Wanted: 356 owners with interesting stories

[MartinP]

Classic & Sports Car magazine is looking for several 356 owners to profile for a forthcoming issue. If you have owned a car for a long time, carried out an extensive restoration, done some epic journeys or use your car extensively, then we would love to hear from you.

Please either PM me if interested, or email martin.port@haymarket.com

Thank you!

[Ren]

How about this one?

•Trip to Nurburg Ring with very early 911
•Engine oil problem
•Try to fix problem
•Call insurance for help
•Told no policy and make own arrangements
•Get car home
•Complain to insurance co and end up in battle with ombudsman
•Win battle but get pennies when damage cost thousands
•Learn and rebuild engine but put in a few mods
•Re-insure car and almost ready for MOT

Or

•Car hit by boss while parked
•Car taken to best firm
•Car painted and now two colours with over spray and paint runs
•Firm offers to repaint
•Offer rejected
•Paint sent to compensate
•Found out from Porsche car was different colour so stuck with lots of wrong paint
•Car still two colours due to expenditure on engine after Germany trip

Oh the joys of tub ownership. Its the old story of man loves car, car loves cash.

[MartinP]

How about this one?

•Trip to Nurburg Ring with very early 911
•Engine oil problem
•Try to fix problem
•Call insurance for help
•Told no policy and make own arrangements
•Get car home
•Complain to insurance co and end up in battle with ombudsman
•Win battle but get pennies when damage cost thousands
•Learn and rebuild engine but put in a few mods
•Re-insure car and almost ready for MOT

Or

•Car hit by boss while parked
•Car taken to best firm
•Car painted and now two colours with over spray and paint runs
•Firm offers to repaint
•Offer rejected
•Paint sent to compensate
•Found out from Porsche car was different colour so stuck with lots of wrong paint
•Car still two colours due to expenditure on engine after Germany trip

Oh the joys of tub ownership. Its the old story of man loves car, car loves cash.

Hmmm... perhaps not quite the 'loving relationship' story we were looking for.

[356boy]

you just made that up

[MartinP]

you just made that up

"Car loves cash". That bit's true for most of us!

[Ren]

Yep all true just ask Mark with the pre A. He has seen my motor from road going daily driver to expensive garden ornament. Well I agree if I had know about tub ownership wows then I would have paid the extra for the Alpine A110 I was looking at.

But tub n me have this love-hate relation ship thing going on.

I love driving it and it hates going. Ha ha ha.

Did he Le Mans Classic that was fun.

http://www.356porsche.co.uk/LeMans.html

http://www.356porsche.co.uk/daverennie.html

Check it out.

[sjm]

Hi Martin - have PM'd you. Can't see it as "sent" from my mailbox so please let me know if you want me to re-send.

Thanks,
Simon

[Ren]

I have pictures of the Germany trip, engine build and accident to back up my sad story. I should post them up.

[Hendrik Moulds]

You should definitely post some photos Ren.

Martin, I have PM'd you as well.

[Ren]

Engine build pics.



Dont have Germany pics in digital only on photo paper. See what I can do.

[58A - 71E]

Hi Martin
PM sent