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A new start after 60: At 26, I saw my dream Porsche. At 68, I built one from scratch

Bill Drysdale could never afford the sports car he fell in love with as a young man. So when he retired, he went to night school to learn welding, and began assembling it, bit by bit ... When he was 26, Bill Drysdale saw a Porsche 904 at Silverstone racetrack and fell in love.

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