British 75 Rustoration, Bringing my 75 back from the dead Progress 22-8-11 Options

[veltror]

I think I am going to cry.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[Eric_Shea]

Well... if anybody can put Humpty-Dumpty back together again, I'm betting you have it in the right hands.

[veltror]

Maybe but this is getting very scary, soon it will be time to spend money with you !!!

[veltror]

ok i took a picture looking back up the remains of the long, makes me want to cry or feel sick. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)

[veltror]

Ok inner sill tacked on

[veltror]

Ok rebuilt rear heater pipe and now need to reshape front (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

[carr914]

Hey Mark,

I bought my 914 when I was living inChicago from a guy called Jay Mikesell from Prterks, do you know him? I am also trying to find a guy called George Hildinger who used to workon914's do you know of him?

Roman

Some progress, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) bodyman decided to drill out the spot welds and do it that way, now I am scared. Need some advice, since it is going to have a lot of work doen it will never be a resto, so do I go out all the way and go five stud, chrome bumpers and flares and five stud or leave it stock . I would like to leave it yellow but maybe Porsche Speed Yellow Ideas?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

My Original Six #673 was also from Illinois, They must use a special Salt on the roads there that goes through 914s like butter.

The way I looked at my car, I rescued it from a certain distruction, so I can do with what I want, Concour Weinies be damned. I put flares on, it's getting a 2.8 Twin-Plug, Dr Evil converted side-shifter, RennShift, etc.

So do what you want. Flares. 5-lug, Speed Yellow, 6 motor down the road.

Keep up the good fight.

T.C.

[veltror]

Big update, lots of work done over Xmas. cut out the outer suspension console. Fabricated the inner long, fixed the hell hole, rebuilt the door pillar, fabricated a mount for the suspension console so it goes back int he right place. Cut out the battery tray.

Most of you guys would not bother, but not many here in the Uk so it has to be done. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

[veltror]

and some more

[jc914]

Great job, you just keep up the good work. We can all learn from you.

[veltror]

I wish I could take the credit for all the metalwork but thta is being done by a magician friend of mine. called Mark (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)


Anyway nice rusted outer console

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some more

[SirAndy]

That's some nice metal work right there!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) Andy

[So.Cal.914]

Cool, it's lke raising the dead. Your friend does nice work. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

[horizontally-opposed]

Lotta work to do here, but it sure looks like you took it to the right place!!!

This is exactly the kind of 914 that makes me say: do whatever you want with it. I'd be tempted to convert it to RHD if I lived where you did. Now is the time. I'm not one for modern yellows on old cars myself (maybe try Summer Yellow, a very good mid-year 911 shade), but I am all about five lugs. I'd be tempted by black GT bumpers, flares, lids, and tie-downs if I was in it this far, too. Black top and vinyl sails. 15x7s and 15x9s in RSR finishes with Michelin TB tires and other period details would make your car a standout, too. A take on the GT interior would also help defray the costs of RHD conversion. Well, that and an older RHD 911 or 912, especially a 1978-on SC or Carrera 3.2.

As for aesthetics, the more "factory" or "period correct" you go, the more marketable/valuable the car will be in the long run. Even if you don't care about that (as I don't), I think this route usually helps create more "timeless" modded cars than many other approaches. Pick a factory theme and stick with it. That said, there's a lot of people who do their own thing and end up loving the end product for a lifetime. And I dig that, too. There is room for all of us.

In the end, it's your car. Hopefully, enough of us will offer enough ideas to help you pick and choose your way through to a great final product. The only piece of hard and fast advice I'd give you is this: Think hard about that and then write it down in pen and do NOT deviate from that plan. That's how things get expensive(er).

Oh, and: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welcome.png)

Cheers!

pete

[veltror]

Some more pictures to keep ypou shaking your collective heads.

[PeeGreen 914]

Looks like you have it just perfect for a Sheridan wide body (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)

http://www.ultimate914.com

Wow that's a lot of work. Nice to see someone who likes these cars enouh to keep even the toughest resto alive (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Keep up the good work. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drunk.gif)

[veltror]

The left outer console was pretty much toast so Chris Foley made me this part and its intended replacement

[veltror]

Well the magician (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif) doing the bodywork my mate Marek (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif) had other plans so here is a big update with some out of sequence pictures. Best wishes to all in 2009. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)


thanks for everybodys help off this forum


Roman

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and some more, I am sure most of you in the US would have made this into a parts car...

Roman