[For Sale: Car] 1958 Porsche 356A Carrera GS Coupé

[kvinyl]

Amazing, a genuine rhd Irish 356A Carrera GS...

356 Carrera's are considered the among the best of the best of the 356 family with their four-cam engines, GT brakes, etc. Never realised this car lived in Ireland or had the history it did...

http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode=LF11&CarID=r148&fc=0

 

[kongomush]

That's some history, a great read.

It's got to be the ultimate 356.... and it's Irish. Let's hope it stays in the country, doubt it though.

 

[trev]

as I read your thread I was thinking "It must have been someone pretty well-heeled to buy that back in '58" then I read the auction blurb. Makes sense!

some car, some history. It would be nice to see it stay in Ireland but the punters with that kind of money to spend are afraid to spnd it in case NAMA nab them!!

 

[Roadcow]

That's back when Carrera MEANT something. My dad used to help Jim Wellington break apart the roller crankshafts from Carrera II engines.

 

[crazylegs]

Had a pre A 53 RHD for a while , in terrible condition , its still in the area . Was on an old Irish reg though originally went to Scania Vabis in Sweden .
That one up there is a nice car though

 

[oldspeedvws]

AMAZING car! Just thought the engine lid was different on a Carrera. Crazylegs, was that 356 somewhere around a vilage named Hospital?

 

[56oval]

theres 100k + just sitting there in the engine alone.

 

[trev]

I remember seeing a 356 coupe from afar in Hospital once, it was white over black. I presumed at the time the black was to hide the rot...

 

[411 guy]

i saw that 356 in hospital too, maybe 15 years ago. but i was at the owners house this year and it was sold several years ago.

 

[oldspeedvws]

Oh yeah, it sold about 6 - 8 years back I would say. I remember meeting the guy that had it just after it was sold a few months previously. I have NEVER seen a house with more clocks on the walls then there. Guy was nice but real old and required to drag a trolley with an oxygen tank around.

 

[crazylegs]

AMAZING car! Just thought the engine lid was different on a Carrera. Crazylegs, was that 356 somewhere around a vilage named Hospital?

I got it in Dublin , though it may have came from Hospital , I seem to remember a pic of mine in the Irish reg vw thread