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Beautiful 356 coupe. Colour complements this car well. Really accentuates the lines. When I look at your photos I can see styling cues which continue on with the later 911. Lovely photos.

As you may recall, I had one ride in a 356, which was a cabriolet. It was many years ago and I recall sitting in the passenger seat being slowly driven along an older street in a genteel neighbourhood. The street was lined with large mature Elm trees and the boughs formed a canopy overhead.

It was a wonderful experience, with sunlight filtering through the leaves, creating a dappled effect on the car .

If I had Jay Leno's budget a 356 coupe, an early 911, along with an early Jaguar XKE coupe, '63 Corvette split window coupe, Volvo PV544 and P 1800 would find a home in my garage. There would be a lot of other vintage cars and motorcycles there too.

Les

Thanks for posting, Jer. You make cars look good

I had a ride in a 356SC on 2006-12-30. It was in a hilly area SSE from Melbourne. Lots of winding roads with tree branches meeting overhead. When we dropped off the ridge at Arthurs Seat, I was a bit nervous that we'd do the Porsche swap ends thing going around the U-bends, but the old girl hung on. We were overtaken on a straight by a stonking great supercharged Bentley from around 1930. It was that sort of area. Vineyards with attached restaurants. It was a great drive in perfect weather.

I parked next to a custom Maybach 62 on one of my visits to the area. The Maybach owner has some very interesting Porsches including a 550 Spyder and a 718RSK. He's also got a Jaguar XJ220 and an XJR15. Fox Classic Car Museum

Anyway, after all that, I commented here because I was struck by the luggage rack on the back of that car. Did they ever have a standard Porsche 356 luggage rack? Every one I see seems to be doing it's own thing.

Really nice example of the 356 series.
I've been looking out for a 356-2000 Coupe but they are scarce on the Australian market.
Will post some of our Porsche restorations, myself, my brother and a couple of old friends buy insurance write offs or sadly neglected Porsche's (usually deceased estates) and spend our retirement hours rebuilding and restoring them to good health.
Cup cars are relatively inexpensive as well, nothing as obsolete as last year's spec race car.
Wombat.

Really nice example of the 356 series.
I've been looking out for a 356-2000 Coupe but they are scarce on the Australian market.
Will post some of our Porsche restorations, myself, my brother and a couple of old friends buy insurance write offs or sadly neglected Porsche's (usually deceased estates) and spend our retirement hours rebuilding and restoring them to good health.
Cup cars are relatively inexpensive as well, nothing as obsolete as last year's spec race car.
Wombat.

For starters most of these images have taken with an elderly Canon that I keep for progress 'snaps' or in some cases (shock horror!) with my cell phone!
We get some disasters and we get some reasonable projects, so here are a few finished examples to begin with.