Porsche 356 Speedster (Replica) A little Trip to run it in
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Well after 10 days and 2,816 miles I thought I would post up some of the highlights of our recent Euro Roadtrip and first few weeks of our new car.
We ordered the car in November with Chesil, the car is a 1957 Porsche 356 Speedster Replica. ( Some will disagree with the Replica bit I know ) but all I can say is the car is awesome and I would not have picked any and I mean any other car to do the below trip.
The car is based of a Beetle chassis with 10.75inches removed from the chassis as per the original 356 speedster then a fibreglass body is added to the chassis.
We customised the car in Gletscherblau (Glacier Blue) which was an original 356 colour with some little other Retro options such as the original Box weave Carpet, Leman style seats, Cream dials, Cream and Blue piped Leather and Blue hood. I also treated myself to the VVG 356 number plate to enhance the look of the age of the car.
We specified the car with some luxury items such as Heated Seat pads and sourced an original 1957 Blaupunkt Hamburg Radio complete with IPod and Amp but most importantly the 2.0 Air-cooled Engine complete with Porsche Fan and High Ratio gearbox which ended up being a godsend for cruising on the trip.
As some of you will know this is very different to my other car the Carbon ’72 Mini C20XE
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...
We ordered the car in November with Chesil, the car is a 1957 Porsche 356 Speedster Replica. ( Some will disagree with the Replica bit I know ) but all I can say is the car is awesome and I would not have picked any and I mean any other car to do the below trip.
The car is based of a Beetle chassis with 10.75inches removed from the chassis as per the original 356 speedster then a fibreglass body is added to the chassis.
We customised the car in Gletscherblau (Glacier Blue) which was an original 356 colour with some little other Retro options such as the original Box weave Carpet, Leman style seats, Cream dials, Cream and Blue piped Leather and Blue hood. I also treated myself to the VVG 356 number plate to enhance the look of the age of the car.
We specified the car with some luxury items such as Heated Seat pads and sourced an original 1957 Blaupunkt Hamburg Radio complete with IPod and Amp but most importantly the 2.0 Air-cooled Engine complete with Porsche Fan and High Ratio gearbox which ended up being a godsend for cruising on the trip.
As some of you will know this is very different to my other car the Carbon ’72 Mini C20XE
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Well having picked the car up the night before Goodwood Festival of Speed I managed to get 800 miles under her belt before the roadtrip which meant it could get a Oil change and a check over by the factory before we started the trip.
So with 900 miles on the clock my wife and I set off for the below, ( It wasn’t all cars Honestly  and she did say she enjoyed the trip)
Apologies for some of the quality of the photos as most were from Iphone but thought you would enjoy them anyway.
I will let the pix do the talking
Our 10 day trip included entailed
Home to Eurotunnel
Calais to Reims
Reims to Avignon
Avignon to Monaco (via Cannes)
Monaco to Maranello
Maranello to Lake Como (couple of days chilling)
Lake Como to Stelvio Pass stay at Bolzano
Bolzano to Munich
Munich to Stuttgart
Stuttgart to Nurburgring
Nurburgring to Home
But along the way we did
Ferrari Museum
Pagani Factory Tour
Lamborghini Museum and Factory tour
BMW Museum
Porsche Museum
Nurburgring
Eurotunnel
Monaco
So with 900 miles on the clock my wife and I set off for the below, ( It wasn’t all cars Honestly  and she did say she enjoyed the trip)
Apologies for some of the quality of the photos as most were from Iphone but thought you would enjoy them anyway.
I will let the pix do the talking
Our 10 day trip included entailed
Home to Eurotunnel
Calais to Reims
Reims to Avignon
Avignon to Monaco (via Cannes)
Monaco to Maranello
Maranello to Lake Como (couple of days chilling)
Lake Como to Stelvio Pass stay at Bolzano
Bolzano to Munich
Munich to Stuttgart
Stuttgart to Nurburgring
Nurburgring to Home
But along the way we did
Ferrari Museum
Pagani Factory Tour
Lamborghini Museum and Factory tour
BMW Museum
Porsche Museum
Nurburgring
Eurotunnel
Monaco
Maranello
To exaggerate the car side of things we stayed in the Maranello Village Ferrari hotel with the Lemans, Monza, GTO etc etc names buildings and the fantastic wall art on in the rooms this was great value for money aswell.
Ferrari
As its August and most of Italy close down Ferrari was closed but the Museum is always open, this was good but a bit Franchised almost just like visiting the Ferrari shop.
To exaggerate the car side of things we stayed in the Maranello Village Ferrari hotel with the Lemans, Monza, GTO etc etc names buildings and the fantastic wall art on in the rooms this was great value for money aswell.
Ferrari
As its August and most of Italy close down Ferrari was closed but the Museum is always open, this was good but a bit Franchised almost just like visiting the Ferrari shop.
Pagani
Well Having hired a Zonda for our Wedding car this had to be done and I can honestly say this was the most worthwhile bit of the trip with everything and everybody being very accessible which was a shock to such a small company.
Although we were not allowed to take any pix in the factory the cars out front were great but seeing first 2 customer Huayra Being built and also seeing a one off 720bhp Zonda aswell as the last customer Zonda in a Purple lacquered Carbon this was great to see.
Some of Mr Pagani’s first creations, models, Bike and Race car.
Well Having hired a Zonda for our Wedding car this had to be done and I can honestly say this was the most worthwhile bit of the trip with everything and everybody being very accessible which was a shock to such a small company.
Although we were not allowed to take any pix in the factory the cars out front were great but seeing first 2 customer Huayra Being built and also seeing a one off 720bhp Zonda aswell as the last customer Zonda in a Purple lacquered Carbon this was great to see.
Some of Mr Pagani’s first creations, models, Bike and Race car.
Lamborghini
Lamborghini was great both the museum and Factory tour were good to see especially with the New Aventador coming along the line aswell as the Gallardo’s which was a shock to see just how many components are crated in from Audi just for assembly.
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Lake Como
Couple of days chilling no driving just boats
Lamborghini was great both the museum and Factory tour were good to see especially with the New Aventador coming along the line aswell as the Gallardo’s which was a shock to see just how many components are crated in from Audi just for assembly.
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Lake Como
Couple of days chilling no driving just boats
Stuttgart
Hotel we chose was the Alder in Asperg which I hear is a Porsche GB chosen hotel which continued the Porsche theme as you can see with the Ferry Porsche signed room complete with Boxter engine sounds on the Hi-fi and the fantastic Porsche Key, gloves and Map printed Duvet cover.
Hotel we chose was the Alder in Asperg which I hear is a Porsche GB chosen hotel which continued the Porsche theme as you can see with the Ferry Porsche signed room complete with Boxter engine sounds on the Hi-fi and the fantastic Porsche Key, gloves and Map printed Duvet cover.
Nurburgring
Awesome yet Very Scary Experience but with our 13minute 45seconds lap time I think that was a tick in the box and move on.
The car behaved its self apart from not being able to cope with the 39degrees in Italy where it melted a steering coupling but thankfully a local VW dealer with 3 VW based kit cars in the show room was on hand to help. ( Honestly it couldnt have been planned better)
What a Way to run a Car in………..
P.S. we didn’t even take a Sat Nav.
Now where to next??
Awesome yet Very Scary Experience but with our 13minute 45seconds lap time I think that was a tick in the box and move on.
The car behaved its self apart from not being able to cope with the 39degrees in Italy where it melted a steering coupling but thankfully a local VW dealer with 3 VW based kit cars in the show room was on hand to help. ( Honestly it couldnt have been planned better)
What a Way to run a Car in………..
P.S. we didn’t even take a Sat Nav.
Now where to next??
Edited by DougieMc on Sunday 11th September 20:01
.Brilliant, amazing and inspiring! Thank you for posting this, made my evening.
The 356 is in my top 2 cars and one of only 2 I have a model car of, the other being the Ferrari 355.
That trip looks perfect and something I would love to do. In fact it might just have inspired me to do the same trip if I can get the other half to pack light enough, she's an over packer of the highest order. I think that is my perfect car and destination trip and can't imagine how it could possibly be any better, totally jealous but total respect to you for doing it.
It's also good to know the Chesil is reliable enough to do a trip like that, and it didn't look out of place anywhere. A timeless classic.
The 356 is in my top 2 cars and one of only 2 I have a model car of, the other being the Ferrari 355.
That trip looks perfect and something I would love to do. In fact it might just have inspired me to do the same trip if I can get the other half to pack light enough, she's an over packer of the highest order. I think that is my perfect car and destination trip and can't imagine how it could possibly be any better, totally jealous but total respect to you for doing it.
It's also good to know the Chesil is reliable enough to do a trip like that, and it didn't look out of place anywhere. A timeless classic.
ha,ha, next, i think that trip will take some beating 
i take my hat off to ya, looked just about 1 of the best road trips you could possibly do.
your car looks awesome, and fits right in at monaco. i take it to get across into italy, you went via the ventimiglia??? an awesome route, that i even still love driving in the truck, let alone a car like yours.
i was lucky enough to do the ferrari museum 2 years ago, as a tour i was on, had a couple of rest days in bologna, so it had to be done, loved it, and drove a f430 convertible whilst there
didn't get a chance to do the lamborghini or pagani museum though, they both looked fantastic.
i like the bmw museum, been a couple of times when we do gigs over the road in the arena or stadium, some cracking racing cars in the museum. still got the porsche museum to do, but hopefully my next tour will get us near there
did you have a fave of the museums you visited, would be quite hard to pick 1 i guess. the aventador looked great, currently my fave car, like i said, top marks to you on a top trip.
i take my hat off to ya, looked just about 1 of the best road trips you could possibly do.
your car looks awesome, and fits right in at monaco. i take it to get across into italy, you went via the ventimiglia??? an awesome route, that i even still love driving in the truck, let alone a car like yours.
i was lucky enough to do the ferrari museum 2 years ago, as a tour i was on, had a couple of rest days in bologna, so it had to be done, loved it, and drove a f430 convertible whilst there
didn't get a chance to do the lamborghini or pagani museum though, they both looked fantastic.
i like the bmw museum, been a couple of times when we do gigs over the road in the arena or stadium, some cracking racing cars in the museum. still got the porsche museum to do, but hopefully my next tour will get us near there
did you have a fave of the museums you visited, would be quite hard to pick 1 i guess. the aventador looked great, currently my fave car, like i said, top marks to you on a top trip.
chilistrucker said:
did you have a fave of the museums you visited, would be quite hard to pick 1 i guess. the aventador looked great, currently my fave car, like i said, top marks to you on a top trip.
Pagani was definately the best part of the trip as it showed the detail that goes into them.Lambo was an eye opener as it was the same as our (Vauxhall Van plant in Luton ) which was a big surprise but the museum and cars made up for it.
Museum wise I would say BMW just beat Porsche because of the amount of money spent on it but Porsche allowed the cars to do the talking
poing said:
It's also good to know the Chesil is reliable enough to do a trip like that, and it didn't look out of place anywhere. A timeless classic.
Yep and I know there are many out there (and especially on PH) will say its a fake but they are so so prefect as a Replica that it takes someone who knows what they are talking about to tell its fake.Yes its Fibreglass but the power to weight meant I could cruise along 80-90mph at 3500rpm which was mega.
And I know its a good replica when today at PH Sunday service I see people looking round and the only way they confirm its a Replica is by checking the Tax disc ( Smart B@57ard ) :-)
Magic919 said:
Great post, Dougie. Was good to see you and the car at MBW earlier.
You did ask for photos hahahaaaSo Photos you got
Yes Im no Photographer and I dont have a big Lens ;-) but it wasnt about that
And cheers for the tips for the Museums and the Trip Tony
Good to meet up today
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