I bought Lou Fageol's 1953 356 Super, which he had modified to AWD. Yes! They couldn't achieve synchronization between the two engines, front and rear, and the unique Porsche was sold through a classified in ROAD & TRACK for about $3,500. After the second owner died when his chute didn't open, a couple Maytag engineers bought the car and raced it in SCCA F Production. I picked it up in December of 1959 for $700, a rumpled wreck with no bumpers and a VW camshaft. I spent the month stripping the many coats of paint, but my chemical remover wouldn't touch the original paint and primer, which was hard as ceramic. I had to sand that off! I had pro spray 17 coats of Lucite metallic silver gray, while I color-sanded between coats. The bumpers were retrieved from a farm, where they were stored by the parents of the second owner, who gave them to me without cost and their blessings. When I moved to California, October of 1961, I sold my 356 for $900 in Des Moines. Today, if restored, the '53 Super coupe would fetch $225,000 at auction. Ve get too soon old, und too late schmart! Or something like hat.

i will give your dad $150!!!!

I noted a red coupe with the small engine cover vents and the bumpers as fitted on my 1952 "pre A". Probably film footage from multiple years.

Hi Earl- Did you work for -or- with Competition Motors in Hollywood? That is where my 62 Coupe was imported and sold.

I was alive and bought a 67 912. To me the 356 looks like a bathtub. ;(

I am sure available.@ $150 per hour.

@@dickvolen4589 Me too! I only work for people that i actually like.

this is just production line work, its not craftmanship.

@@dickvolen4589 The price of "proud"ness mentioned above has gone up dramatically. The housing prices in Germany aren't as frivolous as in the US cities you know.

Aston Martin still builded by Hand.

This isnt craftmanship, that would be using hand tools, this is just production line work. A man trying to be a robot. You could learn to do any of these stages in less than a week, you dont need to be a skilled craftsman.

@@krusher74There are one or two operations which you probably couldn’t learn in such a short time, though your wider point is absolutely valid. The use of molten tin, it’s shaping using heat and a leather tool & subsequent filing & planing is harder to do well than it might appear. In this way, Porsche (& presumably all other manufacturers) get to hide panel junctions where they would otherwise be visible.

Contrast this to the robotic Tesla line and you will shake your head at all the intermediate steps this modern mode eliminates. But I prefer my natural ignorance to artificial brains.

What country ?

+jockellis Lucky Dog, you had one!!

The only problem i see, price would be very high

GSA the same as any Porsche, expensive

@@bigears4426 it would not pass any of the security / pollution regulations unfortunately...

ShamWerks vw diesels didn't either

I'd buy it right fucking now

That’s a brilliant piece of automotive genealogy! I had black leather Recaro seats in both my VW MkIV Golf GTi Turbo cars. I drove only this model for about 15 years and never tired of it. A mechanic friend said in his opinion, that era, late 1990s to early noughties, was peak reliability for quality cars. All the weaknesses had been bred out yet the amount of censors and the role of onboard computers was still minimal. As a result, fault finding was simple and fixes likewise. All parts of the vehicle were robustly made and bodies galvanised. If I could pick a car to have new again out of a Time Machine, it would be a fully loaded VW MkIV Golf GTi Turbo.

Reutter was bought out by Porsche in ‘63. The seat manufacturing division of Reutter split off from the body building division in the sale of the company and became Recaro. In the contract, they were to supply Porsche with their seats for the next 10 years.

Back then it would set you back a few grand for one of those. Of course a few grand was a lot of money, but still a lot less than what you would pay now.

why do you think I as a mechanic ever used eye or ear protection through my daily work? :D

@Ben Frediani It was meant as "never used it" :D

Could have been from a wildlife docu about frisky and curious baby deers

If I'd had the money to buy one of these, I would have bought 100,000 shares of Amazon and I'd be a billionaire.

Now it's mostly robots doing it

Now you can get more horse power off the old engine from the bolt on parts that are available.

Out there it's called OhShit! 😆

You can, just bring $225k and it's yours. They built 73,000 356'sand about 50,000 are still on the road

The beginning was a little rough for Ferdinand between two wars to end all wars and facing the crimes against humanity trials that followed put an untimely death from the stress. But his heirs continued on and created a dynasty that he would be proud of.

@@Tumbleweed-vh4pt yes indeed one of the Cogs in the Third Reich was Mr Porsche (Volkswagen) - peoples car, National Socialism I think they called it......but still engineering at its finest.

Hard & yucky to me looked satisfying.

Bruno, I feel kinda light headed. Thats normal Heinrich, now get back to painting!

They must have been happy to survive the war. What was a little hazardous waste here and there.

Yes about those windshields I actually broke one because it was too big for the opening but that was part of the program working at a Porsche Dealer as far as getting doors and hoods that fit that is why they used lead you can make anything LOOK like it fits with a little lead.

Saw the Carrera too!

TheHypnotstCollector the karman ghia was no different plenty of lead to make them fit , yet the cheap beetle had nearly perfect pressings no lead at all

He saying , " I drive a rice burner"

Actually that is the wrong way to think about it. This is proof since it was done by man, another man it can be remade and given a chance to dance again.

Tesla seems to have the automotive world by the short hair, as to efficient robotic assembly and testing technology. Now, if we can find the ingredients for the batteries of the future, the conversion to engines with only one moving part will cut costs and pollution for us all. Muffler makers will join buggy whip producers in the archives of auto history.

Lol!

Yeah and there was a time when it was applied by hand and brush and then it was sanded and buffed to a perfect shine.

You ever seen a US car from the '60's? They were rust buckets too!