Envemo Super 90 Coup on Ebay

NOT Mine and know nothing about it - but a bargain with a buy it now price of only $11k! Last one I saw on ebay went for over $22k.

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Item 160031028669 in case link doesn't work.

Could I hide it under the deck from my wife? But for how long?

That looks like a great project car. The seller has highlighted his areas of concern and as he pointed out many of the weak areas are cosmetic. At that Buy-it-Now price it is tempting even for a non-wrench kind of guy like me.

Geeze Louise....it looks like it needs a lot of work. I realize it is over 20 years old, but it appears that it has had a hard life. I wonder if it got that way from abuse, neglect or both. I can only speculate how you would come out financially after you had replaced parts that can't be saved, cleaned, painted and applied lots of elbow grease. I think it would have to sell really cheap to be a good deal.

I think it's great. But I don't need one. It just needs a little sprucing.

That's a great bargain!!!

Let's see. For a mere 11K I can get a 23 year old glass body with a 30 year old engine, 11 year old clutch, 15 year old paint, needing all new interior, chrome, emblems, brakes and allignment, and has a measly 78K kilos on the speedo that may work, the tach doesn't, plus as an extra added bonus I have to tow it home accompanied with the peace of mind of knowing I have a vehicle that replacement body parts may take a lifetime to scrounge up. Hmmmmm........ Where did I put JPS' phone number.

...hmmmm, I guess I left out the part about this coupe that really flips my trigger. I see it revamped as an outlaw (surprise)emulating one of Parts Obsoletes creations.

I hope never again to become an obsessive P-car slave to authenticity, it's just too damn demanding particularly when there are roads to be driven.

I'd chuck the seats and interior carpeting, opting for a pair of speedster seats and a roll bar. Dynomat jammed into openings and some sanding and painting inside. There is an LA outfit that makes decent door panels if the existing ones are warped beyond stripping and recovering.

Chrome off all around. Side windows out and replaced in plex. I'd probably pop for a sunroof to be cut in and the bumper indents filled.
Decklid revised, replacing the stock grilles with a panel of paired louvres and a third brake light above.Either in the decklid or the cowling above.

New wiring harness, H4 lamps and wheels painted to match the car on one end of the spectrum or those hard-to-find 924 spares maybe...
Engine du jour would be either a 2076 Type 4 w/150 HP or ???.

Even though I know better I'd likely paint it black. My guesstimate of cost would be about $20K on top of purchase price.

Paul, it sounds like you already bought it in your mind.

unfortuantely someone else did the $11k buy it now option. Oh well, saved me a major project if I bought it...and I need more projects like a hole in the head....

Tom said: "Let's see. For a mere 11K I can get a 23 year old glass body with ... Where did I put that JPS number"

Ah, so JPS now has a Coupe they sell that is as authentic as you can get to the original now near 50 year old car. Your looking at well under $10k to make it a show winter --- or $2k for a daily waterproof driver.

I'm slowly talking myself into it.

you take $11k and go to JPS I suspect you won't come back with a car.

I really like their product and I may well buy one of those when they are really up and running with production of the car.

That Envemo Coupe was SWEET ! ! !

I looked closely at all of the pics and was shocked at the detail and close replication of the original Porsche details and design. I mean, it even had the correct air veny controls on the mid-dash, the glove compartment door was perfect, the lock to the far right next to the grab handle.

Everything was perfect, AND I suspect that original Porsche bits and pieces were used, considering. As a parts mule alone, there was $ to be made and STILL have enough car left for an Outlaw.

The pics of that new fiberglass coupe being developed show a MUCH more simplified/non-original interior lay-out, and I bet that there were corners cut all along the line, especially if it's supposedly coming in at that low selling price.

You'd be WAY better off beginning with older near perfection and working laterally rather than grabbing a new interpretation and trying to work up. Just look at all of the crap that you have to do to something as essentially "dune-buggy simple" as the Speedster kits in order to make them decent, does anyone really think that a MUCH more complicated Coupe is honestly going to just be whipped into a weather-tight runner for short money? I know, I know . . . keep the fake Speedster "original" and do up the fake Coupe as an "outlaw." They're both just a batch of fiberglass and a whole mess of Porsche parts stuck on 'em. There IS no original, but that Envemo is about as close as you're gonna get without paying extra for the ferrous oxide.

IMHO anyway . . .

I first saw an Envemo in the late 80's. TC, you are correct, most of the original body accessory parts will fit the Envemo. As I best remember all the glass, all the trim , all the rubber parts, and all the lights were interchangeable with 356 off the shelf parts. Much of the interior was real 356 size and style. They are really an excellent repro in my less than professional opinion. I have wanted one since I saw the first one.....could have had that one for $7K. Big mistake not to buy it but I did own 2 Speedsters and a 944 at the time and a coupe might have been a bit much. Of course the coupe would have been a better investment than the 944, but that is another story.... 20 20 hindsight.......

7k would have been a deal...11k not horrible but I'm not sure so great. One thing to consider is this...he mentions stained headliner which means water was getting in somewhere and I'm thinking based upon the condition of the interior that the pans are going to be rusted...the 1980's envemos used the standard center spines of the Beetle but used entirely different pans from the Brazilia that will be a PITA to find.

Maybe those floors can be found through any of the US parts importers (such as CB Performance); after all they deal daily with Brazil for some of the more common VW parts we all use.

I like the way you think, TC.

Its possible that CB could help track down the floors. I just took another look at the photos and the amount of rust on the door windwings and the white powdery looking leather indicate that the interior is a bit damp.I think it certainly is a good candidate to be restored and it should given the rarity of being the only "factory authorized" 356 replica ever. But this one is a resto project and just not a sprucing up...the wiring looks like a mess and someone butchered up the euro-carrera style valance...the other blue one that was on ebay a few weeks ago (out on Long Island) just needed a sprucing up. These are great "coach built" cars and I hope that the person who got it does it right. As an aside, I have been gearing up to roll out my envemo registry website and hope to have it ready by year end.