First 356

[Harry Fahnestock]

Friends, I wanted to let you know that I bought my first 356 from Mark Sabbann in Stillwater Minnesota. It is a beautiful 1965 Ruby Red 356C. Since Mark is in Minnesota and I am in Reno, Nevada the car is being transported in an enclosed van. I want to thank you all for your comments, suggestions and guidance in making my decision. I'm sure I will be asking for your help and I wish you all a safe and bountiful Thanksgiving!
Harry

[Charles Robertson]

Congrats Harry

[Doug McDonnell]

+1

[Charles H Jacobus]

Same exact one as mine. We need some pictures, though

Chuck

[Mark Sabbann]

Thanks to Doug McDonnell on this one and Welcome new 356 owners, Harry with Ruby and Charles Robertson with one from Vic. The Upper Midwest is on a roll!
Harry recently flew to MN to look at my car and the 356 Registry is lucky to have such a nice person, straight-up guy and super enthusiastic new member as Harry. From our conversations, I thought Harry would probably have most work done by professional mechanics but he is getting a new lift installed and wants to tackle the basics himself. Way to go Harry! 'Ruby' the 356C is a beautiful car that I have enjoyed driving for the last four years. She is going to a good home and I couldn't be happier.

[Mark Sabbann]

We need some pictures, though

Chuck

Here you go: https://www.flickr.com/gp/43831794@N02/qNf0K8

[Martin Benade]

That's an extremely good car. Mark, one of the last pictures shows a feature I have never seen. The back side of the right closing panel, next to the longitudinal, was there some chamber or small piece there? What I am used to seeing there is basically just flat. Is it a Karmann thing?

[Mark Sabbann]

I think you are referring to the back of the right front wheel well. Not typical of either Karmann or Reuter. It's a small patch but not sure how or why it's there.

[Harry Fahnestock]

Thank you for well wishes. Yes, I plan on learning to do most of the work on my own. I have owned a number of nice cars but nothing like this! Nor have I been so excited about a car. I have already received 3 service and restoration books and waiting for two more. Also watching every 'how to' video I can find.
I realize that in my first post I did not include that Mark Sabbann is a gentleman and a valuable asset to the 356 community. He was as informative and straightforward as you want a person to be when making a transaction like this. I am very fortunate to find Ruby but even more in establishing a friendship with Mark.
I spent two hours yesterday trying to get a photo of Ruby into my profile with absolutely no luck! Something about editing my 'Avatar' and every time I attempted to upload a photo it said file is too big - must be 9 KiB or smaller! I realize that while I was doing this I was creating my first post and going back and forth to the Avatar thing I left some of the message out. Emailed webmaster for help!

[David Jones]

Harry, an easy way to reduce the size of your picture is to e-mail it to yourself, then save it to documents or another picture file. You may be prompted to select a size of picture you want to send, so choose the one that is as big as it can be while being small enough to post as an avatar.

[Doug McDonnell]

Harry I resized a photo for you and sent it to try as your Avatar.

[Harry Fahnestock]

Thank you David and Doug. Got it to work!

[Charles H Jacobus]

Thanks for the pictures! Very nice! That car was manufactured only 20 cars from mine. That's probably within a day or two given there were only about 1100 made

Chuck

[Mark Sabbann]

Thank you David and Doug. Got it to work!

And I give you permission to use my photograph as your avatar.

[Greg Bryan]

Harry - welcome to the 356 Registry Forums!
Please see this 'Frequently Asked Questions' thread that gives step-by-step instructions for doing many of the common tasks on the Talk site including resizing a picture for an avatar.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=38165
Ask questions if you continue to have issues - as you've seen, there are many helpful folks on the site.
Cheers