1951 356 aluminium coupe. With front wheel skirts

[Frank Lee]

I disagree. Porsche was all about the endless refinement of the basic architecture he started with.

[bgd73]

Originally Posted by orange4boy

I like how many old racing cars have mods that look like ours. Screws showing, add on look. Makes me proud to be a modder.

I completely agree. to this day, it is becoming rare enough to bring prejudice from service people. It is to stand ground on common sense functions that work other than oem. I recently have been startled (once again) about my welding. Not a clue for some inspectors, no clue whatsoever, how far a person could go with oe appearance and a welder on the same oe body. Just screws and rivets are adding to it, not taking away. The lack of will to DIY like this is part of a bizarre extinctive phenomona I associate with childish inspectors and service people narrowing minds down to the quick pace of lack of ingenuity..and just giving up the cars they once owned and miss.

and that 356 is one of the worlds real legends, especially drivetrain.

[cfg83]

Old Tele man -

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

...isn't that the coupe version of the roadster that James Dean died in?

No, you're thinking about the mid-engined 550 Spyder, one of my all-time favorites :

Porsche 550 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



CarloSW2

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by orange4boy

Check out the front wheel skirts! Those front wheel are deep set already so they could make them a little bulged and get away with it.

Though it looks to me that they would have gotten a lower CdA by wrapping the body closer to the wheels - there's extra thickness on the doors - and reducing the A quite a bit at the expense of a slight increas in Cd.