One of our customer’s has charged us with the responsibility of completing some preservation work on his special 904. This particular 904 has only covered 8,600 Kilometers of racing and one exterior repaint. Otherwise, everything on the car is in original condition. We are dissembling the entire car and cleaning everything and completing a complete mechanical service.
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Road Scholars hosted a restoration tech seminar for the local PCA Club on December 3, 2011. The goal of the seminar was to explain the specifics of excuting concours restoration work. We used various restoration projects in the shop to show each critical stage of the restoration process. It’s our sincere goal to perform the
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Cam Ingram and the Road Scholars Restoration Team were featured in an article in the December 2011 issue of Excellence magazine. Read an excerpt below: “Grooming the next generation of craftsmen and enthusiasts is a concern in many hobbies. Naturally, many wonder who will emerge as the leaders in the vintage Porsche world for the
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The Road Scholars Restoration Team was recent featured in the Money Matters section of the Triangle Business Journal. Read a small excerpt from the article below: “Cam Ingram and Kevin Watts are in love with the same lady. And she’s a beauty. “They get along, though, because this lady is the Porsche automobile – an
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The Porsche Race Car Classic was simply the most impressive collection of significant Porsche early race cars ever assembled. There were 11 of the 20 Abarths present and every aluminum race car model represented. The organizaton and attention to detail of this show was simply awesome.
Here are some pictures from the Display tent and from the cockpit of a 550-073 Spyder on Laguna Secca during the historic parade laps. We were responsible for eight special Porsche’s for three different customers during Rennsport and the Porsche Race Car Classic. It was by far the best Rennsport and more like a Porsche
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The phone has been ringing all day from friends and competitors asking about what going on at the shop with the BIG Porsche month of October around the corner…. Well here are the pictures of some the prep work being completed for Rennsport and The Race Car Classic…. It’s almost reminiscent of that famous picture
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This was a two year project and it’s difficult to select just a few pictures that show the depth of work involved. There were also countless hours of travel to inspect other Gmunds and assorted archives as well. Not surprisingly, there were many minute differences among all the examples that we inspected. With the exceptions
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The Orange 1958 Speedster that we finished restoring a year ago won 1st place in the Porsche display at this year 2011 Kirkland Concours. The Kirkland was a nice concours event to attend after the pressure of Pebble Beach and we enjoyed meeting some serious car nuts while there.
On August 21, 2011 Road Scholars Restorations won 1st in Class at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours. After a two-year restoration project for Hans Peter Porsche, Road Scholars debuted the 1949 Porsche Gmund Coupe to take First in Class in the Class O-2 Postwar Sports Closed. See complete list of winners here: Pebble Beach Concours
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