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

[heywebonya]

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If I knew what I was doing; I wouldn't be building a buggy!

[LifeAsASuffix]

Does anyone take this seriously?
Please, someone stand up and say “Yes, I’ve have my irreplaceable, priceless, uninsured, unsubstantiated and undocumented items stolen by reputable companies”
Maybe I’m wrong, but as a known Home Theter Desinger i smell something fishy.

[AMAC1680]

[Gruppe B]

I would expect to have to sort any type of kit car that was assembly by a team of different people.

$100K sounds like a lot of money but you are paying at least $80 for every hour of a tech's time assembling this thing and they assembled it from scratch.

I think your problem was expecting this vehicle to be just like a new car experience which it could never be. This car should have been in your possession at least 1 year before any filming to straighten out all the minor items listed. Not picked up a new car expecting to be ready for filming across America.

[rbucklin]

Sorry to say I have to disagree with you guys. If I paid a company $100K to assemble a fiberglass kit car, I would expect a road tested, sorted car I could drive right away. Of course I would also expect a couple of things to give out if my first drive was 3500mi (give or take), but maybe not to the extent Mr. Green describes.

That said, I sort of feel for the guys at Intermeccanica. Can you imagine dealing with this customer for a year? If a person is this demonstrably confrontational in a simple build thread, can you imagine as a long distance phone customer?

Mr. Green, at you suggestion, I did look up you and your art and I like it. You are obviously a talented and successful guy. Not sure why you find it necessary to be such a jerk online to anyone who dares take a counter view. FTR, yes, this is a (very nice) kit car, replica, tribute, but still a kit car. It is no more porsche than recreating a Yenko Camaro makes it a real Yenko. Also, yes, a rusted out, frame twisted original Porsche is still, in fact, by definition, a real Porsche.

[JulesD]

100k buys a really really nice real 356 that actually runs well, brakes well and does everything else it has been doing for decades.

Door handles on mine have not fallen off in 60 years!

Sorry to hear about your experience with IM, that sucks.

[Gruppe B]

Reliability is the bane of the low production automobile. The amount invested in production cars to start in all weather, steer, brake, acceration and even have good working doors etc is immense.

Kit cars, one offs, replicas will always need a lot of time to sort. Something this project didn't have.

Still a nice car, and a commendable project. I just feel the complaints are unrealistic.

[GArBa]

This thread has been confusing since the beginning, now I am more confused than ever.

is the car good, is the car bad, or was the car bad before it was made good?

and if the latter is the case, what's the point of letting people know it one year after the fact?
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[calebmelvin]

[GArBa]

[Eric Marshall Green]

From the 356 Registry.

[Gruppe B]

My dad came over from the old country back in the 50's with only a Leica camera and $100 bucks. He loved the early 356 and everything that it represented; a modern, sleek and revolutionary automobile unlike anything else on the road. Though he never got to own one, he had saved any articles that he could find from the 50's and 60's, cut them out and placed in a binder.

I found this binder after he passed away neatly resting in his office bookshelves along with all his photography and 35mm magazines.

He didn't do this for any other car. Just a German guy living in a foreign land with deep pride for what his old country could do.

[Eric Marshall Green]

Any photos go back to 1951 through 1956? Would love to see the earliest ones. Where were they taken? Any East Coast ones?

And to the rest of you, although I've said it over and over. I would not want a worn out 356. I would not want a restored 356. No interest at all. I've had them, so I got over it. Now a perfect unrestored 356 would be great. Know of any?

[joey1320]

[heywebonya]

That rant comes off as a "almost ran", the little man that points out the failures and faults of others while doing nothing to improve the situation.

Step up and be a man, seek responsibility and take responsibility. Quit complaining and move forward.
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[Eric Marshall Green]

KInd of a funny ending to my 356 engine issues. In pulling the engine apart, I found a piece of crudely-cut-off rubber hose had fallen down one inlet port and left there. It was too large to fit through a Weber venturi, so it was definitely dropped inside with the carbs off. Nice, eh? But the engine runs perfectly now! Cheers.

Another reason to avoid IM like death. As if it were needed. I suppose the hose explains the extra $550 charge for "carb tuning." All I can say, "Gee, thanks, Henry Reisner."

Have videos of it running now and photos of the rebuild in our barn in Maine. Anyone interested?

[Silver356]

Mr. Green (alias Kelly Harris, check other website's and his Facebook page) is now shoveling from the same pile over on the Speedster Owners (replica) site.

He has made few friends there.

His car is an Intermeccanica 356 replica. In the 356 replica world Intermeccanica, has long been considered one of the best builders anywhere. They truly are beautiful bespoke cars built in their own factory in Vancouver.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for "his movie" to show up any time soon.

The cowboy hat he claims was just for the movie is part of his weird persona. He has been embarrassing himself in that hat for years and is fond of showing off pictures of him wearing a similar one as a younger man. He is the personification of what we used to call phony cowboys in Arizona..."All hat and no cattle".

We would love to give him back to you guys.......please.

He remains rude, condescending, narcissistic and boring. Come to think of it....you guys don't want him back, do you?

[Montrose]

In defence of Intermeccanica, I had Henry Reisner build me a Speedster. Throughout the two year build, he and I had constant communication, regarding specifications of the car, decisions that had to be made, design questions, etc., etc. I found him excellent to deal with.

I have now had the car for four years, and have driven close to 15,000 miles, without one issue. Perhaps I could find faults with the car, but I understood that these are handmade vehicles, not something coming off a modernized assembly line. The car was extensively road tested before I took ownership, both by Henry and by myself, and whatever little issues there were, were corrected at that time.

Intermeccanica builds good replicas, and that is that.

[ALB]