Porsche 356 Outlaw?

Started by Max, February 20, 2022, 05:45:15 PM

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Max

Was in Hawkes Bay this wekeend, and saw a 356 'Outlaw'....wasn't even aware there was such a thing!

Was quite taken with it actually, and am wondering if anyone here knows anything of this car? Metallic Grey, with stripes in the 3 colours of the German flag, lenthwise down the middle of the car? Unfortunately didn't get the rego. :-[

80 Vert

There's a really amazing story behind that car.
2019 Jetta GLI (USA)
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

Pristle

https://www.emorymotorsports.com/

The site makes for quite some reading. Not just their site, but on others that refer to them.

Max

Quote from: 80 Vert on February 20, 2022, 09:53:53 PM
There's a really amazing story behind that car.

Cheers Vert....are you able to share any of it, please?

80 Vert

The car was involved in a crash and rolled over severely damaging the body and roof, roof collapsed inwards in the roll over.
Everyone that looked at it said forget it, just get another one (as if that's easy lol)
But not a highly skilled panel beater friend of mine, he stripped the body to bare metal and set about repairing the body.
He repaired the body over the course of a year, nothing replaced just good old school metal work to get things back to where they were.
Just amazing to see the transformation, I used to see it every time I was in his shop slowly but surely coming back to life.
The owner at that point wanted to do the outlaw and wanted widened fenders so they ended up sectioning the fenders by welding in a pie
shaped piece of sheet metal, the body now no longer tapers at the front or rear, you'd only really notice if it were sitting next to an original.
Much better look than just flaring the wheel arches in my opinion, most would never know.
They painted it in the silver with the German flag stripes and reassembled the whole thing saving another rare 356.
2019 Jetta GLI (USA)
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

Max


Thanks Vert...appreciate that.

It actually looked like it was a bit of a weapon, rather than the usual 'quaint' look of a 356. Any idea if it has a non-standard engine?

Cheers

80 Vert

Has a built engine yes.
2019 Jetta GLI (USA)
2003 Jetta Coupe soon to be R36TT
1991 Golf GTI 2.0 TSI swapped
1963 Type 34 Karmann Ghia, turbo 2.0
1990 Porsche 964 911 Carrera 4
1980 1303 Beetle vert, under restoration

Max


Thanks......it looked the business.

Any rough idea what it would be worth?