Authentic Restoration Parts For Your Porsche ... Since 1957
Are you up for the challenge? Can you save the hopeless? Stoddard NLA wants to help save the worst 356 this year by giving away $5000 worth of free sheetmetal and $2500 in other parts for one lucky car (and owner!) Inspired by the recent barn-, field- and yes, even lake finds, Stoddard wants to help restore the most challenging 356 project, as chosen by the members of the 356 Registry.
The Final Four voting for our We Can Save Them All contest is now underway and goes through May 31st. You can check out who made it to the final round here.
From the original 34 entries, here are the picks for the Dirty Dozen finalists in the We Can Save Them All contest. Voting on the 356 Registry Project Forum will go from May 8th to May 22.
The top four will be chosen during that time and we'll have a second round of voting that will start on May 22nd and will go to May 31st to determine the overall winner. The overall winner will receive $5000 in Stoddard sheetmetal and an additional $2500 in trim and other finishing parts for their restoration.
We recently got a very nice note from a customer of ours, Dave DiMaria of Vintage Car Works. A 1966 911 that they just restored has been doing well in concours events in Southern California. The pictures look stunning!
Here's the final rundown on the cars that have entered our We Can Save Them All contest
We love customer emails like this one from Dave DiMaria at Vintage Car Works, "I just got back from Amelia. We had a great event and won the Amelia Award for our class—finishing second in sports cars from 1955 to 1959. I am pretty sure that we were the only Porsche in our class, which included Maseratis, Lancias and one-off coachbuilt Fiats, etc."
The SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada has a reputation (rightly earned or not) for being a bit long on the flash and a little light on anything of real substance for the automotive aftermarket. Each year, the Specialty Equipment Manufacturer's Association holds this gigantic convention of all-things-automotive—and it really is a sight to see. We go to meet our customers, vendors and find new connections that will help us restore old Porsches.
What started out as a simple clean-up of the front suspension escalated quickly. We're elbows deep in a complete freshening to make the bottom of the car as beautiful as the top. 
We spent some time on an in-ground chassis dynamometer to make sure that our 1973.5 911T's Bosch CIS fuel injection was performing as it should.
We get lucky on the rust in the front of our 911 and don't have to replace the suspension pan.