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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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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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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The Ault Park Concours is a fantastic event that takes place in Cincinnati Ohio every year. Road Scholars concours prepped two cars for the event, a 959 and Carrera Abarth GTL. The 959 won 1st in class and the Carrera Abarth GTL earned the Howard Rapp trophy (Best Porsche). The competition was impressive and diverse.
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Here are some fun pictures of our client’s driving their 550 for the first time that we acquired/serviced for them. It’s always great to see cars of this caliber being used and enjoyed.
