1937 Grand Prix Season Review

The Car Show Season is Upon Us!

Thankfully, it was a pretty short winter for me this year. We had Rennsport in October and the weather is already warm and sunny here in the Midwest. Hershey Swap meet is only a month away!  Yaaaayyy.

Is everyone PUMPED for 2012? Isnt this exciting?  Well maybe almost everyone...

Techno Classica Essen

I have been a fan of Maurice van den Tillard's "Dutchman Photo" blog, but somehow missed his"Bumpsteer" blog until he posted photos from Essen this week. Someday I hope to get there, but until then check out some of Dutchman's fantastic "press day" photos at:
 http://www.bumpsteer.blogspot.com/

Here are a couple of my favorites
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Stout '67 Beetle

Rich Dickson's old '67 sedan. Nice car...clean paint, nothing gaudy...and carrying a big stick. That's 11.0's naturally aspirated!
 

1969 - 1971 Factory 911 Tool Kit

Up for sale is this rare and complete factory tool-kit for 69-71 911.

- The black basket-weave bag is near perfect, very clean on the inside with no rips and very clean latches.
- The pair of red-handle screwdrivers are original equipment and in excellent condition except for the tip of the blade driver which has been lightly ground.
- The spark plug wrench is a correct and difficult to find "square head" type.
- Pliers are correct and extremely rare type with the chrome side cut design. They have some light pitting from age, but are in better than average condition.
- Open end wrenches are the correct drop-forged type and all five are present and accounted for along with the box-end wrench.
- Fan belt wrench, allen key and lug wrench are all correct and in excellent condition.
- Fanbelt is a later factory Porsche piece
- Porsche towel is included.

Sold

Porsche 356 Roadster/Convertible D Windshield Frame FS

I have for sale this Roadster/Convertible D windshield frame. It is made up of the heavy cast end pieces, the top frame, center support strut and the steel channel for the bottom. Will need replated of course, but otherwise in quite good shape.

Price :$Sold

Porsches at Ameilia Island

John Glynn was kind enough to post all of his Tweets from the Amelia Island auction of Porsche's including the Drendel Collection.
See all of the hammer prices here at John's blog.
http://www.johndglynn.com/drendel-porsche-collection-sale-scales-new-heights

917-30 Donahue/Penske car sells for a cool $4-Million. Too bad I forgot to set my snipe bid...

See photos of all of the cars that Gooding & Co had to offer at:  http://www.goodingco.com/auction/2705?per_page=9999

Porsche of the Village Winter Concours 2012

A highlight of winter is the neat concours held each February at Porsche of the Village in Cincinnati Ohio. This year's event coincided with the arrival of the new 991 series Carrera, so the featured car of the night was the 911. Ron Thomas's '65 911 coupe was the oldest and of course the newest was the silver 991 on display. This is a fantastic event with terrific food and adult beverages on hand all night. Tons of people showed up and we had a great time. Thanks Porsche of the Village and PCNA for throwing such a great party and getting us out of the house on a chilly Feb evening!

 Stunning '77 Turbo with 12,000 original miles and the original silver finish. ('70's era silver was known to fail prematurely, so this is quite a rarity.)

 Ron Thomas's '74 Carrera in Gulf Blue
 

 Jim Amato's Olive SWT with Ed Pimm's red 67 SWT 911 behind

 Some of the "Beautiful People" on hand...oh, and my buddy Mark too.

 Tons of early 911's. 

 Auto*Legends Brent's freshly restored green '70 T. Orange '70'S was a 12,000 mile original car.

 Dr. McCuskey ordered his '73 S new through Chuck Stoddard. Goal was to make something as close to the 73 RS as possible. Car is Signal Yellow with sports seats. 7" rear wheels and ultra-rare 380mm RSR steering wheel with 30mm factory spacer were dealer installed options. Terrific car!

One of Ted Hersey's "7" Auto Detailing crew hard at work.
Homer of AASE Sales spent the night trying to convince people that he owned the '11 Speedster
Dave Raum lovin' his recently purchased GT3-RS

Etc....

Check that Reflection!

Peter Hofman

Jorge calculating how much jail time he would face if he just jumped in and raced away!