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I believe this is Tom Buchanan's car, or was.
Yes it's Tom's and in person it's kinda cool!
In person it's very cool.
I like it! Is it an orangy red in person - like tomato soup? Definitely a steal price.
Tom's car at Carlisle 2017...
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I saved that car's life. Well, the rear bumper, actually. That's me in the upper photo, my head just above the outside mirror as Tom was getting ready to get the car off of the trailer.
He had a 2-way electric winch on the front of the trailer, so he parked on a slight downhill, attached the winch cable at the front of the car, we both released the trailer straps and he started backing it down. I had wandered around to the other side to watch and as I was standing there and the car was inching slowly back......The winch cable broke.
What started out as a slowly controlled backing off of the trailer very quickly turned into a very low custom car rapidly heading for an asphalt curbing that was slightly higher than the bottom of the bumper. Tom's eyes instantly got REALLY BIG as soon as the cable snapped but it took a second or so for the totality of the horror to sink in as his car was moving away from him.
Meanwhile, I heard the snap and saw the cable whip around, then looked behind the car and saw the curb, 25 feet away. Maybe ten things went through my mind in an instant, like "Oh $#!+! It's gonna hit the Curb!" Oh $#!+! There aren't any chock blocks handy!" "Oh, $#!+! THIS IS BAD!"
So I ran over, DOVE into cockpit and yanked as hard as an old guy could on the E-Brake handle, hoping that he had decent cables on it and they wouldn't snap, too. There I was, teetering on the top of the door, body way down inside and legs hanging out the side as I pulled and pulled on the brake lever.
The E-Brake held and stopped it about 6" from the curb....
I was thrilled, but I kinda over-did it pulling that hard (a couple of stout beers helped). Tom, who was now drenched in sweat from anxiety, was thrilled, too, and VERY relieved. That is way too nice a car to crash getting it off of its' trailer and I can certainly attest to the gorgeous, custom interior.
So that was at the bottom of the hotel parking lot. Meanwhile, at the top of the same lot, the Mullis' were backing their Blue Angel 550 out of their enclosed trailer, got it cockeyed on the way down the rampgate and one rear wheel dropped off the trailer ramp causing the car to pitch left and scraped the trailer's ramp cable along the left front fender of the car.
All this within ten minutes. So it goes at Carlisle..... 
...at least it wasn't raining...small mercies.
Tom's car fits Henry's business motto perfectly: build what the customer wants, and build it well.
I was there and saw it all. Gordon is able to fly pretty good distances and get the job done with the parking brake. This was a really rough afternoon for getting cars off the trailers and onto the deck.
It is such a good deal. It has me twitching - no garage space, no garage space,...:-(
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All this within ten minutes. So it goes at Carlisle.....
And the moral of the story is:
Friends don't let friends trailer their car!
Drive 'em, peeps!
Why is Tom unloading all his toys? Hope everything is okay.
Man, if I was closer this is what I'd want:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/cl...etail.php?id=2152914
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Toncatz is the bomb , it looks 10x better in person the attention to detail is amazing.
Was it green before?
Everything is great and retirement feels good! I own about 7 cars and I'm gonna get down to a couple. You can only drive so many and the Hagerty bill is gettin out of control. I sold my 63 Beetle today and had the 914 on the Samba classifieds ( sold in 15 minutes!!) I have a 62 VW that has a Transvair conversion with a 140 horse Corvair that is pretty cool for sale also. I just had the speedster wheels painted PPG gloss black and put larger rear meats on it. The car drives perfect, it's debugged and the engine is tuned so nice Danny would love it!!