1955 Porsche Speedster
CMC "C"
Built and driven by me!
It's a CMC "C" Porsche Speedster Replica. The "C" stands for a fender flairs wide body. I took the kit and built it on a shortened pan from a 1969 VW Type 1. I ended up taking everything off the pan and either I replaced, rebuilt or cleaned and brought back to new condition every piece you could find. Literally every piece! I started to build the kit in 1987 and finished it in 1988. It started out as a VW, then became a kitcar, and then when it hit the street it was a Porsche. Well, a Porsche Speedster Replica anyway..... The first year it was finished, I placed it in ten VW car shows. I received 12 awards for it, Nine 1st Place awards, a 2nd Place award, a Long Distance Award, when I took it to Oregon for a show, and also a Best Engineered Award.
It is now running a 2110cc Type 1 VW engine that was balanced and blueprinted. The top of the windshield is only 43 inches from the ground and clearance under the pan/engine has to be watched constantly. Three inches and you are scraping something. It wasn't too long after I built the 2110cc engine with a large capacity oil pan that I ran over a "nipple" in the road while I was accelerating. The combination made for instant removal of most of the bottom end of the oil pan.
I am now in the process of changing to VDO Heritage - Gold gauges. And it's time to redo the carpeting and seats. I don't think a replica can ever really be finished....
The only bad thing about the 2110cc..... is you always have to watch your....
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Here's some pics of my Speedster
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