© Copyright 1996 - 1999, Richard Troy.

Richard's Car List

...Warning: Work in Progress!...

Over the last couple of decades, I've bought and sold quite a handful of cars. The following cars have come through my hands, and are listed by chassis number and type.

Types

Most of my cars are either Volkswagens or Porsches, and therefore have numeric type numbers. The others are based on a VW type, and all of these but one are based on the Karmann Ghia. The odd-man-out is the Rometsch Roadster, which is Beetle based.

The Porsches I have spelled out in more detail, but the following may help with VW type numbers for the Karmann Ghia:

Details on the cars

1-103 5933

1-104 3269

107 4241

128 3976

168 4723

192 6706

195 6945

199 1940

218 6040

205 8655

233 0904

234 1978 Rometsch Roadster

The Rometsch Roadster is perhaps the strangest car I have ever owned. It's a 1959 model, and I bought it from the second owner, though the second owner did literally nothing but store her for some 25 years. She has only about 43,000 miles on her, and I drove her back to California from Illinois!. This shot was taken on the day I bought her, never wrecked, complete, and not rusted either.

...This car is slow! They came delivered with any engine the owner wanted - and options included Porsche, Okrasa, or even Denzel if they so desired. But if the owner didn't specify, they received a standard 36 hp VW engine - as this car did. I've considered rebuilding it as an Okrasa, but will most likely set it aside and put a Porsche engine in it... I can report, however, that the original averaged 31 mpg on e drive home from Illinois!

237 2933

244 8968

249 0127

249 0383

249 0479

334 2073

158 290C Porsche Type 356 B Super Cabriolet

...and then there's the 356 B Super Cabriolet. This car was built in June of 1963 by Reuter - the only Non-Karmann in the bunch - except the "coach builts" of course. It unfortunately went off road at some point in its life, and it had all 4 wheels replaced. Its mileage is unknown, but I suspect it's high, because since its purchase in '90, it has forced me to do a lot of work on it.

First, though the SC should beat it, I felt it wasn't competitive enough with the SC, so I tore the engine apart, against the shrieks of my girlfriend (who felt it was running fine and why have another project...). I found one of the pistons was broken, and the crankshaft was cracked, and about a half dozen other problems - it was amazing it ran as well as it did! So I rebuilt the engine... installed the SC crank, a big bore kit, dropped the CR. to about 8.2:1, etc., etc.

I pulled it out of storage one day and when I hit the brakes found it wanted to change lanes all of a sudden! ...OK, redo all the brake components. It was something like $800 just in parts - gee whiz...

Then one day, the pinion shaft lost a tooth! Ouch! (brakes are positively cheap by comparison) ...So I rebuilt it myself, with all new synchros, bearings, etc., and a new pinion shaft! Double-Ouch! It was about $4k just in parts!

Goodness I hope this car gives me a break! ...at least it's fun to drive... Take a look at a typical 4th gear problem. I recently (fall '96) put this car on a chassis dyno and got 75 hp to the rear wheels. I understand from folks with more experience than I that this is Very Healthy.

215 878 Porsche 356 SC Coupe'

My Porsche 356 SC Coupe was built by Karmann on December 14, 1963. I bought this car in '87 with 76,766 miles on it. It runs great, and has really turned heads at some Porsche Club Events. . . You see, as the oldest car run at some of these events, people expect it to be soundly beaten by modern cars - they're in for a surprise!

Incidentally, this car is sweeter even than she looks...

183 812

510 5306

346 126 916

147 421 415

149 577 821

119 121 135 Porsche Type 911 T Coupe'

141 2010 532

...I hope you've enjoyed browsing the collection as much as I've enjoyed doing the collecting!

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Regards,
Richard Troy

http://KarmannGhia.org/Richard/

Richard@KarmannGhia.org