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Reply to "Finally found the love of my life - 59 Porsche 356 Roadster Conv. 'D" Intermeccanica"

Nice couple.  I just know that they enjoy that car.

Too bad those original rims didn't stay on the car - those were one of the first things changed by the Texas guy - he HAD to have the nipple hubcaps for "authenticity".  IIRC, George paid around $5K for the wheel set and they looked so absolutely perfect on the car.  And the original fog lights were 1950's originals.  Very few sets around, now, although I'm drawing a blank on the German make (someone on here will know, for sure).  I think Al Shapiro has a pair on his "Ruby", originally built by Henry Reisner for Jim Ward, out in Oklahoma City - another legendary character on here whom we've sadly lost.

BTW, some of the arguments that George got in to on here and over on the Shop Talk Forums and the Samba forums were pretty good, too.  Just mentioning his name on those sites today will get some of the old timers agitated all over again.  One year at Carlisle, he and I were both up really early and hung out in the parking lot at the hotel, just having our coffee while everyone else woke up.  Learned a lot about each other's careers and talked about cars, boats and motorcycles.  George was a pretty cool guy.

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