1958 Porsche 356 Cabriolet

[deluxecustoms71]

This 58 Cabrio has received a full perimeter kit, partial floors, longitudinals,Wheel well repair, headlight tubes and front bumper brackets. The customer is turning this "Original Paint" Cabrio into a daily driver!!!

[deluxecustoms71]

This Cabriolet has a decent floor, but the longitudinal's were fully rusted out. Along with a lot of wheel well rust repair...

[deluxecustoms71]

After the main cancer was cut out the car was taken to our media blaster, and meticulously masked in order to save original paint. Once the car was blasted we finished our rust repairs.

[deluxecustoms71]

The customer chose to save money by re-doing the undercoat on their own, the car is also being built by the customer...

[JTR70]

Nice work! I really like how you are saving as much original metal (like the floors) as possible. So the owner wants to preserve the original? If so you will still have to spot repair won't you?

I see several 356's in the background, how many does this make for you guys now? Are now getting more 356 work than VW? Any other 356's in the works? Thanks again for posting this matt! Very interesting and great work! Justin

[deluxecustoms71]

We did spot in some paint in the jams, but very little... 90% of the repairs that we did get re-under coated. We do have more 356's lined up now! Other that what you see in the shop. We have 7 more 356 lined up that aren't in the shop yet!!!

[JTR70]

Congratulations! Sounds like your getting a serious chunk of the 356 restoration market. Your going to have to hire more guys and expand; thats how it works right. Nice job BTW looking forward to updates! Justin

[JTR70]

We lost your cab photos Matt. Did you close an account? Justin

[deluxecustoms71]

Sorry the photos disappeared for bit. I had hick-up with my photo bucket albums... All good now!!!

[deluxecustoms71]

We did expand this year! Deluxe has a brand new shop!!! We are also considering more help... Hard to find someone with enough experience.

[JTR70]

Congratulations, Great news. Best of luck to you guys! I know good help is very rare in just about anything in life and even harder to keep. I remember Bruce Baker writing something like "hiring on new guys was only in sense creating and training his future competition" or something like that.
Keep up the great work and the posts coming! Justin