>>If you happen to know the history of your car, especially how it wound
>>up in Germany, I'd love to hear it.
>I'd hypothesise it was originally sold to a US serviceman based in
>Germany under the PE or NATO forces schemes - but never got finally
>exported to the States.
You forget that a very high percentage of surviving classic British and
356 Porches were sold outside the US during the last 2/3rds of the 1980's.
Every paper in the US had standing adds to buy Certain European classics
at top dollar. Many people were making livings from buying US based
classics, shipping them overseas and reselling them.
Over a period of a few years British Roadsters went from being a common
everyday commute car to rarely seen classics.
During those years Germans and Japanese had lots of high value cash to
spend.
A lot a 356's & British roadsters ended up in Germany. The good thing is
that many marginal condition roadsters went into enthusiast hands and
were lovingly rebuilt.
SO I'm guessing the TR3B is one of the late 80's exports from the States.
TeriAnn Wakeman If you send me direct mail, please
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