The men who mind the million mile Porsche | Drive it!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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Californian Guy Newmark has been driving his 1964 Porsche 356C for close to half a century. He's put over 997-thousand miles on the odometer, with some help from German-born mechanic Fred Busche.
Half a Century, not half a decade - he and his father before him have owned the car since they bought it from the original owner, who only owned it for 3 months. Thanks for the video! Love this story! Makes me want to buy a newer 911 and create a similar story over the next 50 years. :-)
I was gunna say, a million miles in 5 years seems like quite a lot of driving! I also love these stories.
You know that's a clean engine and bay when the mechanic doesn't even take off his cashmere sweater when he works on it.
I think he miss spoke at the beginning" driving around for half a decade" I think he meant half a century 50 years , not 5 years
You're probably right. Thank you for pointing it out.
I thought the same thing lol thanks
What a beautiful car and two lovely men.
Workmanship that is rare today,both man and machine.
TBF, even the new Porsches have way above average build quality compared to their biggest rivals
I like as Fred start to speak German taking care of a Porsche. Porsche speaks German for me also. God bless all the tree of them:) Keep running !
Just wonderful what a dream car and better than any modern car.
As the owner of similarly loved cars (a 1991 Honda, and a 1992 Lexus), which I also came to love in university, this video is car goals. Because I split the driving between 2 cars, though, I probably won't reach a million before running out of time. lol
Beautiful 356, particularly this well looked after example, but *Yikes!* How much is a replacement crank for a 1964 Porsche 356?!?!
Probably expensive, but think about it this way, he hasn't been buying/leasing a new car every 2-5 years for decades and decades... in the end, he's probably saved a couple hundred grand over his lifetime.
Store shops sell them for $900-1300 for german crank or a billet crank for $ 2000 and $700 for a Chinese one which are good for a street car but some folks "racer guys"say there junk 🙄. I've got lucky a couple times and bought some German cranks for 400 each at sweapmeets if a seller just wants to get rid of his vw/Porsche parts so it really depends how you look and who's selling for cheap ..bc there are deals out there and guys who just want to make a quick buck and sell for cheap ...
I have a question about your filter magnet that's mounted on your oil canister. I'm curious because I have a 1968 912. I've seen other photos (from various vendors) where the magnet is mounted to the oil filter itself - how effective is it to mount it to the oil canister housing? I'd prefer to just mount it to the housing but want it to be as effective as possible. Congratulations on a great car and great driver who is obviously so conscientious!
How many miles now?
10,000 miles
You're not doing that in a Lamborghini I'm sure