Matt Denton shows us his fabulous 1963 Porsche 356which hes restored from top to bottom. He tells us all about this gorgeous German classic.
Welcome back to wheels, Matt!We last saw you over three years ago and back then you had a lovely 1967 KarmannGhia and a really cool, very low-mile 2001 Esprit V8. Do you still have them?
Thanks for inviting me back again! Not long after that article I relocated to Dallas, Texas for a while. Try as I might I couldn’t take either car with me, the Karmann Ghia had left the US on a salvage certificate so I couldn’t take it back there and I also couldn’t get them to accept the Esprit as a federalised car — even though it had the badges and letters from Lotus. Sadly I gave in on both and sold them.
The good news is they are both in good hands; the Ghia went back to Germany for a full restoration and the Lotus is in a collection in the UK. I often lament many of the cars I have sold, but those two hurt more than most.
We’re sorry to hear that, but, your awesome 356 has taken a bit of the sting away! It is simply gorgeous, where did you find this Porsche?
Believe it or not I found this one night on the Emirates Auction site. I didn’t really know how that worked, thinking it was like EBay, but obviously it’s not. My tactic of bidding late just didn’t work and I got bored of the tiny increments and four minute extensions and so I threw in a stupidly large bid to move things along. Naturally, I won!
Haha,we like your style! What condition was it in when you got it?
‘Never buy a car unseen’, they say, well they’re right. I didn’t bother viewing the car, but it looked good in the pictures. To be fair, it was all there and it was a nice red with beige interior but with some cheap and tatty carpet.
この記事は Wheels Magazine の October 12, 2018 版に掲載されています。
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7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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