One of our customers has charged us with the responsibility to complete some preservation work on his special 904. This particular 904 has only covered 8,600 kilometers of racing and has had one exterior repaint. Otherwise, the car is in original condition. The overall goal of the project is to preserve the original finishes and
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The metal work on the 1955 Continental coupe is almost finished. As the pictures show, this 356 suffered from collision damage on both fenders and on the cowl. Hans used the original front clip and made new fenders and cowl. More restoration updates coming soon on this early Continental Coupe.
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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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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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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The 2011 Dana Point Concours was wet affair, but we prevailed against the challenging weather conditions to take first place in full concours and also won the coveted peoples choice award with a 1952 356 Cabriolet (Fashion Grey/Blue). It was also the debut show for the 1960 Porsche 356B Super 90, which happens to be
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