That is a beautiful car! Gotta love the lines of the mid 1950's Porches! Respects to the owner(s) for driving the car at least a little bit. If you're going to build a replica car just to look at..... You'll find a plastic model kit serves the same purpose and costs tens of thousands of dollars less.
$33k in performance upgrades. All are either Renntech or Weistec and done by Graham Rahal Performance. W.3 turbo upgrade, downpipes, high flow air filters, M157 ECU tune, anti surge valve, intercooler pump upgrade, 772.9 TCU tune, 772.9 Weistec replacement transmission pan, Weistec turbo to IC coupler upgrade,
this means that the 220 s bought in the mid 80´s to a old man still driving it perfect is from the 50´s with big fins also have other with fins but diesel and seems to have 50 h.p with two round lights in the front one in each side it´s an E-class of those days
I remember working on the 108’s back in the early 80’s, working for my father. I recall only one customer having a 6.3- we had quite a few who had the 4.5 v-8. European spec cars always looked and performed better than their American spec counterparts. Then the “Grey Market Cars “ came to the States. Beautiful car, good luck with it.