Looks like there will be a Carrera Speedster on Chasing Classic Cars tonight...anyone now about the car?

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No idea about the Speedster but I did see Wayne racing the ex-Bill Rutan VW Special that is powered by a 4 cam Carrera engine at the Hershey Hillclimb June 8 & 9. This car was a regular participant in Pennsylvania Hillclimb Association events for many years up until a few years ago. The restoration is impecable, but the car no longer has the same patina as when Bill Rutan owned and drove it.

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Eric Wahlberg

Time to pic nits since that is what we often do to amuse ourselves.

If the show is correct...

Gmund is in Switzerland.
Ferry designed the 4-cam engine in Gmund.

Also- They used starting fluid to start the 4-cam VW which is about the worst possible way to start an engine.

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Cliff Murray

 

'55 Cabriolet Racer

'57 Speedster

'59 Sunroof

'63 Coupe Pushrod GS 2133

'67 911 S

That's picking MAJOR nits!
Good Lord.

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...and yet another nit

Wayne refers to the Speedster as a GS/GT

I really do enjoy the show however

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Tim Herman #2197
www.carreramotorsport.com

I love the show as well..the override bars on a GS-GT speedster were interesting. I think it was more of a GS then a GT...plus it had all of side trim etc...
It was cool to see how excited Roger was when he was un-boxing the Carrera Engine!

Chad

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NITS: The 1948 Porsche was done in Gmund, Ostereich (Austria). There is also a Schwabisch Gmund in southern Germany but it was in Austria not die Schweitz.

The nit-pic comments are good and appear correct, but - I'm intrigued, did Wayne truly come up with holy grail, find and buy "a Carrera Speedster with it's 4-cam intact that nobody knew about" ? Is the car known to the 4-cam world ? is the serial number known ?, listed on the "My Carrera Speedster website" ?, just curious but with all the interest in 4-cams it seems like kind of a big deal - where it came from - where it went ...

Skid Hall
#780

i often enjoy the show and from what i hear from folks who know him, wayne is a great guy (who now has bosch and haggerty product placement!) - i also caught Roger's mistakes, but i was also laughing when he started discussing having sex with 4-cam! from what i understood, the speedster did not have the 4-cam, and that was found later - it looked like it had a roller bearing crank - the strange thing about the episode was when i looked at the "info" button on the cable, the show's description stated that wayne was visiting EASY in emeryville, ca - did i miss something?
keep watchin'!

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Yeah, we missed what most of us wanted to see...that day at Jim's place a lot of us attended.

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