356 SPEEDSTER

[petros]

Any one remember this car from the early 60s. Mate of mine is going to be importing a replica built in the U S with all VW bits, rhd and to be called the Speedster. Expect prices to be sub £25k, he's getting a lot of interest , any one got a picture?

[petros]

Sorry, It's the 356 Speedster GTS. peter

[rubystone]

Chesil have been flogging a great one for years - £25k may be a little too strong - especially since someone on PH was talking about selling a genuine one for that money recently.

I'd say a ceiling price of £15k is the max the market would stand

[petros]

I've spoken to the man and he assures me that there,s not one of these in the country, and he'll have the sole distributorship !!

[iguana]

There are quite a few differnt speedster replicas about out there- most are beetle based, using a shortened Bettle chassis, tho not all use a VW powerplant, Alfa & Subaru turbo boxer power plants have also been used.

See here for some links-

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/terry.hill/links.htm


Also the old rear engine Skodas have been used as bases too.



There is even a Metro based speedster replica out there!

Edited to add metro based pic-








>> Edited by iguana on Sunday 12th June 23:00

[DaGinge]

As far as I am aware there is no such thing as the Speedster GTS, but there was a GT model - uprated brakes and engine, but visually identical to the "standard" speedster. As someone above said, www.chesil.co.uk already produce a very well regarded replica, and the "GT" bit is irrelevant as no replica would actually use the old parts - all use uprated engines and brakes.

[petros]

There will be a Speedster GTS in September when he starts bringing them in. Seen a picture and it looks gorgeous.

[craigw]

I once saw a 3.2 carrera engined one with black fuch alloys, looked fantastic. Think it was in 911&Pork world