https://seattle.craigslist.org...-356/7084818178.html
@Alan Merklin , saw this in one of our local listings... figured you would enjoy the description.
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Yes I spoke with the current owner, I got that speedster 2/3rds assembled from a friend in NJ " Brian" who's health was failing some years ago. I filled in the current owner with what I could remember about that car. It is a beautiful speedster and has 3/16" aluminum floors too.
So what do we call Alan now? Chip Merklin or Alan Foose?
curious to which exaust was used on the car? btw super nice ride.
Wow. Read the ad. Alan's builds now have provenance. 
"Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object.[1] The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, paleontology, archives, manuscripts, printed books and science and computing."
And now Merklin speedsters.
A Porsche COA has just lost its lustre...
Merklin Motorwerks. Perhaps we need a new category in the Resources section of the site, "Replica Restorers".
@Alan Merklin- Do you remember who (what company) built the body?
ALB posted:@Alan Merklin- Do you remember who (what company) built the body?
Not off hand but what I do remember is the thick fiberglass and that the shop that had a multitude of hours into the blocking and sanding. The body work and paint shows as high end and they charged Brian a small fortune for that quality.
Alan Merklin posted:
ALB posted:@Alan Merklin- Do you remember who (what company) built the body?
Not off hand but what I do remember is the thick fiberglass and that the shop that had a multitude of hours into the blocking and sanding. The body work and paint shows as high end and they charged Brian a small fortune for that quality.
I see by the thread title it's a VS. The reason I asked- when I looked at the ad, the 3rd pic (it's above) the car looks about level (front & rear wheelwells, side trim all look right) but look at the angle of the deco strip under the door and how it's angled down toward the front- the door looks out of proportion- seriously narrower at the back vs the front. Am I seeing something that isn't there? I went downstairs and a quick measure of the passenger door on my car shows maybe 1" difference front to back.
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It looks like the car is about 1" to 1-1/4" high in the back and gives the car a slight rake, the deco looks even in the rocker panel margins.