Jim's Majik Blue 72, Progress, actual progress! Options

[jcd914]

I am resurrecting/hijacking this thread for my 914 Build Off thread.

I have made very little progress since I bought this 914 and started this thread.

My Build Off thread starts at post number 27 where I have a some background on me and my new Blue 914 and what I plan to accomplish as part of the 914 Build Off.

Thanks for following along!

Jim

I am leaving the original post in this thread so the post that follow make sense.

The original start:

So I went to Long Beach to spend Thanksgiving week with my kids, both my son and daughter now live in LB.
While I was in LB to took a trip up to Santa Clairita and bought Chris' (banger on 914world) Majik Blue Pearl 914 project. Chris has put a lot of work into this car with the engine he built and the paint & body work he had done. He has had an ad posted for awhile and had dropped his asking price too low for me to pass up.

This is going to be the beginnings of my project thread, which looks like it will mostly be reassembling the car after the body/paint work that was done. It is the body and paint work that lead me to buying this from Chris, it is an amazing color blue that changes with the light.

I did not bring a truck and trailer with me on vacation so I will be going back down (prob 2 weeks) to pick-up the car and parts. Empty truck & trailer from N. Cal to S. Cal if anyone needs something transported?

Now I need to sell off much of the 3 other 914s I have to support this project (and appease my wife). Since Chris' car was a complete runner before it came apart for paint/body work, there will soon be ads in the classified for much of my years of collecting.

Here is to new beginnings (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

Jim

[jcd914]

I need to catch-up on reporting what I have done to my 914.
Several months ago I took apart the headlight buckets and cleaned, removed the surface rust and painted them.
I reassembled with a new bushing kit from A&P Girl (I think), a prize from a past WCR.
The kit is nice and fit well.
 
I painted the mechanism with a rustolieum black paint that I had in my shed, not sure when I bought it but it worked well and I think I like it better that gray. I am not concerned with matching OE. I also painted the headlight surrounds a black/gray color I think will work well with the dark blue/black/purple color of my car.
 
Pictures of the parts in the process:

What they looked like




After clean up and paint


Installed again




Jim