Porsche 356A Full Review and Drive: An Owner’s Perspective!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2017
- Hi All, This is a very special episode! Today we review our 1958 Porsche 356 T2 A Normal Cabriolet: Miss Eva! This car is featured in many of our episodes so we want to give you an in-depth, comprehensive Owner’s Perspective on this car. This car has been in the family since 1961 and we have had stewardship for the last seven years. The 356 is an incredible fun and useful car that has real presence on the road and is an absolute joy to drive. We run you through the interior, take you for a drive and go through some of the neat technical bits on the car.
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I'm german, and it makes me happy to see how much you appreciate and enjoy german engineered cars from the good old times. And I'm deeply impressed because of your knowledge and DIY skills. It's a real pleasure for me to watch your great videos. And I like the patina of the 365. Your car collection is so nice and well selected. - Greetings from Germany. 👍👍👍
If you are new to our channel, please check out our four part series on our family owned 356. Thanks.
When I first saw this car, I thought you just put down a huge chunk of cash and this was the way you got it, ready to go. After seeing your 4 part series on how you got it; wow what a long journey you went through to get it. I hope it lasts your entire lives in your hands. You really deserve it. I had a 61 Normal coupe in 1969 but blew the motor. Sold it to a friend who rolled it over not long after. At the time, the $350 I got for the car seemed like a good deal. Oh well, sure wish I still had it! The last one I had was a 77 911S Targa. Gone now, paid for my daughter's wedding.
Aw. My dad had a used 1962 356 Super 90 Coupe that he sold to put the down payment on the house they first bought shortly after I was born. Rumor has it they put me on the back car shelf in a box for about a year when they drove the car. Anyhow, that car was sold and the next owner blew the engine. Just reminded me of it. You will get another special car if you want one. Heidi
Couldn't help but chuckle at the Le Mans start. In my head all I could hear was the opening sequence to Speed Racer. Thank you for keeping the tube radio in the car. It is so nice to see original equipment radios like that still in use. I love these cars, and would kill to have a coupe. Thank you for sharing such a special vehicle.
+Tim Gossett I know, what a riot, right? Heidi
Absolutely fascinating review. I learned so much about this car that's been on my bucket list for a long time.
Funny how the old cars are so practicable. Not in every way but amazing...but then Dr Ferdinand Porsche was a genius. Love your videos!
What a unique channel!
I really love your car and the way you express your enthusiasm for Porsche. Become a big fan of your channel from today.
Le Mans start demonstration was the icing on the cake - another great video H&F!
Fantastic insight into this sweet classic. Thanks for sharing. Its amazing that I have been fond of the 356 for all these years and yet never knew about the idiosyncrasies and details about it.
I owned a 1959A Couple back in the 80's. I love watching your videos!
What a lovely review of an icon car. Just stunning car, which I dream of owning. Great video, thanks so much for putting it together. Keep up the great work, lovely ladies!
Great job. Best review I have seen in a long time. Thanks
Hi Guys - Thanx 4 the interesting, instructive video. Many 356 owners have been around the block more than once and are very knowledgeable. 😁 Many like myself have not and we very much appreciate the thoughtful detail, the relevant presentations and the friendly lighthearted style. 👍
Heidi and Franny this is your best video ever! Thanks for sharing.
Dan Knox wow. Well, glad you really liked it. Heidi
I was amazed at how well the car drove, and the way the door closed was pure quality.
Awesome video! Love all of your videos actually. Beautiful Cabriolet.
+CarPlanet com thank you! And thank you from Eva. Heidi
I love your channel. Keep it going for us fans.
I am HOOKED on your videos. They make me smile and are such a breath of fresh air compared to all the other car vids out there. Thank you thank you!!
daskidmit wow. Thank you. We will try to bring you more soon. Heidi
A great walk-around from all perspectives. I learnt loads. Thanks so much.
964tractorboy Yea! Glad you liked it! F
Wow that opening shot is super amazing!
Astonishing Vibrations thanks!
Another great video ladies, thank you. One minuscule nit to pick - it is usually a good idea to tether the fire extinguisher with a metal strap as opposed to combustible cloth strap (unless its been treated I suppose).
Great Video, I am in the process of purchasing a 1957 356A myself and learned so much more about these beauties WOW !!
Cool. That is awesome.
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to put it together
What a beautiful little car, love your Le Mans start and love your valve radio, many thanks for sharing 👍
+ThePhilandPam glad you enjoyed! The Le Mans start was fun. Heidi
I'm an old Hot Rod guy with a few air/oil cooled cars & bikes. LOVE the kick-ass attention to detail.
Thank you for the great tip on the gas cap leak using JB Weld
It will never cease to amaze me that this car is from Massachusetts I live just outside Boston and I have a 69 Karmann Ghia trust me I know what old Massachusetts cars look like! That car is a gem so happy it’s at such a great home!
Love love love Franny's Le Mans start! very efficient!
Your video brought home how much I miss my 1955 "Bent Window" cabriolet, my first sports car. Fortunately not my last. Nice work you two!
Thank you. If you want a fun 356 story, I recommend watching the four parts of Eva’s story. The car has been in my family since 1961. Heidi
As one of only a few people who had the honor of driving this wonderful 356, I can attest that it is a truly magical experience and Franny & Heidi have done a wonderful job sorting out this vintage German cabriolet perfectly. It drives wonderful and turns heads wherever you go. If there is an automobile out there that might just have a soul, it would be Miss Eva.
+David Schmidt WHAT? Franny let you drive our car! Just kidding. I remember now. It was because of the family 356 car. Right. It's all coming back now. I am still a bit sad that you didn't get the 356 B car, but such is life. Heidi
OMG Franny & Heidi -- this is an amazing video -- gorgeous! Thanks so much for the classic Porsche love/envy!!
Wow! Thanks Tom! Hope you enjoyed the little bit of drone work in the beginning ;) F
+tom brodigan hi Tom. Check out Eva's Story and you will really know this beautiful car's history. Franny is amazing at troubleshooting too. Heidi
So beautiful, love your 356.
What a great detailed video. For someone that is trying to learn more about these cars without physical access, this is a wealth of information.
Thanks so much!
Another great review of a awesome car, keep up the good work.
Thanks.
My dad had a 57 VW bug roll top for many years when I was a kid. that thing is almost identical to this 356 just with some different body panels. One time, we were driving on a back road after school, and smoke started pouring out of the back end. Dad pulled over, ran around and opened the engine door, and the engine was on fire. he didn't have an extinguisher so he was just grabbing dirt off the ground throwing it at the engine to put out the fire which did eventually work. I remember in the winter putting my hands up against the slot next to the windshield where the defroster heat would come up. it was a really damn cold car to ride in in winter. And in the very back, the miniature luggage / trunk, our dog used to sit back there. I remember when I was a kid I could fit in that little spot too. it's probably similar in size to the frunk.
Girls, you really nailed it. I´ve been a 356 owner since my mother decided I should take care of her car, this is such an emotional watch to me. You really appreciate the detail, and that is not common. Please keep the track on that way!
David, you and your mom need to sit down and watch the family history of my car. Miss Eva’s Story. It is on our channel and a four part series. Franny also have LOADS if DIY for the 356. Heidi
Great and fun videos. Spent 5 years in the Denver area and love trying to guess where Franny and Heidi are driving at. Keep the videos coming!
Thanks Jason. In this video we were over by the town of Leyden and Coal Creek Canyon. We do have great roads here. Heidi
And yes this is really funny ! Your channel is really great !
Thanks. Heidi
That is the best car review I have ever seen on RUclips.
Thanks! Glad you likes it :)
Simply awesome...👌
Go on...
Hello Heidi & Franny my name is Tim and I’m a new subscriber. These videos are awesome. My mother’s first car was a 1972 VW Super Beetle. She loved it and it was so easy to work on. Also love your Porsche. Not to be off topic or anything.
Hi Tim, Welcome! My second car was a '72 Super Beetle! Love those cars :) Did quite a bit of work on it actually. I really miss it.
A rolling work of art. Thank you.
Thanks!
Your automotive knowledge and enthusiasm is amazing! How did you become interested in cars? As always your video was great!
+Steven Groddy we have different backgrounds about cars. I think you should check out our four part video on how we got the car. Hopefully that will answer some questions. BTW, if you are new to our channel. Welcome! Heidi
I like watching your vids!
loved it!
Once again, thank you very much for another of your detailed "car person" videos! Unless I missed it, a video with a bit more detail on its driving characteristics would be great.
thhall459 that is an idea. Maybe another video!
That is such a great fade in intro with the jazzy piano music. So clever with the wheel reflection and the time lapse of the clouds. Fantastic drone shot at 0:13 seconds in!!! Overall one of your best videos. Such a beautiful and clean car with such a great history.
PS, I like the green hat Heidi!
Thanks Nick. Glad you like the hat. It's in the parking video as well. Thanks for making it thru a very long and thorough video.
Also, that Le Mans start was a winner Franny!
+Nick Heser lol. Funny huh?
Amazing design & styling!
Brilliant review. The doors close better than my 2008 997 turbo. 😁
Thanks for sharing! simply stunning! (makes me want to finish my old C coupe project that has been in the shed for 17 years ;-( )
Please do! Love to see it!
Fantastic video 👍
+ian sheffield-parker thank you!!!
love it!
Wonderful video!
It’s 2021 and this review is still my favorite.
Awwww... Thanks!
Just ran across your channel. Keep up the good work!
Great! Well, Welcome!
My uncle had one of these! Sadly it was stolen over 20 years ago but we still have pictures of it! Was a nice baby blue :)
Awww, sorry to hear that.
That flash to pass ! 🤯 🤤
Awesome video, saluti da Italia!
your channel was nominated by Marcelo Tonella, I signed up and I'm loving its content. Know his channel despite being in another language content is very good!
+Rafael Souza Leite hello Rafael. Yes, right now it would be helpful to know your native language. However, we appreciate your enthusiasm and hope we can bring you good content! Heidi
...great car...and great review...recognized where you were when you got to Leyden and 93...then left on 72 towards Coal Creek...
Yes, that was a fun day filming. We even got stopped by someone.
one of a kind bit of information.....wonderful....
Thanks!
Beautiful cat, love it
Love this video so much
Hi there, I believe I already referred you to the Eva story... So, hmmm what else? We have a lot of content on the 356. In fact, there is a playlist. Check it out. Glad you enjoy. Heidi
Great video
Awesome car !
Great, great review! Such thorough knowledge and detail.
By the way, what was the glicerine bottle, in the glove compartment, for? Was it for some kind of maintenance?
356's are probably my favourite cars. Thank you for this excellent in depth review. This is how motoring should be. I'm grateful for lots of technical advancements, but sadly modern Porsches are an overcomplicated buttonfest with lots of tech that will date quickly and so many unnecessary gimmicks that do nothing but add weight and soften the driving experience.
+Freerk de Ruiter I don't think I have drive a
Porsche newer than a 2012 and even that one was a bit of a driving experience. Yep. Sometimes newer is not better. I know this. Older is often times much simpler. Heidi
Very good and informative video. The 356 was first presented in 3/1949 and cost in May 1950= 10500 DM! (Monthly Salary of a civil engineer 300 DM) The intention for the 356 was Prof. Porsches wish for a nice personal car for himself (because he lived in Gmund/Austria the first cars were handbuilt in Aluminum) , because he could not find a nice sports car on the market these days (ofcourse Germany was completely bombed down and the last car the people needed was a small sportscar!) without the import of Porsches to the USA by Max Hoffman, NY(the official importer) this car and the brand (I guess) would have never survived ( Porsches/Stuttgart/Germany built from 1950 till 1955 = 7627 only!) Hoffman also forced Porsche to build the rare "Speedster" and 15 of the super rare 356 "America". Also the "550" in which James Dean died. Also interesting the same Reutter/ Stuttgart built the first "KdF" (Peoples car/Beetle) Prototypes in 1932 with water-cooled 5 cyl star engines. Like your videos a lot and all the best from Central America, could not find a rust free 356 here yet and so I have to stay with my 997 .
Beautiful !
If this is your first visit to our channel, check out Eva’s Four part series. Very good story of the acquisition of our car.
💕😊 Love these ladies ... 👌
You two would be fantastic on Jay Leno's garage!
Nice video ;-)
My dream car.
Nice shoutout to the passing MGB! I'd already screenshot it and gone back to blow up the pic for ID before I found out y'all had called it out afterward. Indeed, most classic car owners, and increasingly, even vintage or aging JDM vehicles acknowledge one another. I have a 1st gen RX and a smattering of 240/80's that I see locally and never miss "the wave". Zoom on.
If we ‘see them’, we try to point them out. Sometimes we are so distracted that we miss them completely!
Thank you for showing the heel toe pedal work I always wondered how heel toe was done. Do you think you can do a video showing your heel toe work on the pedals while driving the car?
I think you are looking for this video. ruclips.net/video/VsfeCNI3qiE/видео.html
HI Franny, great video! As I'm watching it, I wonder if you go over what you keep in your tool kit? I have a 3.2 and wondering what I should keep with me? I am a 911 newbie and all I keep is a dme relay. thanks!
Cool vid
Thank you!
You can't beat German engineering ! Great video !
+jam 68 I know! Gotta love it. Heidi
Great in-depth review of the 356A! You don't see many of those around youtube. Btw, which modern car were you referring to when you said there is no shoulder room? I thought modern cars would have more shoulder room.
+Qu4ttro lol. I asked her the same question. Maybe she meant a back seat of a MINI cooper cab! Heidi
great video
Thanks Jeff. We have a bunch of 356 content if you are new to the channel. Heidi
The Le Mans start ! Omg :)
It is supposed to be kind of funny.
It was funny. Great idea!!
Thank you! This answered so many questions I had! Especially the carb heaters, I wondered what those pipes were for. How is it driving without a passenger side mirror?
Not really an issue with the top down. Amazing what you can see. Even with the top up visability is quite good. I'm not one to trust mirrors all that much anyway ;)
Sweet
Nice video as usual! The Le Mans left key story actually does not seem to be true... it's always told that way, but it seems that the reason was technical (wire savings).
I just love that little 356.
You didn't say anything about the brakes. Did they still use drums front and back?
Also where is reverse? Is it down and dogleg back like the Beetle?
That wire for the valve stem is for tube tires.
Will this thing burn unleaded gas? Does it have hardened valve seats or do you have to use an additive?
One other thing. Does it have rack and pinion steering?
I just love that little 356. Did I say that already? Lol
How is the swing arm rear suspension? I have heard that if you lift off in a corner, the rear end can rise up, changing the rear wheel camber so that the tires lose grip and the rear end swings out. Is that a problem?
Hi, now I know who Heidi and Franny are. Great video on classic cars. Too bad you did not show the actual tune-up on the Porsche 356.
Hi Carl, just so happens we have a complete playlist for 356 DIYs here: ruclips.net/video/pHu3YKwTblk/видео.html
I'm also currently working on a '55 Pre-A Speedster here: ruclips.net/video/CE8PNbsd2Fo/видео.html
Enjoy! Franny
👍 👍 👍!!!
You two seem very close ❤
I love your video on the 356. Only one small correction: The plaque commemorates Porsche's victiories in german sports car championships (sportwagen = sports car, Meisterschaft = Championship). A guy named Walter Glöckler was working on sports cars with Porsche mechanicals and won multiple championships, later Porsche also raced the 550 Spyder (the James Dean car) successfully. Source: German is my native language.
Thanks so much for that correction!
33:03 I noticed there's one green Vespa in your garage!!!!!
We actually have two. Neither are running right now. Perhaps on another episode. Heidi
I just became very interested in Porche 356s in the last month after seeing one on RUclips. I would love to have one but the prices are astronomical. Another car I like is the Karrmann Ghia VW. A beautiful car, but not the speed and handling of a Porche. And it would have to be a pre 1970 because the taillights became too big for the car running the look of the rear. Damn those 356 prices!
A Ghia would be a beautiful car. Go for it.
Girls, I'm from Curitiba, Brazil. What's a T2-A car? I cannot understand, despite the several times that I watched this part of the video. I'm loving your videos, I came trough Garagem do Bellote RUclips Channel. Thanks for sharing!
:) That is because it is one of the most confusing things about early Porsches! The T (type) designation was an internal code for updates and changes of the model years. But what do the A, B, and C meant then? you ask... They designate major model changes. The "T" numbers started with the "A"s and there was a T1 (1957) and T2 (1958). Then in 1960 we got the T5 "B" (there never was a T3 or T4). Then later there was a T6B and finally a C(T6). It takes years of studying and research to be able to spot the differences (i.e. T1A had beehive tail lights and the T2A had tear drop tail lights). B cars have higher front wings than the A cars. T6 cars have a straight across hood line and vents on the cowl and twin grills on the boot. "C" cars got disk brakes. There is a good book called Buying and Drive the Porsche 356 that does a good job with all the differences. There were lots of differences in the "Pre-A" cars as well.
Very nice. Everything I have said before applies once again to this video. Question: do y'all do your own editing and filming as well?
Hi Edwin. Yes, we both film and edit; however, Franny does some of the really fancy stuff. If you are interested in some of the ‘fancier’, edits, watch 918 Visit to Coffee and Car (Mar 2017), Ferrari 308 drive with Noble to lunch (Feb 2017), and Porsche 911 Canyon Drive (Feb 2017). Enjoy! Heidi
Will do! -- Thanks.
Franny thinks the Gimmick Rally has good editing. I would say it has a good story. Lol. Heidi
What a beautiful car. Lucky you both have this. I can only afford an old VW convertible, still fun but not like this 356 Cabriolet.
I absolutely LOVE VW Convertibles... :)
Heidi and Franny's Garage my VW is the Thing. Its history is tied to Porsche when Hitler summoned him to build a vehicle based on VW during the war. Porsche came up with Kubelwagen which I believe used during Poland and Afrika Korps under General Irwin Rommel. Anyway I wish I could afford even a Porsche 356 replica which is around 37k. Maybe someday.
More pedal pumping view videos please :-)
Fantastic video! Did you have the valve seats hardened to run on modern gas? Also, please replace the house wire nut on the wire under the dash with an automotive one -- this can't be German engineering.
Yes, the car used to run on leaded, now it takes unleaded.
Good information ladies. I wasn't born when James Dean was killed in his '55 Spyder in California. :(
That was super sad... A truck turned in front of him. The truck driver was driving into the sun and never saw James. I believe he swerved left, then right and slid on the side of the road and caught a tree on the driver's door. He was a good guy and a dedicated racer.
Heidi and Franny's Garage The other driver was driving a 1950 Ford Tudor - 23-year-old Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed. There were no trees involved, Dean’s injuries were caused by the other car hitting him almost head on. The collision caused Dean’s Spyder to lift off the ground spinning around several before settling on the side of the road, ejecting his passenger and mechanic out of the car.
the horn ring seems to be bent out of shape (upper half)?
It is.
well, this sound of the door when it shuts is not by accident. Car companies work on this very extensively.
What tires are on it?
Hi Dwayne, those are BF Goodrich but I'm not super psyched with them. They have almost 30K miles and still look really new tread wise so they are super hard and not very sticky. Not great in the wet either. I think for the next set we'll try Cokers. Gota have the whitewalls! Franny