Porsche nomenclature can be confusing. In the world of 356s, the Carreras were the top of the heap. The lightweight quad-cam Carreras and Carrera 2s were the GT3s of their day; they were deeply specialized, performance-first machines. Today, however, the Carrera name denotes the bottom of the 911 hierarchy. The SC/GT fit somewhere between the …
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Everything You Need To Know About Jerry Seinfeld and the Allegedly Fake 356 GS/ST Carrera Speedster
Just under three years ago, Jerry Seinfeld sold off 16 cars from his collection, ranging from a trio of 356s to a 962C. This high-profile sale with Gooding & Co. attracted substantial attention at the time, including several features on this site. In keeping with such a high-profile sale, each car was subject to the scrutiny of not just the …
Continue to the full articleAddressing the Patina Question with a 356B
With everything gained by a factory-perfect restoration something inescapable is lost. With age, the cumulative effects of regular use build up on every car. Whether they're scuffs over the scuttle from loading luggage, or pock-marks accrued from entering in Le Mans, a car's wear is part of its history. Porsche themselves still display the 1987 Le …
Continue to the full articleThe Story of the 1957 Emory Outlaw Speedster
About two years ago I had the pleasure of sitting down for dinner with Rod Emory. Over the mutli-course meal provided by our friends at Michelin, I had the opportunity to listen at length to a bona-fide Porsche legend. Rod turned out to be soft-spoken and unfailingly modest. His calm manner seemingly only built in furor when discussing clever …
Continue to the full articleDriving A Porsche 356A Is An Analogue Experience
Things are too digital these days. We're always connected to the world at large with a bombardment of news, information, status updates, and reactions. We've been trained by social media to constantly check and re-check our phones or computers for the latest. It's hard to escape from the world of connectivity, as many of us depend on the so-called …
Continue to the full articleFather And Son Team Up To Revive This Beautiful 356
In this new video from Petrolicious, a French father and son team show off their oddly beautiful 356A coupe. This car was a literal 'barn find', which they tracked down by following a leaking vehicle back to a tractor collector's farm. They managed to get the tractor man to sell off his old long-dormant Porsche, but he would only sell it in a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Has Recreated The First 356, And They’re Taking It On Tour
It isn't really possible to find a car more significant to the history of the Porsche brand than the very first one to wear the Porsche name. 356 "No. 1" Roadster was first registered for road use in June of 1948, and heavily influenced the styling of the original run of Gmund 356s. Over the next seven decades, this Porsche was reshaped by the …
Continue to the full articleDirty Bathtub: Jeff Zwart’s 356 at Big Sky Ranch
Jeff Zwart is not shy about flogging his 1953 Porsche 356. We've seen the car sliding through the snow with Jeff at the wheel, and now getting sideways and dirty. While nowhere near as swift as Jeff's 964 rally car, which he ran at Big Sky Ranch the same day, the 356 looks like an absolute riot on the loose gravel surface. The 356 is both more …
Continue to the full articleThe Widest 356? West Coast Customs’ 356-Cayman Mashup in Motion
A 356 is a tiny car by modern standards. At 65.4" wide, a 356 is narrower even than a current Mitsubishi Mirage(65.6"). Most 356 variants are also shorter in terms of height than Project 944 GTS, and around 18" shorter in overall length than my 944. Stretching one to fit over a 987 Cayman then, is no mean feat. West Coast Customs managed to combine …
Continue to the full articleThis 356 Proves It’s More Fun to Drive a Slow Car Fast
I know what this website is called, and I admit my bias in favor of Porsche's classic flat-four models. I love the 356. After Studebakers, these were the first classics to really capture my imagination. Seeing someone as jaded by high-horsepower monsters as Matt Farah getting his kicks in a 356 warms my heart. The owners of this blue 356A sent Matt …
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