1973 2.4E Restoration

markm · Post by **markm** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:01 pm

Looking good Darren. That will be stunner when's its back on the road, love the colour, I bet it's even better in the flesh

Darren65 · Post by **Darren65** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:17 pm

Thanks Mark, I like it

How's the new RS?

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 11:03 pm

Things are moving fast Darren, I get excited when I see you have updated this thread, It must be great driving down to see how things are progressing.
Cant wait to see her in the flesh.

Madrat · Post by **Madrat** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:56 am

Looking amazing Darren....Alan & Chris have made fantastic progress since we were down there less than a week ago.

I can't wait for the next set of update photos......as you say they may finish up by next week at this rate!!

Cheers

Richard

Darren65 · Post by **Darren65** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:35 pm

My favourite time of the day…

….and one of my most favourite mornings this year….

Collected my car from Canford Classics who have got it rolling again

Still a fair bit to do but the shell now looks like a car again and there's plenty of nice details….

And ready for the journey home

….

Hopefully the car will have the engine fitted in a few weeks time; can't wait

Cheers,

markm · Post by **markm** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:44 pm

Looking good, very good. I spy a splitty in the last photo also

Darren65 · Post by **Darren65** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:47 pm

Thanks Mark, plenty of those VW things in Alan's neck of the woods.

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:58 pm

Darren great update and all looking as beautiful as expected. I'm loving that outside temp gauge

Looks like you're very nearly there!

jtparr · Post by **jtparr** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:37 pm

Darryn

Looks lovely, remember when mine was as clean and shiny as that when just rebuilt...it's a fantastic moment when it all really starts to come together

How long before she's in one piece..?

Jp

murph2309 · Post by **murph2309** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:07 am

Well that's looking very together, have you just been sitting and looking at it since you got it home?

Really looks superb Darren, congrats.

R

MarkIII · Post by **MarkIII** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:28 am

Looks fantastic Darren. i bet you have a permanent grin on your face at the moment!

Engine rebuilt to std spec! Any tweaks?

Mark

Lightweight_911 · Post by **Lightweight_911** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:47 am

Looks superb Darren - as expected !

Nice choice of tyre ...

Darren65 · Post by **Darren65** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:27 am

Thanks for all the positive comments guys

Jonathan, you were the very first person to post a reply to this thread- glad I haven't bored you away yet!

MarkIII wrote:Engine rebuilt to std spec! Any tweaks?

Pretty standard E spec Mark but with 85mm pistons and 10.5:1 compression - I hope to show the final build of the engine and list complete spec soon.

Cheers,

Darren65 · Post by **Darren65** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:41 am

Mitch wrote:I'm loving that outside temp gauge

Thanks Nigel,

I've spoken to countless people on this and nobody has ever seen one on this age of car, even Jochen Baden at Porsche Classic told me it wasn't available. And yet it's a correct matching VDO item, date stamped 11/72 the same as all the other gauges, the bracket that holds the relocated hazard switch looks manufactured for the job and I know it was fitted in Germany and was in the car when it first came to the UK in the early 80's. Who's to say it shouldn't be there.

For a car that's going to be pretty much original standard Porsche specification it's nice to have at least one totally unique individual feature - and to think at the beginning I was going to bin it as it wasn't a correct!

A good thing, education!

jtparr · Post by **jtparr** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 2:06 pm

Jonathan, you were the very first person to post a reply to this thread- glad I haven't bored you away yet! :

nope, no chance of that, have become quite taken with the warm White colour recently,what with yours, John's and Sanjay's RS....my etype was originally old English White before being sprayed black in the early 80's...not sure if the White suits them as much as it does the early 911's though

Looking forward to seeing it complete

Regards
Jonathan

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