@Joel Roth posted:I like my Rudenmeister's better. I just Ordered them. I will have the stopwatches way before the car.
I know the car in the auction is a "real" Porsche 356, but I have to tell you I like our cars much better. First, our cars cost far less. Second, think of how much money you would have to spend to bring the car in the auction up to the level of our car's fit and finish. Third, our car's performance and handling blow the "original" out of the water (no pun intended). Fourth, our cars accelerate, handle, and brake far better than the original ever could dream of, and we have real AC.
All things considered, I will take our cars hands down over the original.
I love everything about this post.
You have "the madness" in a bad way, Mr. Roth. You've touched almost every station of the cross on the road toward becoming a "lifer". The bottom line is that I'd love my car no more or less if it replicated nothing at all - if there had never been an "original". I love my car for what it is, not for what it replicates or what people think of it (I play it down every chance I get, and couldn't care less if people think I'm a fake/flake for driving a "fake").
I also like the Rudenmeisters better than the white-faced Heuer clocks with different faces from different eras. I think what you bought is cool in it's own right, even if nobody had ever put rally clocks on a dash before this one.
You got a link for a set?