Sometimes we’re pretty astonished by how many 356 still in restorable conditions keep coming out from nowhere, even after 20 and more years of huge revaluation, and this one is one of those. That’s a 356 SC (chassis #130685), the most powerful model of the 356 breed (with the obvious exception of the ultra rare… Read More Black and white: 1965 Porsche 356 SC
The Glas 1700 GT is a rare car as these were produced for no longer than a couple of years, of course seeing one with a rotary engine instead of its inline-four cylinder engine is even rarer. So here we have a car which needs, apart from a total restoration, an original unit or, at… Read More Unexpected rotary: 1965 Glas 1700 GT
The aircooled week ends with this 356 SC (chassis #219385) which, despite not having a matching numbers engine, looks in good conditions and, above all, an affordable price. Of course “affordable price” in relative terms, we could say the it’s fairly priced mostly because today you barely a driver for sale: you’ll usually find completely restored… Read More Black on black: 1964 Porsche 356 SC
These VW (generally all the aircooled VW) usually split opinions in two parties: who likes them and who hates them. We basically love all classic cars so also this one deserves some words. These “Kübelwagen”, a.k.a. “Thing” for the U.S. market, were built, of course, on the Beetle chassis and engine but they were even more… Read More Summer ready: 1976 Volkswagen Typ 181 “Kübelwagen”
This 1949 Beetle was used by the West-Germany paramilitary units to patrol the post war borders in order to prevent any invasion attempt by russians. It was in active duty until ’56 and the definitely garaged in ’67. A very rare specimen indeed: few are the pre ’50s Beetles but cars with special assignments like… Read More Cold war patrol: 1949 Volkswagen Beetle
The seller of this 356 SC says that the car has a matching numbers engine and that it sleeps in his mom’s garage since 12 years ago, unfortunately his mom wants her garage back. The car should’t be bad at all: the seller says that when he purchased the car the 95 hp engine was… Read More Garage needed: 1964 Porsche 356 SC
This Signal Yellow 911 Targa (chassis #9112111659) belongs to the “E”series batch of cars produced between 1971 and 1972 also known as “external oil filter” or “oelkappe” because they had the oil filler on the right side soon after the door. The problem with this solution was that a lot of incidents happened: many filled… Read More Dry orange: 1972 Porsche 911 T/E 2.4 Targa
This Porsche Speedster is titled as a 1955 car but actually, because of the chassis #80087, it is one of the first batch of 200 cars built from September to December of 1954, making it a valuable car. Unfortunately the car has not a matching number engine: the car is equipped with the actual engine since… Read More Blank engine: 1954 Porsche 356 Speedster
This Aetna Blue 356 Roadster looks like no one has driven it since long time but, at the same time, it looks in healthy conditions and it has also a great color combo. Even though the factory color chart of this car didn’t consider this color combo (Aetna Blue cars were delivered with light grey… Read More Blue powder: 1961 Porsche 356 B T5 Roadster
The Glas 1700 GT was probably the first road car equipped with a belt driven SOH camshaft; actually it was a little but sophisticated car which was sold for a couple of year before adopting the BMW badge. Few were made a few remain today especially in the U.S. also because it’s not easy at… Read More Belt driven/2: 1967 Glas 1700 GT
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