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I think there is enough outlaw Speedsters and Coupes around here for some good pics. I also think the outlaw style car is in the minority here.

So... what signifies an outlaw 356 Coupe or Speedster? Does it have to be a wide body? Does it have to have a bumper delete? Rough paint? Lowered?  Trim removed? No hub caps lol. Routy exhaust? Or just the color? ...All of the above. Outlaw = lawless or fugitive.

I can think of my friend JNC's coupe, which has bumpers. But painted in black, the car looks very outlaw. If it was a cream or seafoam color it probably would be anything but outlaw...

Hmmm...

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Pieter van Rossum's black Envemo is definitely an outlaw.  No bumpers, hood straps, matte paint, black faux Rudge wheels with chrome spinners, metal window retention strips.  It's pretty bad-a$$ looking.  It's the matte black one a few screen scrolls down on this page: https://www.google.com/search?...biw=1920&bih=937.  The folks who took the picture and wrote an article on it didn't know it was a replica. 

The blue coupe in the middle of the first row is the inspiration for my Beck Super Coupe.

EDIT: Here's a picture of Piet's car and the Emory that I'm partially copying.

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Lane Anderson posted:

Pieter van Rossum's black Envemo is definitely an outlaw.  No bumpers, hood straps, matte paint, black faux Rudge wheels with chrome spinners, metal window retention strips.  It's pretty bad-a$$ looking.  It's the matte black one a few screen scrolls down on this page: https://www.google.com/search?...biw=1920&bih=937.  The folks who took the picture and wrote an article on it didn't know it was a replica. 

The blue coupe in the middle of the first row is the inspiration for my Beck Super Coupe.

EDIT: Here's a picture of Piet's car and the Emory that I'm partially copying.

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Didn't realize it, but I'm in three of the linked photo's.

Guy with the red shirt sitting in background.  I attended Amelia with Piet.

So Max!  Again, Hagerty Magazine to the rescue with a Jim Cobb article about the "Outlaw" 356:

https://www.hagerty.com/articl...03/30/porsche-corral

Personally, I've always felt that if you're gonna go to all the trouble of thinking about, designing and building an "Outlaw" car (of any make or model) it should have performance to match the look; i.e. it should go like the hammers of Hell.

So here's "Pearl the Outlaw Speedstah" ( new photo bunch coming for the new year, too).  Deleted bumpers, Nerf Bars, wicked bright driving lights, flared fenders with Fuchs rims from a 911 (Gasp!) 140+hp 2,110 and suspension mods to corner like a Banshee while rattling your fillings out.  A genuine, take-no-$#!+ from anyone Speedster that's still understated (some might say, 'Pretty').

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Unless I'm mistaken, Rod Emory's dad (Gary) created the "Outlaw" moniker. What he meant by it was that the cars he built were "Not PCA Approved" hot-rods-- bigger engines, lowered suspensions, trim deletes, etc. But the Emory cars all start with a Porsche donor, and are rendered in steel. They also typically have a "look": low, purposeful, serious. Unless I'm badly mistaken, I can't remember a flared Emory car. There has come to be an Outlaw Orthodox (which is why Rod built the twin-turbo abomination, one would suppose-- to break free of that orthodoxy).

The thing is: Emory Outlaws have come to be accepted into the very inner-circle of the PCA crowd, and are worth as much or more than a similarly restored 356.

On this site we define an outlaw more loosely. I had the beginnings of an opus typed out... but I think that on this site, we're all pretty much Outlaw-- in that we all decided we'd rather have something cool and usable than something rate and valuable.

We are the PCCA Poopieheads, and we are Outlaws.

Gordon Nichols posted:

So Max!  Again, Hagerty Magazine to the rescue with a Jim Cobb article about the "Outlaw" 356:

https://www.hagerty.com/articl...03/30/porsche-corral

Personally, I've always felt that if you're gonna go to all the trouble of thinking about, designing and building an "Outlaw" car (of any make or model) it should have performance to match the look; i.e. it should go like the hammers of Hell.

So here's "Pearl the Outlaw Speedstah" ( new photo bunch coming for the new year, too).  Deleted bumpers, Nerf Bars, wicked bright driving lights, flared fenders with Fuchs rims from a 911 (Gasp!) 140+hp 2,110 and suspension mods to corner like a Banshee while rattling your fillings out.  A genuine, take-no-$#!+ from anyone Speedster that's still understated (some might say, 'Pretty').

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I posed the question of what and outlaw is, and in my mind I fully understand what an outlaw is. It is a fun subject and of course the purists will say blasphemy on 'outlawing' a 356. Two groups of people, although they each can enjoy the other. Purist original or outlaw. Yes an outlaw should be powered up.

I love the outlaw concept, a bad boy 356, and that is exactly what John Steele built for me. Could be an Emory at first glance. Maybe out run an Emory. Who knows, and really I could care less. Mine has fatter tires on alloy wheels, built transmission, geared for utilizing 200 or so HP. Then 200 (plus) or so HP. Spartan interior. Bare wheels, no trim. Riding low. Dark shadowy paint.

I have an outlaw clown car (oh the misery). Mine is pure, simple, and fiberglass lol.  I don't know if I can live with poopiehead (no, you're a poopiehead). heheheh

I'm glad RACDOG did this thread. I'm also glad the infamous JPS did my car. John can build a decent car to your specs. It just depends on what 'your specs' are.

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@C.Baerga- Great looking car! I guess a flared car is just so much closer to 'Outlaw' status to begin with, don't you think? Needs to be lower, though. Just sayin'...

And I agree with Stan- "I think that on this site, we're all pretty much Outlaw-- in that we all decided we'd rather have something cool and usable than something ra(r)e and valuable." Wise words, oh President (for life) of Stanistan!

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