Forty-two year-old, rust free California pan.

[orbmedia]

Must I make this joke? Nah...



Title text is from the eBay ad: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=597313874

[Andrew Luu]

Nice carrrr..

[Jack Olsen]

I love this guy. I love his flowery sales pitches. I love his slightly-gone-to-seed models. Ebay's a better place for CaliforniaClassix.

[CamB]

I especially like:

"Many lovingly selected items help in the pursuit to create the perfect Speedster".

The mental image I get of someone lovingly selecting a steering wheel as part of a commercial venture is pretty funny.

Cam

[doofdog]

he does seem to find women with vampire like qualities. although they all wear a big cross around their neck. I need his little black book.

------------------
86Carrera
01 saab Viggen
95 Wrangler (winter Porsche)


http://doofdog.homestead.com

[rstoll]

"Gone to seed" would be a relative term, heh Jack??

------------------
Robert Stoll
83 SC
83 944

[Bill Douglas]

I'd love to know which one had the most miles on the clock

[motion]

From his homepage... gotta love it:



------------------
Let's Roll!
-------------------------
-Richard
'84 Carrera Cabriolet
'74 911 Widebody 3.6 Project
My Porsches

[Joe Bob]

Ahhhh, another ebay-ho.....gotta love the fact he can never advertise a real set of hooters or a real 356.....fiberglass and silicone, might make a good name for a duet tune with Michael Jackson and Pamela Lee....

[Jack Olsen]

Ah yes, Richard, 'Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' A movie that forever distorted my sense of what to expect from the female sex. How cruel life is when it teaches you that there aren't roving bands of buxom chicks who like to race sports cars all day, and then Go-Go dance all night.

Oh, yeah. When they weren't racing, they'd wrestle each other and talk tough. What a great movie.

------------------
Jack Olsen
My Rennlist page • My Pelican Gallery page • My Porsche Owners Gallery page

[MRM]

Originally posted by JackOlsen:
Ah yes, Richard, 'Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' A movie that forever distorted my sense of what to expect from the female sex. How cruel life is when it teaches you that there aren't roving bands of buxom chicks who like to race sports cars all day, and then Go-Go dance all night.

Oh, yeah. When they weren't racing, they'd wrestle each other and talk tough. What a great movie.

Are you serious Jack? Is that the name of the movie the clip is from? Do you know where they have copies I can order? If that's the plot, how did that one avoid an Oscar? Obviously not enough men like me on the selection committee.


[This message has been edited by MRM (edited 11-01-2001).]

[MRM]

Wait a minute! Isn't this a kit car built out of old parts, of which the 42 year old California pan is one of, if not the only real Porsche part? Did someone really bid 20 grand knowing it was a reproduction?

Think that sale will go through?



[This message has been edited by MRM (edited 11-01-2001).]

[pwd72s]

Hey, after 42 years? That's not a bad California pan! Koo-koo a chu, Mrs. Robinson!

[CamB]

Um, I assume it is a shortened beetle pan like almost all the other replicas out there, so it is worse than you think!

[pwd72s]

"How cruel life is when it teaches you that there aren't roving bands of buxom chicks who like to race sports cars all day, and then Go-Go dance all night."- Jack Olsen

Jack...just say it ain't true. Please!

[GregS]

42 year old pan - I don't think so. That woman ain't a day under 55...

[Jack Olsen]

I don't think the movie's any good... but it's also great, you know? Lousy story. Poor acting. Not enough shots of the cars.

It's a Russ Meyer movie. He built his own trashy empire of X-rated (would be R by contemporary standards) movies in the sixties.

Here's a synopsis:

Exploitation maven Russ Meyer created a cult classic with this turbo-charged action film. Three curvaceous go-go dancers in a cool sportscar go on a desert crime-spree, led by Varla (the amazing Tura Satana), a busty, nasty woman dressed entirely in black. Varla's lesbian moll Rosie (Haji) -- who has an extremely overwrought accent -- and reluctant bimbo Billie (Lori Williams) are along for the ride. When they meet a naive young couple (Ray Barlow and Sue Bernard), Varla challenges the man to a race then breaks his spine with a single karate chop. They take the girl hostage and drive to a house owned by a crippled old lecher (Stuart Lancaster) and his hunky but retarded son Vegetable. Varla discovers that the old man has money hidden on the property, so the girls try to find it. Meanwhile, Vegetable's perverted father tricks him into raping Billie as he watches, but his other son (Paul Trinka) finally shows up to save the day. A great deal of bloodshed, campy catfighting, and funny dialogue fills the bulk of this fast-paced comic book of a movie.

Sounds hard to resist, huh?

In the clip, that's Varla and Rosie by the 911 while Billie (foreground) teaches actress Sue Bernard some go-go moves. In a few moments, the friendly veneer of desert racing will be shattered, when Varla severs Ray Barlow's spine with a single devastating karate chop!

------------------
Jack Olsen
My Rennlist page • My Pelican Gallery page • My Porsche Owners Gallery page

[This message has been edited by JackOlsen (edited 11-01-2001).]

[speeder]

MRM- nowhere in the ad does it say,"Porsche pan". Where on earth are they gonna get one of those? I don't think they made any 356's into dunebuggys, could be wrong. And yeah, good speedster replicas go for $20,000. This guy is a little cagey with his headlines, but if you read the ad it tells all about it. Anyone who thinks they are bidding on a real one in showroom cond. for $20G's is on a hummer. Speedster production ended with '58 MY.

[old_skul]

Originally posted by JackOlsen:
How cruel life is when it teaches you that there aren't roving bands of buxom chicks who like to race sports cars all day, and then Go-Go dance all night.

Wrong.
Check this out: Bikini Bandits

Warning: High-bandwidth internet movies, profanity, gratuitous implied lesbianism.

------------------
Mark Szabo
1986 911 Targa 3.2
1987 Escort 5-speed 1.9 RIP
The Porsche Owners Gallery

[This message has been edited by old_skul (edited 11-01-2001).]

[Rollins]

That car is beautiful. I would gladly fork out 20k for it as a replica. As for the woman...I dunno what to say other than I'd hit it.