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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: rockandrollrods on September 27, 2012, 12:23:35 AM
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Not worth it anymore.
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If it was at an auction 5 years ago...then there will be a record somewhere ..showing its owner?...I assume that it would have had a number plate then...if you can find details of the plate...then you might be able to track it.via a Porsche owners Club..or try a Porsche Forum on the net....that would be you best bet.
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Whats the year model ?? Any dings or way to tell it apart from others !!
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This is a 1957 Porsche Carrera...356...val ue wise...from around $20,000 to....pick a number....
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I will post a few more pictures tonight. This one is quite rare. Worth around $400K once restored.
I,ve got a friend who works for Porsche UK...if you can get me a chassis number...or a reg number.. he can check through the Porsche data base...and if its still in one piece and running about..then the chances are it will be getting serviced by a
Porsche dealer...because if i owned a 400k car...i would be letting any tom dick or harry near it....
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Wow... wiping the drool from my chin!!! Miracles happen, never give up hope!
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OK rockandrollrods sounds very James Bond!! You said "The records on this car from the auction were locked up, sealed, and possibly burned after it was pulled from the auction." So you know what auction it was placed in and what auction house, Is there any way you can get a list of bidders at said auction?? This is a very expensive piece to sell at auction so very specific buyers would need to be drawn in and someone may remember specifics about this car. Someone knows you may need to think outside the box to find it. Local bars around where the car was last seen (men love to brag) country clubs in the area. I can just see 2 guys smoking cigars and one going hey come look at what I have in the garage. Sounds like the owner does not want to be found!
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I got to drive one of those in 68. It was a customers and after it got serviced I needed to test drive it to make sure the new Quaker State Oil was working properly. If I remember it had a 5 speed stick.
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;D I'm sure you did, lol I live Penna. It's a large state. The car looks like it's up on blocks, so I don't think it's been driven in a while. I wonder if there is a way to search car registration.
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R&RRods - I'm sure you have already found this, and I feel silly posting it. . . but just in case.
I found this entry for a car show - here is the club's site
http://www.newhopeautoshow.com/html/showwinners.htm
Porsche-356
1st Place: Chris DiLeo, Coopersburg, PA – 1957 Porsche 356 A
2nd Place: Greg Jahn, Buckingham, PA – 1963 Porsche B
3rd Place: Jeff McFayden, Hope, NJ – 1957 Porsche 356 A
Honorable Mention: Lake Underwood II, Summit, NJ – 1957 Porsche 356
Perhaps someone here might know who owns the car - perhaps they have contact this club?
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I,m confused..well not really confused...more mystefied...maybe its my suspicious mind....there,s something just not quite right here..This alleged $400,000, Porsche...was entered into an auction.5 years ago...then at the last minute its withdrawn,....all documentation according to you is either lost or locked away...or even destroyed?....You are telling us that this car has never changed ownership since it was pulled from the auction....How do you know...you by your own admission don,t know where the car is..so how do you know...that its still in the US....furthermore.. .are these pictures...pre-auction or post- auction...if they are pre-auction...then where did you get them..and how do you know its still in this garage.....there,s just too many anomallies..here... you may be able to pull the wool over some peoples eye,s...with this cock & bull story....but i,m having none of it, ::)
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What is it about this car that makes it so different than the others? I have seen several 1957 Porsche 356 Carrera's showing up at car shows. A couple that have even shown up for sale. But I have no clue as to what to help you look for other than that information. Any additional info?
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Bigwull - I get such a kick out of your posts! My father used to say that some people talk all around the pasture and never mention the bull (Texans can be quite picturesque). However, you go straight to the bull! And you do so quite picturesquely (made a new word) as well! LOVE IT!
I had been wondering about where the pictures had come from as well. How did R&RRods have the pictures - must have been before, because they couldn't have been after. . . I was confused as well.
Perhaps, we will get more info!
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What is it about this car that makes it so different than the others? I have seen several 1957 Porsche 356 Carrera's showing up at car shows. A couple that have even shown up for sale. But I have no clue as to what to help you look for other than that information. Any additional info?
what makes it different is,..it conveniently does,nt have a reg plate...no colour apart from grey primer..no dings... nothing....for all we know it could have been re-cycled....or there is a bigger picture here...and we don,t have the full script.... ::)
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I did NOT...call you a liar..but .if the cap fits wear it...,
All this secrecy about this rare Porsche...but nobody knows where it is,...you say you cannot contact said club..for fear of them finding out that you are searching for it....yet you come on an open forum...requesting info of its whereabouts...and you think know one is going to notice,that you are making enquiries...by now whole world knows you are looking for it.....just google....: "Any Pennsylvania Members Seen This Porsche"...or any Porsche related topic....and your question is at the top of the tree....No secrets on the net.. from the pics that you,ve posted that came from friends,friends,friend...this is a rare Porsche colour....like this one maybe.... ::)
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bigwull, I've been wondering from the get-go ....... if that Porsche is so secretive ...... just where in ell did those pictures of it come from? ;D ;D ;D
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bigwull, I've been wondering from the get-go ....... if that Porsche is so secretive ...... just where in ell did those pictures of it come from? ;D ;D ;D
I,ve been asking myself the same question...accordin g to R...a friends friends friend gave him them...but...where did friends,friends,friend, get them...we have been told that all auction documentation, was either locked away..lost..or up in smoke...yet here we have pics of a Shiny grey coloured rare Porsche...that does,nt look dissimilar to the pic i posted...and there are dozens more where that one came from...who knows it might be the one....if we are to believe everything that has been written about this Porsche..that is rarer than Hens teeth...then this must be the Holy Grail of all Porsche,s....this is like something from Monty Python....the only thing that,s missing is the Knights of the round Table...and the Giant Were-Rabbit.......not to be confused with that other giant rabbit...Harvey! ;D
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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OMG!...the pics of the car have went the same way as the documents...they,ve dis-a-peppered...or Do I detect that someone,s gone off in the Cream-Puff!.....Oh,Well.....as P Green use to sing about.....
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Yeah, when he was communing with the Green Manilishi (with the two-pronged crown)!
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Not only are the photos gone but ALL the replies and topic title from R !!
I said it from the beginning it all sounds very James Bond to me!!
Bigwull looks like you hit a nerve with > you think know one is going to notice,that you are making enquiries...by now whole world knows you are looking for it.....just google....: "Any Pennsylvania Members Seen This Porsche"...or any Porsche related topic....and your question is at the top of the tree....No secrets on the net"
anyone else notice the porsche add running on this page !! 8)
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I believe he said his boss was looking for the car. Could have been one that his boss owned at some point in his life !!
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As the Beatles used to sing,We can work it out..but......in this case its, We can weed them out.... :D
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Last time I drove one of these bathtubs for awhile was in Seattle , 1990-ish ; it's serial was in the low digits of the first 'S' series .
Maybe a six-figure value , but just barely .
It was quite purdy & belonged to a local big rock-star-guy .
Very cool looking cars , but by the standards of semi-perf vehicles in the 1990's , I felt that it handled rather like mush , by comparison .
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I believe he said his boss was looking for the car. Could have been one that his boss owned at some point in his life !!
He has owned a couple that are similar, but not that exact one.
I was just trying to find the car on this large forum, and was willing to pay for that information. But apparently I'm a liar that can't be trusted. So why bother leaving the pictures and replies up?
And for what it's worth, Bigwull's picture isn't the same type. Small differences mean a lot with this cars. The same goes for all other antiques, yet I'm ridiculed because of it.
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I'm in full agreement 'bout what you'd posted concerning the small diffs do mean so much (not only with cars) , r&rrods !
An Elvis Caddy is worth more than one that ain't , for example .
I didn't & still don't think that the posting(s) you've mentioned were horsehockey .
A person gets all types of responses on various forums , as I'm sure you know ... sometimes it's alotta work to find a dead end , 'specially when it's a rare bird that's trying to be caught !
I'm an old car guy , so if I get called a bs'er , I take it that a real BS'er has mis-identified me as some one that they might be buddies with .
:D
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And you're right, driving one of these is like driving a bathtub across quicksand. Sloppy.
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I believe he said his boss was looking for the car. Could have been one that his boss owned at some point in his life !!
He has owned a couple that are similar, but not that exact one.
I was just trying to find the car on this large forum, and was willing to pay for that information. But apparently I'm a liar that can't be trusted. So why bother leaving the pictures and replies up?
And for what it's worth, Bigwull's picture isn't the same type. Small differences mean a lot with this cars. The same goes for all other antiques, yet I'm ridiculed because of it.
We did,nt ridicule you....you did that all by yourself....you posted a topic....that from the outset....looked farcical....to me...and to others....I asked myself...who in their right mind comes on to an antique related forum.......and wants info on a long lost car...that apparently does,nt want to be found....you give us a story...and dangle a carrot...in front of us...expecting us to pull out all the stops...to try and find this car..or have info on its whereabouts.....and the more the story unfolds...the more farcical it became...then when i post, about the google search....you, in my opinion....ran for cover...deleted all what you had written,...with i imagine the hope that no one would ever know that you,d posted on here.....
which, is a forlorn hope....as this topic is and will always be ...at the Top of the Tree...and .if anyone ever does a related search for your super..$400k bathtub that does,nt like quicksand...they will be directed straight to here....
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HA, iffen I was younger and had enough money to buy it back, I would go looking for that 66' XKE convert I purchased new for $6K. 3 duces, 4 on floor and it could make the tires "growl" a wee bit in all 4 gears.
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Those were cool cars too , cogar !
Way more fun & quick to drive than the bathtubs , but very finicky to American road conditions (and front-end alignments) !