Florida Speedster/Coupe/Spyder

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I've got to get with you to meet up with Jim Anderson in Crestview.  He has wide body welch grape purple CMC --- with a choice of engines (T4, RX7 rotary, T1).  He must have 8 on going VW projects from a Maxi-Taxi to BAJA bugs.  Feazy was in are but had his car (white with red stripes) for sale and he deployed with USAF.  I occasionally see one for sale on CL so there must be more in area. Biggest local even is Bugs on the Bayou.  Other FL owners are in Jacksonville/Tampa so quite a haul.  

Wolfgang:

Yeah we need to get together. My fault, been busy with the boys and working on the new house, plus a death in the family.

Merry Christmas and enjoy our current liquid sunshine!

Could be fun to create a "Snowbird Speedster" opportunity for our brethren in the northern climes.

Look forward to meeting Jim with you.

Wish you were in South Florida. I would enthusiastically look  forward to a cruize or just having a beer and talk speedster.   I know there are several other speedsters in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area although I have only ever seen one outside a restaurant n Coral Gables and a second more recently at Porsche event.  I do a lot of speedster driving down here and it does get lonely.

If I can get my wife to leave Time Inc in 2015 and sell this house, we will be moving to Stuart Fl. I'd be on constant trips to see the Red Sox at Spring Training. Would need cruize bruthers!

Craig:

Hope that it works out for you!

We have lived all over the country, but I'm finding life down here to be really wonderful. I'm doing things that a year ago I would never have dreamed of..... And they are are all legal...

Right now I'm learning the technique of throwing a cast net to catch live bait, shrimp and mullet. Never saw this coming. My crab traps are paying off, even at a time when the blue crab are supposed to be in warmer water or dug in the sand.

I guess mature canines can be retrained.

Just recently moved down to Naples full time from Michigan---well 9 out of 12 months. Haven't seen another Speedster/Roadster..... We travel to Coral Gables every other weekend as my son is at the "U". Acquired a "real" 59 speedster a couple of months ago. It remains in Michigan undergoing some fine tuning---but my IM is loving the palm trees, smooth roads, and 70 degree evening cruises.......

For us "come-to-Florida" transplants there is a cool FL grill badge.  FOG for "Florida Owners Group."  Not sure how they accept replicas - they meet around Winter Park/Orlando area.

http://www.356fog.com/GrilleBadge.html

I emailed the club a couple years ago and never got a response, I did mention replica so maybe that was the reason. Wonder why they opted for the "." instead of an "E" in the heading, TYP. looks odd.  

I looked at FOG's by laws and they require that all cars that cruise with them or are eligible to be shown at their meets are Porsche manufactured and bear a Porsche chassis tag and number.

They follow the 356 Registry rules.

Interestingly, any type of engine is acceptable in the cars. They don't specifythat it be Porsche.

I wonder what PCA would do with a 911 based IM?  Porsche engine, transmission, and all drive train parts (brakes, suspension, etc.).

Could simply call it a re-bodied 911...

"Nolan wrote: " Wonder why they opted for the "." instead of an "E" in the heading, TYP. looks odd. "

That's the Porsche designation for the various body styles.  TYP356 is our style.  There are also a bunch of 356 clubs around with that designation, too.  Here's the one for the Northeast:  www.typ356ne.org

Interestingly, the "hybrid" year of 1956, when they were phasing between the Pre-A (2-gauge dash, beehive tail lights) to the "A" (3-gauge dash, teardrop taillights) produced about 40 or so "cross-overs" that still had the Pre-A Beehive lights but went to the 3-gauge dash (probably because the pre-A dash was a separate, removable sub-assembly, whereas the "A" had the dash welded to the rest of the car).  

THOSE cars are designated as TYP540, even though they look (at least on the outside) the same as a 356.  Here's one with a color-matched Reutters(?) rack similar to MUSBJIM's:

So Technically, the guys like Marty G. and MUSBJIM who have the 3-gauge dash and Beehive tail lights are closer to a TYP540 body style than a 356.  There are a bunch of other differences, which I sent to Theron as a table to be posted......I'll bug him to put it up.

I learn something new here almost every day. Thanks Gordon!

Gordon- I thought typ540 was the designation for the 4 cam carrera Speedsters? Steve Heinrichs (and co-authors) has a new book- Porsche Speedster Typ 540: Quintessential Sports Car  http://www.biglakemedia.com/books.aspx

EDIT- Looks like I'm wrong- http://www.speedsters.com/h-pre-a-speedster.htm

Tom G.

next time you come through .... give us a call.  We live very close to the eastern end of alligator Alley.

I never knew I had a Typ 540. I thought it was a T-1...

I found good place for the NW FL Speedster guys to meet up.  Das "Schnitzel Lodge" in Niceville.  Even the bathroom has a dedicated SOC urnal. 

And we deserve one.

BobG,

Maybe in the late spring (or early summer) we can plan a "drive" get together for the FL members along scenic US 98?

Tom G., TRhan, Cradad-Dennis, Wolfgang,

You guys willing to travel a bit to eastern US 98 along the Pan Handle?

I am in Orlando and willing to meet S. FL drivers along US 19 (around N. Tampa) on the way to US 98?

You guys willing to try this for a weekend gathering?

late spring/early summer sounds fine by me ....   although early to fully confirm, count me in