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Wrapped the 911 Targa with Hello Kitty and Kuromi

January 16, 2025

Behold! My Sanrio wrapped Porsche 911: And the other side: It’s split down the middle so that both sides transition to different colors front to back: So, how does something like this happen? We’ve had great results with Purple Flare Wraps doing our Speedster replica in metallic pink, Defender in black camo, and the base Gulf blue wrap for our Graffiti Gulf 356. I sent them my goal for the 911: I wanted to give the car a split personality. I wanted one side red, the other side black, with geometric shapes breaking it up like shattering glass. On the…

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Graffiti Paint Job on My 356

May 23, 2024

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Last night, Doctor Ziso painted my 1964 Porsche 356 SC: To the purists screaming at their screen, relax, there’s precedence for this: Janis Joplin custom painted her SC too. Anyhoo, lemme explain how we got to this point. About a year ago, I bought this 1964 Porsche 356 SC from a man in the San Francisco area. His wife had owned it since the 1970s, daily drove it just like any other car, and put about 145K miles on it. In the 1990s, she bought a convertible, parked this SC in the garage, and … never drove it again. It…

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My Porsche 356 Lives Again

January 6, 2024

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Almost a year ago, I bought a 1964 Porsche 356 SC that had been hidden away in a garage for a couple of decades. The mechanical work is finally done, and it got delivered back home this week: I took it to Gaudin Classic Porsche (Instagram), a phenomenal shop here in Vegas that does beautiful work. Because the car had sat for decades with no prep work ahead of time, there were a few parts that had to be replaced, period. The tires, shocks, and brakes had to be redone. The fuel tank had quite a bit of rust inside…

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Doug DeMuro Reviewed My 944 Turbo.

August 30, 2022

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After I bought my 1988 Porsche 944 Turbo off Cars & Bids, I contacted Doug to see if he wanted to review it. The video just went live: Doug remarks a lot in there about the car’s amazing condition and originality, and that’s certainly one of the big things that sold me on it. He sums it up with, “This is an exceptional car. It drives well, it’s fun, it’s exciting, and the Turbo version is pretty fast, and I just think there’s a lot to love here.” I agree!

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Bought a Porsche Speedster Replica, Sabine.

May 31, 2022

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The 1950s Porsche 356 Speedster is iconic. From James Dean to Top Gun to Doc Hollywood to Justin Bieber’s Mistletoe, the beautiful German bathtub has stood for decades as shorthand for cool. Originally Porsche’s cheapest, simplest model intended for racing, today its pure form just screams cool. Porsche only made a few thousand examples. Now, the few that remain trade hands for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sadly, most of them aren’t driven and appreciated – they’re locked up in pristine storage while they financially appreciate. (Matt Hummel is one of the rare exceptions who drives the heck out of his 356s.) Fortunately,…

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Upgraded Helmut, My Porsche 911 Targa

September 5, 2020

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It’s been a year since I bought Helmut, my 2019 Porsche 911 Targa, so I gave him some electronic birthday presents. I bought him off the dealer lot, so I didn’t have the chance to customize it during the purchase process. He had the Bose stereo, and it would be fine for most folks – especially given that the acoustics in an open-top car like a Targa aren’t great anyway, However, I’m really picky about my audio, and I like to play it loud without distortion. (No, not with other people around – just on the open road.) However, I…

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Epic Life Quest: Level 13 Completed.

October 29, 2019

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Childhood dream achieved When I made the decision to stop having consulting employees, a big part of that was being able to be flat out gone for longer periods of time. In a tiny 4-5 person business, it’s challenging (but by no means impossible) for 2 of the team members (Erika & I) to simply disappear for a month at a time. We could have done it by adapting how the company worked, I know, but that’s a matter for that other blog post – this is about my Epic Life Quest, and here, the company change manifested itself in…

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Thoughts on Visiting the Porsche Factory

January 30, 2018

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Fantastic sculpture outside the Porsche factory in Stuttgart Erika and I took a short vacation in Germany last week to check off a few items on her bucket list and my Epic Life Quest. I drove a Mercedes E-class on the Autobahn, visited the Porsche Museum, and toured their factory in Stuttgart. The Porsche museum was lovely, and it really crystallized to me that I’m a Porsche guy. I’ve admired so many of their cars through my life. I wouldn’t really bother blogging about that though – it’s a museum, it’s got cars, they’re cool – but the factory tour…

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