The abandoned Porsche, and more ghost town stuff...

[husker boxster]

How much downforce does the lawn edging ground effects side skirts generate?

Should I add some to the CSS? I think I have a roll in the basement.

[Retroman1969]

I wondered about that! LOL!
I first thought the "skirts" were hiding rust holes, but I examined as closely as I could and couldn't 'see' any evidence of rust holes. Then I thought "is that supposed to be for.... aerodynamics??"
Which one is true I don't know.
I'm not sure it's even for sale yet. Haven't heard from the owner but he's supposedly out of town. It's worth a follow up visit if I don't hear from him in awhile.

[BruceH]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

When you really look at it, and judging from the debris under the car (no tire digging, same leaves/branches as surroundings), it has been placed there a few months ago if not only a few weeks. Looks as if the owner knows all about 'back yard finds' and wanted to advertise the car as such. Sale tactics!

Owner clearly knows its value. Me think he is waiting for the Garage Monkeys to turn up with their camcorder crew

No doubt! I am sure with a little elbow grease, a clay bar, polish and wax it will look great!

[Porsche9]

All the televised auctions out of Arizona in the coming weeks makes sure pretty much everyone thinks their car is worth big bucks. When I first moved to Arizona about 10 years ago I used to go to some of the big auctions just because you could see so many great cars and talk to their owners. Now it's become more about making money and less about the hobby. In one way its good as it drives the restoration of cars that may of otherwise disappeared but on the other hand the cars have become out of reach for many.

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by BruceH

No doubt! I am sure with a little elbow grease, a clay bar, polish and wax it will look great!

Oh absolutely Captain, can picture that real easy. You forgot the truck load of duct tape tho... to patch the inside of the engine of course.

Can't you spot those relics from up the sky in your 747 jet airplane? You might want to keep an eye open for these sort of things... you'd become rich in an instant I'm sure You have a pretty serious advantage over others for that you, no?

[BruceH]

I'll get right on that Fred!

[Nine8Six]

Just intercom to your passengers that bad weather ahead forces you to make a small detour and roam over Arizona for a few minutes... Intel says that they are many there. The expansive ones I mean! If not then blame P9 lolll

What a team, amazing forum

[The Radium King]

I know that there are folks that scour google earth looking for the silhouettes of specific vintage airplanes (ie, dc3's); perhaps the same can be done for old tarped porsches - is you ghost town on google street view?

[VGM911]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Oh absolutely Captain, can picture that real easy. You forgot the truck load of duct tape tho... to patch the inside of the engine of course.

Can't you spot those relics from up the sky in your 747 jet airplane? You might want to keep an eye open for these sort of things... you'd become rich in an instant I'm sure You have a pretty serious advantage over others for that you, no?

Now THAT'S what I call an excellent photoshop job.....undetectable to my eye.

[Porsche9]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Just intercom to your passengers that bad weather ahead forces you to make a small detour and roam over Arizona for a few minutes... Intel says that they are many there. The expansive ones I mean! If not then blame P9 lolll

What a team, amazing forum

Hands off Arizona. I'm already using a Cessna 172 for my search.

[tlc356sc]

The T-6 version of the B is cool and better than the T-5 because the gas goes in without the hood having to go up. They make a lot of patch panels but you probably are asking about the rear wheel openings and I don't know about those. Look up engine number in Porsche 356 and 912 Serial Number Reference Site
The bigger rust issues will be underneath.
Good luck. Tom

[Retroman1969]

Thanks for the extra info guys!
I really want to crawl under that thing to see the real condition of the frame.
Nice job on adding the blue one! If only it could look like that again.

[dan87951]

Best part is I bet the owner has no idea what its worth!

[tlc356sc]

But maybe the owner saw Foose's "Overhaulin" when he re-made this B model. Of course Foose converted the rear window to an oval and went back to the fifties for beehive tail lights.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bt1Qq_jCMAAf2E9.jpg&imgrefurl=https://twitter.com/chipfoose/status/494640238908956673&h=399&w=600&tbnid=RueDm11broY3oM:&docid=aSor4Cj-BdVu4M&hl=en&ei=832rVouQNcvHmwGKl6RY&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwjL1YmVpM_KAhXL4yYKHYoLCQsQMwgeKAEwAQ

[GTA_G20]

So depressed to see the hosting site for the pics shut down

Nevertheless cool story

[rusty69911]

its clear on street view dated 2008 in the front yard, must have moved it after that

[Retroman1969]

Wow, now that's interesting! He's had it a few years then. How did you get an older street view shot like that? Is there a Google Maps archive?

[78F350]

Cool thread.
The street-view imagery is dated in the top left corner. If there is a date range of imagery available, there is a clock symbol that you can click on to view the history. Only Feb 2008 of this is available:


This reminds me of a guy I bought a Honda engine from about 5 years ago. He had an extensive Rusty VW collection mostly in barns and out buildings. I don't think that he actually did much with them other than buy them and store them. Even though I was just there to pick up the engine, we spent over an hour looking over his collection - until his wife called him in for dinner. I got a great deal on the engine, but his VW stuff was highly valued and not for sale.
Looked up his address in streetview:

[mikesz]

Rear wing on the Mopars was aluminium. It could support the weight of pit crew.

[Retroman1969]

That house is still in the unfinished state that it appears to have been 9 years ago!
I think I need to visit there again instead of waiting for a reply, with this level of procrastination!