356 I'm creating for the memory of my Father Marshall S. Green

[79SuperVert]

People tell me it's not possible, but I have a memory of being inside a car in the back seat looking up at the roof and seeing windows as if I was a baby being held in someone's lap; similar to your photo. I like to say it's my memory of being brought home from the hospital as a newborn.
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Central Jersey VW Society

Wanted: Art Collins VW (Savannah, Georgia) items - license plate surrounds and other items. Also ivory "AM", "FM" and "SW" buttons for a US Blaupunkt Frankfurt.

[LAGrunthaner]

I love this photo and story Eric Marshall Green, keep this up, keep looking for more photos too!

[Eric Marshall Green]

And the 356 in the movie Quantum Run 356. Just a few soundless clips but gives a feeling of what is to come. https://app.frame.io/f/455002af-0755-4bb3-a289-ab85033add4d

Feel free to share this if you want. !0 minute reel to appear soon.

[LAGrunthaner]

Eric do you have any idea when the film will debut?

[SatireChuck]

Absolutely stunning! And what a lovely project and tribute to your father. I look forward to seeing the Documentary.

—Brother Chuck
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1968 VW Beetle
1971 VW Bus (Currently under restoration)

[Eric Marshall Green]

Some of you might enjoy these photos by my wife taken on the Quantum Run 356: http://quantumrun356.com/2018/08/01/please-help-pick-your-favorite-dozen/

[hillmotorsports]

Nothing better than a long road trip!
From someone who annually ran California to eastern Ontario for 12 yrs driving some Snowbird friends home I can appreciate the feeling of accomplishment.
Well done sir, esp in such a classy repro.
My hat is off to you!

Paul
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Rosemarie and Paul Hill
Morrisburg, Ontario

(With way more projects than spare time!)

[Eric Marshall Green]

Thank you Paul and Brother Chuck and all that contact me directly. Found this today. My parents on their wedding day in 1953. My dad told me he was so worried his guys would screw up the paint. They did not! Cheers to the drivers out there.

[79SuperVert]

Very nice pic. They look very happy indeed. My parents were married just around the beginning of 1953.
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Central Jersey VW Society

Wanted: Art Collins VW (Savannah, Georgia) items - license plate surrounds and other items. Also ivory "AM", "FM" and "SW" buttons for a US Blaupunkt Frankfurt.

[LAGrunthaner]

Excellent photo they look so happy

[Eric Marshall Green]

New trailer. Just finished two days of amazing footage in Binghamton, New York. Sam Ladd, an amazing electric guitar player, shredding as a freight train going by was just ONE of the many highlights. Photos if requested.

New trailer just out! https://vimeo.com/289155726 Password: quantum.

[Eric Marshall Green]

Poster from the Dowling Walsh Gallery:

[Cammie]

"road ahead"?

[vanagonjr]

Bumped into this cool 356 replica build on Petrolicious. Cool engine

https://petrolicious.com/articles/this-356-is-fully-capable-of-hunting-modern-porsches
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[Eric Marshall Green]

While filming in Reno at midnight.

[Eric Marshall Green]

A favorite photo of the 356. We had just driven through Yellowstone Park on opening day. After passing a couple dozen cars and campers, we had the road to ourselves.

[EverettB]

Nice, I love the feel of the air and driving after it rains or in a light rain
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[Porschefreak]

Looks to be very cool!

https://www.facebook.com/100003476705142/posts/1845939285531944/

[Eric Marshall Green]

My 100k Intermeccanica in the first weeks of ownership (about one year today):

These issues happened from the time the 356 was delivered by Henry on a car carrier in Ventura, California where I flew in from Maine to pick it up and within two weeks of driving the IM across the country back home:

The special metallic paint I ordered ($450 a gallon) was sprayed over a two week period, so the car arrived in four different colors, thus its nickname Patches. Any good car painter knows when metallic is heated up to spray, it changes chemically, so each time it is a different shade. For the record, Henry refused to make good on any of the problems with my 356. Once he had my money, he turned into a different person. I’ll let you guess what kind.

The 1k new Coker tires were cracked severely, were unbalanced because they were so out of round they could not be balanced on a modern machine. The Stoddard wheels were also too large in the rear and rubbed the body. The front was SO out of alignment that the new Dutch tires (with new wheels) I was forced to buy and put on the car before starting the trip wore out completely on the outside by the time I got to Ontario. Try buying tires to fit a 356 in the far northern USA. (This has all been documented in the soon to be released documentary film: Quantum Run 356.). The fronts also rubbed when turned, but I managed to lift the front so it wasn’t too severe.

The CBP 2.1 l engine, which Henry guaranteed was their most reliable engine ran poorly. It backfired, stuttered, etc. About all it would do was accelerate. In long sections driving across the country I was forced to accelerate, then coast. This for hours and hours. Remember I had a full Animal Media film crew following me on a very tight filming schedule. When I finally found a good enough mechanic to work on the engine, we found that the plugs could not be removed without dropping the engine. Some weird shrouding metal prevented getting a tool to seat on the plug. To cap it off the engine caught fire after I managed to get it home. Would you call that reliable? I wondered what the non-flammable insulation was that fell down on one side, choking the already terrible running engine. So Henry must have known his engines can suddenly burst into flame.

First the windshield wipers stopped working on high. Then they quit completely in the middle of a severe downpour in Watertown, New York. An old lady turned across me and it was only by a miracle of intuitive reflex that I saved Patches.

The tachometer quit. The door handles kept falling off. This just seemed funny. The engine ran so rough it shook Patches to pieces. One of my favorites was the horn simply began to blow whenever it felt like it. Since I had insisted on Maserati airhorns run on a compressor, this became quite a thing in gas stations, etc. I might have killed one very old guy in a camper! Luckily I was able to rebuild the horn button on the road. Half the documentary film is either the car in garages or me working on it in parking lots. But what did I expect for 100k?

On getting back to Maine, I rebuilt the Webber carbs. I found wrong jets, which had been doctored crudely. All the adjustments were very wrong. After fixing the Webers and setting the valves, etc., the engine ran much better. So . . . now I know why the carb adjustment (fine tuning) bill I received from Henry for around $500 made little sense since it was dated when Patches was still in primer and six months before the 356 even had an engine. The list of fraudulent charges by Henry is too long and boring to list here.

The fact that Henry “lost” the Jaguar ignition switch that Sir Stirling Moss gave my father is another matter. But Henry’s changing stories on how the switch got lost were certainly entertaining.

My advice? If you want to actually drive your expensive IM 356—don’t! Hopefully your paint will match so you can at least stare at it.

For the record, I am Eric Green, the known American artist and writer from Belfast, Maine. Google me. Kelly Harris is a character in my novel LIVECELL. It is on Amazon with many reviews. Cheers from another delighted IM customer. Such a delight being part of the “family.”

The story is all here with photos. http://quantumrun356.com/2018/05/10/first-road-run-for-patches/