The Gold-Plated Porsche: How I Sank a Small Fortune into a Used Car, and Other Misadventures
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (772 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592287921 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 misadventures.As he recounts his own personal history, Wilkinson also waxes eloquent on the history of Porsche, American engineering and culture, status, and all things mechanical.. 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 DriverStephan Wilkinson was looking for something to do. "This isn't a book about Porsche restoration. 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
James Courtney said A very enjoyable light read with enough technical details to be interesting.. Wilkinson is a true character and he spins his experiences in restoring a pseudo-classic Porsche 911 (okay, to a true Porsche nut they're all classics) into an entertaining tail. He's an amusing cross between Tim Allen's character from Home Improvement and that uncle your parents don't talk about much because of the nutty things he's done. S. A decent memoir revolving around the restoration of a Porsche What you've got here is a very readable account of the adventures (and misadventures) in the life of a mechanically-inclined, aging hippie who rebuilds a Porsche 911 in his barn in New York. The book splits its time pretty evenly between stories about rebuilding the car and stories about other parts of Wilkinson's life.In addition to being a. D. Smith said Essence of a long car mag article. I enjoyed this book. As a car guy and a new Porsche owner, it was a pleasant, rambling account of a restoration project and lot's of tangential life's learnings. Certainly not very technical, but technical enough to make it interesting for me, this was a book I read in a few evenings. It kept a smile on my face, and it kept me relatively eng
Although there is a good deal of shop talk and automotive jargon, it is a testament to Wilkinson’s writing skills that he can make his description of the unbolting of a transaxle as engaging as his stories about crashing test cars and absconding with the company jet to visit his girlfriend. Among other misadventures, Wilkinson recounts how he spent his undergraduate years at Harvard under the hood of a 1936 Ford Phaeton; his ill-fated tenure as the editor of Car and Driver magazine; his small-plane reconnaissance missions over Kansas for the leader of the American Indian Movement; and a stint as a teenage merchant marine in South Asia, where he survived two typhoons, helmed a 10,000-ton freighter and witnessed a drowning off the docks in Saigon. From Publishers Weekly Wilkinson’s spunky and entertaini