What do you do to mark your faithful Speedster turning 70?
You might give it an oil change or a wash and polish. But owners Mark and Kerry from England wanted to mark the day, Sunday August 3rd, by taking their Speedster back to Stuttgart, where it was ‘born’ 70 years before.
Opposite the amazing Porsche Museum is the original Reutter factory, still there, but now surrounded by a modern Porsche factory set-up. These original Reutter buildings are now where Recaro seats are made.
Through the Grundmanns in Germany, who are avid Porsche and VW collectors and organisers of the HO26 show next year, Mark and Kerry were able to park their car outside the museum while they enjoyed a private tour of the museum’s workshop, its amazing archive and library, and then a guided tour of the museum that taught even Porsche fan Mark lots of new details of Porsche’s early history.
To round the trip off, they stayed at the V8 Hotel, a mecca for car fans about 30 minutes from Zuffenhausen.
The Porsche is very original, having survived 70 years without any obvious welding repairs. The car is maintained by Mark, using Stoddard’s range of parts supplied through a UK distributor.
If anyone recognizes chassis number 80318 from its time in the USA, Mark and Kerry would love to know its back story and how it has survived so well. You can email us at parts@stoddard.com if you have any backstory on this beautiful septuagenarian.
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