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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
IWhile my hot rod '72 is nowhere near the "significant financial asset" your 356's represent, it is still worth over ten times what I paid for it.
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In spite of what I've said, what it is worth in dollars isn't what bothers me. I have insurance. I use dollars because it's hard to ascribe value to memories.
I've been with these cars for over 40 years and have many, many memories. My son took his date to the prom in the Speedster. I raced it and autocrossed the hell out of it.
And that's just the Speedster.
When I was a columnist there I wrote many stories for the 356 Registry of my family's exploits in my '56 coupe.
When my son was 6 or so we took a road trip from Ohio to Oregon. Three people living in a 356 coupe for 3 weeks - insane as I looked back on it. On the way home, in Idaho, we stopped for lunch and gas and when I started the car to leave I heard a "thunk" and the engine started clicking and only ran on 3 cylinders. It took some digging, but I figured out that an exhaust valve had stuck open when it cooled and been hit by a piston.
I took the rockers off of the intake and exhaust valves on #3 cylinder and we drove from Idaho to Ohio in an overloaded 356 coupe on 3 cylinders.
And there was a trip to northern Canada Jerry Keyser and I took in our 356 coupes... So much that only has value in my mind, but is embodied in those cars.