Kevin and Cam feel privileged to be co-sponsoring Fred Veitch’s attack on the Peak this year. “Fast Freddy,” as Kevin calls him, is a true gentleman and friend. We are going to take time out of our Concours Competition Schedule this summer to watch Fred tackle the course and accomplish one of his major bucket
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Road Scholars recently teamed up with Peter Millar, a luxury apparel company, on their Fall 2012 catalog. Road Scholars supplied a 1968 Porsche 911 and a 1972 BMW R75/5 motorcycle, which added a classic touch to their already sophisticated brand and upcoming catalog. “Peter Millar was lucky enough to have access to the incredible collection
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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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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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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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The Carmel Concours on the Avenue 2011 was staged Tuesday, August 16th on the downtown streets of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. This was our first time attending this Concours and it was over the top in every way. It was extremely well organized and featured first class judges. We brought three customer cars for the Concours
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