing them more than 20 years ago but I know the have some abandoned in some areas of LA County. I recall being next to one for a test. The sound was so loud that it sort of vibrated the air right out of my chest and made my eyes water!.......Bruce

Around the Central valley we had a much smaller siren system. I remember though as a kid we'd hear these things all over the city when they tested them. Not nearly as impressive as a Hemi powered siren.

Thanks Paul...That sound will never be forgotten by us older folks. It still produces bittersweet cold-war memories for me. Heck...they still use that sound in modern movies to forewarn of the impending terror which could have followed......Bruce