A South Carolina bride built her own Porsche 356 and used it for her special day
Published on Jun 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM (UTC+4)
by Claire Reid
Last updated on Jun 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Kate Bain
A bride-to-be from South Carolina spent weeks rebuilding and restoring a vintage Porsche 356 so she could arrive at her wedding in style.
Like most brides, Caroline spent a lot of time and effort preparing for her big day.
But it wasn’t just invites, seating plans, and dress shopping – she tasked herself with rebuilding her own wedding car.
The Porsche 356 replica was in a seriously sorry state when Caroline found it, but she was committed to getting it up and running to play an important role in her big day.
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Caroline and her dad James, are the pair behind the HHWheels YouTube channel and are no strangers to a rebuild project.
But in preparation for her big day, the duo took on a particularly special project, taking a tired, old Porsche 356 replica and turning it into a gleaming vehicle worthy of featuring at her wedding.
The rebuild began back in October last year, when Caroline found a Porsche 356 replica – or her ‘top top dream car’, as she called it – and traded it for her VW Thing.
The car wasn’t in the best shape when they got their hands on it, but the YouTubers were committed to completing a full body-off rebuild.
Getting the Porsche 356 replica wedding-ready was no easy task, but it was a real labor of love for Caroline and her husband-to-be Alex, as well as dad James.
The car enthusiasts spent weeks working on the car, repairing and rebuilding the engine, fabricating a new chassis, respraying it, and overhauling the battered and tired interiors and loved every second of it.
“This experience of getting married and celebrating that by building a car with my dad and family is something that I am so genuinely excited to share with my kids one day,” Caroline explained.
“I know I’m going to look back on this and cherish the hell out of these memories.”
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With just days until Caroline’s big day, the car was complete, and it looked absolutely stunning.
The made-over car had been given gleaming red and white paintwork and looked every inch the head-turning wedding car she’d hoped for.
Oh, and if you’re wondering what married life is like for the newlyweds, the day after they swapped vows, they began a restoration on this Chevrolet S-10 drag truck.
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Claire Reid is a journalist who hails from the UK but is now living in New Zealand. She began her career after graduating with a degree in Journalism from Liverpool John Moore’s University and has more than a decade of experience, writing for both local newspapers and national news sites. Claire covers a wide variety of topics, with a special focus on cars, technology, planes, cryptocurrency, and luxury.
