[Captain Ahab Jr]

Thanks for the welcome Flieger, please excuse my manners but I couldn't find the section for new member introductions so I guess this is the best place to add a brief intro about myself and my car.

This year I finally bought a 1989 Porsche 930 after about 10 years of deciding which is the car for me. My first drive was with my wife and two young kids and we drove from the UK to northern Italy where we live now.

We covered 2000 miles in 11 days taking in 9 countries along the way. My car has had 964 bumpers and later alloy wheels added but over the years I plan to convert it back to as originally manufactured as it has only done 47k miles.

I am not sure how to add photo's but will post some of my car as soon as I get the hang of it.

As for me I am a little less interesting than my car and my working life has been squandered working as a design engineer on a super road car, Le Mans race cars and quite a few F1 race cars.

My future project is to allow all my creative ideas to be expressed and design/build a steel tubular space framed car with the majority of body panels in composites. At the moment I am torn between a twin turbo engined short hood or a big capacity normally aspirated long hood. It would be in a narrow stock bodied style with frt/rear independent wishbone suspension and if I can and it's a big 'if' I would like to have the engine mid-mounted.

I guess the kind of photo's I am after are the ones that show all the details that Porsche would have built into their cars that I can use to allow me to build a car that would hopefully look like the sort of car that Porsche would have built had there been a stock bodied silhouette class where anything goes under the bodywork.