Just five years after the war ended, Porsche started importing small batches of cars into New York City to plant its feet for the first time on American soil. News traveled quickly on a westward wind and the Californians, free from harsh weather, soon after demanded their own style of Porsche. Now, ostensibly this video was created as a way for …
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Driving 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 356 Pumpkin Carving Template
It's almost Halloween and that means it's pumpkin carving time. What better way to show your love of Porsche then to carve one onto a pumpkin for the whole neighborhood to see. If they didn't already know how obsessed you were, they will now... We written countless posts on the mechanics of carving your own Porsche Pumpkin, so we won't repeat …
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 …
Continue to the full articleThe Coach-built Beutler PurSang 356A
While looking upon the exterior, it is entirely foreign, practically alien. Certainly there are identifiable trim bits, such as the door handles, engine lid grilles, and rocker trim, but not enough to make a cognizant connection to any car you've seen before. Drop the extended top, and step inside, however, and the story completely changes. This …
Continue to the full articleThe Mystery of Porsche Chassis 1021
Deep within the recesses of Porsche’s Kardex system lies a card that holds the long kept secrets of an interesting vehicle. What I like to call the “356A and a half speedster” is a Porsche that, perhaps, should never have been built. Given the confusing chassis number of 1021, this mystery 356 is of great interest to the “academics” among the …
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