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Yes. That is Porsche No.1 ( 50 were made ) Type 356. I heard that they were touring. The Porsche factory has them including some of the early racers. I have a Maestro toy one in my office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_356
Fred Adler
San Diego
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_356
Fred Adler
San Diego
Gerd, saw it driving down CA 1 during the Pebble Beach Tour! Then saw it parked on the street in Carmel after. I'll email you some pics.
More than likely, it was a prototype being produced by Thunder Ranch
see: http://www.spyderclub.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=11102&start=0
see: http://www.spyderclub.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=11102&start=0
HEY GERD...
Try this!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/uptospeed/2008/08/behind-the-whee.html
Try this!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/uptospeed/2008/08/behind-the-whee.html
Definitely can see the family resemblance in this 1945 VW vert that Will and I saw at the VW Vintage Treffen in SoCal a while back...
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amazing if it is number 1 i wonder who owns it
fred i am so impressed with what u are doing with your speedster
i sure wish you lived closer to simi
jim, dave, desi, robert, mark, will, kevin, bruce and dave obrien i am going thru withdrawls, when is the next run had so much fun with u guys.
fred i am so impressed with what u are doing with your speedster
i sure wish you lived closer to simi
jim, dave, desi, robert, mark, will, kevin, bruce and dave obrien i am going thru withdrawls, when is the next run had so much fun with u guys.
Porsche AG owns it I believe. They flew it over for the Pebble Beach Concors.
Gerd, try this-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
david tooo funny
pfffft - david. i see your rick and raise you a roll:
http://smouch.net/lol/
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Gerd,
My mother and brother live in Camarillo. My restored green MGB is running around somewhere up there. I sold it to a guy from Camarillo in order to afford to buy a "safe" car for my son. While I almost got killed in my "B" in 1970, I did not want to deal with that with my son so so onto airbags. I AM cranking on this restoration. It relieves a lot of stress. I will get together with you guys sooner or later. I need to get this beast running right and it is really hard to figure out the Brazila/Mex engine to get to spec.
Fred Adler
San Diego
My mother and brother live in Camarillo. My restored green MGB is running around somewhere up there. I sold it to a guy from Camarillo in order to afford to buy a "safe" car for my son. While I almost got killed in my "B" in 1970, I did not want to deal with that with my son so so onto airbags. I AM cranking on this restoration. It relieves a lot of stress. I will get together with you guys sooner or later. I need to get this beast running right and it is really hard to figure out the Brazila/Mex engine to get to spec.
Fred Adler
San Diego
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Good one Paul- damn I had to shut down my computer at work to get Rick the hell outta there LOL!
it turns off after a while. just hit the speakers. funny as hell
Yes definaly real I have a dye cast model of it that the one with 2 trunks. and some even came with a continal spare tire kit on the back. Even more rare.
Saw it, and took a photo next to it, at the Porsche museum in Germany in '04.
I heard (fro a VERY good source that it was dumper on its nose (LONG drop to the ground) when it was being unloaded at Monterey when Porsche was featured. (previous to '04) Maybe 2002? ANyway... when I saw it at the museum I was checking out the body work that the factory had done to it to bring it back to life. Not so great. Amazing, as this is Porsche number one! You think they would have done top top top notch body work on it. Not to say that it was bad... but it sure could have been done MUCH better.
Back to the dumping off the crane: I guess it was being unloaded like you normally see them being unloaded. Where you can view the car as its coming down off the ship...
being lowered by the crane, and chains/rope, or whatever they use, holding all four corners of the flat platform it is sitting on. The front gave away and splat when the car... right in front of Porsche high-ups. From the story I heard, the car was loaded right back on the ship and taken back to Germany. My question... why wouldn't/wasn't it be flown by air? ??? I heard that from a top top guy (friend) at the Dupont Registry who would knew the details.
I heard (fro a VERY good source that it was dumper on its nose (LONG drop to the ground) when it was being unloaded at Monterey when Porsche was featured. (previous to '04) Maybe 2002? ANyway... when I saw it at the museum I was checking out the body work that the factory had done to it to bring it back to life. Not so great. Amazing, as this is Porsche number one! You think they would have done top top top notch body work on it. Not to say that it was bad... but it sure could have been done MUCH better.
Back to the dumping off the crane: I guess it was being unloaded like you normally see them being unloaded. Where you can view the car as its coming down off the ship...
being lowered by the crane, and chains/rope, or whatever they use, holding all four corners of the flat platform it is sitting on. The front gave away and splat when the car... right in front of Porsche high-ups. From the story I heard, the car was loaded right back on the ship and taken back to Germany. My question... why wouldn't/wasn't it be flown by air? ??? I heard that from a top top guy (friend) at the Dupont Registry who would knew the details.
There's an article in European Car and on it's web site about another prototype based on a both 356 and VW running gear. Looks similar in a way, but with a Morris grill . . .
http://www.europeancarweb.com/lookback/0211ec_porsche_past/index.html
Oh, I'll bet a buck that the whole smashed/dropped prototype is made up. Just seems wrong in too many plot points. Even if it didn't go by air, it would have been secured in a closed container, not off-loaded on a roped and chained platform. And NOTHING leaves the NYC docks immediately after being damaged. That car would STILL BE HERE under scrutiny and investigation ! ! ! ! !
And New York's finASSed would be on paid detail with career-long jobs guarding it. For a cop, guarding that thing, would be like having a rent controlled apartment, the job would be passed down from one family member to another.
http://www.europeancarweb.com/lookback/0211ec_porsche_past/index.html
Oh, I'll bet a buck that the whole smashed/dropped prototype is made up. Just seems wrong in too many plot points. Even if it didn't go by air, it would have been secured in a closed container, not off-loaded on a roped and chained platform. And NOTHING leaves the NYC docks immediately after being damaged. That car would STILL BE HERE under scrutiny and investigation ! ! ! ! !
And New York's finASSed would be on paid detail with career-long jobs guarding it. For a cop, guarding that thing, would be like having a rent controlled apartment, the job would be passed down from one family member to another.
The non-ending video thing is not really funny. Getting close to virus-city. S/W that does not behave itself ought not be spread around.
But these early cars are SO COOL. I have not seen such good photos of these museum pieces before. Never would have believed I'd find a VW so attractive. Beetles have been considered cute, of course, but never beautiful, IMHO, Ghias included. These cars change that calculus a lot.
But these early cars are SO COOL. I have not seen such good photos of these museum pieces before. Never would have believed I'd find a VW so attractive. Beetles have been considered cute, of course, but never beautiful, IMHO, Ghias included. These cars change that calculus a lot.