new member from slough

101sinbad · Post by **101sinbad** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:24 pm

Hi all,

I've been lurking for about 3 years. I've finally plucked up the courage to register and post.

In a moment of utter madness and through very rose tinted glasses I bought a 356 that is in pieces.
Pictures hopefully below.

my second post will be in the 911 section as I need some advice.

anyway. good to be on board

Ferry Man · Post by **Ferry Man** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:30 pm

Good to have you on board. Welcome to DDK.
The car looks good. We look forward to developments.

58A - 71E · Post by **58A - 71E** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:56 pm

Good luck with the 356 project - you werent joking when you said in pieces, is the front clip salvagable

, hows the rest of it? I do know the feeling about rose tinted glasses though... I keep telling myself "one day, one day"

looking forward to some updates

Helen · Post by **Helen** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:54 pm

welcome. took mine on justover a year ago and hopefully within the next week or two & approx £30k later i will at last get around to driving it

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its worth it to know you have a fully restored car. so many "restored" cars we looked at were in need of a awful lot of money spending on them

101sinbad · Post by **101sinbad** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:04 pm

Hi Helen and 58A

the front looks like this....a lot of work to do and to be honest not something I can do.

Helen,

can I ask where you are having the work done on yours?

thanks

912uk · Post by **912uk** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:34 am

wow some project, well come to the club

Helen · Post by **Helen** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:22 am

101sinbad wrote:
Helen,

can I ask where you are having the work done on yours?

thanks

well to cut a long story short.

i had all the body work and painting done by Lee Peacock at Autoclassica, nr knaresborough.

interior done by David Nunn at Southbound trimmers, (Nr Bournmouth ?)

and everything else (prettymuch) done by Lee and Paul at PR Services, Billericay.

912uk · Post by **912uk** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:52 am

Southbound are Nr Andover, on the map WEST of Newbury which is WEST of London

and Helen I keep spelling Bournemouth wrong ( I now remember it as B our ne( w ) mouth

Burma-Shave · Post by **Burma-Shave** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:15 am

Great stuff! An open car so an even better start for a ground up resto.

What is it? Whats the story behind it?

101sinbad · Post by **101sinbad** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:39 pm

The car is a 1960 Roadster.

I bought it after searching for ages for one that I could afford.
I came close to buying two cars around July last year that looked great superficially but had 101 things wrong with them when I paid someone to inspect them.
There was a nice cabrio for sale on PR's website which used to be a German police car, but it dissapeared after the Christmas break.

I then decided that if I'm going to sink a lot of cash I may as well get one that's warts and all and then get it fixed, rather than buy one that looks good and then find that it needs doing from scratch.

In the short term it will cost me a fair bit to get it up and running but hopefully in the long term I'll be a happy bunny. And it's better to have the cash sitting in the car than in a pension

I'll post some more photo's of the car and it's body panels in a bit.
The car isn't going to be started on until after the summer, so I'll try and do an update as and when things get moving.

.....................in the meantime I went and picked up my new baby(four wheeled) with one of my other babies(a real life one, as opposed to a car)

101sinbad · Post by **101sinbad** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:59 pm

...............and here they both are

101sinbad · Post by **101sinbad** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:17 am

...............and after a year and a half this is what she looks like.

I'll try and post more details of the journey to this point when I find the camera and the cd's that I've packed away

Hendrik Moulds · Post by **Hendrik Moulds** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:37 am

That's going to be a fantastic looking roadster when you've finished and the Targa looks nice too. Welcome to the club.

Post by **Bootsy** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:08 am

A year and a half of good investment by the looks of it!

101sinbad · Post by **101sinbad** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:20 pm

once I got over the fact that it's going to be ready when it's going to be ready. It's actually been a really enjoyable journey...so far.

I think the hard work was all at the start, trying to work out what the car should look like and whether to stick with stock/original or not.

Rod @ Emory motorsports has been a star..........and on budget.

camera phone picture of where it's at