It was free apart from the 3 hours it took to get it out and the £50 I paid the truck driver to deliver it
It was here:
Which is why it took so long to get out. You can just see it on its side.
Behind the 2 ovens are the body moulds and original shell for a March Porsche that apparently won at Daytona. The PO also has a 935 and this 962CK6:
Now the hard part....finding all the parts to put it back together.....
Is anyone else not seeing the pictures????
Nice score.
Very nice . . . does it have any parts (oil tank, engine mount, etc)?
Very nice score.
Dash frame for sale in classifieds right now if you need it.
Is the VIN 9140431689? I see paint is 29. Is there a body # in the rear trunk floor?
Keep us posted on this.
do you have the "story" behind what happened to it and why it just got left for scrap??
great score !!!
Cool, More photos please. Show us the rust.
thats a big ol project
The body number looks like 131648 to me
This makes it look better than it is
This doesn't though
No dash frame The car was "restored" by someone of limited talent in the 80s so a lot of the originality had already gone. I had to cut a patch off the floor to get to the body number
I can't find the owner of the crashed car - I really want it so I have the complete set of paperwork. I think (if I'm correct) you'd say he had the "title" to the car but not much else. If I were to try and re-register it on the original chassis number I'd most likely get involved in some big long wrangle about who actually has the rights to the number
Since the project is such sad shape I think you have pretty free rein on what to do with it. Strip to bare metal everywhere. Primer what does not need to be worked on. Make a list of what is required, and we can try to help there.
Yes--a really big project. Clearly not worth the effort but for the -6 status. Maybe somewhere in Britain you can find a badly rusted -4 with most of the stuff there. Then swap most fo the stuff over. [There was an expression in the Classic Thunderbird Club Int. when I had one (2, eventually): "jack up the data plate and swap out some parts".] Still a 6 motor to find, and the oil system, as mentioned. What's your budget--in time as well as money? I think this thread could run a while.
I have a factory oil tank (freshly arrived from Camp 914 with console and dipstick tube), a former San Diego '4 shell and all its parts that's solid (except for a couple of small areas) to provide panels and I've just sent off the money to BAM for my flares.
I'm going to try to retain as much of the '6 as possible in the build but I think that'll be a struggle with the amount of rust in it. Still, I've owned plenty of VWs so I'm no stranger to the brown stuff
The next important thing I need is a stock engine mount for the bulkhead as it got sliced out of the shell I've sent PMs to a few people on here so I'm waiting to see what that turns up.
Budget-wise I'm not talking mega-bucks - the car has to be period correct to comply with the FIA appendix K regulations for historic racing which is undoubtably going to make everything a little pricey, but all together the 2 tubs only cost me the equivalent of about $700 so I don't mind too much
This is the '4 - it used to belong to AndyC on here
I've been collecting little parts for a while for the project - my girlfriend lives in Le Mans so predictably (yawn ) there's only one way this car is going to look when it's done.
Man! that is one awesome find!
Konrad
It's wonderful to see one being brought back to life like that! Good luck, and as has been said before, let us know how we can help.
great score and a great project - can't see the progress pics!
I'll try and find a better host I can't post up to many photos of the work in progress as Practical Classics (a magazine over here) has expressed an interest in featuring the project, but I'll try and squeeze in a couple when it starts getting exciting
No pictures of the car yet (although it's coming along nicely ) but here are a couple of side projects I've been working on. I've started glassing the frame in to the roof and I'll get a photo when I've done (I ran out of resin today), and I still need to finish grinding off the welds from the oil filler.
It could be alot worse, imagine a car with all the same cancer, all still together, where ya have to strip it, store all it's parts and got at it from there? You have one which is bare and ready to work on. That looks like a winner to me! How you say, rotisery?
It could be lots worse
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