Ritchie’s RAD’ Roadster
“Eight, seven, nine, zero, one,” chanted a tall guy in front of the Karmann Konnection parts stand at the Phoenix Club Porsche meet in Anaheim. I instantly recognised this series of numbers as the chassis number of the 1960 Drauz Roadster I had recently bought, and the man behind the friendly face was Rick Kreiskott, who had owned the car for 10 years previously.
“So, how do you like the car?” he enquired, to which I replied, “I love it!” We exchanged pleasantries and stories before heading off to look over his superb, original paint ’72 911, which was parked in the car display on the grass.
I actually purchased the Roadster in 2003 via Bob Campbell, the year before that meeting took place. I was hoping to find a nice Speedster but, even then, good ones were out of my price range. So when Bob emailed me the details of
