The Post Pics of 356's Here Thread!!!!!
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9SIX4-C4 (12-31-2021)
#1090
Origins...
My first Porsche was this 1962 356 Super 90 purchased in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1972. It was loud, raucous and a total awakening for this big iron boy from Alabama. The last image is of my best friend, the late John Joiner of St. Petersburg, sitting in the "S90" enjoying a cold Busch beer at the 1973 Sebring 12 Hour. There were no better days....
#1092
My first Porsche was this 1962 356 Super 90 purchased in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1972. It was loud, raucous and a total awakening for this big iron boy from Alabama. The last image is of my best friend, the late John Joiner of St. Petersburg, sitting in the "S90" enjoying a cold Busch beer at the 1973 Sebring 12 Hour. There were no better days....
#1094
One day I was sitting in the car down on Sunset Beach and a guy pulled up in a gray 356 A. We started talking and he noticed the missing bumper piece. He said that there was a fire chief that worked in Bessemer, AL that had two warehouses full of old Porsches that he was parting out as a side business and that he might have the piece. Unfortunately, he didn't know the chief's name.
Bessemer was only 15 miles from my mom's house and I had scheduled a trip home to see the Rolling Stones play at the UofA that summer (1972). It didn't seem possible that I could actually find the mythical fire chief, but in desperation, I called the Bessemer Fire Department "long distance" and asked the person that answered the phone if they knew of a chief who sold Porsche parts. He responded, "Oh, that's Chief Davis. Hold on and I'll put you through."
Victory!
Two months later I met him at his storage facility and when he opened the door there were wrecked Porsches, primarily 356's, neatly lined up and down both walls. He walked back to a red cabriolet that had been hit in the rear which ruined the the painted portion of the bumper, but not the chrome pieces. Ten minutes and $25 later, I had the part.
The exhaust in the photo is a Bursch. It came on the car but was in pretty bad shape with a loose baffle that rattled terribly. In a stroke of good luck, a student at the school where I worked decided to see if he could balance himself on the pipe and broke it off. Because it was considered to be vandalism, my insurance company wrote a check for $125 for a new part.
Again, Porsche karma came into play. The next day a colleague told me that he had just had his VW Beetle in the shop for service and saw a used Bursch exhaust sitting in the shop with a FOR SALE sign on it. He inquired about it for his VW and was told it was for a Porsche and he immediately thought of me. I drove up that afternoon and it turned out to be a Schumacher rather than a Bursch, but it was for a 356. I bought it for $50 and installed it myself (I had to buy a metric tool kit on the way home in order to do the job).
I drove the car for a little over two years and then sold it to a guy who lived in Orlando just before I left St. Pete for another stint in graduate school. Since that time, I've owned a 1966 912, a 1997 993 and currently a 2014 987. As you can see from the photo below, that silver 356 left an impression...
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