Another 6 Emerging from the Black Hole Slowly coming back to Earth, Now made it to Spain the journey continues Options

[rick 918-S]

[rick 918-S]

[930cabman]

Lookin great, approaching quickly. I'm sure many of us are envious, I know one at least

[Root_Werks]

Damn that looks good!

[rick 918-S]

[rick 918-S]

[rhodyguy]

What will it sit on in the container?

[rick 918-S]

What will it sit on in the container?

I am leaving on the rolling frame. I plan to add more bracing and tie down Loops. If a complete moron doesnt mess up the way it will be designed to be mounted it will make it just fine.

[bkrantz]

Gotta like yellow 914s.

[Cairo94507]

Stunningly beautiful work. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

[rick 918-S]

I tried to rent a booth from 3 bodyshop owners I know but they were backed up. Besides with all the parts and pieces, inside, under the car etc. it would have taken alot of production time from their businesses. So I spent like 60k on this garage and it is now yellow. The exterior of my overhead door is yellow, the concrete outside the overhead door is yellow. But the car is in paint the and polishing process starts over the next 2 weeks. Once I am done I will rent one of those big floor scrubbers and clean off what I can then paint the floor gray. I think if I am careful with thinner I can wipe the overspray off the overhead door. It's all part of keeping a promise. If I didn't enjoy the journey I would have bailed long ago.

This car had a very hard life. Neither Juergen nor I could have forseen the extent of hidden damage the car suffered. This has been a great project on a car that most would not have been able to tackle. It just kept getting more and mor complex as it progressed.

I have some members her to thank for stepping up when a new challenge arose.

Really one big one was McMark and Sir Andy as well. When we found out Celette scrapped the fixtures for the 914 Sir Andy laid out some serious cash and purchased the new design towers and fixtures for the car Mark is building for him. Mark inturn built me some check fixtures to be sure the car I had here was first square and allowed me to get the right front floor/suspension mounting section in place.

Can't forget about John Miller. I gave him a a late model front panel for his car. He ended up not needing it. The front clip donor I had here needed the right and left sides replaced at the bumper mounting and fender mounting . He sent the part back to me and I sectioned the ends on the front panel.

Glen Stazak for the NOS fenders and Quarter panels Big part of the build!

Garold Shafer for the cowl top panel. Big part of the build.

The Alien for donating her windsheild opening for he fixture I needed to build to align the cowl top panel during installation.

Kevin Oshea for the simplest of parts. The triangle in the corner of the headlight bucket for the hood bump stop.

914 Rubber. I ordered the bump stops and other misc. rubber parts to prevent panel tp panel contact during shipping.

Restoration Design for multiple reproduction parts as well as one NOS fender to add to my choice of parts to add to the repair.

Carlo for offering to sent the door limiting straps. The cal did not come with them installed.

Oh!and my friend Gary for sand blasting and allowing me to invade his space to get the shell in epoxy.

Hope I did not forget anyone. It has been a long journey.

Mostly Juergen and the patience he had along the process. This is my hobby not my job. I work 12 hours a day on my daily job then put as much on other things at night. I really sleep 4 to 5 hours a night. I had a back surgery, and built a house and garage during the process which slowed the progress for about a year and a half. We are in the home stretch now and this is my last car. I think...

[rhodyguy]

Rick, if you know who manufactured your door, you might contact them directly about the overspray removal. The car turned out beautiful.

[Daiberl]

A huge THANKS to Rick for the amazing work and for taking on the project in the first place. The car looks beautiful and as Rick points out we didn't know the extend of some of the damage the car suffered in the last 45 years on the street and the crazy "fixes" from the previous owners. THANKS also to anyone who helped with guidance, parts, providing place to sandblast and much more.
We decided this year to move back to Europe (Valencia in Spain) so the body will be shipped to Spain in a container and the project will continue probably in the fall when the car is in Valencia in my shop.

[rick 918-S]

Coming down the the wire. The car leaves on the 17th destined for Spain. Working on the final details. The car has made a long journey from Space Junk to a new life well beyond the Cosmos.

[Cairo94507]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) Absolutely amazing and stunningly beautiful work. That chassis looks better than it ever did by far when it left the factory new. That is one lucky 914-6. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[MikeK]

Very nice work! Can you share some details on your rolling cart? I’m see the loops on the sides. Does it allow you to turn the car on its side?

[jd74914]

Wow, that looks awesome!! Great color too!

[76-914]

Wow Rick! Stellar work and what an accomplishment. I missed the June-july postings and just now caught up. Is this the 6 shell that you picked up from Ethan? Thx for posting the great pics. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Kent

[Shivers]

Great work, color really pops. Just fyi, there are peelable liquid masking products like peel-kote you spray or brush on.

[Root_Werks]

That turned out amazing!

Bubble wrap that 914 when it's shipped! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)