Paul Weir has been servicing and repairing Porsche automobiles and re-building Porsche engines for nearly 30 years. He started in a 2-bay gas station in downtown Seattle in 1979 at 2801 1st Ave called German Autowerke but quit that partnership in 1986 and was no longer associated with that company. Then moved to a 3-bay shop in 1986 at 4205 Stone Way Ave. N. In 1988 he worked for Bruce Leven at Bayside Porsche in Seattle for about a year.

He opened a new shop in 1989 in a 6,500-square-foot location in downtown Seattle at the corner of Stewart and Denny (1828 Yale Ave.) Around 1992, Bayside Porsche and Bayside Motorsports closed its doors, and Paul bought many of its tools, equipment, and racing parts from Bruce Leven and used them in the construction of his shop.

In 1993, Paul bought a 935-bodied 930 from Sam Cabiglio in Long Beach, California and began the process of converting it to a full 935 for use in local Porsche Club and other car events. Paul’s grandfather, John Weir, passed away in 1995. He was a Boeing tool and die maker for 35 years, and Paul inherited his small machine shop, moved it into the back area of the service department, and realizing a natural talent for machining, started re-machining Porsche parts in-house.

Paul purchased 40 wrecked Porsches from Renton Auto Wrecking in 1996, combining them with his own 14-year accumulation of Porsche parts, and opened the used parts department alongside the service department in a 3,500 square-foot building at 1832 Yale Ave. As his experience and knowledge grew, so did his business. In 1997 Paul purchased the commercial property and buildings of the service and parts stores. At that time he employed four technicians, a service advisor, parts manager, and administrative staff, serving Porsche owners from the Puget Sound area and surrounding states.

In 1998, Paul planned and designed an engine rebuild shop in a 9,000-square-foot building at 1331 Stewart Street, a block away from his service and parts business, with a custom 911 engine assembly line and parts department. He furnished it with an engine dyno and machine shop equipment and techniques purchased from Jack Conner, the best local Porsche machinist who did machine work on 935 and 962 engine parts for Bayside Motorsports. He also hired another service advisor and three more techs to man this engine rebuilding facility and offered a nationwide engine rebuild program.

This project should have evolved to become recognized as the ultimate engine rebuild facility for Porsche owner’s nationwide, and some 150 911 engines were rebuilt the two years it was open, unfortunately due to a severe market downturn, (The Dot Com crash of 2000), Paul had to close down the business.

Paul moved out of Seattle in 2003 -- 40 miles north to Marysville -- and is now starting a new Porsche shop in a 5,000-sq-ft building. He is again focusing on Porsche 911-930-964 and 993-engine and transmission rebuilding.