I just read the 'Great Debate' piece in the latest Porsche Post and I believe it would have been interesting to enquire as to why people chose the originality route or go down the outlaw path. I sit on both sides of the fence and I can explain why a little later. A few years back when I got my 356 it wasn't much more that a rusty damaged shell and as far as inherent value was concerned it was the bottom of the barrel; a left hand drive B T6. At that time I was in the throws or restoring a Morris Minor Traveller which has got to be the very cheapest car to fix up. Everything on these are cheap as chips, if there was any part you needed you didn't check a price, you just got on the phone and ordered it. However when this trav was done and I started on the 356 in earnest I was in for a real shock. There was a lot of parts for the 356 that I just did not have and if I was going to be committed to return this car back to a stock configuration I would very soon be a very poor man. I'm just a regular bloke and I just could not afford to buy all the necessary parts. So I had no option but to turn to my old hot rodding/street rodding roots and fix'er up the best I could with the parts I could fairly easily lay my grubby mits on. OK, some stuff I had to bite the bullet and get, like rubber mouldings, windscreen, release bearing, body panels, the actual spend has been about 4K each year. On the car there is quite a lot of swap meet purchases, 944 brakes, old 911 wiper motor assys and handbrake, £30 16" Fuchs wheels, OK they were damaged, big sheet of 18g steel to repair the colander like fuel tank, and quite a few MGB bits, spot them if you can! But it got the job done and I now have an old classic I can cruise around in. However my ultimate aim is to get a 88 or '89 930. I will sell the 356 and the Harley and give the piggy bank a serious raid and if I can find a 930 it will most definitely remain as factory perfect as I can get it. This car just has to be original.
May Porsche Post
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