Does it get classier than a red interior? We don’t think so. It makes us picture the golden age of Hollywood, cruising through LA in your Porsche 356 with your red interior gleaming in the sunlight. This unique and rare interior reportedly comes from a 1963-1964 356, which makes it a late 356B interior. It appears to be in good shape, with some minor tears here and there. The seller states that this interior was removed from a wrecked car, and thinks it could be the only full interior for sale in the world.
We reached out to the seller to find out more, and he responded with a great story:
My wife was born in Corpus Christi, TX as was her gran-dad in about 1920. In 1960 he bought his wife a nice gift, my wife’s gran-mother, a new White 1960 356 Porsche Coupe. She drove it a lot and they toured with it-luggage rack and all. It still had the sticker in the window of their trip through Mexico along with a few other trips.
Right around 1970 a friend of his, the local sheriff, gave him a call to inform him that his wife had been seen rat-racing in the Porsche with some of the local hot-rodders in Corpus- this was not the first time. When she got home he took the keys and the car and took it out to the ranch, placed in under a shed, where it remained for over thirty years; high and dry.
Gran-dad and I used to have many conversations, some of course included the Porsche and what he wanted to do with it and did he have price in mind that he’d take for it. During one phone visit he said he’d decided that if I came and got it I could have it, I said, I’d be on my way to get it and I’d put Mercedes’ (his great grand daughter) name on it. My Wife (his gran-daughter), myself and our three year old daughter named Mercedes, loaded up the Tan Suburban for a little vacation in CC. I had to buy a trailer in Texas so I went to the local bank to transfer funds after they found someone who could speak english to make the transfer.
The car was for the most part original, the red interior was tex-leather, better known as vinyl in great condition. I thought it might be real nice to put in a red real ‘leather’ interior. I was fortunate to come across a complete all original red leather interior with carpets etc. The interior came from a donor 1963 Porsche 356 Coupe that was totaled in an accident up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia in 1964. The owner disposed of the Porsche but kept the interior stored inside for about forty years and I’ve had it ever since.
As the years went by it seemed to be more prudent to have an all original older car than a replaced, restored or refurbished one.
To Quote: “Scruffy but original cars can-fetch more than restored ones, a phenomenon international auctioneer Max Girardo-Sotheby’s ponders.”
Check it out here on Craiglist in Washington DC: https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/pts/d/springfield-porsche-orig-interior/6915271780.html
