Replicating an Porsche Berlin-Rome Coupe

[KentCaveny]

I'm an experienced panel beater with 2 English wheels, several stumps, a shear, press brake, bead roller and several roll-around tool chests full of hand tools.

I am proficient at gas and TIG welding of steel and aluminum and have a 200 amp ESAB square wave TIG machine as well as MIG and gas welding equipment.

I'm developing a body buck to replicate a Porsche Berlin-Rome Coupe (T64 or 60K10) and have written several articles about the car in the Porsche 356 Registry Magazine. The original cars were built on prototype VW chassis using a modified 24 hp VW motor. I have a VW chassis and 36 hp motor that I will modify and mount the body on. I have taken numerous pictures of the surviving Otto Mathe car (of 3 built) and the replication by PROTOTYP museum using the remaining parts from the 2 missing cars.

I learn a lot by seeing the posts and work of other serious metal men. Therefore, I expect to gain from membership in this site and contribute information that may benefit other members.

Kent Caveny

[crystallographic]

Originally Posted by KentCaveny

I'm an experienced panel beater with 2 English wheels, several stumps, a shear, press brake, bead roller and several roll-around tool chests full of hand tools.

I am proficient at gas and TIG welding of steel and aluminum and have a 200 amp ESAB square wave TIG machine as well as MIG and gas welding equipment.

I'm developing a body buck to replicate a Porsche Berlin-Rome Coupe (T64 or 60K10) and have written several articles about the car in the Porsche 356 Registry Magazine. The original cars were built on prototype VW chassis using a modified 24 hp VW motor. I have a VW chassis and 36 hp motor that I will modify and mount the body on. I have taken numerous pictures of the surviving Otto Mathe car (of 3 built) and the replication by PROTOTYP museum using the remaining parts from the 2 missing cars.

I learn a lot by seeing the posts and work of other serious metal men. Therefore, I expect to gain from membership in this site and contribute information that may benefit other members.

Kent Caveny

Excellent.
Welcome!

[neilb]

hi kent, you may want to chat with jeffry on this site i think he would be a big help!

he will probably see this thread at some point as its right up his street so to speak

[Jere]

Hello Kent and welcome to the forum.

Jere

[JimRussell]

Hi Mark,

(but done Outlaw style as I've done too many nuts&bolts restorations in my own lifetime)

I have heard that a lot from restorers. They say when they restore a vehicle it's for someone else's enjoyment. When the build a vehicle it's for them to enjoy.

[Blechpatscher]

I always thought that the one in the PROTOTYP museum was an original previously owned by Otto Mathé, but I might be wrong and have never seen it in person.
The Porsche museum is displaying a replica, built by Karosseriebau Drescher:
http://www.karosseriebau-drescher.de/porsche-typ-64
When the body is lent to some other location, the buck is displayed instead, though that's also something I haven't seen yet.

I'm really looking forward to your build, please keep us updated with lots of photos.

[weldtoride]

Welcome to the forum, Kent. Always loved that car. Subscribed.

In your research you probably have run across this next build set of pics, so just in case you haven't, but also for others who might be interested:

http://bangshift.com/general-news/pr...lina-vfw-hall/

more recent pics here:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/vie...83910&start=20

[bobadame]

Chris Runge might be another one to talk with.

[longyard]

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