Gold-Plated Porsche How I Sank a Small Fortune into a Used Car, and Other Misadventures

Name: Gold-Plated Porsche How I Sank a Small Fortune into a Used Car, and Other Misadventures
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ISBN: 9781592287925

ISBN-10: 1592287921

ISBN-13: 9781592287925

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stephan Wilkinson

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"This isn't a book about Porsche restoration. It's about Wilkinson's colorful life. That, along with elegant writing, is what makes this book so endearing-the tales are told without ego. This is less a tale about a machine than a tale about a man enjoying a machine."--Car and Driver Stephan Wilkinson was looking for something to do. So he bought an old, run-down Porsche and over the next two years tore it apart and rebuilt it in a garage behind his house. The project cost him a small fortune, and it started him thinking about many other things. Quirky, cool, entertaining, and opinionated, The Gold-Plated Porsche captures Wilkinson's inspired digressions on his various other careers and…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface



Getting Upside-Down



The Christmas Present



In Pursuit of Purity



Due Diligence



Project Car



No Warranty, No Nothing



What Larry Rivers Never Knew



When Ferdinand Came to Cornwall



Track Time



Creative Cursing



Acres of Cars



Paul the Newfie



Black & Decker Time



She Falls to Pieces



Falco



"That Ain't a Porsche, it's a Ferrari"



Porsche People Are Like Magpies



Gimme a Brake



Ambulance Guy



Porsche Imperfect



Gearbox



Car and Driver Days



The Stripper



Merchant Mariner



"I Hope Great Tragedy Befalls You"



Cranky



"Silk Thread Is Very Strong"



"It'll Rip Your Lips Off"



The AIM Air Force



Detonation



Stoichiometry



Light My Fire



Free At Last



The Mongolian Dazzler



Big Enough