1974 Carrera Coupe - RHD, UK car

[Ferry Man]

Is Nick taking care of the whole restoration Paul

Nick Moss and the guys at Early 911 are guiding me through the restoration and tackling much of the work.
In conjunction with their efforts are going to be major contributions from many of the UK's Porsche specialists.
We'll see the highest quality work from a veritable roll-call of the nations eminent classic Porsche rebuilders.
Expect input from big names like Redtek, Chesterton's & Southbound, etc.

And, I thought this wasn't intended to be a long drawn out thread!……this is taking forreeeevvveeerrrr!!!

Blimey, Mike takes over 5 years and after just 2 days I'm being chastised for slow progress....

[jamie]

Get

on

with

it

[Ferry Man]

Get

on

with

it

Well, you know what it's like Jamie, I've got all these photos but it's taking ages in Photoshop to get 'em to looking half decent.
The post-processing takes the time....

[Ferry Man]

MORE PICS PLEASE!

OK, here's the car as it was laid up in my garage.
It sat here for quite some time while I took stock and got things underway.

[Ferry Man]

[Ferry Man]

Have you established if all the parts are in fact there ?

Well I had quite a few boxes to look through Ian, there were parts spread all over the place....

[Ferry Man]

It was a bit of a mess...

[210bhp]

Paul

This picture seems to show your RHD under tray. If not refitted by now there would be a few of us willing to buy if you could get copies made. I know this would be a distraction and I would do it myself but I don't have one!, Marek said the lhd ones he made were so difficult to tool up for that the cost of making the few Rhd ones that the market needed would be prohibitive. Any thoughts?

Great thread. Keep it coming.

Regards
Mike

[yoda]

Wow ...... that looks like quite a project! Looking forward to seeing this one unfold.

Regards

Feroz

[jtparr]

Interesting picture of the heater controls Paul, mines a November 74 build, but has 2 levers to operate the heater flaps, yours has the single (early style I believe) version, also your levers do not have any graphics on them, mine have a White lettering and symbols

Looking forward to more...

Regards
Jonathan

[Sam]

Mine's a late 73 build 74 car and is the same as Paul's. I've had a 75 S which had the two levers you describe.

[Ferry Man]

This picture seems to show your RHD under tray.

Sorry Mike, what your seeing is just a cheapo Dansk floor repair section. The guy before felt a few patches was all it needed, I inherited those panels but didn't use them.

I don't believe I've got an 'under tray', I have the simple protection plate but I'm guessing that isn't the part you speak of.

[Ferry Man]

Interesting picture of the heater controls Paul, mines a November 74 build, but has 2 levers to operate the heater flaps, yours has the single (early style I believe) version

Yes, whilst it's an IB car, apart from the bumpers, pretty much everything is very familiar to a '73 owner. It also has the early dash top (with no centre vent).

I'd imagine that although yours was built in 1974 it's a 1975 model year car?

[billy964]

my 74 build 75 model year has no dash centre vents but does have twin heater levers

[jtparr]

Interesting picture of the heater controls Paul, mines a November 74 build, but has 2 levers to operate the heater flaps, yours has the single (early style I believe) version

Yes, whilst it's an IB car, apart from the bumpers, pretty much everything is very familiar to a '73 owner. It also has the early dash top (with no centre vent).

I'd imagine that although yours was built in 1974 it's a 1975 model year car?

Hi Paul

Yup it is
I have the same early style dash, single perforated removable speaker grill on top
No centre vent in the dash, that came in with either the Carrera 3.0 or SC
But I do have the small black plastic vertical rotating grilles at the 2 ends of the fascia panel..do you...?
But being an original chrome finish car my window surrounds, and the trim around the radio are all chrome, not black

Is the lock for your glove compartment in the centre or off to one side..?

Jp