Hello Everyone!
I'm new to the forum, besides helping my dad, KJ, post a photo here and there. I, however, am not new to Porsches as I've been around them since I was in my mother's womb. Pretty amazing Porsches no less. You might even say I'm quite spoiled!
I recently became the owner of a 1975 white/black Targa Carrera! I purchased the car from Rodger Hawley about 5 months ago. The previous, and original, owner is a woman who worked for Hanna-Barbera Productions for 20+ years. I didn't know what Hanna-Barbera was until my dad told me which prompted a google search and revelation that I had watched plenty of their cartoons.
We have the tradition of naming our cars so my dad suggested I name the car something to do with Hanna-Barbera. Cut to more google and wikipedia searching until I came across the cartoon named The Perils of Penelope Pitstop! Clearly I had found what I was looking for. Penelope Pitstop is the perfect name for her!
I've been around Porsches my entire life, but I wouldn't say I know much about their inner workings. Okay, I don't know anything at all really. When I was growing up I used to be the one hovering over my dad asking, "what's that thing do?", "what's that for?", "show me this", "show me that". I tried, but he didn't want his little girl to grow up and become a 'grease monkey' like him. I think I can probably speak for everyone here when I say that a lot of people would LOVE to be a 'grease monkey' like him!
While I was interested in how to build an engine my brother was mostly interested in sitting in the cars, pretending to race them, and speeding around the parking lot on his bike, go cart, ect. We all know how that panned out and if you don't you can check him out here: Gunnar Jeannette
Twenty years later and he is finally going to teach me some stuff! When I found out that we were going to get to work on this project together I was floored! I probably appreciate his abilities more than anyone else because I get to see what he creates on a daily basis. Are you all jealous yet??
We will hopefully get started on her soon. Things have been a bit crazy here, but now that Rennsport has come and gone he has a little more time on his hands. I'm going to document the restoration meticulously and I'll be posting updates on our website (My apologies for the lack of updates lately. Things should be picking up soon!). There will be plenty of photos and hopefully a few videos here and there. My dad is trying to talk me into getting in front of the camera, but I'm too shy and prefer to be behind it. My brother got the "ham" gene, not me.
Here she is in all her glory!
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