[andyjboy]

The story is that Roger Dale bought the car whilst stationed in Germany in the '70's & shipped it back to NC.

Shortly afterwards he had a bad crash in the car & so it was stored in a barn where it remained for the next 15 years - enter Ken Allison.

Whilst in the process of restoring one of his 356's he heard about an old wrecked '65 Porsche with a 4-cylinder engine which the owner was keen to sell so, thinking it might be a late 356C, he made the trip to go & see it.

When he saw the badly damaged car (lots of broken fibreglass) he thought it was a kitcar & wasn't too happy about his wasted journey (especially since the car was missing its engine). Dale told him that it was a 904 & that he hadn't any success tracking down the necessary parts so had lost interest ...

Allison returned home but on doing some research came to the conclusion that it might be a worthwhile project so made contact again after a month (so as not to appear too keen) - only to find out that Dale had suffered a heart attack & died a couple of weeks earlier !

Anyway, he bought the car (badly damaged but essentially complete apart from the engine) from Dale's mother & transported it back home. This was 1990.

Restoration took part over many years as parts were sourced - including another 4-cam engine bought from Warren Eads - finally being completed sometime around 2005 ...