1963 356 carrera - rear damage, who should he contact near delaware ? Options

[jimkelly]

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[jimkelly]

the new owner is a local car dealer and porsche enthusiast - he has a beck spider in his showroom for $20k - he just bought this car in this condition.

[edrotol]

the new owner is a local car dealer and porsche enthusiast - he has a beck spider in his showroom for $20k - he just bought this car in this condition.

I agree with the responses so far as to folks that can help him - he has to be prepared however to be sent to different folks to do different things - who for the body - who for the engine - who for other things. Which brings me to my concern.

Having been a 356 enthusiast for more than 30 years - owned varying years , models, etc, but never Carreras - if you must ask, i do have a 76 914 2.0 now as my only one left - shows you where my loyalty is today - with all due respect to the owner, did he not research all of this before he bought this as is? You just do not buy a Carrera and afterwards research who can do the work for any part of it as the experts are now few and far between. While everybody can work on the pushrod engine connected to the 356, the carrera mechanics builders are just too few and as such very expensive not to mention the parts, etc. If he did his research he would not have asked you as he would have known already the very small but dedicated Carrera community in his head, Paterak, Doyle, Singer, etc, etc.

While I am on this this rant I question whether he has a real one - which the pictures can sort of say yes but not entirely - and a nameplate that says Carrera a Carrera it does not make. Behind that louvered lid is a four cam 4 distributor solex carbureted hard to work on but a screaming monster. If that engine was in there what a hit that car took in terms of replacement monies. There were no other appropriate pictures but there are oil lines inside the fenders, no grilles in the front, a loud megaphone type exhaust, in some instances a Carrera rear skirt, etc, etc, that makes a Carrera a unique one.

Anyway my good luck to him, i sympathesize with him, he probably paid a mint for it even at that condition, and he will have one hell of a more than approximately $300,000 car at the very least when finished

The advise by the way from above, and especially to the newbies, which is probably late by now for you, I hope you researched and research, ans asked and asked. Believe me, as ask me why I know, you will be very very happy in the end.
(If you need to ask, my first 366 was a rust bucket of a 1960 Super 90 that I did not know anything about except I wanted a 356 - how things changed after that)

Ciao.