@Joe Fortino posted:That is what I love about you Stan, amps constantly at 11 or in this case 22!! That is really impressive and whoever rents the apartments are going to be living large.
After I'm gone, it'll likely be Jeanie, so -- it's got to be just so.
I think its worth noting that we (of the Plastic -Clown- Car Club of America) are not the first to want to modify (improve) the thing that is the Porsche 356 Speedster. Nearly from Day One, in 1956 or '57, those who had "real" ones (they were the only kind then) went about modding this and modding that to make them run and/or look cooler. Some might call this the hot-rod spirit, So be it. The whole idea about you do you is boiled up in this, and it's been around for a really long time. In my case, having owned two steel 356 coupes in my 20s, when the replica Speedster concept landed in my brain several decades later, I was very excited, and wanted the new thing to resemble the old thing as much as possible. So I go for the classic look where I can. Also the classic sound and the classic smell. I have no pretense that the car is a Porsche, although I think it has two authentic Porsche parts in it: two luggage strap tie-downs that for some reason I still had from one of my old cars, that plus the ignition key from the '56 A. The only real vanity I exercised here when I had the car built was to do away with the VW emergency brake handle sticking up so obscenely between the seats. There are still plenty of VW "tells" in the car, and that's fine by me, but that handle had to go. I toyed with the idea to get an umbrella handle ginned up, but research showed that such is truly a PITA to do and takes many $$$. So no. AS to the color combo, I was just interested in what looked really cool to me, not paying any heed whatsoever to the "correct" combinations that may or may not have been used in Zuffenhausen in the '50s. As it ended up, it suits me. Lots of others say it pleases them too, which is a nice thing, but not THE thing.
