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No, it's not Mike's car, though he did help me rebuild the transmission. I miss him.
I guess I should add some backstory:
In 1973 I saw this 1956 Speedster advertised in Road and Track and it was only 50 miles from me. The asking price was ridiculously low, so I jumped on it. It came with a spare body and a Glaspar fiberglass hardtop. It was in running condition, but the engine was a tired 1500S from 1953. I paid $3000 fpr the package and sold the body for that same amount and sold the hardtop for $300, so I basically got paid $300 to take this car off the guy’s hands.
Right away I installed an engine out of a ’64 356.
A short time later I pulled the engine out of a wrecked 912 and built an autocross engine for the Speedster. I added a Z-bar and some sticky tires and I competed in autocross a couple of times a month for about 10 years. It was ratty, but fast.
Sometime in the 1980s I gave it a repaint, new interior and soft top, and spent the next 40 years just driving it and enjoying it. It got another repaint in the early 1990s.
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