Mr. Ahab Jr. arranged guided tour on Thursday at Tuthill Porsche and this was perhaps the most eye opening experience of the trip. What Tuthill is doing now, and Singer has been doing for years, I wanted to do in 2005 when the RS craze hit the 911 world. There were so many builds on Technical for a few years. In 2005, years before even the longhood bubble started, I could have either made RS clones for a living or starting my boys clothing. Talking with friends about the clone idea, they all thought I was crazy. So Traveler Kids was born.
Visiting Tuthills made me realize I have to get back on that track even with 6 months of work in-house now.
I was a little camera shy here even though our guide said I could take pics freely. Really a phenomenal enterprise. Their 911K, essentially an early body shell that is now mostly carbon, was beautiful and something of an engineering marvel. No pics sorry, and to some degree, because the shell was painted, it pretty much just looked like a 73 shell on a dolly, that was mostly carbon fiber.
Another thing, personal to me and cars I would like to build, is learning that you don't gain much of anything other than a badge, building a 4.0L MFI motor over an easier to build 3.8. It was an eye opening day. A few pics. That's the actual Peter Gregg #95 Brumos car and what's on Tru6 t-shirts customers get with their orders.
These are all cars in progress
