My new car!

what is that to the right of it

Another coupe. Greg has a few coupe bodies previously made. He’s not actively making coupe bodies and he’s not currently taking orders for coupe. A little groveling got me the coupe. This will be my 4th Vintage in 24 years. Can’t wait to go out and see the new (old) shop. I ordered my first Spyder in 1998 out of that shop. Well Greg’s shop was actually in the current upholstery garage. Greg had a little piece of the building. The majority of it was the old Vintage Speedsters.

Wait, WHAT?!?

@550 Phil - you've been talking for months about having a Convertible D built by Carey and company. As recently as last week, you were talking about copying the blue Emory outlaw roadster. Now, here's a coupe body in California you're claiming as your own.

There's a story here (I'm guessing you took over somebody's abandoned project), but this is exactly the place to tell it, and I can't wait to hear it.

Dish, man.

That Emory is actually a Pre A Coupe as is this replica. I reserve the right to be fickle. Just went in a different direction. Almost 2 years ago when I talked to Greg he told me he’d save me a place in line. He told me I’d be calling and he was right. Carey was a true professional allowing me to bow out. I think there are plenty of folks behind me in the queue that are happy to move up. Greg has built me three cars. He’s been my friend since 1998. It’s meant to be. And I’m building that Emory with a beastly Pat Downs Type 4.

This is the car I’m copying. I have no pride. I also copied my Spyder.

It's interesting that the louvers in the back are inverted.

There’s a lot of interesting things that car has that mine will not have. Just trying to get it close. Hope we can do a roll bar. Using Porsche grey black non metallic paint inside and out. All black inside except for distressed leather Red Oxide Satin seats. Going to stay with 3.44 R&P 4 speed.  

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That's going to be spectacular!

Gotcha' Phil. You're right - I was thinking of somebody else (me?) with the blue car. You've been consistent with your desire for the gray coupe.

I know you've had a million of Greg's cars over the years, and I know how you love your Spyder. I'll be anxiously watching your choices with this one.

The big T4 sounds like my perfect engine.

@Alan Merklin posted:

That's going to be spectacular!

@Alan Merklin

Al, pics aren't showing in either one of your new for sale threads....which I can't tell you there since it doesn't allow comments

On the Emory, I like the marriage of the modern touch screen with the old school buttons like the Retrosound radios. What is the trimmed screen to the right of it?

That is a real Telefunken radio , the piece to the right of the radio is where the original ashtray would be  ,

I was actually thinking about doing a double din touch screen stereo with wireless CarPlay in the radio cut out but I’m not sure it will fit. Then have a leather covered plate to cover the stereo at car shows.

It’s the same size hole as a Split window VW bug ,  so originally the VW has a flat panel or a clock panel with (I think) a 100 mm clock.

there are radio panels on eBay.de that take a regular 1960s-70s  Blaupunkt radios

There's a guy in the Boston area 356 club who found a barn find Pre-A coupe and rather than leave it alone, as he does with the few barn finds he comes across, he had this one professionally restored by Meister Engineering in New Hampshire.  They debuted it at German Car Day in Boston in 2015 and it has since sold in the low-mid six figures.  Thought you'd like to see it.

He got all upset that I parked my lowly "replica" right behind him, but the guy's pretty forgettable, to be honest.  Meister did a fabulous job on it, though.

Thanks for sharing Gordon. I’ve got to think of something cool to do with that space. Preferably with a stereo or GPS or both.

Ther's a guy on FB in the UK that sells a variety of styles and mounting plates.

The faceplate of the Telefunken is where the magic is, and it's not all that special. I'd think you could just make something (laser-cut stainless?) that would accept a single DIN head with knobs (like a retrosound) in the traditional place, then cover the top (speaker) area with speaker fabric. If you made that panel removable, you could integrate a phone mount behind it, and just use your smarty-pants phone as your Car-play display (after removing the speaker fabric panel).

... but you do you. I'm interested to see what you come up with.